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Thank you for continuing to post your work here, despite the downvotes. I watch and appreciate your videos. I've had this argument with acidyo before - you bring value to hive of a kind that I came to hive to find. He may not value it, but many of us do. I'm sorry you are being so heavily downvoted. It saddens me that animosity is allowed to rob accounts of their earnings.
but downvoting others to 0 who aren't even posting to earn rewards as retaliation from 5-8% downvotes of existing rewards is fair game yeah? enjoy your brownie points
I don't understand this. He downvotes posts that have declined rewards?
xeldal and enki, his usual upvoters that lead to overrewarded content on trending with no engagement downvoted two posts of mine where I sent beneficiaries to other projects such as threespeak or poshtoken, I.e. forfeiting post rewards.
OK, so he's caught in a war among the whales?! He's a proxy for a quarrel you are having with someone else (who happen to upvote a certain type of content) This happened to me once, because I'd rewarded TEN shares of sbi as a prize in a contest. It was, by far, the best POEM (not valued on Hive at all) I have ever written, about a damn hawk, one I saved a very long time to post, so that someone might actually read it and it might actually earn a couple bucks, and boom! rewards wiped out. Boy was I pissed. Same thing happening here. You may think you can attract people by farting, but dumping this SHIT on an account is giving Hive a very bad name.
not saying he doesn't bring any value to hive, but if their upvoters can't accept a slight adjustment of rewards from curators protecting the reward pool and making rewards fair for everyone before throwing a hissyfit and retaliating then maybe hive isn't for them
As you surely know, when you downvote an account, hordes of others do as well. He earned nothing on this post. It has hardly been a "slight adjustment." Should he have earned nothing? Will you send him a tip to bring his rewards to something more in line with what you think this post should have earned, as you have suggested his supporters do?
I believe your criteria for downvoting this particular post is that it leads one off hive, and has little or no engagement in the comment section - am I correct? If so, I do understand your reasoning.
The problem is that this type of heavy downvoting seems only to occur on accounts that post a certain type of content. Perhaps not. Perhaps there are accounts that post pro-establishment-narrative content, lead one off hive, receive little engagement, and get this heavily downvoted, but I do not know of any.
Maybe read the comments in this post first. I ignored the first downvote to 0 on my post yesterday but the second one today on another post I also didn't even accept any rewards on can fuck off. If that's how they wanna act then I have no problem giving them a taste of their own medicine.
I don't target posts based off of the content, I slightly adjust rewards when I feel they are overrewarded. Feel free to check my other downvote activity before coming in here painting me as whatever it is you are trying to. Most likely knowing very well I run a big curation project that literally onboards people and attempts to help with retention and growth which has even curated you in the past. I don't see the same activity in these posts or of the consistent upvoters here. Must suck being an influencer yet you a "regular joe" on hive provides more value than he does.
OCDB does good work, I have benefitted from, yes. It supports me even after our last little tiff. Which I admit, I should have known better. Or thought more on what exactly I was risking.
I did read the comments. Dbroze is not the one downvoting you, but he is the one getting punished. I think you can understand why that pisses him off royally. He makes 20 30 bucks for taking the time to post here. He is a small account providing excellent high quality content, that brings people to hive, contributes to the reward pool, and all that good stuff. Why do you object to its trending?
xeldal and enki are entitled to use their stake where they see fit, are they not? Are you not?
Again, I don't do personal so my disagreements with you wouldn't lead to me blacklisting you from receiving curation, that wouldn't be very decentralized and I run ocd the way I think most curation projects should be ran. The decision of curation and stake distribution being in the hands of many.
But when I feel wronged a lot over something so small as my own downvotes on overrewarded content being retaliated or attempted to fear me out of contuining to curate posts down then I think I'm okay to take out the big guns to show them what exactly they are doing. it's not like the authors they seem to support so highly are that valuable to Hive either way, there's plenty of those around and wouldn't be a big loss.
I appreciate what ocdb does, and what you just said about your influence there.
It's not only your downvote though. When you downvote, a whole bunch of others do as well. You have an influence on others that perhaps you do not intend to wield.
There are not so many, and there are very very few curators who have the balls to support those writers and that content, which I find very valuable, given how hard it is to find it these days due to government interference. Hive has rocky and appreciator and others regularly giving even larger upvotes to content that is never read or engaged with, and probably took an hour or less to put together. These are original content, yes, but do they have more value than dbroze or tlavagabond reports that take hours if not days to produce? Should we counter appreciator upvotes with downvotes that wipe out all earnings? That would drive a great many from Hive. Those authors are clearly just posting to reap the upvotes. If it works for them, I don't mind. I don't upvote those posts though, because they are already over-rewarded.
Yeah it's obviously not personal, I have told him in the past when I've given him small downvotes on content I felt was over rewarded and said so yesterday again because his upvoters are behaving like morons. Yet he's the one to call me names when I'm not the one being unreasonable here. I'm not the one that started the overdownvoting and they are the ones continuing it so by all means, keep it up. Pretty sure I do more for Hive's growth than whatever these two whales do who have literally no other activity on this chain than overrewarding a few authors close to no one cares about.
hm. I get that, but dbroze's rewards were wiped out by those who follow your downvote with their downvotes. His rewards were WIPED OUT. I can understand his being pissed about that, can't you? Once it happens to one post, the next many get the same treatment. Your beef is not with him, it's with the accounts that support him. He's collateral damage.
thanks to the pieces of shit down voting me @netaterra @ocdb @lesiopm @macchiata
Maybe if your upvoters wouldn't go around casting 100% downvotes on people not even accepting any post rewards and leeching like you by cross-posting shit barely anyone bothers consuming here then maybe they'd leave you some post rewards for your "efforts".
listen moron, Ive already dealt with you before. I post every one of my videos on Hive, I bring people here. Its listed on my site. Whatever other people are doing is not my business.
People clearly support my work, but you pieces of shit are just upset by it. get over it.
Where are the people you've brought here? I could post a clip of my fart and get more engagement than you and I have literally no following outside of Hive.
Maybe spend some actual time to bring some value to this chain compared to the value you receive. If your upvoters get that upset of my 7$ downvote on a 150$ post barely anyone bothered engaging on after trending all day that they decide to retaliate with their full downvote power on posts literally discussing how people can bring some traffic to our ecosystem which I don't even accept any rewards on then it sounds like it's your problem.
i dont know if idiots like you realize - but upvoting is interaction. comments on the post are interaction.
I actually meet Hive people IRL (not sure if you are familiar with the outside world beyond your basement) and they always thank me for being here.
Who are you reaching?
Don't kid yourself, it's always the same autovoters on your posts and it's not like I'm reaching for straws when most of your posts get literally 0 engagement and close to 0 views on peakd and 3speak. Do you not stop and ask yourself how you are receiving stake in a platform you've dumped when no one aside from a couple retaliatory whales seem to want to support you with upvotes but not enough to actually donate?
It's not magic, you're receiving inflation by taking value from every stakeholder on Hive, if you aren't producing any value with your presence and content then it won't matter much if some stakeholders want to feed you free stake for a few minutes of your cross-posting daily, I'm going to use my downvote mana to adjust the rewards down a bit.
These downvotes today are the exception cause your upvoters seem to be manchildren that can't handle my $7 downvotes and feel the need to use their downvote mana like dumbasses. Maybe they'll chill out after this, if not then I'll suggest recommending our feeless donation transactions to your nonexisting supporters you've brought here.
again, people like you with childish jealousy have ruined this platform. not me. Everyone left bc of people like with your vindictiveness.