Regardless, these people have chosen to reward me with their stake that allocated inflation to my content. But some people don't think I'm allowed to keep the rewards that others have allocated to me.
As someone who is no stranger to being downvoted heavily for months on end, the rewards aren't yours until they are in the wallet after 7 days. Up until payout, they are up for negotiation.
As for accounts that are earning 100s from automated link drops from other sites where they haven't bothered to reply to any of the very few comments they get for half a year - they should be downvoted. It isn't suppressing some kind of truth, all the content is still there to read for the very few who seem to actually click on a link out to another site to view and then come back to comment - it is ridiculous.
For the accounts that get some automated large votes and then spam to milk them - they should get downvoted too.
I say "should" but it is up to the stake to downvote or upvote - it is also up to the stake to delegate to accounts that upvote or downvote - delegation can be removed in literally 3 seconds.
The information content itself matters, and if others value it and want to reward it (like I do), then that content should be allowed to keep the rewards
Again, the information may have value, but it doesn't necessarily have HIVE value. content that is spammed all over the internet on the very platforms that they are complaining about, doesn't have Hive value.
Many Hive users value Hive content, because this is where their stake is, their money, their future. Many Hive staked people value Hive people for the same reasons. If the same content can be found elsewhere without it linking back to Hive or bringing in Hive users willing to be part of the community, it doesn't have Hive value. If the accounts are dumping non-valuable Hive-content onto Hive for reward and often on top, then dumping that reward on the market, but don't even care enough to comment on Hive or support Hive in anyway - they aren't Hive people.*
This is what has been happening to me for months now. I post for a bit, leave for a few months, come back, and still this 'curangel' account is there to downvote me over 50%-75% on average. A few times it was about 90% of rewards removed, and once or twice it was 100% due to another whale joining in the downvoting.
And for a little context in value - I haven't had a day off from Hive in almost 4 years and I am pretty well rewarded, I also put out decent quality posts daily and spend a massive amount of time on the platform for all kinds of things, including supporting others in various ways - you have still earned more than me on your main account - you might have other accounts, I don't know.
You are not a victim mate.
Right, so if a large account downvoted all your posts to 75% of what they were at in rewards, you want me and others to believe you would be totally fine with that, because " it is up to the stake to downvote or upvote"? ;)
I think I would here something more about "I haven't had a day off from Hive in almost 4 years..." and what you've done on steem/hive at that point, no? Or would you just be silent and not talk about it? You can get flagged as much as anyone wants to, to remove as much rewards as they or a collection of accounts wants to, and you are not a target of anything. If you were to talk about it, I could just end my comment with "You are not a victim mate." ;) Gotcha.
Oh yeah. As you mentioned in the post, you don’t much like hive. Your actions shows it. No worries to complain about how we govern this chain, but okay to take the rewards eh? You don’t like DV, why don’t you buy some stake.
You rant, and I will make sure I do what I can to take care of ya? Cheers!
Oooooh, someone is powering down, that means they don't liek Hive. Amazing powers of deduction you have there. Why don't you go tell that to others, like yabapmatt who is powering down to get into CubDeFi with a higher APR (publicly stated in discord, at least for Leo, maybe Hive too)? Ooops. Keep your fake-ass cheers for yourself, and your bullshit "go buy millions of hive to self-vote to counter the downvotes" argument, gimme a break.
Muted! Goodbye ;)
I will do whatever I want. You do whatever you can. Alright pumpkin?
Oh I am sorry... you mentioned CUB de-fi has higher APR? Thank you for that valuable information. I decided to follow your advice and get into the game....
Happened for months to me too, and Hive definitely wasn't at the level it is now - so the rewards I was getting on posts after the DVs were just above zero daily. As said, you aren't the only one that has experienced this.
I defended their right to use their stake as they saw fit - I kept posting as if it wasn't happening - I stayed active regardless. If what you`consider what you say to actually be valuable, the rewards shouldn't matter that much. Or is it that you will only speak if someone pays you to speak?
Really what you think? Come on now... Did I stop when I was getting flagged even harder in years gone by? Not necessarily. But at times I do stop posting, then come back. Did it many times with price low or high, at various degrees of flagging. And I haven't talked about flags in years since 2017 I think it was when there was the no-whales voting thing. So yeah after 4 years of near-constant flags, I dared to speak about it again :O
The speaking about it isn't an issue, speak all you want, but I think it does matter how you speak about it - but that is just me. At the end of the day, stake acts as stake does in all directions. Sometimes it will benefit you personally, sometimes it won't.