@trumanity,

Sir, I would encourage your skepticism ... I would discourage your cynicism.

@old-guy-photos is my Mentor. Without him, it is unlikely I would, after a month, still be on Steemit ... despite a philosophical inclination to "Never Surrender."

@old-guy-photos, (his name is Paul, and so is mine, and I encourage everyone to address me, and him, as so), has spent ridiculous amounts of time explaining to me the most rudimentary aspects of Steemit. If he doesn't think I'm a moron, he ought to.

As you can probably imagine, the length of my comments and replies, to say nothing of my posts, created daily bandwidth-freezes. Often, I could not post or respond until 3 PM in the afternoon. Unbidden, Paul simply delegated me 50 SP ... which solved the problem overnight. He's also the guy who connected me to Cryptogee.

What exactly he gets out of this, is still unclear to me. I wrote a comment to another such fellow, @C0ff33a, who Paul also introduced to me (and who is also a Paul protegee). I think you should read the article ... and my comments to it:

https://steemit.com/vlog/@c0ff33a/c0ff33-vlog-24th-february-2018-one-ring-to-rule-them-all

While you're at it (look for my comments ... this one's fun):

https://steemit.com/whysoserious/@old-guy-photos/of-flowers-and-beards

And this one's serious:

https://steemit.com/mmorpg/@fulltimegeek/steem-quest-1-or-slay-the-cave-troll

There is hope, so long as there are Good Men in the world. THERE ARE ... still Good Men in the world.