What Happened?
So my friend @streak and I were playing with Piston (a library to use Steemit by command line) trying to figure it out to write scripts and tools for Steemit.
During this process, we wanted to start by posting zerohedge's RSS feed onto steemit, then give the account to zerohedge (hopefully with a reward from them) when it was finished and fully tested. However, for some reason some of the community eventually didn't like this approach and started flagging our posts. However, at first people seems to like this with comments about fixing some coding issues that caused it to have errors because they were happy to see zerohedge posts on the site (while aware that we were copying it).
We thought approaching zerohedge with a system would entice them more than just trying to get them to join. But, we have since changed our approach due to the backlash. People seem to prefer that we simply quote the articles. Not sure if other bloggers would move here considering just quotes probably don't get much upvotes.
The Bug we might have Found...
However, in the process we tried to create an account using the piston library. This account was called @zerohedge, however, the piston library gave us an error. We tried a few more times, each with an error, and so we moved onto other things for the time. Our wallet still filled up with private keys, however.
As you can see in the account, the zerohedge wallet filled with STEEM. *edit*Unfortunately, I don't know if the account existed before (I was new to steem) and the logs I saved doesn't have a time stamp... the file was not saved either... just left open for a long time. So I don't actually know when I did this, I just know it was a long time ago.*Edit*
Not sure who to talk to about this... Will mention it in my email to steemit.
The Next Step...
We have moved onto developing other tools for the steemit community and hopefully the community will be happier with our efforts then trying to get zerohedge to join.
We have decided not to touch the steem in that account and will contact and
and ask them to offer it to zerohedge with our uncompleted tool (I guess no reward for us). I doubt they want to do extra work and they also like to be very anonymous. We will give them the tool we have so far, if
or
get a response from zerohedge.
If we get a lot of love on this post we might open source the RSS feed tool that we developed and hope others can use it to convince other mainstream bloggers to join. But be prepared for downvotes, as we have learned.
We only want to improve the community and we are disappointed that our attempt at making this got met with backlash.
We both see the value and potential in Steem and would like to thank this community and ask it, how can we serve? We are not here to take advantage of Steem, only help it grow to be fully realized.
We have a feeling our next tool will be met with love and appreciation. No need to look for it, you will see its impact.
All the best to the Steemit community,