Thanks @themarkymark. I don't track enough of your downvote actions enough to say whether they seem selective or not. So I am taking your word for it as I obviously can't speak to it. I've seen the benefits of the work you do long term. But it appears there are some who believe your heavy hammer has no distinct rules.
I'd be curious to know what your selective process is and what is your end goal. Do you have certain types of posts/creators that are your focus? Is it for the purpose of control of stake? Management of good content? Leveraging position on market cap for future investors? I'd love to hear your take.
People say a lot of things, I never concerned myself with it.
I don't really go into why I vote, I vote for the same reasons everyone else, to influence the inflation with the stake I own allows. I am not an emotional voter and I don't downvote people because I don't like them or for personal gain.
You can see my response to @sorin.cristescu in regards to @jerrybanfield here.
Gotcha. Thanks. So it's less about "who" or "what" and more about keeping the value of the stake from deflating. Sounds like it's keeping "lazy" investors from reaping too much too quickly, and pushes the idea of holding. That said, where do you draw the line?
There is no line, I vote where I think the inflation should go.
Sounds purely logical. I appreciate the candor.
Do you ever upvote, or is that against your religion?
I used to upvote 200+ unique authors a week all 10% upvotes across the board, then I everything I upvoted or posted got downvoted to zero for over a year, so I stopped upvoting users and focus on projects like hbd stabilizer and burn posts.
That's kinda shitty. It sounds like you were encouraging organic growth and discouraging useless whale-mining posts. It seems to me that is exactly what we need in order to become attractive to new users, thus grow the userbase, and eventually become attractive to investors long term as a more normative platform with boring revenue-generating advertising, etc.
As a business model, it makes more sense to do it that way in my mind. Apparently yours as well.
The only people who benefitted from discouraging your curation would have been, in my mind, wanting to either punish you for downvoting them, or discouraging you from giving the pot away to annoying minnows.
Do you think we should be a stake-based economy, or a proof-of-brain, attention-based economy? Do you have specific goals for HIVE?
In a way we are both, but we lack the attention.
I think smart contracts and marketing is our biggest needs. That and reducing the waste of DHF funding.