Two days ago, as the dev team introduced Promoted Content, many Steemians were so excited and tried this new feature including me. When I found out that posts older than one day can also be promoted, I thought this could be a bug as the above post did not mention this. So I thought why not give it a try as I really wanted to give my old posts a second chance. But I knew it was a fluky move. So I did not put serious money into it either - probably $7 for a dozen posts. These old posts all showed up on the promoted pages (mostly under specific tags as my money is small) but soon I saw @jesta 's kind reminder warning that this would lead to a one-vote only result. I then knew that my money was gone but felt so funny that I wanted to fool the system but get fooled! It is not big money anyway.
This morning just 2 hours ago, I saw my wallet get refund from the system (actually from @zaebars - why?!) with a memo saying "refund for a post promotion bug". I do feel a little bit embarrassed and moved as I did know my risk when doing these but the platform is very decent to refund the money. Thank you so much! So I have to let more people know this: Steemit is a honest platform!!
What about efficient?! Aside from "refunding" the moeny so quickly, they have also fixed a bug that I mentioned under the first post about being able to "promote" a "reply". They have found and fixed it maybe just a little more than 24 hours! That's very efficient, don't you think!?
Lately, I have been too negative about things going on here, but these actions by the platform along with @jamielefay the Steemit novelist's postive remarks to me has made me positive and optimistic again! Like I once said - "promise a journey, not just a sprint". Come on! Steem on!
An Update! Could anyone who plans to upvote this post check the following post and upvote there instead of here as that post deserves much much more than mine!
Post Promotion applied after First Payout [Bug] - Affected accounts