What am I missing here? This looks seriously uncool -- like Dan is buying STEEM for way under market from the company . . . .

Again, hit the depth limit so I am replying to your next higher post. (Is this the correct social protocol?) OK, so here is our first shot at a section for a newbie-guide. What do you think?

Of course "they" are attempting to "thought-program" us -- but that is the way of the world. Are you against all bots or only the anti-social ones? If the latter, do you have any related

But the post was "Make me follow you" and I posted three valid arguments: I'm following you I thought that we were already interacting well I have good content (which arguably should be the best

Unless you tell me otherwise, I will stop posting on your blog. My apologies. I thought that we were having a very constructive dialog on my blog and would love to continue interacting (you were very helpful

Hit the depth limit so I am replying to you on your next higher (is that the proper protocol)? Yes! I do want the account at the end of the month. Is it not possible to change the name on an account? I

I'm not here to make money on my content. I'm here to buy my way onto STEEM with my content, get a reputation and, only then, make a little money on the side.

I have added the following line above the offending last line EDIT TO CONVEY AN IMPORTANT LESSON - NEVER post anything like the following line. It is perceived as buying votes which is a serious anti-community

Could you please let me know if you are still seeing my replies now that my reputation has dropped 11! points? Also, I replied to your latest blog post if you Show comments hidden due to low ratings .

I would also request/suggest that, in the future, a warning rather than a flag would be kinder to a first-time offender. It's ridiculous that 15 flags have been posted on a good and, I would argue, important

OK. I know that both Mark and I are amenable to whatever reputation repair is necessary. Both of us stumbled by violating community taboos that we were unaware of and have absolutely no intentions of repeating

:-) I'm not taking offense, I'm trying to learn the system. And yes, I do care that you're putting effort into this as well -- in fact, I greatly appreciate it. However, effort should account for something

Hey! I'm already following you and we've been having some interesting debates about reputation repair so I hope that you're already following me without my having to win but here's my "elevator

Hit the depth limit, my apologies (but this isn't going to get rich anyways ;-). Say what? That type of "paying for attention" is exactly what makes the rich get richer. What is the poor woman's

Or the question that Mark wants asked (since his excellent replies in his defense are hidden unless you Show the comments that are hidden due to low ratings) . . . . What editing is necessary to get the

Interesting. And I was about to ask why -- but I think that I get it . . . . I'm guessing that it strikes you as vote-buying. We look at it as paying for (and not profiting excessively from our request

Actually, I take my statement about agreeing with @smooth's actions (thus far) back. Having both @smooth and @smooth.witness flag a newbie account is abuse. That account is probably unrecoverable now --

And, if this is a valuable post, why don't you up-vote it? Are you afraid of the flag on this one? I strongly, strongly doubt that it will happen and I will work hard to negotiate it off if it does happen.

Nah. There are obviously going to be reputational consequences for trying to hold someone for ransom so you're basically trashing your account if you try it.

We feel that the reputation scheme is necessary for the survival of steem and merely needs some small adjustments to get it functioning properly. We're not at all worried about the long term prospects