I'm somewhat confused with all of this, and it's really hard for artists to have to deal with this stuff because many of us don't like politics and find ourselves getting sucked into them always.. everywhere we go..
I guess that's just life.
So I delegated my witness votes to your authority so that I can be an artist and not have to focus so hard on these confusing blockchain politics that make me stressed out.
Thank you for doing the grunt work that many of us don't have time or energy for. It's not for a lack of caring, it's just a lot to manage and takes away from creative flow.
Keep up the great work!
What a ridiculous post and even more so that people blindly believe it. Disappointing to read this from you @futuremind.
You're right, my decision is an act of blindly believing what has been communicated to me.
I do not obtain the skills necessary to perform blockchain forensics, nor is it a desire of mine as a financially struggling artist currently learning a new (very complicated and time consuming) trade.
If that isn't selfish enough of me, I'm also struggling to pay bills and eat, but have been leaving my resources in the Hive blockchain as much as I can to help others in the community who may or may not be having the same struggles in life as myself.
Sorry to make this so personal @acidyo but I'm not sure if all aspects are always considered when these blockchain politics get amped up and people like myself get pulled into it.
At least I'm being transparent with my decisions here, that has to count for something in pertaining to how easily I seem to disappoint people. Seems to be the story of my fucking life.
I spent 2 hours processing your 1 line response to me while waking up. My brain is like a slow processor that gets stuck in loop sometimes. Maybe there's a virus in it. That's just a poorly placed joke I guess, trying to lighten the mood a bit..
What do you propose I do?
I'm flirting with the idea of voting no witness. This would probably disappoint people too.
Maybe I should put my projects, goals, and personal problems on hold for a few days while I try to play blockchain scientist.
Maybe there's more going on beneath the surface here that I don't know about. After all, you've always treated me with kindness and respect.
PS. Thank you kindly for sending those old OCD curator rewards, and for kindly welcoming me back to the blockchain.
Hi, sorry to hear you're not doing well financially. I respect that you're keeping assets here for long term but if you're in need then you should use them and look into being more active here if you can. I'm in the same boat and wish I could stay staked more.
I'm just baffled that people blindly trust others with their witness proxy or who to vote and unvote, felt especially bad knowing you've been part of OCD and may have an idea of what we do around the chain aside from just producing blocks.
It's not hard to see that this user cross-posted a post of mine attempting to derade my character saying I stand for follow4follow when I clearly said in the post it's regarding web2 which I don't care about as long as it helps Hive get more traction. His actions were fueled by discussions in other posts talking about downvotes and censorship which we had decent discussions with the author of them and I'm sure he himself wouldn't approve of this kind of post here. It's like they want to punish those who speak their mind while other witnesses are just inactive collecting rewards.
Thank you for responding @acidyo,
I'm sorry to hear you're in the same boat and having some struggles. I hope things quickly get better for you.
I'm going to do what I should have done to begin with and take a deep look at everything. I'll be studying the responses in this post as well, as I see there is quite a bit going on here. I know the politics/perception here greatly vary in regards to what is considered abuse of the platform, and what is considered suppression free speech. I imagine it becomes very exhausting when managing these aspects at a higher level.
I very much enjoyed my time as a curator for OCD, and certainly know the intentions were always to support good content in an unbiased manner. I even remember the process utilized to pick posts, and found it to be a very fair way to choose.
It was a bummer for me to come to terms with the fact that I am just not great with consistency and did not make a great curator. I did my best, but in the end I just had to keep it real and say "I think I'm the weak link here.." :D
Sorry for blindly acting without thinking it through very much, you're certainly right that's exactly what I did. We all make mistakes sometimes, and I feel it's what we do to correct our mistakes in life, and what we do today which defines our character.
Have a nice rest of your day.
i know this is difficult for you to imagine
what would you do if you were being downvoted by a larger account ?
what would you do if your friends were being downvoted by a larger account ?
would you perhaps take a look at what other accounts were supporting the downvoters ?
would you perhaps withdraw your support from those accounts ?
isn't this basically common-sense ?
No problem !
I'll continue to gather data.
