I think one of the ways people can learn to avoid fear of social death, is to relearn how to be inclusive toward people thoughts and ideas, not divisive of them. There is no need to make everything about one side or another. There is enough divisiveness in the real world, the walking world, the world of wars and the world of fear. Inclusive does not mean agreeing, on Hive we have he means to ignore that which we do not like. We also have the ability to down vote, that we do not want to see. I would like to see a return to the original intent of the down vote and that was to protect Hive. The old stated reasons of Spam, Plagiarism, Reward Dispute and Abuse. to often now the down vote is used to create divisiveness. If people do not like Hive then they do need to go elsewhere, down voting of anti-Hive rhetoric is needed.
There are those on Hive that would like to see Hive survive, there are many cultures where shunning is actively used, the people do not want the divisiveness to take hold in their community, so people are shunned, and that is what the down votes on anti-Hive are in effect doing, protecting the Community.
I fail to understand why people stay in hive while saying they don't like hive. Yet they stay and publish junk. If I don't like something I don't do it. I do something I like.
There is only one explanation. Money. They do it for money. It is never about the science or non-science, it's always about the money.
They are disingenuous. A word I wanted to use in the post, but it didn't come to me at the time :)
Pretty much all about the money for that type of person. Divide the people and earn from the created mistrust.
The '...do something I like" more people need to understand that concept.
We live in a world that encourages divisiveness for reward - even if the "reward" is stars and hearts.
I am still a fan of, use it as you see fit. I would rather people not be boxed in by it and there is plenty of content that shouldn't be rewarded. Part of the "be the change" in the world is also speaking and acting out against the behavior you want to see less of. Of course, people need to also do what they want to see more of, but that is another discussion.
This is where Hive could excel. We can change that and remove divisiveness and replace it with inclusiveness, but Hive as a Social aspect seems to be becoming part of the rest of the online world by rewarding the divisive nature, (made up drama).
As for votes, use it as you see fit has pretty much always been my philosophy also on Hive. I have tried to point out to new users the benefit of voting on other people verse the self vote especially when their vote is dust level, but always as just a suggestion.
I think it is generally from a small percentage of users, who are here for attention, however they can get it. Some people stir the pot looking for reactions that they can feed off, because they don't have anything original to say themselves.
I hope it always stays a small percentage, but it is getting to where I do not even try to look at the recent feed any longer, and am becoming more reliant on a few people I follow that re-blogs things I sometimes find interesting. I am glad of the people I have found to follow and add so few new followers any more, and a couple of them were unfollowed rather quickly.
Pay for click sites (all other social media pretty much) incentivize the behavior, so it proliferates. Here, it doesn't have to be disincentivized, but it doesn't have to be rewarded.
I am glad there are some large accounts that can do just that dis-incentive them. Eventually one would hope they just go away or change their tune.