I really hate downvoting and I can honestly say I don’t think I have ever done it. You could argue I don’t have the hive power to influence at this point in time lol! I do not understand why people would waste their time to take away from a platform rather than build it up, without a darker motive. The user @smooth takes it upon himself to decide who gets too much for a post, whilst up voting all his own comments and posts. I hate to see this. Many of the people he is downvoting are just small fish, artists and creatives, who often blog for a few dollars and suddenly get an amazing pay out on a post then in he comes and swipes it. He’s not just done it to me but I have found countless other people he has taken from. I saw one lady who spent almost all her time upvoting others and re blogging then made one post she got a good payout on and he swooped in and stole a chunk. His time on this platform is spent taking away from people whilst up voting his own posts continually, since he deems those as ‘worthy of money’. Has anyone else had an experience with this user? Maybe we can collectively come together on it by upvoting anyone who got robbed and bring them back what they lost between us all.
People like this ruin the platform for everyone, we all know you don’t get a random big upvote very often. You get one because you dedicated time and energy to communities and built relationships. Sure it’s sometimes weird the posts that get the upvotes, when they end up on trending but it balances out with the 1 dollar posts. Users like this having a quick browse and deciding who they ‘deem’ worthy of getting votes are ruining this platform.
You know I do downvoting as it is necessary to deal with abuse and there is plenty of that. Doing it to adjust rewards can also be valid. It looks like Smooth just hit one of your recent posts that is still making over $40. Isn't that still good? A lot of people never make that much and there are finite rewards each day.
We have various people who can give out tens of dollars in votes and some of them may do it fairly randomly. Some people may feel that is excessive. Making anything here is nice. I get downvotes too, but it is just part of the system and I never take rewards for granted.
I think Smooth is part of the effort to stabilise HBD, so that explains the self-voting. They get downvotes too.
I do feel for you, but I wouldn't take it personally. Hive is the wild west and bad shit will happen, but mostly I think it's doing good.
No it’s not good. I often get a dollar for a post where is he upvotIng those to make sure it’s fair? He doesn’t, because he doesn’t upvote anyone only take, unless they are in his little community. I saw a lady he took from who barely even posted her own content she just re blogged and engaged in the community. She made one post and it did really well.. obviously because she spends time working with the community not posting and he took a chunk. It’s not ok. He’s not researching he’s seeing individual posts and making a momentary judgment. He admitted to me he never upvotes or supports smaller content creators or creatives.
Is he taking any posts below zero? All rewards are subject to change before payout. Other big accounts are supporting you, so it balances out. Others do not get that support.
There are people getting consistent huge votes from troll ranchorelaxo/haejin. Is that fair? They don't actually care about Hive.
Smooth has been with us since the start and has done a lot of good. I think he has helped out in dealing with abuse. He only gave you one downvote of 15% and left you with a lot. He could have wiped you out easily.
I see all his rewards go to the HBD thing and I can believe he doesn't profit from that. He would be called out if he did. That is what he is dedicating his votes too.
When I downvote I accept the risk of retaliation. I do it for the good of Hive. Luckily I have good people who choose to support me and you do too. Enjoy that. We'd not be making much elsewhere.
BTW I see you copy your posts to 'the other place' so you get extra rewards there. People there care less about abuse. I got censored for criticising them. You have rewards on Blurt too. Nobody will care if you copy posts there too. Your choice.
Not having a go at you. Just saying it as I see it.
To be clear, RR/HJ up-votes things that are trending.
Many of us who do care quite a bit about Hive and have put thousands of hours into the platform since it was steem, have the blessing of support from communities/individuals, and hit trending sometimes, end up receiving the occasional up-vote from RR.
Usually followed by a swarm of down-votes to (at least-but usually more than) counter that up-vote.
I'll comment separately on the OP, but I wanted to address that specific point.
I pissed H off too many times for him to give me a vote :) I guess he rigs things to try and make something from curation.
