if he keeps it up
That was your "explanation."
I'd say my reaction is normal but if you want to make me out to be weird, that's cool too.
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if he keeps it up
That was your "explanation."
I'd say my reaction is normal but if you want to make me out to be weird, that's cool too.
How was my first short comment the explanation? I even followed it up to your questionmark with a bit more context which I hoped was enough to understand where I was coming from.
Dunno what's going on with you but if you think that's an okay way to react I guess this is where we part ways.
Yeah. I do think that's an okay way to react. And I'll continue to write how I want to write, joke how I want to joke, and do what I want to do.
If that's a problem for you, that's a problem for you. Not me.
Yeah that's fair, just thought I'd let you know.
Take care
See you tomorrow.
I'm sorry. I can't believe my stupid question would lead to you guys arguing. I've seen posts getting downvoted for much less, like posting only pictures, recycled content, or even getting too much votes.
To me this looked very weird, as it does look like spam to me, and if I would have posted something like this, I would most certainly get downvoted.
But what I didn't realize was this was your thing around here. It was meant to be a fun post.
Your question wasn't stupid, what transpired here was, though, sorry you had to read that.
Yes. Just meant to be humorous then I stay in character and joke around with the responses. People have seen me do this several times, but of course not with this post, it's always something different. Was supposed to be fun. And I did have fun. Wrote a post a week ago talking about how it's risky but that shouldn't be the case on this platform so yeah I get defensive if someone wants to take those freedoms away. I did nothing wrong and will happily continue experimenting. My entire following for the most part would not be shocked, of all people, I'm the one doing something like this for laughs.
No need to apologize. It's all good.
You two lovebirds need a room.
Imagine if he is still joking. His humour is beyond human understandings. Oops, AREA 51 aircraft just passed by.
I thought this was my room.
They need a ring.
You guys are funny. I'm fine with being mocked for that. I don't know why I care so much, but I do, and I think the arts are important for this place and should not be discouraged from taking shape here on Hive.
Yeah, I could have done better. Apologies for snapping. I did explain after that I misread it, but even that wasn't clear. By the time I got here I was frustrated because I didn't want to be talking in circles.
To clarify: I took it like you were telling me if I carried on, I'd be downvoted. To me this was a legit post, creative, funny, and meant to draw in engagement. I planned to continue down this path, rather than spending hours on digital art and writing lengthy articles. Returning to my roots, in a sense. Had a lot of fun back then. So I thought this plan would lead to downvotes rather than fun, so I was upset about that. You didn't know this. I took it like I'd be downvoted simply because people don't get the art. So I reacted, to what I thought was happening. I was frustrated because deciding to go ahead and start posting again was a difficult decision to make. So it felt like I was being shot down for no reason before I really got a chance to start. It killed all my motivation to continue. I saw the words "if you keep it up, downvotes are coming" so I didn't think that was reasonable because I planned to do a lot more, not this way of course, but more of the same short humorous style. Thought about including AI images as well to help the jokes along. Sure I misread but I didn't know that at the time. Had a million thoughts racing through my head.
However, I've decided to fully retire anyway. And it's not because of this. My health won't allow it. My health also contributed to this reaction. Dealing with too much, all at once. I admit, I can't keep up. Lost my cool and don't feel good about that. It had less to do with you, Acidyo, and more to do with me combining all my stress into one pile and regrettably boiling over. Had I taken my time and sorted out my thoughts, it would have came out differently. The message could have been delivered in a more productive fashion, for sure.
Legit apology dude. I made a mistake, you didn't deserve that reaction. Have a good one.
Anyway, I know you and I know you're not just creating content like this that comes off as low effort for the sake of farming. So there's no risk of downvotes from my perspective on this so I hope you continue to post and engage here. My "threat" is more that if at some point it comes across that it's just low effort posts to get post rewards for close to no effort generated by the author (both in the post and comments) as we see often in this space, then aside from not upvoting a post I don't think it's wrong if people downvoted some of the obvious autovotes you, I and many others receive.
I can understand you felt "betrayed" thinking I was threatening with downvotes but what I couldn't understand was you continuing to ramble further even though I was explaining that that was not the case. Dunno, felt a bit deliberate to create drama and paint me in a bad light even though I thought you'd know me better by now. Even if I was threatening with downvotes it felt like you overdid it and reacted in the worst way possible to downvotes.
Was quite a shitty encounter in general but I'm willing to ignore it given you're not in the right headspace at the moment.
If my actions of supporting creativity on this chain don't speak for themselves then I don't know what will.
You were being disrespectful.
First, it's not "rambling", I wasn't "farming drama", I wasn't going "apeshit" though I could have said the same thing, professionally. Wasn't me dragging it out. I was responding to your comments and was even the one telling you to let it go, however, you continued. Saying it's weird and whatever else only contributed to receiving a sour response, yet I let it slide rather than giving it back. Asking me if I think that was an okay reaction after I already figured out and explained to you I misread and was fine, was an indication you weren't listening.
I was able to understand it was a simple communication breakdown which is why I wasn't knocking you down in response.
There's no need to knock me down in this response either.
I questioned things but was not insulting you, therefore it should be clear there was no intent to paint you in a bad light. Was merely defending my work. Even let it slide when you were insinuating I'm stupid.
And I'm only saying this now, in response, because you say you couldn't understand. So it's an honest attempt to help clear that up.
I wasn't reacting to downvotes. I was reacting to being shut down from going forward with creating the content I wanted to create, and that was already explained, politely, professionally, and in great detail, so there's no need for me to go over that once more.
I'm not offended by any of this. It's not an argumentative response. Simply stating what's there, from my perspective. This isn't "drama". It's me, talking.
You're failing to understand where I'm coming from and I can see that, though at this point everything should be clear so I hope this helps clarify further.
We both played an equal role in what I can agree was a shitty encounter. One thing about me is I'm able to move past these things rather quickly. I do know you're better than this and I hope you're able to pull some positives out as well, improving your way forward.
That's what it came off to me, I can't help but feel that way that someone who's been here for as long as you have and contributed in long and detailed discussions about particular hive things in posts all around would act the way you did to a simple misunderstanding at best and a potential diss of your post/threat with downvotes at worst.
You told me to "let it go" after you'd already left several long comments about nothing I was pointing at while saying shit like "if this is what this place is turning into then I'll leave right now" and insinuating all kinds of shit about my persona and activity while you kept ignoring my simple explanation for the community to defend itself to outright spam/low effort garbage.
I was hoping the "chill out" would make you give this a couple days like you just did when you apologized but instead you decided to take it as an aggressive statement and continue rambling about things that didn't occur nor were the intentions ever to be translated that way.
If you read my comments there it's literally going in circles explaining what I meant so you would understand what I meant but you kept choosing to focus on what I didn't mean.
So no, I wasn't being disrespectful, I simply left a quick reply to one of your commenters AFTER leaving a reply to you on your post. My activity wasn't meant to be malicious but to engage in your post's comments and end up informing a somewhat inactive user why this post itself wouldn't get downvoted but others that seem like it would by other authors.
The problem I have now is that I don't know if you're just off lately and that's why this happened or if you're on your way out and looking for a scapegoat, but I hope it's the former. That's just me stating what I think cause the alternative that you think I'd be against people experimenting/being creative here is quite absurd.
Either way, my time is better spent somewhere else and I'll make sure I don't accidentally end up being social in your posts any longer.