Downvotes are awesome and I honestly wish more people would use it. Content derives value from consensus and if we only have one way to vote, we really don’t get to an accurate consensus.
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Downvotes are awesome and I honestly wish more people would use it. Content derives value from consensus and if we only have one way to vote, we really don’t get to an accurate consensus.
They don't want to ruin their earning potential by hurting someone's feelings even if they do honestly think the content ain't all that. When someone just whines about other authors getting more rewards I check out their profile and see the downvote mana not being used, then be like, yeah just one of those users that whine but never do anything with their stake. There's a lot of content getting rewards that aren't even really worth putting money onto but people just look at it and complain proof of brain is broken.
It's pretty obvious that downvotes are necessary. Just look at Blurt and the shit goes on there. Last time I paid any attention to it, they wanted to give the witnesses to remove full earnings potential from any individual. Just downvotes except controlled by a few and full downvotes.
If you don't like the downvotes you are getting on Hive, there's always second layer tokens that you can participate in. People are stupid is really what I've learned.
So they ended up wanting to be a centralized platform. Just people not knowing what they want and then having what they want and realizing it's not really what they need.
A wise sage I know said this.
"People are lame." - sage of the internet 2020
I find the 2nd layer being as profitable if not more than the first layer provided you are really doing well on a niche and not pissing other people off on that second layer.
Exactly, I just mentioned this to someone yesterday, if you don't like that you're getting downvoted and there's no one around or wants to help you once you've made a case that you don't deserve the downvotes, you can cushion the blow with L2. Most of the time people are happy to help counter even if it means less curation reward returns for them, it's the right thing to do on malicious downvotes if the content isn't overrewarded or it's just something personal, you'll help the other voters on said posts get some returns back as well that way. If people don't want to counter them, there's usually a reason and it's not always cause they don't want to be targetted by downvotes themselves.
Same thing goes for those wanting to remove layer 1 completely and shilling for layer 2, tbh. They've not even tried to use their downvotes or attempt to normalize them, especially for disagreement of rewards. There's a lot of stuff that gets overrewarded, my posts included but I'm not here trying to farm it on a daily basis and often forfeit a lot of them. It's really not that difficult to find out who's here just for the rewards, a lot of the times some downvotes show people's true colors easier than a lie detector and most of those reactions are pretty cringe.
It's always been like that. The entertainment comes from the drama over rewards. It's always about drama over the rewards. I don't recall any major drama on the blockchain that can't be linked with the drama over rewards. It's all about the damn rewards. Just as human history has been shaped by wars, this blockchain has been shaped by reward disagreements.
It's quite entertaining some times, but pretty sad when people use it to go after smaller users which I have zero tolerance about - unless they're being assholes in one way or another ofcourse, there's consequences to your actions here just like anywhere else in the world and that's good else we'd just have trolls constantly patrolling the place all the time.
Can you imagine with more people and bigger people who have feuds with one another from the past being on Hive and the drama that'd ensue then?
I don't really consider stake as a big factor to character. It's not like an asshole with less stake will change their views after receiving more tokens. If we remove the social rewards to the argument and just strip down the drama to it's core of rewards disagreement, I don't think people would still put up with the drama and would just be on their merry way somewhere else. As soon as the argument about censorship is supported by rewards being taken, that's when I know it's not really about their free speech they care about but the rewards.
I can but it's on a microscale drama that people shouldn't bother with. If Hive does get more love from the mainstream, making posts about rewards disagreement, value of engagement will be evergreen content here.
Myeah, that's true, I mean more like someone who just cause he happens to have bigger stake lashes out at smaller users knowing he's doing a lot more "damage" to them in an attempt to scare them away from voicing their opinion with downvotes on overrewarded content - which often times the bigger user gets a lot of and most of the time its from vote-trading or other shitty ways. When I see those kind of downvotes is when I lose my cool.