Curation "groups", have made the steem/hive experience worse for the average user. The reason being, is that the "stake" or "power" has been "centralised" within some of these "decentralised" groups that involve the same people/curators in many cases, who decide what is good/bad, or the same idea of fake news fact checkers that takes place in the ridiculous mainstream social media space. Having different curation groups gives the impression of decentralised support to the average user, but unfortunately this has been used as a way by certain individuals/special interest groups for their own agenda and control.
I've said this openly on this chain before, which is why I attracted hate and scorn (as well as downvotes) by some of these people. They have turned these communities and curation groups into a self-interest "alternative" space for themselves at the expense of the average user. All of it is based on a superiority complex, where they believe they are better than the average peasant user, and for the most part end up being the ones who decide peoples fate. Not everyone can be a talented blogger, but there are plenty of bloggers who regurgitate garbage that are massively overrewarded because they bend and kneel to these influential powers like meek and submissive cucks.
These platforms were supposed to be about finding and interacting with people of common interest to create real communities based on those ideals. That is NOT happening, when you have groups such as these controlling the overwhelming majority of the stake and exploiting its user base.
Let the downvotes begin...
P.S. Great post, and I agree with your sentiments.
Amen.
I said this at the time they was ganging up, too.
I got a curie vote the other day, I bet somebody clued in whoever it was that gave it to me because I haven't gotten another.
Ganging up to increase rewards shows a lack of class, iyam.
Is tipu better? I ask because I have thought so but havn't had a good check
Anything that involves paying for more rewards from the pool is vote buying/selling, we forked those people out, but didn't clean up afterwards.
We need to clean up, iyam.
Delegating for profit and renting stake to increase curation rewards are forcing the pool to pay you.
That lacks class, imo.
Tipu adds lots of new users, so I'd save them for last in the cleanup efforts.
I thought you might say that - tipu doesn't seem to be into down voting or promoting an agenda so I'll give them the benefit of the doubt for now.
Every stake holder has a duty to downvote abuse, it is a necessary part of the game.
We won't be able to tackle the abusive whales and orcas without teaming up.
After steemit I'm as anti downvoting as it gets
If they downvote someone i go and upvote 10 of that persons other posts and comments
But I don't fight whales with only 200k of HP... They would rip my nuts off!
And i don't do duty, that's a socialist thing, and im more anarchist.
Which is why teaming up is necessary.
https://discord.gg/3uaDBsJW
I'm just starting to realise the full extent of it!
Right now I'm not even naming the worst example I've seen because they have serious downvote power and are not afraid to use it..
Oh, there are more examples for sure. I could see this building up a long time ago with these groups and some of the seriously shady behaviour (including direct confrontations in the past) that tried/convinced many to give them their delegations in return for "rewards" or ROI. That's how it always works. If you know how to psychologically manipulate the masses with a rewards based system, then it's all easy peasy from there. Remind you of something 😉. The very same tactics used by the peoples enemies are being deployed on these platforms as well. Not much you can do about it, and it's a natural part of how these platforms work, and the rewards system that incentivises this type of behaviour.
There are plenty of other shady tactics that are used, but we will leave that alone for now.
It's sad to say that's it's basically too late to rectify any of this at a fundamental level, unless the entire rewards system is completely overhauled. Changing the rewards distribution from 75/25 for author vs curator to 50/50, only made this worse. Most people have no choice now, but to grovel at the feet of these curation groups/or influencers, or make content that only suits their "communities" that mostly benefits them in the end. Basically group think for rewards in return.
It's a real shame, because I still really like these platforms, and the entire idea behind them.
If you haven't already done so, go and read Dan's last few posts. They are very revealing about some of these facts, but are stated in a "diplomatic" manner.
I'll check out the posts. If even he has to be diplomatic, it's a worry!
Well, it also depends on your interpretation of the content and context that I got from it myself. I am really referring to his most recent post on EOS. The parts about governance and how and why certain witnesses are voted in and how that impacts the platform.