Whales decide what content is encouraged and what is driven off the platform - just like they always did on Steemit.
If 94 people upvote and one whale slams the rewards down to zero - that not only wipes the authors rewards, it also wipes all the upvoters curation rewards. So 95 people are pissed off and one whale gets a hard on.
As a blogger being downvoted, and a curator having my votes deleted, why would I choose to stay invested in Hive? They can say it's not censorship, and they have been saying that for 5 years - but ultimately the content creators leave, and the investors pull their investment out.
We have already done all this on Steemit...
That is why my focus is now on Proof Of Brain. But this is not the way to grow a platform, it's the way to sustain a network of total corruption.
that is true, a bigger stake gets a bigger vote. This is probably not the best system we can come up with, but so far I haven't seen a better one. Is there one?
But I can also say after 4 years on Steem/Hive that it has gotten much better for users in general. We have much better curation and there are many more dolphins/orcas which play an important role in curation. There will always be cases where people will be treated unfairly and it sucks if it happens to oneself (I know how that feels as well).
Can this conflict be resolved? Have you talked about the people that have/are downvoting you? Did they have a reason for doing so or are they just bad players?
The conflict can be resolved by me posting only approved content, and never mentioning downvoting, and not interacting with accounts that they don't like...
Screw that.
what kind of content is getting you into "trouble"?
Coronahoax, vax, and agenda 2030 are all a problem for starters!
https://peakd.com/proofofbrain/@sift666/new-zealand-doctors-call-for-halt-of-vaccine-rollout
And anything about Hive inner cabel, reward pool control, fake accounts etc are no go areas. There are others.
went through your posts and seems like the only whale downvoting you is azircon, doing so very rarely (2-3 times in the last year?)
Did you speak with him about it? Any reason he/she gives?
The "problem" with the vaxx stuff is that it is very controversial. Many topics will do that to people. I actually think that Hive could use a "conspiracy community" (not that I am saying all of the things are a conspiracy, but more that it is a niche that many people are interested in). You will always have whales here downvoting these kinds of posts.
Would that be an idea? I think it could really flourish with there being many people interested in it, and you won't have any whales being able to downvote it
I have multiple accounts - being downvoted by several large whales - frot is actually my relatively well behaved account!
All interaction leads to further downvoting...