I don't think I'm "right" dude. We can all do better. I like to think back to those times though, and as a reminder as well. I'm the same dude.
The very instant I got a taste of "success" around here after grinding and struggling for years, well, from my perspective that's the day people like you would come along and start hating on me for it, adding in that bogus narrative about me doing something wrong to get somewhere. Dreemit was always good to have around to randomly kick me in the ass when I needed it so I wouldn't be feeling in the dumps.
Maybe I am a sensitive guy at times. But I think that has more to do with people crossing the line. A dude can only take so much. Pretty much on my own here as well. I was quiet for a bit, busy with life. Come back on here and once again I'm being thrown under the bus for shit I had nothing to do with. Then here you are pulling your typical stunt. People think downvotes are bad? Try wearing these shoes...
Of course I don't like talking about it and for the most part have nobody to talk to about it. Just have to sit here and put up with all this shit, nonstop. For what?
Deb had a look but said we are both idiots and she couldn't be arsed with our endless arguing. Another friend said I have too much time on my hands!
Yeah, I miss Dreemit too, that was a real bummer, she is the only unvaxed person I know who has had a heart attack in the past three years.
As far as Hive goes they actually did me a real favour because I was so pissed off I sold all my Hive tokens at an average of 95 cents and I had over 1/4 mill so that worked out bloody well! If they hadn't kept downvoting my posts I probably would have kept them.
But my calls on the other blockchains were all total lemons (Flote, Blurt, Bastyon, VYB) - with the benefit of hindsight this is a way better platform apart from the downvoting.
Yeah. Like I said, it's difficult to talk about and I often feel like I've wasted my time. LoL fuck... give it a week or two, someone else will be on my case with some bullshit. Goes nowhere.
Did I draw that? Looks like a closeup of a cartoon character of mine. LOL people are even afraid of those fucking things lol (the world has gone soft).
Yeah that's one of yours - I have hundreds of images saved from Steemit days
And yes I've heard your story about selling, numerous times. I made some moves back in the steem days and had some beginners luck trading. Kept this pile here. Got a few others. Not into bragging though. Just do my own thing. I planned for this pile to go up and down over the years so the value isn't on my mind at all. There's more to this Hive stuff than just the social scene so I find it difficult to subscribe to the whole doom and gloom surrounding downvotes. Several other platforms utilize some form of "dislike" button. Youtube would probably be the biggest and AI needs it for training. That just the way the world went.
I figured that was mine. Nobody else draws like that...
Certainly an old one.
You know pretty much everything I've done on both the Steemit and Hive blockchains and it would be bloody difficult to have a decent argument with you without repeating anything I've ever said in the past seven years!
But in this case I particularly want to emphasis to certain insiders that they are directly responsible for making me a decent amount of $ in the hope it really pisses them off.
It boggles my mind, because I always assumed they were AI but even spankinator seems to be repeatedly reading my posts and comments. WTF? Note that the downvote from yesterday on this post has now been removed. That is manual activity, so there appears to be an actual person taking note of this conversation. I am amused :)
I'm assuming they either find their petty downvotes an embarrassment, or they want to lull me into turning the rewards back on for my next post so they can give me 56 downvotes again and wipe my $2 rewards, while they beat themselves off.
Yeah, there are a few things I talk about that are often on repeat. That's just life. I wasn't saying that to knock you down.
Reverse engineer your conspiracy theories. Watch how nearly everyone like you thought ditching their stake would somehow negatively impact The Haters.
The result. Everyone like you now has literally no say when it comes to the direction of this platform. Most of those like you can't even upvote the content you'd prefer and instead have to depend on a centralized entity (Resonator as an example).
So to generalize, alternative news and whatnot, fucked themselves, out of spite. To top it off, the consumers also go around claiming the platform is "censored", scaring away their own people. Meanwhile stakeholders are the ones defending them, saying the platform is not censored.
I've been studying this for years dude. I once wrote, "What you don't see behind closed doors is you, walking up to them."
It was an inside job. That's my theory. But I'm not saying you're the insider. More like just another one who got steered over a cliff by their own wheel.
Now I realize this might not sit well with you. It's just my own observations. A similar thing happens with a lot of other content styles.
Notice how people still complain, "No such thing as shortform here!" They ignore the advancements like that leo threads platform, and others. They run with that narrative and scare folks away from learning about these other options. Sadly many in love with LEO centralized their stake through delegation as well, potentially sacrificing its success, for short term gains. Very few can actually support threads with votes. But many produce threads expecting votes of some kind.
I pay a lot of attention to this ecosystem. The ins, outs, and all the betweens.
That VYB thing wasn't quite a failure, but did not reach its full potential. Part of the reason was because the most outspoken people against downvotes quickly dumped their VYB rather than embracing the new design, which was something they claimed would be a requirement. All talk, no action. Pretended it no longer existed and went back to saying the place is doomed. Sometimes I wonder which government they're working for. Of course that's going to tinfoil hat territory.
I'm not going to claim I've ever fully understood what goes on in these parts. But there was a point about two years ago when two of the chosen bloggers getting extremely high payouts for all their posts both suddenly started posting "GET YOUR VAX" propaganda.
From that point on their already over valued posts started getting even higher payouts. Are you going to pretend that didn't happen? (Yes, I could name them but I'm not trying to stir up bad history so I won't)
Two years later they are still among the chosen ones. One does some pretty good posts but the other is posting nothing but utter crap and being worshiped like a god. His writing is so poor that I seriously wonder if the account is AI.