There was no cry for help in the video, just greed and narcissism.
Actually the narcistic people are the best at making a show of playing on the emotions of others. This is because they have no real emotions connected to the situation but they are mega intelligent and can manipulate others perfectly and for example acting sick or poor or making money off the misfortune of a family member is a good way to manipulate people.
I recommend delving into more serious studies on the subject of narcissism ;)
Shouting that I feel like I'm going to be rich sounds like a scam but it doesn't have to be. It could just be a form of bad advertising by someone who has no idea about advertising. Because yes, this form of advertising attracts people because 90% of people are poor and want to be richer, but notice that state lotteries are the same. People sometimes spend 1/4 of their paycheck on tickets because they buy the hope that they will be rich. In this sense, crypto projects, even the most scammy ones, are an even greater chance than playing a lottery ticket, especially if you take a DOGE coin that was basically a bit of a scam but one day Musk whispered something and here you go...
If downvotes magically disappeared off Hive that still wouldn't change the fact that I disapprove of his behavior. It wouldn't stop him from promoting crypto scams and pseudoscience. There are no downvotes for the DHF proposal system and literally nobody voted to support either of his proposals.
And ok but you see. there is a difference. If you don't like someone without downvotes, it's passive disliking. If you like someone and downvote them, it's like you're giving them a little kick every day or stealing a few bucks from their wallet :)
That's why I'm writing about escalation.
Of course, you can insult them publicly or send them nasty words in an email, insult them, etc. and that's also escalation, but you're not going after their wallet. After all, each of us has been building our profile and recognition on Hive for a long time and what you earn here on posts is the result of that work. By downvoting someone because you don't like them, you're basically taking away the effects of their work and destroying their reputation. That's an aggressive action, like if you were calling them names all the time ;]
Do you see the difference? I do ;]
Now let's say that you actually stole 60,000 HBD and downvoting is a form of compensation for the network, the question is will it stop when the entire amount is burned? Is the lynching that you destroyed his account and reputation even a fair punishment for his misdeeds?
Not really, because hive won't pay back anyway. It's just a form of modern lynching.
Courts were invented to resolve such cases in a fair manner. Have you heard of a court destroying someone's accounts or reputation? Not really. Basically, it was created so that a person who made a mistake could atone for it in a fairly fair way and move on with their life.
This might shock you. You may not believe this. I have standards and ethics. My downvoting @lasseehlers is based on and informed by my standards and ethics. I run MemeHive, Hive Images and Political Hive. I haven't muted @lasseehlers in any of those tribes because this isn't Minority Report. So far he hasn't tried to shitpost and/or spam in any of those tribes. I don't enjoy muting Hive users just like I don't like downvoting Hive users. I do it though because legitimate reasons override my preferences.
A conversation allows you to get to know who a person portrays himself as, and the effects of his actions allow you to get to know who he is ;)
Let's think that through. So I mute @lasseehlers. I don't see him promoting pseudoscience or spamming his crypto scams. So I just go about business as usual on Hive. La, la, la...Oh, wait. in a few months there's a post I see not by @lasseehlers but by some other user. A user like @weedbook who has lost money investing in a crypto scam that @lasseehlers was promoting. After all, nobody was playing Devil's advocate and @lasseehlers claims he is a "crypto expert" so that "This Shitcoin Will 10000X" post must be a sure thing.
Well, basically the problem is that you assumed that what they're doing is a scam. Except that I have such interesting experiences with this when, for example, I was promoting Steem at the beginning and then hive now Blurt. Some people also say it is a scam. Why? Because it looked like a scam for them. Why? because they do not understant id ;]
Maybe you are right but maybe you do not understand his project. As I said I will not implement or interfere in it, I am responding to you because I like to talk sometimes with people with different views. Such a conversation strains the gray cells.
O.K. So you are just ignoring any legitimate reasons I might present and just assuming any downvote I make isn't done in good faith.
Finally you get it.. what I mean.. you see with Downvote it is like with services in a regime state.. they also sometimes do good things because sometimes they actually catch some thief or something but basically 90% of what they do is fight enemies of the regime ;]
Downvote is a philosophy that the end justifies the means, i.e. the communist idea. It is the same fairy tale as need of lockdowns ;]
The lack of downvote is based on the value that the overriding value is freedom of speech and possible bad behavior of people and spam is the cost we all pay for freedom.
The first philosophy leads to the fall of humanity because control and restrictions always favor the fact that human consciousness decreases. On this system, which initially works well, groups such as hivewaters quickly grow up, which start to claim the right to recognize what is true and what is not, what is right and what is wrong. Ultimately, this ends in a regime, victims and chaos.
The second idea leads to growth and development, because although people make mistakes, they eventually learn from them and awareness grows. Such a system costs a lot at first, unaware people steal and exploit, but over time it costs less and less because in a functioning system of freedom the benefits of being aware are always greater than being an idiot, unlike the communist system where being an idiot pays off more.
and this is basically perfectly visible on hive. If you don't stick your neck out and write your shit posts about what's going on at home or about "correct political thoughts" you earn money. if you write something groundbreaking, unusual, that gives you something to think about, you get downvotes. so what for?
the principle of "keep your mouth shut and do your thing" pays off more in this ecosystem.
don't think for yourself and you'll earn. think and you'll get nothing :P
I was thinking about @lasseehlers' second attempt at scamming the DHF proposal system today. The one where he wanted 5000 HBD to hire 50 "professional bloggers" (or him just creating 50 sockpuppet accounts if he wanted all the money rather than paying "professional bloggers" and pocketing 10% of each payment). Under that system he had to approve each and every post the "professional bloggers" would be making before it was published. So basically @lasseehlers wanted 5000 HBD from the DHF to spam Hive with shitcoin crypto scams.
Anyway, I started to wonder something. Is @lasseehlers paying @khrom to defend him?
That would explain a lot. He already paid at least 6 people to post to Hive if he is to be believed. So why not you also? You've been replying to me the way @lasseehlers would approve.
Just something I was pondering today.
it would be great if he paid :P maybe I'll ask him about it. That way I'll sell some more hive to buy more blurt XD
@lasseehlers you got some free casch ? :D
Maybe you should. According to his own posts @lasseehlers is a "Flat Earth Billionaire" and he once paid someone 16 HBD to generate a post using ChatGPT and publish it to Hive. If I didn't have ethics I would have catfished him long ago to get as much as I could out of him.
A fool and his money are soon parted after all.