I know some people dread getting on trending as it can attract the wrong attention. I think it's fair to trim some excessively rewarded posts to spread them out a bit, but I would hope people are left with what the real community gives them. Downvote trails can be an issue.
It looks like a lot of trending posts are not downvoted. I very rarely get on the top few pages.
Why is it for the whales to judge if a post is excessive? Sounds like a censorship oligarchy, just because someone (who has a lot more money than I do) thinks that I am earning too much money
This is the worst thing about this platform and it makes me not want to onboard people here anymore. I have probobly done way more to bring people to this platform than smooth has, but because hes rich he can control everything and take away half of my income.
It's the same whales (or different ones) who vote for most of the rewards in the first place. Somehow it is perfectly legitimate to get whale upvotes but not whale downvotes? I don't think so.
Er, this is how Hive works. People are happy to take the free money from votes by big accounts, but if those same voters decide to adjust rewards down it's a disaster. Smooth has stated his reasons and its not an all out attack on any one person. I've been downvoted plenty of times. Get over it and move on.
I see you've had huge rewards thanks to rancho. It's not because haejin actually reads your posts.
Too much drama!
It shouldn’t be!!!!! This guy especially is meant to be a witness no? They should be examples and he’s a bully. Who is he to decide what’s too much? A lot of creatives are not working since last March. This is a great platform for them to actually make some income not just a coffee like it is for some.
Maybe we should get the pll we invite elsewhere now.
Trust me this won’t end well for this platform they have annoued one too many ppl. Being downvoted and censored on whim is going to piss a lot of ppl off especially freedom loving creatives. It doesn’t matter how much the post is if it was 1 dollar voted down to 50 c I would feel the exact same.
No more soup for you - The Hive Soup Nazi.
How can you even think it’s ok for people to live in fear of their post trending. There are some amazing people and communities on this platform but that is toxic as hell. The fact people don’t recognise its toxic means they have already been conditioned into fear and limited freedom. They should be grateful if the witness allows them half their post they earnt. Seriously f that.
I don't want people to live in fear, but you are making a big deal of the one downvote you had from smooth. You have not done badly otherwise. Many talented people are not getting any big votes.
I know some people always do really well because of the connections they have made. I'm grateful for the support I get. If the odd post got downvoted like yours it would not be the end of the world.
Hive is not 'fair', but it can still do good.
Agreed you cannot take an isolated large upvote as too much when that person might have been working with communities a long time. I see all that circle consistently get 80 dollars for just waffling about their family or depression over and over again. Fair enough if people like it and you think my art sucks but then just don’t upvote it like I don’t upvote the daily depression stuff. Live and let live.
Everyone has the right to down-vote whatever they want with their stake. It's all part of the 7-day process to reach consensus around the "value" of a post.
Personally, I don't use downvotes except in cases of scammers, spam, when JSun took over, etc.
But I don't have a problem when others downvote my content, except when it becomes systematic.
That payout wasn't "mine" yet. (Big lesson about Steem/Hive there) Until voting is over and the payout happens, nobody has received anything, and nothing can be stolen.
Think of it as a practice in non-attachment.
A regular person whatever. But this is a bunch of witnesses who are happy with their mates getting 80 bucks about a post on someone’s family or depression but then deem the artists u worthy of more than a certain amount. If it wasn’t the bunch of witnesses it wouldn’t bother me as I would just think it was a crazy unhinged spammer on a mission but these guys are trying to make this part of the fabric of the site. So the people ‘In charge’ ... through delegation and not earnings may I add are deciding who they allow to earn money and who doesn’t. Personally I think that sucks and people should stand up to that.
I don’t care about the 30 hive dollars or whatever the dude took its the principle and sometimes it’s necessary to stand up for oneselves and the other people on this platform, cause it is not just me it’s happeninf a LOT.
