Hello guys, today I want to write this very critical article here, because yesterday I made a very very stupid experience here in the community and I can´t believe the reactions. With my article of yesterday I wanted to support a broke young friend in africa and finally I wanted to payout the funds from the article for him and send it to him via western union. The first reactions where, that people didn´t believe me, that this is not a fake and was very sceptism. After I uploaded another proof, that the friend in africa is real and im always in contact with him, some comments where removed and the upvotes raised. Some minutes later there were the first cents at the article, but it was apparently too much for some people, so that three guys decided to flag the article. Where does this jealousy come from? Why some people are against helping poor people in third world countries? We have the potential to change the world a little bit with this community and they are articles with many thousand dollars, where only the writer profits. I call everyone to support such actions and not just what you personally like yourself, but what is just important, like helping the people in africa! Of course I understand, that many people try to take advantage of such articles with helping others and they will never donate the money. But this doesn´t mean, that every post where someone want to support a friend, or where a homeless person ask for help is a scam guys!
And it is not so difficult to find out if an article is real or not, because a faker would never give out his personal details, pictures, or will never be able to give you any proof that he knows the person. At my article from yesterday I can´t understand how anyone could think this is a fake, because Im a real person, I always show my face, I could give you my adress and everything. You can even visit the friend in africa, I can give you his adress too! :) If i would want to make a fake article, I wouldn´t publish it on my blog, or with my name, Im not stupid!^^ Everyone should be really ashamed, who thought my article is not real and not upvoted, or even flagged it! (Really ashamed, because apparently you don´t know, or you don´t believe how bad is the situation for young people in africa...)
Why this people are so much stingy?
Like you know, the concept of steemit allows people earn money just with votes and it costs nothing for the voter. So what reason could you have not to upvote an such important article like my article from yesterday, or even flag it? There is no reason, you don´t have to pay anything to help guys! Why not everyone is doing charity actions like this for a friend, so that everyone supports each other in some point? This could make the world a little bit better and then Steemit was a huge invention. If only people with money are supporting people with money, this community is shit and not better then the unfair money system of our world. How could it be, that articles with just one picture and litte text, which is for example only a fun post, get many thousands of dollars for the blog owner and an article with which the blog owner wants to support a poor guy in africa, get zero dollars? This is a big imbalance guys and I hope that this will be better in the future, that high value and important content will be rewarded more than only funny posts.
Look at this for example, with this article I got over 10$, but it was no important issue: https://steemit.com/photography/@future24/berlin-city-impressions-and-photography-3-aboutme
What does this mean? Does it means the people here doesn´t mind what is the situation in africa, or that the most people everytime think that everything is fake, where people want to help other people? If you would know me, I care about such things since I was a child and Im always looking where I can help, because there is a so big imbalance of the wealth in the world. I find it very bad that I have to prove anything, because Im very serious about issues like that, but here is a screenshot of an older transaction from me to the friend in gambia, with which he was able to buy rice for one year longer:
Here you can see the picture of the rice he has bought with my funds, because of course he always shows me what he did with the money as a prove too:
I hope know you understand and believe that my article yesterdays was is NO FAKE and you will spread my message here a little bit. I hope that I waked up some people, that we can do good things with this community and it should not be a community where everyone just wants the best for themselfes! What do you thing about this strange experience with my article from yesterday? Why the people are so sceptism, even if they can see that Im a real person and when I wrote them that I will prove anything I can? Write your opinion in the comments! I will publish the charity article in german too later and I hope that everyone is supporting at least the german article.
Best regards and I wish a open mind for everyone, because "small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world"!
Jonas Ahrens
