Maybe this comment thread is an appropriate place to point out how there is no rhyme or reasoning to downvotes and they often seem to represent the views of individuals when downvoting on political content specifically or in this case Upvoting what seems to plagiarized Racist memes by two witnesses, one having significant stake and the other arguably the most active with comments. Continued silence by the witnesses on downvotes and silence on witnesses support for racist plagiarized racist memes is tiresome. Downvotes are not being used to protect the rewards pool. BULLSHIT look at trending.
https://peakd.com/someeofficial/@brundlefly/stupid-white-cracker-asses
Most of the trending page is nonsense, upvotes by whales.
Whales were downvoting some stuff in IW/DD that was earning less than 50 USD, now they are currently upvoting posts for 200 to 300 with the price of Hive being 2.40 USD +(not downvoting them, which would align with their supposed "downvoting for being over-rewarded" mantra they chant). It's always ok for them to do what they want, always bad for others to do the same.
Yeah its a problem for sure. In my opinion the greatest problem with this DV thing becomes when racism and threats of violence is totally ok but anti-government content that is directed towards centralized people like gates or harmful untested medical procedures that is purely experimental gotta go? We really do have pro fiat pro government whales, racist witnesses and wanna be cosmic jesters but having our activist celebrity like accounts being fake or inactive doesn't help either.
Silence by witnesses or DV by witnesses that have the support of the community while the community ignores the witnesses actions is pretty concerning and a gross form of governance when the people want a phatty upvote and will be willing to keep their mouth shut for one... kind of like at work.
I am quite surprised to see @theycallmedan and his response to DVs. I always thought he was a counter to the flags but I guess not when you need votes to get a proposal passed and the people that have them are the flaggers allegedly. Now maybe he has been too busy building speak network to notice but the flags are happening in one of threespeaks main communities. I knew of @threespeak way before joining Steem in '17 because they supported a few of my favorite content creator on youztube.
Just weird that the community supports projects by people who are so hostile and seemingly pro fiat the way they down vote the kind of content they do. Its actually quite gross and alarming that such large stake is used to support the oppression of content that goes against centralization and fiat.
There's probably only really a few projects on the chain that are pro decentralization.
Seems like most of the people here and content posted now is just fluff stuff easily found on other social media platforms.
@informationwar has been doing its thing for like 4 years now in our #informationwar tag and #deepdives is going to release a token soon for this kind of thing. We teamed up with @v4vapid to get better support out to all the people who are continually archiving important imformation.
EVEN IF all the posts in IW/DD or similar communities are taken down to 0 rewards, at least the information is still there. I'm a glass half full kinda guy haha! But in all seriousness, we are going to continue to try and grow our support. Hive price going higher will certainly help that, now our upvotes are worth more $ so we can upvote 50 people now and give out the same rewards in $ as we could last month and only do 25 people.
Gotta keep fighting and pushing forward and we aren't going away!
Nice! I love what Leo and POB is doing. Their content is seo optimized it seems and hive blockchain rewards are not included on their front end from what I can tell. Supposedly the one of the main selling points of the speak network was to be able to by pass the DV system and curate content more dynamically but the response left here by Dan on this thread was disheartening and tone deaf I feel.
Glad to see V4vapid more active (or at least not on a autovoter like I suspected initially) and that tokenized solutions are finally happening for the activist/anti-centralization communities like information war and Deepdives.
We all manually curate, but follow eachother upvotes on the hive.vote curation trial of informationwar or deepdives.
Following either one of those helps us reward posts in #informationwar #deepdives #politics #news etc.
I joined forces with him to better reward the communities.
If you like what @informationwar is doing it would be awesome if you delegated some HP to our cause , follow the curation trail on hive.vote or if you like manually upvoting stuff browse through and find stuff you like in our tags/communities :)
We will take all the support we can get, trying to onboard larger names in the social media world also via our reachout on twitter/youtube.
My experience with the activist community recently was extremely disheartening with how I saw the egregious and hostile attacks by witnesses and large stake holders in both deep dives and information while engaging daily on content in the communities not to mention lack of support and attacks from within the community that was reported to the FBI and caused unnecessary police presence in my neighborhood and helicopters over my house for days.
I really got 0 to minimal support from the community with the exception of @kennysgaminglife who has always, when push came to shove, supported these communities and myself. So I can not complain too much. It is just if community members wont support my content and make threats of violence on me while hivewatchers sits by, laughs and DMs me to say stop upvoting comments, we condone threats of violence with our silence but not upvoting comments so watch out.
So I am not excited about these communities on HIVE that should be better supportted in a decentralized crypto space. But plutocracy has soured the experienced.
I will consider delegating HP to your cause but the downvotes and lack of witness support and silence for these hostile attacks in our communities of Truth really impacts my mental health negatively.
Chasing high APRs, curating artists and posting about tokens has helped me better use HIVE.
I didnt spend 5g on Hive power delegation to curate content just to be dissed and ignored by the entire community or have the content I curated flagged to 0 causing unneeded financial stress.