No but he’s taking away a chunk of them without any research. Some of the people he’s taken from made one post in god knows how long or regularly get 1 dollar and then they got one rly big payout and he swooped in and took a good chunk. I’ve rly looked into many of the people he’s taken from. These creators earned those rewards fairly not just by one post but by general engagement with communities.
Yeah I secretly hope steemit will do well but a lot of the community have left I keep my hand in in hope! I am way too nervous to jump in here due to this very issue I am posting about, same with putting investment here. It’s too much of a dictatorship. What is blurt? I’ll check it out. :)
Steemit is a corrupted system. Rewards can be stolen as Steemit control the witnesses. Blurt was another fork that has no downvotes, so you can do what you like. They do charge you tiny amounts for transactions though. There was an airdrop for all Steem accounts. I had a play with it, but am powering it down as I won't use it.
I still think Hive is our best hope of a good system. Just have to ride out the odd problem. If others Smooth downvoted carry on they can still earn. My only worry is that people will stop posting. We cannot afford to lose them.
Honestly that rly lost my morale. I shared it on my social, to all my friends and finally got ppl interested then it gets swiped away. It’s rly not the amount at all it’s the principle.
Oh I like the idea of blurt. I hate the downvote thing cause it means a couple of wealthy ppl can just dictate what they think is good or moralistic to them. I’ll check it out.
I don’t even just speak for myself I’ve rly looked at some of the people he has taken from and they are honestly people that barely post and support others then get one big payout. I wish they would come here and share their experiences. One made a post that rly helped the Blockchain and got taken from.
I think if heijin or however its spelt ones to reward people with his investment then it’s fair yeah. People should live and let live. Its stifling .
He's just out to make what he can. He abused Steem with self-votes. From what I have heard he controls the rancho vote, but cannot power it down.
Is it really so bad when you can make good money here each week? For someone in Nigeria or Venezuela a few bucks are life-changing, but for us it's an expensive coffee.
Yeah it’s really bad. The amount is not the issue it’s the fact you can put in all that work and some rich dude just comes in and control and swipe it, without any research into the people he’s taking from, It’s depressing. Some of the ppl honestly that got downvotes hardly even posted their own content and who knows what they do in their own time.
I wish more people on here had more compassion and understanding like you, @ultravioletmag, this is what the supporters of downvoting don't seem to understand - the bigger picture and the effect on other people that such negative behavior can have. People don't understand it's not about the amount of rewards, it's about the principle and the effect this has on people who are not just names on a screen but real people with lives and families and struggles and problems of their own.
What if that one trending post for those who rarely get high rewards is one of those Venezualans or Africans struggling to survive, and that downvote deprived them of the opportunity to make big strides towards levels of freedom from poverty. What if they are depressed and that post was just the thing they needed to snap them out of that state of mind and then the downvote pushes them to deeper depression or even suicide. I could go on and on with all the things these potential consequences of downvotes could have, better to upvote content you like than downvote content for any reason other than obvious spam / plagiarism.
It's not just about downvotes either, this is just a reflection of a deeper societal problem where we've been programmed to believe that punishment of perceived 'enemy' and ruthless competition over compassion / freedom / love is the way to 'get ahead', and then ppl wonder why so few are happy despite being 'successful'.
I suspect smooth is not truly happy, most people who inflict pain and suffering on others are themselves in a state of pain and suffering, most bullies are the unhappiest people around.
Although many others don't seem to get it, I can see that you do not appear to be approaching this from victim mentality over the one downvote on your own content, but due to the greater implications this negative behavior has on people and the growth of the platform.
Thank you for standing up to this bully and not being afraid to make your voice and opinion heard, I appreciate your attempts to raise awareness on this important issue plaguing the hive ecosystem.
Maybe that woman who got one rly good payout that amount was life changing for her and this one guy scrolled his feed and decided to take it away from her. We don’t know what’s going on in other people’s lives like you said.
A big payout like that is a big deal for some people and is likely well deserved because they have been adding to a community by more than posting. I’ve never flagged anyone maybe twice if they are rly abusive at most back on steemit.
