The idea that something posted on Hive should be downvoted simply because it had been posted elsewhere seems brain-dead to me. That said, accounts are free to downvote for whatever reason, even a brain-dead one.
And, there was (is?) a long tradition of people reposting content using the #repost tag. There are after all newbies who aren’t going to search for year-old content from someone they’re following, as well as people who originally voted for it who are long gone.
This particular instance was all "on HIVE" in its duplication, but I've absolutely seen what you're describing of content that's not exclusive to HIVE also being downvoted or overall seen as low quality or lesser.
I'm all for valuing things like authenticity and engagement, but unfortunately most of these hangups and criticisms that our HIVE community has developed are centered so firmly around policing that dollar figure on a post. In the process these norms actually go against both the content strategies used by serious creators and businesses on other social media, and the desires and inclinations of casual users and content consumers as well.
Many here have yet to move beyond the this is a get paid for blogging Web 2.0 site mindset.
Five years ago that may have been true, but it’s so much more than that now.
The issue here is it's not "someplace else", it's the same chain, I can look it up right now on peakd. Another is that 3 of his identical posts had the same voter on it. Even if one were to use the excuse that "well it didn't get much rewards the first time/price was low back then, etc" that's still not how hive posts and curation works. It's meant to be a 1 shot at it for a specific piece of content to accept rewards on it, to gain a following, autovoters, etc, not to keep reposting the same content over and over and start recycling it after x time has passed. If it's not about the rewards then repost it with declined rewards or it going to the DHF or Null. Hive stake is different from other revenue generation, we're not taking ad money from a company to give to authors, frankly I'm surprised no hive front-end has ad revenue generation to share with whoever gets the most attention to begin with for evergreen content or to repost things on purpose for that with declined post rewards. Hive stake you may have earned 4 years ago would have grown by a lot more by now and that's one of the beauties of it and why it should be limited to be earned once per a specific content.
@bryan-imhoff
It was posted on S T E E M I T. That part of Steem blockchain makes also a part of hive blockchain until march of 2020. They share teh same history until that. Anything posted on Steemit before March 2020 is part of the Hive ecosystem.
IT DOES NOT OWE ANYTHING TO ANYONE!!!
PARTICULARLY SOME SORT OF SALARY FOR SOME ARROGANT AND SELF-ENTITLED ARTIST WITH AN INFLATED SENSE OF IMPORTANCE WHO THINKS THAT HE SHOULD BE REWARDED.
He is welcome to attempt to get "free money" on Facebook, Insta, Twitter etc. I am sure that they will give him "free money" for whatever he posts.