Complaining is easy, even better when you get paid for it, right?
Meanwhile you tell people who provide onboarding options that you don't want them to work on hive services. Gotta make up your mind...
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Complaining is easy, even better when you get paid for it, right?
Meanwhile you tell people who provide onboarding options that you don't want them to work on hive services. Gotta make up your mind...
No social system can thrive in an atmosphere that denies reality and that blocks valid criticism.
I did not say that I do or don't want you to work on Hive services.
I wrote in our recent private conversation that I am not clear why you need to be in the top 20 witnesses in order to fund API nodes if you already hold (and therefore receive interest on) such a large stake in HP. You said in reply that you found it hilarious that I would expect you to work for free. I then simply said that I don't expect you to work at all - by which, I only meant that I do not place any expectation on you to do anything in particular to work on Hive. It's the same way I treat everyone else, since I respect their free will and sovereignty. You seem to be perceiving me and my words/intentions here in ways that are inaccurate.
Okay. Having a large stake means I should spend thousands a month from my own pocket, in addition to my labor, to provide a service.
Or not provide it.
But then you complain about services not being provided.
shrug.
The point in the OP here was to highlight to the dApp operators that their signup processes are either totally broken or not optimal, in case they were unaware.. and to also generally highlight this issue to the community so that everyone can be better informed about why the performance of Hive is lower than expected. People have been using Hive's low performance to try to justify drastic change to Hive that I personally disagree with. It's not reasonable for them to try to pin the blame for Hive's problems on the mere fact that a rewards pool exists when its clear that new users aren't even able to signup in many cases.
My point about your finances is that you wanted me to vote for you to get you into the top 20 witness slots on the premise that you need the money in order to pay to run an API node. Since I have reservations about the implications for Hive if you have such a power position, based on your repeating tendency to use massive downvoting as a weapon to try to dominate people and get your own way - I opted not to vote for you. I then simply pointed out that you already receive large amounts of Hive anyway from your holdings.
If your intention is genuinely to grow Hive for the good of the platform then it isn't unreasonable for me to suggest that it doesn't matter that much which of Hive's rewards pools that your funding comes from, you could still use some of what Hive pays you to fund an API server.
In the context of the onboarding situation, I am not aware of the ways in which you are suggesting that you would directly improve Hive's onboarding, you are welcome to point me to your plans. Thanks.
lol. I never downvoted for personal reasons. And I never downvoted you. I do from now on though, because why not.
No, you opted to talk shit about me and run a full fledged campaign. Half your witness voting is only to keep me out of the top 20. All because curangel capped some of the whale votes you received, as it has been doing since its inception.
This is personal. Has been for you since a long time, and now I join the game.
What a nice offer. Not interested in pointing out things when you don't listen anyways. As when I repeatedly pointed out that I wasn't downvoting anything myself.
You specifically told me at the time of the downvoting during covid that you agreed with azircon's choice to downvote me to zero and also laughed about the fact that the stake being used was your own and that there was nothing i could do about it. So, you can try to deny involvement but it doesn't add up.
This was around the time that Azircon threatened physical harm to someone on chain, apparently triggering a usa cop to appear and to intervene. Azircon also tried to intimidate me and literally told me to leave the Blockchain.. and for what? for basically nothing other than producing popular content he didnt want to be visible.
I dont think there is anyone on Hive who would be particularly surprised that I vote as I do, given the situation here.
The downvoted posts were fully in curangel's scope by receiving 3-digit votes by a single whale. The project has been created to improve reward distribution, and the content of the posts doesn't matter in the decision if the downvote was justified. So yes, I did agree.
My witness is not related to curangel other than that I coded the project and set the initial scope for voting. Of course you're free to not vote for me. Campaigning with whales, especially calling me a censor for cutting your rewards, is pretty petty though. Hat off, I didn't thought you could achieve that. I didn't really care to even investigate back then, and just enjoyed my free time.
Now I'm back, and boy am I surprised to learn the whole story. And I can be petty too!
You specifically said to me that you enjoyed that your own stake was powering the downvoting. I don't know your own personal accounting, but its reasonable to think that a substantial amount of the stake in Curangel came from your earnings as a top 20 witness. Even if it didn't, your presence in the top 20 witnesses further empowers you to carry out voting behaviour that I think is harmful to Hive's future.
If you want to look honestly at what the voting patterns on Hive are doing to public sentiment and perception towards Hive then I will be very happy to have that conversation. We have almost zero public credibility outside of Hive's own userbase at this point. Hive isn't even listed on any page I can find where decentralised social networking is discussed.
We also now have a Sequoia funded decentralised social network that has blatantly copied steem/hive, that is outperforming both of them.. This is a time to come together to solve problems, I agree - but that requires being open to changing direction and perspectives.
No-one is campaigning here at all. I received support in response to how I was treated on Hive and I use it as I see fit, for the good of the chain. It's nice that you were enjoying your free time with a big stack of tokens from Hive's rewards pools - I personally was virtually broke and trying to help a friend who was violently attacked on the other side of the planet at that time, then as I mentioned - returned to help my Dad as he died. I can't see you as a victim here in that context and I understand that you can't see through my eyes either.
Its unfortunate that you see me as being petty. I don't see my decision here as petty at all - perhaps you just have no understanding of the problems Curangel has caused both me and Hive. To me and to many other knowledgeable people, what I am doing is just common sense.
I am not unreasonable and I am also not out for revenge. If I was out for revenge then I would have just changed the voting strategy, since you already 'lost' more than I lost by not being the top 20. I'm not voting out of revenge, I am genuinely voting based on the evidence available on what I see as being best for the future of Hive's survival. Free speech is the foundation of this chain and somehow we disagree about how free speech works on Hive.
I already tried to step in to the situation with Marky and Xendal to try to stop the absurd voting war that was happening there. The war stopped, thankfully. The last thing I want is to be involved in one in any context whatsoever.
However, I will also not be intimidated or threatened without responding. If you acknowledge that Azircon's actions were out of order (I can post the URLs) and you acknowledge that nuking accounts is rarely the right option and definitely not the right option when the account owner has no control over the votes they receive... and especially when the content in question is literally intended to help save lives - then I will feel that we are relating in a more reasonable way and one that intends balance instead of antagonism. Balance is the first step to productive teamwork.