If you are going to upvote someone, the least you could do to improve the network is EXPLAIN WHY.
For some reason I ended up on a trail of downvotes. They were in sequence so I doubt they manually took the time to think before downvoting, I even think they didn't even read the post before downvoting.
That would be reasonable if it were a political post, or a post regarding my opinions about blockchains (like suggestions for Hive). The post was a totally personal subject.
https://ecency.com/hive-125125/@igormuba/i-am-learning-chinese-2
I was sharing about the Chinese lessons I am taking. I have been studying 2 hours of chinese with 1 on 1 teachers daily. Why would someone downvote something so personal like that?
I can only think of someone having a personal thing against me, or them being bots. Both things are terrible and makes me lose a little bit of faith on Hive every time it happens.
@phusionphil
@zelegations
@hive-vpn
@steemvpn
@timhorton
@cerberus-dji
@freebornsociety
Would any of you at least have the dignity to come up and speak for yourself why the downvote? How do you expect to achieve anything if you don't explain it? A downvote without an explanation is meaningless.
If you have a good reason I want to hear your point.
i-am-learning-chinese-2!
@igormuba I am not interested in your business. I personally do not like much China. But I will just move on. What you do is your business. It's absolutely fine that you write about it. I like writing about football, videogames and a few other stuff. I am persecuted by some weird tinfoil hat guy who downvotes 0.25% and upvotes 0.25% with another account whatever I write just because "he wants me to open the eyes" (Crazy lunatic). Some crazy person who probably can't even hold a world map. I am not that old damn, but I can't understand this type of behavior. HIVE should be different. If I am not interested I just move on. I don't go to bother people. But let's face it. To make HIVE grow it's either shit festival or more control/limitations. Forget having millions of not retarded people. It's impossible. Best change we got is turning into a sort of Reddit. Or hopefully having other projects like Splinterlands. If HIVE grows we'll probably see more and more imbeciles. And quite frankly. Lots of frustrated people who would look on the ground if confrontated by person but just need someone to virtually attack to feel better. That's the web (1.0, 2.0 or 3.0). "Poveracci" We say. You can Google that.
"una manica di botte non sarebbe male", we say. You can Google that. :)
Scusa i francesismi ma...Madonna che palle questi oh. Il fulminato redneck che manco nei simpson e il rincoglionito frustrato con la testa nel culo che spacca la minchia al prossimo chiedendo attenzioni. Onesto, ne ho visti gia' 6 o 7 su Hive. Mi e' passata la voglia di scrivere.
sì.. fa passare la voglia di scrivere.
credo siano un sostanziale danno alla necessità di preservare un luogo che desidera essere differente da "Facebook" ma che inevitabilmente senza regole precise, finisce per diventarlo.
Ma tecnicamente la blockchain stessa è il terreno che permette queste presenze...
A me purtroppo e' capitato in maniera relativamente invadente e non mi piace affatto. Per esempio nominare un determinato giocatore di calcio ed ricevere messaggi via Peakd su fatti politici inerenti alla nazionalita' del giocatore in questione. E' proprio fastidioso. Ben peggio di, per esempio, uno spam incessante.
La sensazione non e' poi cosi' differente dal "BUONGIORNO KAFFE' ".
In tutta onesta' amo la potenzialita' di HIVE ma e' chiaramente utopistico pensare di averne un utilizzo armonioso se gli utenti aumentano.
I am willing to do alot more to anyone who wants me to live under Chinese ethics... This was a polite warning about the hell that is going to come if you support China once WWIII starts.
Talk to him/them. Not to me. I don't give a hoot about this all. Not interested.
Just seen this in my feed because YOU CHOSE TO PROMOTE THIS LOW QUALITY CONTENT.
Downvoted for promoting low quality content.
Upvoted you 👍 take care 🙌
Sorry to hear about your ordeal.
Up voting and !PIZZA !BEER for ya
Get the dunce caps out of HIVE and learn away.
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I like to keep an eye on what is getting flagged.
Nothing personal.
If you kept an eye what was your reason? What in that content you see was worth of a downvote? Or did you just mindlessly followed a downvote trail?
People like to flag things.
Some people flag things for reasons I don't agree with.