In my opinion users like this ruin the platform and take away morale. Even worse he’s meant to be some kind of example.
If enough of us club together we CAN do something about this we can collectively go around and restore the votes people got fairly. We can form a Robin Hood collective that gives back to those people who got rinsed. Even with a 10 c vote it only takes 200 votes to undo for many of these poor bloggers who are being taken from.
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.
The Hive reward pool is directed by stakeholders by both upvotes and downvotes. All payouts are pending until posts/comments are 7 days old. I have adjusted some of the pending rewards on your post based on your willful ignorance towards the workings of this blockchain.
Yet more bullying. This is censorship no one on steemit has ever taken away my payout that only happens with the bullies over here who seem to love trying to make people live in fear of not agreeing with them.
With the intelligence of a potato and the ego of a princess, you fit in great there.
It's an odd sentiment to me. I see it on Hive, but I've never seen it on other platforms. Haven't seen musicians on Spotify ranting and trying to rally people because they got a thumbs down. Haven't seen authors on Amazon claiming that people who leave one star reviews are killing Amazon. People on YouTube aren't making videos about how people using the thumbs down button is killing YouTube. On those other platforms, there's no transparency. The votes and algorithms are sealed away for nobody to ever see or know about. Is it the transparency in Hive's system that makes people want to completely tweak human behavior to make sure they don't get any negative ratings? Is it because it shows the potential payout rather than waiting for YouTube's algorithms to pay out? Maybe it's the stake-weighted voting: users with more skin in the game have more say on the platform
It's an odd reaction every time, and I just don't see the entirety of humanity changing to only give positive ratings on things. Part of being a content creator is bad reviews. Obviously it's not gonna make anyone happy, but it's better than being ignored. Vague feedback is still feedback. An audience is better than no audience
Rather than trying to make everyone change, or convince a bunch of people to sway the reward pool, you could go for tips. Maybe leave a signature at the bottom "Like my work? Buy me a..." or whatever. That would actually be money in your wallet
When it’s the platform themselves doing it they do or the ones that are responsible for its direction. Hence why everyone’s speaking out about fb and twitter censoring people and are leaving of protesting about it. I actually try and use amazon as little as possible as I know a few sellers and seen how bad amazon is to it’s sellers because it basically copies the most popular products, gets them made in bulk smaller sellers can’t match and puts its own products on the top eight pages even if they are lsss relevant. Like others I have definitely tried to stop using amazon when I can get the items elsewhere as I don’t like how they treat the sellers when they have dominated the market. Individual people leaving you a negative review is annoying but normal. I have an online shop so well aware of it, it’s very rare though as generally if your a good seller who makes an effort with your items and packaging they message if they hve a problem so you can fix it. Having said that if it is completely baseless often the platform do remove it for you. But when the people in charge of the direction of the platform are doing it to their users on mass then that’s very different scenario. If some random guy gave me a flag then whatever. I never downvote anyone but that’s life but if you look at the people doing it yoh will see it is being done as a hive ‘ inititive’ Not cause that one guy came across a post he didn’t value.
It’s much more principle than money. I actually sell far more on fb than I have ever sold here or earnt here. I got 10 grand shoots, weddings, other shoots, sold art etc off Facebook over the years and driven traffic to my shop etc. So I know people say fb doesn’t generate money like these sites do but that’s not rly true if your a creative. Ultimately we move here because we value freedom and wanted to build a platform here that could grow and most likely get into crypto. That’s missing when the people who hold all the power and are in charge of the direction of the platform are choosing who deserves to grow and who doesn’t. It’s not about me. Once it happened to me I looked around. I saw that it was happening to many other mid range creatives who were at the cusp of doing rly well from the platform, I found accounts where almost everyone of their posts was halved, yet not to any friends in the inner circle of the witnesses doing it who regularly get huge payouts and have never had a Down vote. Didn’t we all come here for freedom?
