With all due respect, no. If countless people all chip in money and the post goes to 150 dollars and some asshole who happens to have a huge amount of money comes along and just downvotes it to zero, that's a problem whether you want to admit that it is or not.
This is a fundamental flaw in the Hive community. People close their eyes to the whales because most people want to get upvoted by them.
When I was on YouTube, I was censored by ultra rich assholes who had way too much power.
Now, here, my posts are dramatically demonetized by ultra rich assholes who have way too much power.
If a big corporation wants to buy a ton of Hive, put it into Hive Power and downvote every anti establishment post, rekking all creators who post on here, that will forever destroy Hive. People seem super short sited about this.
This one rich person has more pull than a couple hundred other people who disagree with him. The difference is that those people who support me don't have as much money as him.
Today, I once again watched my work which includes exclusive interviews with big names go from 50, 60, 80 dollars down to 3 or 4 dollars. Why? Some rich asshole doesn't like the politics. Great. Glad they have so much control over everything here and the community stands behind it.
Yes. It is censorship. Encouraging it will be the downfall of this site.
Rewards paid out after 7 days represent the consensus view of the entire Hive community and you are quite wrong to ascribe your downvotes to "ultra rich assholes" or even "whales".
@curangel is not a whale and is not even a single person but represents large number of Hive users who have delegated Hive power to it for the purpose of curation. The vast majority of its Hive Power is delegated.
It is not rich at all and its power is simply the aggregation of the power of its numerous delegators.
Censorship and reward calculations are completely different things. There is no censorship on Hive - all content is viewable on the blockchain.
There IS curation and content promotion and moderation by a large number of people, all with different Hive Power stakes.
You are clearly new to Hive and don't understand how it works. I suggest you spend more time learning before your start throwing round baseless accusations.
Behave modestly, learn how things work, build connections and treat Hive like any new human community that you'd like to be part of and you will do well.
Behave in an ignorant, arrogant, self-entitled way with no respect for the rules of the community and you will find yourself in the same position as if you did this in any human community to which you are a newcomer.