That account follows them with a dust vote.
Flags are part of the game in the hive, nothing personal.
Ask phil why he thought he should flag you.
The cycle of abuse is a human condition and clearly this sheltered account has never even experienced a condescending view of his life choice.
I envy how sheltered the mind is but also will not be the one in a camp when the Chinese start WWIII.
I wonder if he took the majick wizard potion?
WW3 has already started.
I have a snake collection u have expanded specifically to feed the red army too, not exaggerating.
He tried to explain but only painted himself as a racist saying he hates China… Despite me not talking about China but about the chinese language only…
People like him give Hive a bad rep…
I didn't say anything racist I said I'm going to shoot you and your friends dead if they're Chinese and try and change the fucking way I live.
I saw a story about chinese troops already being in klanada.
Is that true?
Yeah my comment about running them all over and being rewarded is the #1 comment on the YouTube video. Or I should say, most contentious comment...
It takes all sorts to make a world.
Be pretty boring if vanilla was the only choice.
Think he is over it, now?
HEY! Get your Sht off my SHT!
PUTZ
Still a dust vote, just following who is getting flagged by whom.
If I make it any smaller hive.vote won't cast it.
That is a REALLY cool responce!
Thanks man ✊😎🥓👍
What's the problem if you wanna learn Chinese? I like to learn languages to.
People think you're selling out to communist China. It's understandable, nobody likes a fckin bully like China. If you support Taiwan instead of Mainland, maybe that would help lol
It would be naive to not to think: that people don't read your post and upvote OR downvote it, solely based on how they personally feel about China.
At least this post got some traction.
I hope the people you mentioned thank you for the traffic.
A down vote is still better than no vote.
A bad comment is still better than no comment.
Bad press is still good press as long as they spell your name right .
Downvoting on Hive is a tool to punish bad content, it is not like in other social networks where it express your liking of the content. Here it is a tool to, for example, punish violent, plagiarism or illegal content.
It is specially powerful when they use a trail of downvotes. The effects of downvotes (increased by using a trail) are:
demonetize the downvoted content
reduce the reputation (level) of the poster
Luckily I have a reputation of 69.6 and enough people sided with me so my level and rewards are untouched. The downvote trail only showed their true colors.
You may see some posts, once in a while, that have zero rewards because the downvotes removed the reward from the upvotes. You may even sometimes see people with a reputation level below zero if the person keeps getting downvoted, many spammers have a very negative level.
The lower your level and the less rewards the LESS publicity you have.
Here, differently from other social networks, downvotes are a tool and generate an impact. It effectively reduces the reach of the post and the user in the long term.
Downvoting here is a tool to repress content that is ill intended, it is not only a way to show you disliked the content.
China threatened Nuclear war on Taiwan.
China Stopped Teaching English.
China is bullying small islands of fishers in Japan and Phillipines.
I do not enjoy thinking or hearing about China, I just hear WORLD WAR III.
Taiwan also calls themselves China.
Literally “Republic or China”.
The post was only about language.
What you did is the biggest dick move I have ever seen, hating on a language is ridiculous…
Do I care?
You asked why I downvote you.
Eye for an eye.
You seem like you care enough to downvote a post about language learning
And China produces Chinese junk/trash, or "industrial waste" as we usually call it. You hate China, which is completely/absolutely understandable. We both have reasons to hate China, but what is the point of taking out this hate on a guy, who learn Chinese, like @igormuba? I checked his post. He talked mostly about his level of Chinese knowledge, the price of the lessons, and he shared his iTalki referral link. He did not talked about politics or anything else. I think that it is absolutely nonsense to downvote him for this reason, even if you "do not enjoy thinking or hearing about China".
I learnt from @azircon that no one else matters on Hive if you don't like what they post, you don't have to care, so I will choose to not care.
Also get can get the fuck off POB then and GO TO FUCKING CHINA, there is a group for that.
There can be utility knowing the language of a war enemy.
Enemy or friend. Malasia, Taiwan, China many places and people in asia speak chinese (mandarim)
That's a good point. Now which country did the gain of function research money come from again?
Which country circumvented the level 4 pathenogen status before approve to jump start that research?