Good Evening,
As my project begins to ramp up. I’ve already had the opportunity to have good conversations with interesting people. I have also had some pretty terrible conversations but this will happen in the battle place of ideas.
My ideas are not better than yours because I have more HP, in most cases, people with less money than me have a lot to teach me, and I’m willing to learn.
Rich people tend to not be very interesting. Money is a double edged sword, life is easier with money, I’m not going to deny that. People die because they are “poor” and don’t have enough resources to get the care they need. This is a tragedy. But money creates other problems, which is why the story of a successful business man, who can’t take it anymore, and just sells everything and buys a humble plot of land is not uncommon. It’s not common but it does happen, and frankly, that’s pretty interesting. How much money do you need to realize time is scarce and time is extremely valuable? Some people never figure it out. Some people don’t care. And some people work their ass off, live stressful lives, never see their family, and they die emotionally alone.
What do you want from life? What do I want from life? I don’t know. That’s part of life, I’m still figuring it out.
When people don’t like a downvote, and their go to reaction is they need the money because they are poor, it looks like a scam. This is the internet, and no one really knows who anyone is. Maybe someone does need the HIVE that bad. Maybe they are buying bread and it will keep them from starving?
But HIVE is an investment, not a charity. We can run charity through the DHF as a community. But having unchecked upvote charity seems strange.
I do not agree with the idea, that because someone says they are poor or because someone gets mad, that makes their opinion more valid.
The opposite is true. When someone says these things, it is an appeal to emotion. It is fallacious reasoning, and in some sense, even if they are genuine, it’s a scam.
There is a reason Mr Skull has been transformed into a business account and hurt-locker will be my new personal account going forward.
I am setting it up this way because I want to always be a Hivian, but I cannot commit to holding the stack I have currently acquired forever.
I bought this much HIVE because it makes sense to me right now.
I am a contrarian investor and like to buy when people are losing their shit.
When everyone is freaking out, missiles are flying, there’s a global pandemic, or any other event, these are the times I buy.
I am a very emotional person on a personal level but not emotional when it comes to investing.
I’m not a day trader or a momentum trader.
When people are scared, I buy what I can.
And when I think I find a winner, I put my finger on the buy button until my finger bleeds.
What I am doing might seem crazy. Maybe I am crazy? But even if I’m crazy, I am functional and I try my best to be a good person. And that does matter.
As people continue to look at me and try to figure out what I’m doing.
I can honestly tell you, I don’t know what the plan is, there is no master plan.
I am not a normal person. I do not think like other people. I would not wish the way I think on anyone. My mind has brought me great fortune but boy it can be exhausting yee-ha!
There is no master plan, only options. I maximize my options and I pivot. And if I have to pivot myself into a hole, all the way to zero, I’ll do it and I’m not worried about. I will have no regrets because I tried my best.
I have a strong opinion and an investment thesis. And I’m willing to bet on it. If you think I’m dumb or stupid, then you just don’t know me but I would like to get to know you. Let’s have a good conversation.
If you have more HP than me and I’m stepping on your toes. Just let me know, I'll be around, and I will show you deference. I apologize for wasting your time.
Those with more HP deserve my respect because like me, they are willing to put their money where their mouth is.
If you are being downvoted by me or one the curators, and you don’t like it, tell me what you think a downvote should be for? I genuinely want to know what you think. I want to have a good conversation and I’m happy to lose in the battle place of ideas; it makes me a better person.
See you on the other side,
❤️
Mr. Skull
The truth is a downvotes will always feel somehow to the person getting it especially when they are not sure why they are being downvoted but that’s one interesting thing about hive. We can’t tell people to either stop upvoting or downvoting us. We just hope we attract more of upvotes as that’s what builds our reputation here.
I remember I once got a downvote on my post and when I asked why, I was told it was because I got too much upvotes on that particular post and some other posts. Personally, I felt it was a bit unfair because I have seen people who don’t even invest as much as I do on hive that gets more upvotes and never for once got any downvotes. But then, I remember that we all are in control of who we want to upvote or downvote.
Downvotes are there to be used. But I hope there will be a sort of laid down guidelines for using it. I feel most people use it because they have the power to not really to help people do better.
i think, as in everything, we need to have boundaries. The same applies to downvotes. In my opinion, it is a tool that will help keep a balance when people are trying to take advantage of Hive and its people, like vote for vote, plagiarism, AI content, fake giveaways, rugs and the list goes on.
Especially nowadays, when we are only a few active people around here, we need to both support the creators if ofc we like their content and at the same time try to maintain that balance, because especially at times where we have a lack of activity or high activity is where most scammers lie.
Now if someone uses his HP to simply downvote whatever he doesn't like just becuase, even though he can do it and nothing can be done if other whales don't step it, the end result will be more and more people to lose interested in Hive, meaning loss for him long-term as well.
Good luck in this project! I think that type of project will be well seen by those who worry with Hive.
When you downvote a post with no rewards and the account has higher rep than you, you have burned your downvote to no gain.
Your downvote only affects lower rep accounts, in the proportion that it has been downvoted.
Zeroing rewards does not impact reputation, only when the balance goes below zero.
There is something to gain in expressing my opinion though 🙂
I hate the down vote. Not enough to switch to BLURT but still enough. I believe the only time a down vote is warranted is for plagiarism
Why do you hate downvotes?
I personally think a downvote should be a way I can share an opinion quickly. I do not have nuke all of the rewards of a post when I share an opinion.
The reward pool is not free, we pay for it with inflation.
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