I don't have much influence on the majority of people on the platform. There is some though, which would come from attention due to how the Trending page is set up to focus on high post rewards.
If you were worried about my post rewards, did you notice all my post rewards lately? I get flagged +$100 on every post now thanks to curangel (~$80 prior to Hive pump)... w0ot... Just like months ago, 100% downvote from them and then their downvote trail piles on. Yay... more than 50% of the post rewards gone.
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I noticed you were getting spanked like that after I opened my mouth. I remember a few months back I saw your work taking 3 out of the 10 top slots, came to give you a friendly heads up that might trigger a few people. Then when I saw not your best work sitting up high again I thought oh crap here comes the downvotes again, but I guess it's already happening. Is there anything you think you can do to stop that from happening?
Nope. I have to not post :D Then I get no flags. Doesn't matter if I write 1000 words on what philosophy is, etc., they will flag it. My original work on philosophical topics was getting flagged back then, they don't care what the content is. I'm like the only one they go after too. They didn't respond to my inquiries on their posts. I was already being flagged back then before you warned me about posting twice in a day, it was just on day 6 BS was doing it. Then BS and curangel were doing it together. Some posts went to $0, others under $10, while plenty of posts on Trending were factors higher than what they let me have (some people post more than once a day with high rewards too), and never a downvote from these big accounts. Live with being disliked and flagged or stop posting, those are my options.
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Are you saying that you get negative votes because you post twice a day and you are always among the first positions in trends with great rewards? If the answer is yes, then I do not understand the democracy in HIVE, it is assumed that everyone is rewarded with his hive power to whoever he wants and believes deserves it, no? I don't understand, anyway, good article colleague, you made me understand many things I didn't know about cubfinance. I was just researching about this platform and I had many doubts about it. In fact I still have many doubts, but I guess I will solve them little by little hehe. Best regards!
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The answer is YES. The system was build to give every stakeholder the chance to do downvotes just like they do upvotes, with its own downvote-power based on Hive Power and the ability to reduce or even cancel any already upvoted (or even non-upvoted) content. There are plenty of good reasons for that and plenty that have shown over and over again that it can also be abused in many ways. This discussion is as old as
STEEMHIVE.In this particular case, the downvoters might argue, that too much of the reward pool was awarded towards @krnel and they wanted to use their downvote-power to free more of the rewards for others. Whatever their reasoning might be, it was only detrimental to Krnel and his/her upvoters (because they lost out on some of their curation rewards. Everyone else got more of the pie.
This doesn't mean that I am in favor of any of those downvotes, as I am merely trying to explain the dynamics.
Ok now I understand the system better. Thanks for the explanation colleague @flauwy
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Well it works like plutocracy. The rule of wealth / money. Your stake is money. Those who have the most stake get to have the most power in the system. if people don't want you to get rewarded, they can downvote you and take away the rewards that other allocated to you. It is highly abused imo (at least in my case and some other cases), and was originally supposed to fight abuse, but it's often used in abusive ways just to take rewards away from others because you don't like them, don't like their content, or think they don't deserve what they are being rewarded by others.
If you look at my posts, pretty sure it's once a day not two ;)
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It's too unfair this situation buddy. You make really good quality content, you deserve every reward token you get voted. There should be a way to control this downvote thing :(
I've posted three times this year. I think the daily grind would lead to knocking me down a few pegs as well. I'm actually having more fun just shooting the shit with people in the comments, helping out noobs when I can. I don't know what to tell you man. My apologies for being a shithead.