By the way on YouTube pll love thumbs down all engagement is money on YouTube. Downvote gets as much as an upvote. I still believe downvoting is a shitty energy rly as if you don’t like it just scroll past but in terms of rewards negative attention is as beneficial as positive so when you downvote those people you dislike your basically paying them.
The bottom sentence is a really good creative idea tho to use the platform still engage with the communities we built and bypass the witness direction of stopping creatives from growing. I like that thinking !!! I might actually use it that’s a very productive solution for us all actually! There I even a site I thjnk called buy me a coffee etc. I knew the answer would arrive! Thankyou 💗💗 it’s not quite the same as generating tokens as pll actually have to send but it’s a start and each time it’s given it raises the point as well of what’s happening.
I'm so happy last night when my post get reward so high and I think it was for my post. But today @smooth robber my rewars too and he will gift to another blogger, Might be! Lol!
It is so bizarre to me. The guy has a big stake, invested a lot and is upvoting creatives of his choice with his own investment. Like everyone else he gets curation rewards as does everyone who invests and upvotes others. I guess ppl get pissed when it's not them and the platform was beginning to get more evenly spread is all I can think, or they want to decide who gets decent upvotes. It's hugely demoralising to get flagged everytime you get a decent payout i feel you. I am focusing on NFT s more now, at least there is none of this arguing and control wars there.
On Hive you get downvoted for not downvoting.... or upvoting... you should try Blurt where there are no downvotes.
All the artists, photographers, bloggers are moving there. https://Blurtter.com
Blurt was another Fork from Steemit in May 2020.. .. it was created to end the Downvote wars... you already have a blog there with blurt airdrop .. you can trade your Blurt for Bitcoin on Ionomy.com.
Here is your Blog : https://blurtter.com/@ultravioletmag if you use the tags #blurtart #blurtphoto #blurtmusic I can give you some huge whale upvotes ... 🐳
Except that I doubt you'll have a $40 post with or without downvotes on blurt.
It has nothing to do with money. It’s about the very ugly Censureship, revenge culture, envy, greed and small mindedness on Hive.
If you don't care about money then downvotes are irrelevant. There are going to be people you don't like or don't like you (or your posts) on any platform with more than a few people. Nothing is censored on hive except for when certain front ends hide certain posts. That's up to whoever is maintaining that front end though. Mute the users you believe are greedy, envious, vengeful and small minded. Problem solved. I think you'll find more "good" users on this platform than any similar platform. If you can just ignore those you consider "bad" things will be a whole lot better.
Lol .... I’m not here for the money. I’m already a millionaire. I just don’t like the way some people get treated here. So I set up a Downvoter Downvote Robot to help the little guys.
Sometimes it’s not about money. I love a lot of the community on hive it’s a shame that a small handful ruin the platform.
You don’t get one here either as as soon as they see you make something they swoop in lol go check
I did check. And while you are right, I don't see where you had a $40 post in the last few weeks I do see where you have had several in the $20 to $35 range. My point is you probably won't get that for posting on Blurt. Or Facebook. Or Instagram. Or pretty much anywhere else. If the money doesn't matter then it doesn't matter. If it does matter, then those seem like pretty generous rewards for social media posts. Some people thinking higher amounts are too much and that some should go back into the rewards pool for other posters doesn't seem outlandish to me.
Downvotes are supposed to be about disagreement with rewards. To the extent people downvote for revenge or other petty reasons then it is a problem. But pettiness is going to be a problem anywhere in some form or another.
Lol no cause they got downvoted 🤣🤣🤣 sorry but I would feel the same if it was 1 dollar down to 50 c this isn’t the point at all. I don’t personally believe it’s ethical for a witness to selectively vote people’s posts down because they deem them unworthy and keep other posts high. Lots of their mates get regular 80-100 dollars for rly average posts no problems. The equivalent is me saying can you give me half your wage you earn at work cause think you get overpaid. Happy do send it to me? You should be happy right cause you still get SOME. Meanwhile I’ll let all my mates keep their full wage. Of course everyone can have their opinion and I am voicing mine. X
I had five friends join recently and pretty much only I voted then and they left already. I don’t think newbies are getting much help.
