I expect if you did that he would not act against it, but why not just keep spreading the rewards anyway? I will just carry on supporting people who I think deserve it. I do tend to give less to people and posts that already do well. I am often the biggest voter on posts and I upvote a lot of comments too.
If I get a massive vote it's a nice bonus, but if it gets taken away then I'm just back where I started. I do okay anyway thanks to a lot of effort to engage with people.
The best thing we can do is to grow Hive. With more users and people having more HP we can spread the rewards better. That's why I do @tenkminnows. I am not taking anything out for now.
This isn’t growing hive it makes people not want to put their eggs in the hive basket ( as you just noted with me) and lose morale. A big payout like that rly keeps people invested and supporting the platform. I got 5 people to join this week and I posted that highly paid thread on my social media which, attracts others. Now I worry what I got them into. It just strips morale and joy to see someoen downvote you.
Well keep supporting them. Hive is imperfect, but what are the alternatives?
Are any of them Brits? I hope to have a nice boost to the Brit list for next month.
when We get good morale and support it makes it easy to bring on friends and other creatives. Now they will just see all this and not bother, it stops me wanting to bother too tbh.
All of them Brits and people I have been trying to get on for ages. Two are new and two are old steemit ppl who I got to come to hive and one is stil signing up I believe. They come when we talk highly of a platform. Now all I have honestly is bad feeling.
The salad post was a freak payout and it was what actually got me to get new people to take interest on my fb. I do kinda just feel done with supporting and promoting anymore. What’s the point you build up and this one dictator just swoops in and takes what they want.
So $45 is not good? Would you give up the chance of that? You make a fair amount each day from multiple posts.
I see this one got downvoted, but then complaining does not make you popular. This 'dictator' invested big in the platform and acts as he sees fit to make it good. He may not care about being popular. We each have our own opinions. He is just one of many big accounts. Some act for good and others just self-interest. Just how it is.
It’s irrelevant what’s good. 80 c isn’t great for a post but we take the rough with the smooth. The woman I refer to got like 80 dollars but it was one post in as far as I could scroll back of her supporting others and communities.
Another guy only ever rly got one dollar then he did a post where he got lots of people to join that did rly rly well and that got taken from.
I’m happy to make anything or nothing on a post but to have someone ‘supposedly in a position of wanting to make the platform better’ comes in and just takes what other chose to give isn’t good no. To me it’s a complete morale drop. I would feel same if you got a dollar and he took 50 c away . It’s the principle.
Obviously I chat to my friends and as much as me doing good and finding new ways to get compensated as a creative and artist, things like this when I tell them and they immediately don’t want to bother. It’s just a type of thing that puts new people off wanting to invest time. They hardy get any upvotes and are already losing interest. They only mostly get me and my vote is like 10 c when it’s fully powered. Maybe people could spend more time putting the power into these people so they stay. I already see within a week two have rly not posted much more. It might be coffee to some people but I’m inviting friends who are maybe struggling artists or musicians this is a sideline way to support their arts. They won’t continue if they see ppl get downvoted like that. I’m off to check out blurt it sounds great!
Bear in mind that Blurt will have less big accounts to vote you up. I go where the community is and Hive is still best for that. The Blurt token is not doing much.
What happened to you is very rare, so is it a deal-breaker? How much have you made from Hive? It takes work and effort, but you have to consider the value to you. I consider the big up/downvotes to be a matter of luck. I would not make anything on other platforms, but then I also believe that Hive is a force for good. The odd 'spoiler' is not going to put me off.
Don't let one bad egg spoil things for you.
it;s never been about purely money. As much as I love receiving upvotes because not only is it great but it helps support art. Sometimes it can pay for the materials used in a piece even if you don;t sell it so you can worry less and do things for purely creating. But at the same time I value freedom more than money and always have. My friends already want nothing to do with hive now I told them about people taking away votes like that its really put them off, as it will many ppl. Someone fairly compensated posts and the fact a tiny group of people heavily invested dictate what is acceptable and not acceptable to get rewarded /post is going to put ppl off eventually as it is doing with fb and twitter, the very ppl these ppl supposedly hate.. they are doing the same thing exactly. I have made great connections here iI especially love the guys over at eco train but I will definitely put more focus elsewhere now . It's different when its someone random, but this is someone who is supposed to be an 'example' as to how the platform should work.