Hello Ned Scott

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##Please see in no way I am trying to offend you or point fingers at you. I am too negligible to do that. The below post has been made because I know that you are a good person and will hear to what a minnow has to say. I apologize you already, in case you don't agree to my post.##

Just yesterday, I came to know about a shocking incident on Steemit. I saw that you downvoted 3 posts of @officialfuzzy to just zero. Seeing this I wondered,"Why would Ned, the Founder and CEO of Steemit downvote the very same hangouts posts, which were once the discussion platform for the birth of Bitshares and Steemit!! What could go wrong in a year, that you would lead Ned to do this".

Later officialfuzzy told us that it could be because of some personal issues between him and you. But sir, I just want to make you aware that you didn't cause any harm to officialfuzzy but only to minnows like me and the Steemit community in general. The posts you downvoted were contest posts where I also entered in hopes of winning some prize and grow myself on the Steemit platform. Like me many others also participated. And now, even if fuzzy rewards the winners from his own pocket, it is not certain if he would do it again in future. After all who would like to reward people from their own pockets. Everyone is here to earn and only earn and not for charities. But yes, if members like fuzzy earn, then they make sure that at least some (actually a lot more) rewards go back to the community. With his rewards many artists, writers and developers show up and contribute towards to the whole of steemit community. His hangouts, which also you downvoted have led to the existence of many great projects like Bitshares and Steemit, which we all are proud of. Aren't we Ned? Apart from these he also empowered minnows and dolphins to launch their own community tokens. It led to @nepd launch "Hairshares", which allows steemit members to donate their hair for the cancer patients; @rideofpassion launch "Voiceshare", which will help people with depression to speak up and get the much needed support from the community; @rawbinhutt launch LFNcoin which helps people of particular interests to find other such people on steemit; and so many other projects which were launched before I even joined Steemit (I joined in May 2017). And how can we forget the whaleshares and beyondbits projects by fuzzy, which enable Steemit members to make their good posts more visible and reach to a wider audience. They are also used as rewards for various contests on Steemit, which are hosted not only by fuzzy, but also anyone who has beyondbits or whaleshares. Some examples are @patelincho and @jphenderson which helps undervalued posts of minnows to be recognized and rewarded. And many other members of whaleshare community do the same. I also intend to host such contests when I have enough whaleshares or beyondbits.

So all I want to say is that if you had downvoted fuzzy's post where he posts pictures of his vacation in Holululu or his post where his grandmother sings and dances on the tune of a flute, then I wouldn't have cared much. It would have made me sad at most, nothing more. But your downvotes on these community projects of officialfuzzy directly affected me and so many like me.

So Ned, please consider forgetting about your personal issues or at least keeping them aside to help grow the whole Steemit community. I hope you will consider my request.

Thanking You

Siddartha Gupta

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