Oh and then it got more down votes because acid suddenly decided it was over rewarded too 3 mins after commenting on me sharing my experience from early steemit days, when he and others bullied all newbies and shared their posts in private chats where they all laughed and decided who to flag and take to rep one that day. Clearly just a coidenence that he replies to that then three minutes later decides another post is ‘ over valued’ I woudl hve had more respect had he just been upfront and honest about continuing to bully and abuse his power to threaten people into staying silent. If I only cared about money I would have sucked up to them back in 2017 and laughed at and bullied all the newbies and upvoted the inner circle and I would be huge on hive now.... and morally bankrupt.
I heard about blurt and it sounds amazing! I can't stand this small handful of people flagging and downvoting ppl just cause they would rather their mates had the money than letting people vote as they choose. I did just log in now but couldn't seemto get photos to upload onthere but will try again later. I LOVE the idea of a platform where a tiny handful of people don't have the power to totally dominate and take resources from smaller people. Of course there will always be a hierachy but this system sucks for sure.
Hive especially hates Artists, musicians and beautiful women. All are welcome on Blurt.
lol
Hive is absolut brutal. There is actually one guy who controls everything over here.
yeah it's terrible. Way worse than steemit ever was, it's ok when youor tiny lol they just seemingly get threatened when a post makes over 40 dollars incase someone gets a sniff of control and equality lol.
Exactly.... for me, every time one of my works of Art or movies made over $50 I was downvoted to zero...to teach me a lesson of some kind ???? .. What the actual Fk is wrong with these people. They are insane.
See my post before this is old behaviour from early steem days.
Yeah... all The worst of Steemit moved here.
That is so sad. We should feel for these people they are miserable.
and thankyou thats so kind! <<3 I will try the photos again in a sec.
We cannot achieve much alone butwhen we get together we can create amazing platforms! thankyou for all this info.
Yes ... absolutely... hive seems incredibly toxic to me. Even Steemit is better these days.
yeah now the toxic ppl left steemit is rly fine now it's a really awesome energy just everyone left lol, if all the cool nice ppl went back steemit would be really fine now. It's also worth a lot more but it's nothing unless the like minded community go there. You really should post that post you put on mine on everyones post that that guy downvotes cause you only need one or two to piss you off enough to want to find better.
Yeah... all the toxic people moved here..... there is nothing you can do to fix Hive.
So made two posts, ,had to put that salad one on hahah
Nothing can be done to fix Hive. It is headed for zero,
I never shared this before and did just to you on blurt but when I joined in 2017 I was in steem chat and got invited to a private steem chat 2 by a guy in there. Acidyo, m31, tarazkp, Kyle ( who I have nothing bad to say about that I saw) were all In there with lots of others. They used to laugh at newbies and threaten to flag them and ruin them constantly. They would share their posts in the chat and laugh about how stupid they were etc. They would say vile things about people starting out and have everyone living in fear of being reduced to a 1 rep. They actually went for a few people who maybe just disagreed with them on some topic and would flag everything and take them done to one rep. It was so childish it was unbelievable. When I fell out of favour they muted me and wrote rly horrible things and shared my twitter or Instagram posts etc and made personal comments about me so I could see but not respond lol. They supported one another constantly and would just laugh and desecrate newbies they had no interest at all in helping build new people, only to laugh at them and threaten them for ‘fun’.
There are some people on here that are downright bullies and have no interest at all in building people up.
I tried again every-time i try it says 'Image upload : Unable to contact the server.' can you help at all?
