I was just messaged by him and checked his wallet and saw your message and came to your account and saw this post. I also asked around as I've never had any interaction with this person before and heard he was banned from a few other discord channels for doing the same thing and not repaying people. If he looked at my wallet, he would see that I don't have SBD to give and my situation isn't great at the moment either, but I'm not going around begging others for money. I enter challenges and also try to reply to people who comment on my posts when I get a chance to post. But my message was the exact same thing as yours but I did not respond and then I got sad faces. He has made more in steem than in the past two weeks than I have made since joining in July, and then I see he got whitelisted on minnowsupport, which could be a good thing for him if he would do as you suggested to him. I also do not think that being honest is mean. I wonder if he will see your post.