You’re spot-on as usual, my friend. I’ve been in denial about this happening, but I’ve noticed it, too. I wish we could talk about art freely, and that it could be rewarded freely without repercussion—however, in a world where whatever’s clever, this kind of thing is bound to happen in some sense sooner or later. I just hope it doesn’t become the long-term norm on Hive. I have had high hopes and have seen actual quality rewarded here—but trolls exist in all forms and on all platforms, and to think Hive might be exempt from vote-trolling I think was a bit high-reaching for me personally. Lol, I always want a nice lil island where we can be artists and live happily ever after.
I had multiple posts downvoted on the-platform-that-shall-not-be-named, as well as on Appics because I wasn’t posting about the subject of the blockchain. I also had patrons who regularly upvoted my posts because they considered it the kind of quality material they were looking for on the platform.
It’s an odd tug of war when you have a perpetual philosophical battle between people who want to just be artists and people who just want to circle jerk the platform. That’s never made sense to me in a long-term sense...like I don’t understand the connection between getting new users to the platform and trending posts that would totally go over the heads of regular people who are new to the platform or new to blockchains in general.
It starts to feel a bit like E! or Bravo network shows where celebrities wax extensive about themselves in an insular bubble of entitlement...it’s definitely alienating. On today’s episode of Real Housewives of Hive...we’re going to talk about ourselves...only.
Anyway—thanks for all you bring here. I know it’s frustrating to deal with large downvotes with a big pull. But you have people here who love you, so don’t get too frustrated. Please. Or do, and just vent about it in your own beautifully unique way, but just don’t leave us.
The downvote I received was no sweat. Things have clearly snowballed though. Events I noticed last week leading to seeing all those other artists who are nowhere near as established as I am getting kicked to the curb like that is an impossible pill to swallow.
I've clearly explained on numerous occasions how the things we don't like benefit us all indirectly and their success should be celebrated. Of course the internal memo style Hive posts do not contribute much to that success. It took years to get folks on steem to stop doing that. You were there in the early days as well and saw the damage it did. Reliving this all over again is only bringing back bad memories. It took years for some to break down the barriers and now they're putting them right back up.
I am frustrated. I will not deny that and is to the point where it's probably best I take a couple days off. I don't want to be writing posts like these. It's not fun.