Just copy and paste your blog posts over there.... you will never ever be downvoted. You will only get huge upvotes from very friendly kind people. Only love .... never hate ... there is only unconditional Love on Blurt. Https://Blurtter.com
sounds amazing!!! I might haveto as i just can't upload pics.
this place is screwed, just like fb and twitter when you censor ppl and abuse your power to that extent constantly eventually your audience will find and create new platforms. Maybe it will take 6 months maybe 3 years but eventually it will happen. l love love love the idea of a platform that is supporting of everyone making it and not forcing their rules on everyone and down voting ppl just to make sure only their mates get rich. Sounds like a beautiful platform and if we all put effort in hopefully we can make it evolve.
Oh yeah... they are upgrading the image server... I just copy and paste an image from hive, Steemit or someplace like that... like this ....
And your images will appear .... like this
yeah i managed by copying the url from here and my fb!
Awesome... you can just copy paste any of your Steemit posts. No problems. All the best people from Steemit and Hive moved to Blurt and also moving back to Steemit.
Don't get me started on downvotes, I don't flag, ugh, I've written so many posts about my battles with people who would attack me at times. I'm not sure if Smooth has gone after me but others have gone after me for a variety of things.
It sucks I think I only flagged a couple of people who rly were just abusive spam bots. Never ever a genuine person.
That is good. I like how you think.
Maybe don't scam people, how about that?
I don't scam people but I can show you people scamming people on Instagram and I do talk about that on my Oatmeal Daily blog and other articles I mention many things and I write so much all day long, very long boring articles and posts and videos and more, I write very long for the last 20 years especially, that is since the early 2000s and it is well documented and more.
The 20 HBD bet you didn't pay up on Trump winning says otherwise.
Trump got more votes, the audit in Arizona is live right now, I can give you some links to that, some live feeds via some websites. I said Trump would get more votes but I also said they would say Biden won regardless of who actually got more votes. I can show you posts I published going at least to August of 2020 and some things before that even including a famous article I wrote early in 2020 talking about how the real race was between Trump and Covid and not Trump versus whoever would face him. It ended up being Biden and I was thinking Bernie Sanders was more popular which is true since Bernie Sanders was even more popular than Hillary Clinton in 2016. Stop The Steal.
Who are you on insta? I mean @lifeofsarahlouise
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This post is being downvoted by people who contribute zero to the platform and hardly ever post. THis whole thing sucks
They contribute 0 and take everything!
I asked what small contributors and creatives he supports... ZERO ... probably doesn’t have time when obsessively taking from people and trying to work out who to downvote all day. That negativity must get tiring
Another lol
From my days in 2017 in steem chat two ( a private chat for the whales and a lot of the pll now doing it) they were very aware. I’ve heard other reports from discord groups too. They actively would vote one another and didn’t give a shit about new people making it. They would infact actively flag new people to 1 rep and take all their payouts whilst laughing about them and sharing screen shots in the chat. Sometimes it was just because they didn’t like them, or they disagreed on a topic or sometimes just for fun.
tbh i wouldn't do it anyways as you can easily take a few lines out of context, it is far more about the general theme of the chat and how it was. Individual screen shots can be made to make anyone look anything, so even if i had the access I wouldn't do it. It was more the general theme that newbies were laughed at and threatened and not helped.... unless they joined in, i fully acknowledge i was given an in, and would no doubt be huge on hive now had I taken it, but I could never do that. I am sure we all said things over our lives we realise we are not proud of but I would just hope they might acknowledge it at least.
Note some of their mates constantly get 80 dollars plus for waffling about family and depression. Like I always say faIr play to whatever ppl like to read, or support those ppl who have contributed to the platform but it’s very ‘selective’ who is allowed to earn over 40 dollars a post lol. This new ‘scheme’ will sadly be the end of this blockchain at some point I predict. No ones going to be happy with that happening continually they will stop inviting friends and stop rly putting energy into the platform.
Checkout this guy
https://hive.blog/hive-123046/@ultravioletmag/online-bullying
another bully
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Yessss! So nice @steevc, thanks for your motivation and your constant participation on this platform 😊👍