RE: Vybrainium Moderation: A Proposal

[scholaris]

is it wrong for someone to upvote his post?

It isn't wrong, unless it becomes excessive. It seems to hove around 9-10% of acceptability. Outside of that and downvotes typically occur throughout Hive. VYB won't allow self-votes to occur.

Is it wrong for one to continuously upvote his post?, this is where the answer seems to be difficult.

The same reasoning as above applies.

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[joseph23]

Ok, and the third question?

[scholaris]

Again, is it encouraged that friend upvote his other posts respective of the quality of the content?

Are you still referring to self-votes? If that is the case, then no, it is not encouraged in the VYB tribe. The founder doesn't want any self-voting.

[joseph23]

I mean Mr. A who happens to be friends with Mr B upvotes MR. B poor quality post simply because he wants to give monetary reward to a friend, caring little about the poor content the friend made, and with a hope of receiving same measure on his posts irrespective of the quality.

[scholaris]

So, we move from a period of clear agreement towards an area of gray. In other words we're discussing something much more subjective here.

No one would begrudge Mr. A wanting to give a hand-out to the friend, but like self-voting, there's a limit to what the Hive community will tolerate. I'm not sure about the %VP on this one as it varies.

Mr. A has other options, however, in how he could help out Mr. B, yes?

• Mr. A can write a post for Mr. B on writing better articles or whatever topic he choses.
• Mr. A can send Mr. B a tip and completely bypass voting rewards.
• Mr. A can co-write an article with Mr. B to raise his exposure.
• Mr. A can delegate a portion of his own earnings to Mr. B.
• Mr. B can continue to engage with the community to improve his own performance.

There are a lot of options out there that doesn't involve voting. If "irrespective of quality" is an area someone wants to operate under, then it's going to cause a problem for Mr. A. People forgive occasional lapses, but their patience will run out when it starts affecting the community.

[joseph23]

You just nailed it here. This is what I want to point out, and am glad we alive here through the series of questions and clarifications. Thanks Sir for the time.

[scholaris]

You're welcome. There are a lot of ways to dealing with a situation without resorting to DVs, mutes, and ignores. However, it is up to the communications between one person and another to achieve such an end. Most of the time, when I apply a DV it's because someone did something wrong, but they didn't communicate. I've reversed an action, or never took one, plenty of times when a content creator responded.