My best guess at this point is that your videos are being noticed on trending, and some accounts with high stake have decided you are being over rewarded, so they are chopping your payments back.
It doesn't seem to be an attempt to ban you because those same accounts have recently upvoted some fairly similar content - although I don't think they look at anything other than the payouts most of the time.
It sucks, and I hope someone with some serious following or voting power backs you up - at this point not many people will be aware of any of this, but it is the sort of thing that could suddenly become of great interest. Hang in there!
ah... so this fork is as politically motivated and lacking in fairness as steemit turned out to be then huh? Seems strange since I thought thats why they left steemit. Oh well, thanks for the headsup anyway. I wont bother posting here anymore either then. All the best
Oh please give it some time @maxigan, I don't know why you are getting such big downvotes, for me it is real important that you post your content on here. I would like to try and find out why it is happening. Please consider waiting until then, but I also do understand your frustration at it all as well xxx
I know its true. The Bitshares people got into Crypto to escape the banker mafia, and then created their own mafia.
bummer Max, see you on bitchute - however it is telltale to me that the Hive Logo is a hexagon and the peakd logo is a black and red upward facing triangle - to me that tells us that the cult of the black sun is in charge of Hive - call me crazy but I didn't learn all this shit for nothin'.
I fully get where you are coming from, getting flagged is bullshit, but this is already attracting some attention - this post has the most comments any of your posts have had in years and you have over 1700 followers, including some who really want to see your posts on this platform - the reason I started watching your vids in the first place was because you posted on Steemit and we all know what that site is like.
Bitchute works really well for storing videos, but it's sites like Hive where new viewers see you.
If you can be arsed continuing to share your posts here we will do our best to get you noticed - maybe not well paid but at least noticed...
Flagging is a key problem with this platform and you are high profile enough to bring attention to it. Things move slowly round here, but seeing your posts being flagged could potentially bring about a change. This is all a bit new, but if you mentioned all this in a video who knows what might happen!
ya it just gets frustrating. Im banned on faceberg, banned on spotify, 153news banned me the day I signed up... get trolled on steemit and now downvoted here, probably by flat earthers and people who believe no one ever dies at any shootings... dunno why I still bother, I may as well just watch the world burn with the other drones.
If you need any info on how to sell Hive it's actually pretty easy - I use this New Zealand site for all my crypto buy's and sells - they are really good - https://easycrypto.ai/nz
Here is all the info on Hive: https://peakd.com/hive/@jacobpeacock/hive-survival-guide
I think it's worth hanging on to - it does take 13 weeks to power down, but liquid Hive is no problem to sell, and I think it will go up in value.
What just happened with your post is the worst thing I've seen on Hive in three months using the site constantly, and things are looking better in this case already.
Actually I've personally downvoted flatearthers as they were plaguing steem in the beginning so there's not many of them getting trending attention anymore. As I said my downvotes aren't based on the content but more about the engagement your posts get even though they are trending for many hours. Here's a tip, https://hiveonboard.com/what-is-hive let's you earn some referral rewards from bringing in new users. If you would mention Hive to your big following on other platforms and get them to also comment on your posts here and engage with your content you could earn some extra hive off of their post & comment rewards. Now this may not fend off all your downvoters, some may just disagree with the rewards for other reasons but I personally wouldn't be downvoting as I focus on the engagement aspect and only adjust the rewards down a little bit (for instance I removed one of my downvotes on one of your posts recently that I felt was overdownvoted).
Your followers can rest assured that they can never get banned or censored but it's important for you to understand the difference between being downvoted and censored first. If you need a good example to show the difference I'd suggest checking out my curation project that is literally being censored on Steemit: https://steemit.com/@ocd whereas on Hive all active posts and history are still visible: https://hive.blog/@ocd
I hope you do keep posting on Hive, though, and be more social either with the users here or with bringing in your following from elsewhere and engaging with them. Wouldn't it be great if you could vote up the best commenters with real rewards to at the same time filter and have those great viewers coming back to your next post?
Censorship is any disruption - not only more effective disruption.
Please use the dictionary definition of censorship, which has remained unchanged for decades.
Flags are censorship.
What mechanism on Hive is different than Steem in that regard? None. Only those presently controlling governance is different.
Seventeen consensus witnesses can censor or ban anything they want.
Please speak forthrightly of these matters.
You're over-rewarded and get 0 engagement here. Plain and simple, quit your bitching and get on with your life. You don't even bother replying to the two people who do comment on your posts.
At least you're not banned. Whiner.
I'll tell you what, you go eat shit and I will find a platform thats not infested with self absorbed holier-than-thou, 3 brain-celled fuckheads who like to attack and derail anyone who doesnt share their boxed view of the world... Enjoy your Hive
lol