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RE: Downvotes & Reward Policing: Abuse of Power or Good for the Platform?

in Deep Dives3 years ago

since a key foundation of hive is that people get rewarded for posts and posts are made visible based on those rewards, i am sure that the marketing efforts being paid for by ignite will not be telling people that actually they need to ignore these foundations and not worry about visibility on the network. not only does this go completely counter to how social networks generally work, it also goes against principles of competition and marketing.. basically, it goes against everything that most people are most used to. worse than that, it's not explained anywhere in an obvious way and i hightly doubt that ignite are even aware of the logic you are using here.
i suggest maybe you contact them to explain the situation.

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This is getting circular, but the key foundation is that people get rewarded for posts based on voting, which includes both upvoting and downvoting (or you can opt out of if you like, and treat it like a low-censorship platform without rewards).

We're five years in here and that has never changed. If someone is marketing on the basis that this is something like Facebook except you get paid for likes, they aren't doing a very good job.

I haven't seen any evidence regarding the brief that ignite are working to and all my comments of any kind in this direction have been ignored by the person handling the situation - so i can't say for sure what they are doing in this regard. I am highlighting a mismatch between your psychology and the psychology of many other people - including the default perception of most people who are not familiar with hive's mechanics, when it comes to 'how such a system should work'. It's fine to say 'the blockchain works this way' (accoarding to how those with the most stake have decided it would run via support for witnesses who share their views), but to also deny that there IS scope for free will choice within the way the blockchain runs that could result in either success or failure for the blockchain is disingenuous. If a police force uses 'laws' in a way that causes friction in the community, it doesn't make much difference if they say 'well, the rules allow for us to do this' - the result will be the same, minimal tourism and low morale in the community.