I am with the dude above for the most part, I find I am much happier on here staying out of the politics of it all. I don't even know what ever happened with Bernie Sanders but I proxied my witness voting to him when the steem debacle was all happening, I haven't seen him around in eons. I wouldn't even know how to change things up because I can't trust the wallet issue of do I still use my old steem log ins, can you get new ones, how you do the whole process, and yes I tried and failed to understand what people were instructing me to do because it seemed incomplete. I do wish I could get it figured out, I'd buy more hive with my little, scratch little insert tiny amount of I've earned in Hive dollars and power up my hive.
i guess if they can scare any of their opponents away from voting at all, they've already won
Same as it ever was. All build systems can stomp your ass, how hard it gets stomped depends upon how determined your are to beat their system. Some even have laws in place that proclaim to protect you from violations of the system, use those laws and they will find a way to stomp you even harder. That was a hard learned lesson in life, a costly hard earned lesson. It took way more than money away from me.
good point
I am a little confused. Did you make 2 lists, people not to vote for and people to vote for?
So, I made 5 bad choices regarding the 30 witnesses I voted on? So, out of 100%, my score is roughly 85% or like a B grade. So, who do I replace those 5 votes on?
So, these 5 accounts I voted for I assume are supporting other accounts who have downvote trails? My position is the automatic flagging downvote trails are dangerous and I would discourage people away from them. I can imagine justification, excuses. I understand the theory of trying to reduce spam and such. That might be a theory behind the rationalization of downvote trails. My position is that it is probably better, generally speaking, to simply upvote what you like and ignore what you don't. I think I would disagree with the philosophy of downvote trails in general. I am not going to say exceptions to that general rule does not exist. But normalizing downvote trails is a psychological slippery slope down the wrong path.
But what if a particular witness is doing many good things and is supporting downvote trails or other things? Where do you draw the line in who you want to support for witnesses? Is there no amount of good deeds that can take some of them off your naughty list and back on your good list, Mr. Logic Zombie Santa Claus?
they argue that downvoting is "freedom-of-speech"
this is obviously false
My question is not about what they argue but about where you draw the line and who do you vote for or who might be in your top 30 or top 50. I am not going to not vote for a witness. However, I will simply vote for people meaning I can end up replacing some of them simply because I had better options, better picks. So, I vote for people who start projects like the Hive Vote for example which I like. Anything that is interesting. People behind PeakD, Ecency, 3Speak, Hive Blocks, Hive Blog the website app part, and maybe even Leo Finance. If I can come up with 30 witnesses, accounts, connected to whichever might be my favorite projects, etc, that would be how I go about who I vote for and who I don't vote for.
I try not to think too much about who not to vote for. I guess if somebody was too bad like Hitler, then you would probably put Hitler or Stalin or Mao or Lenin or Rothschild or Soros or Bill Gates towards the back of the list. But then there might be a potential of voting for some people at the end of the top 30.
And there might be some overlap between things I like about a witness and things I don't. So, for example, if my top pick was the man behind Hive Vote, imagine finding that guy connected to downvote trails or other things. I could see a hypothetical situation where some downvote trails could be discouraging spam or other things. I am still against downvoting in general for many reasons. But I can see it working as much as hypothetical communism working. And communism does not work. I am against communism and downvote. But I can see some rare exceptions to the rules where it might work.
And then I ponder if a witness is divided between doing good things and doing bad things, then where do you draw the line? And do you support Leo Finance? Which projects, apps, websites, etc, are your favorite? What are your top 30 or 50 witness picks?
https://peakd.com/hive-122315/@logiczombie/100percent-downvote-on-this-post-from-acidyo-an-hour-ago
https://peakd.com/hive-122315/@logiczombie/100percent-downvote-on-this-post-from-acidyo-an-hour-ago
I honestly didn't want to do this, I thought I could just proxy my vote to some reasonable person, but every account I looked at supported witnesses who had either downvoted me directly or downvoted someone I know.
I'm willing to talk to any of the witnesses, I've had conversations with blocktrades and marky and guilty and even logic and I'm convinced they are intelligent and well intentioned individuals.
I never expect to agree or disagree with ANYONE 100% on everything.
If I can't disagree with you on 50% of what you believe, then I'm not a proper skeptic.
Never blindly agree - - NEVER BLINDLY DISAGREE
Blocktrades has a good website which I used to send money to Bitcoin. Why would I not support that?
Like I said, they are intelligent and well intentioned.
You can use their services without voting for them.
Nobody's calling for a "boycott" or anything.
Switching your witness vote is a signal that you care about free-speech.
The goal is to get them to fix the downvote abuse which they currently refuse to acknowledge.
How does the 10% APR work on Hive, does it mean I am paying each witness 10% of my wallet every week?
How many accounts are they unfairly downvoting each day?
the main post contains suspect accounts
this is a list of less suspect accounts -
https://hive.blog/hive-122315/@logiczombie/re-logiczombie-r1gbt1