It's an odd sentiment to me. I see it on Hive, but I've never seen it on other platforms. Haven't seen musicians on Spotify ranting and trying to rally people because they got a thumbs down. Haven't seen authors on Amazon claiming that people who leave one star reviews are killing Amazon. People on YouTube aren't making videos about how people using the thumbs down button is killing YouTube. On those other platforms, there's no transparency. The votes and algorithms are sealed away for nobody to ever see or know about. Is it the transparency in Hive's system that makes people want to completely tweak human behavior to make sure they don't get any negative ratings? Is it because it shows the potential payout rather than waiting for YouTube's algorithms to pay out? Maybe it's the stake-weighted voting: users with more skin in the game have more say on the platform
It's an odd reaction every time, and I just don't see the entirety of humanity changing to only give positive ratings on things. Part of being a content creator is bad reviews. Obviously it's not gonna make anyone happy, but it's better than being ignored. Vague feedback is still feedback. An audience is better than no audience
Rather than trying to make everyone change, or convince a bunch of people to sway the reward pool, you could go for tips. Maybe leave a signature at the bottom "Like my work? Buy me a..." or whatever. That would actually be money in your wallet
When it’s the platform themselves doing it they do or the ones that are responsible for its direction. Hence why everyone’s speaking out about fb and twitter censoring people and are leaving of protesting about it. I actually try and use amazon as little as possible as I know a few sellers and seen how bad amazon is to it’s sellers because it basically copies the most popular products, gets them made in bulk smaller sellers can’t match and puts its own products on the top eight pages even if they are lsss relevant. Like others I have definitely tried to stop using amazon when I can get the items elsewhere as I don’t like how they treat the sellers when they have dominated the market. Individual people leaving you a negative review is annoying but normal. I have an online shop so well aware of it, it’s very rare though as generally if your a good seller who makes an effort with your items and packaging they message if they hve a problem so you can fix it. Having said that if it is completely baseless often the platform do remove it for you. But when the people in charge of the direction of the platform are doing it to their users on mass then that’s very different scenario. If some random guy gave me a flag then whatever. I never downvote anyone but that’s life but if you look at the people doing it yoh will see it is being done as a hive ‘ inititive’ Not cause that one guy came across a post he didn’t value.
It’s much more principle than money. I actually sell far more on fb than I have ever sold here or earnt here. I got 10 grand shoots, weddings, other shoots, sold art etc off Facebook over the years and driven traffic to my shop etc. So I know people say fb doesn’t generate money like these sites do but that’s not rly true if your a creative. Ultimately we move here because we value freedom and wanted to build a platform here that could grow and most likely get into crypto. That’s missing when the people who hold all the power and are in charge of the direction of the platform are choosing who deserves to grow and who doesn’t. It’s not about me. Once it happened to me I looked around. I saw that it was happening to many other mid range creatives who were at the cusp of doing rly well from the platform, I found accounts where almost everyone of their posts was halved, yet not to any friends in the inner circle of the witnesses doing it who regularly get huge payouts and have never had a Down vote. Didn’t we all come here for freedom?
By the way on YouTube pll love thumbs down all engagement is money on YouTube. Downvote gets as much as an upvote. I still believe downvoting is a shitty energy rly as if you don’t like it just scroll past but in terms of rewards negative attention is as beneficial as positive so when you downvote those people you dislike your basically paying them.
The bottom sentence is a really good creative idea tho to use the platform still engage with the communities we built and bypass the witness direction of stopping creatives from growing. I like that thinking !!! I might actually use it that’s a very productive solution for us all actually! There I even a site I thjnk called buy me a coffee etc. I knew the answer would arrive! Thankyou 💗💗 it’s not quite the same as generating tokens as pll actually have to send but it’s a start and each time it’s given it raises the point as well of what’s happening.