Appreciated Acid! As you correctly said, it is not about the content, but about the normalization of rewards.
If Edicted, of all people, can say he is demoralized about rewards, I don't know what to say! He is top 10 rewarded author on hive, discounting 2 accounts of taskmaster! And null. Hope my math is right!
Hm speaking of taskmaster... which I was going to bring up but didn't... guy has multiple accounts, posts multiple times a day, and earns more than double the reward of anyone else on the platform. And yet he doesn't get downvoted, even if he rehashes the same topic a dozen times. He gets paid out 12 times for basically the exact same content slightly rehashed. No downvotes. Ever.
All I'm saying is that there's more to it then what is being represented.
It's very obvious.
When the DV logic put forth is actually applied and analyzed on chain, we can very clearly see that information is missing. There are clearly politics involved. Hive is more of a networking platform than a blogging platform. It's all politics.
It is not demoralizing to have a shitpost downvoted to zero.
Fire a warning shot.
Haha, we all laugh.
Shit post was shit.
It's demoralizing to have an entire week's worth of posts 100% downvoted by an x4 whale with absolutely zero indication why or when it will stop. Do I have to wait a week? A month? A year? Who knows! Guess we'll find out if I don't quit! Plenty of examples of people who were providing a net gain to the platform that quit because of this exact kind demoralization and chaos. Never a dull moment.
You're damn right on this one.
Incorrect. I have done it. But I get your point. Yes, agree. Not enough.
Do you like to help me, please?
Again. As I said multiple times. You and I communicate well. Better than most people who says they love me :) (its a very small list, eh!)
Also I don't think I've ever been told I communicate well.
World first.
Living the dream.
I'll second that, at least - you do communicate well! :-)
Help you downvote?
You cray.
I have considered a system for downvotes and turning toxic people against each other.
I'm actually kind of afraid of what might happen if something like gets built.
Weapons are neutral and can be used for good or evil.
Funny how the people who designed the A-Bomb didn't actually consider it would get used.
It's mostly the effects of autovotes like usual, not many can just say no to them by forfeiting part of the rewards or just not forcing themselves to post daily. As you've mentioned when there's also self-votes on top of top authors you really start to wonder if the focus is just the rewards there. At least when they've been here long enough to know how easily they could trail leo.voter or other curators to put their stake passively to use and distribute it wider.