Yo ranters,
I have been noticing something over the past week that really isn't all that important, but I can't stop thinking about the logistics of it; and given I know no HIVErs in the real world, I didn't know how to vocalize this question(or thought, rant, I don't know, call it what you want); that is until I remembered the RCT community.
Who the fuck is @sunsetjesus ? I mean, that's a question I don't really expect an answer for nor necessarily care. I more so mean; what is the purpose of this guy's presence/others like him on the blockchain?
What am I talking about?
Has anyone else noticed this? The random downvotes. I'd say about 30% of the posts that pop up for me have a single downvote. Of course, these are usually on quality, non-plagiarized, non-offensive posts.. so my curiosity gets the best of me and I check it out every time.
EVERY SINGLE ONE of these downvotes is by the same pointless bot(?) account. Sunsetjesus. 25 rep. Zero posts. Zero comments. Zero anything. .06% downvote manna... that's a lot of god damn downvotes.
And, being the petty person I am, I had to look into him(I'm assuming, given "Jesus") a little more. This fool is investing money into the platform to downvote. His HP is twice what mine is, which is very small, to be sure; but looking through his wallet I realized that he actually has a SECOND account @thedays that is performing the same function; yet he typically purchases HIVE on that account and transfers it to sunset, powers up, and uses all his downvotes.
What is the purpose of this? Like, what is there to gain in investing money just to hate on people? Is this a form of jealousy? If it is, he's not doing it very well; he downvotes so much that his weight makes zero difference. The only effect this is having on the downvoted posts is the little broken heart symbol underneath.
Additionally, do people receive curation rewards from downvoting? He does get a fair amount of curation rewards, daily.
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THIS? I was especially flabbergasted when I found out he was investing and powering up, and also using two accounts to do so. Can anyone explain this to me!? Is this a rich(enough to be wasting money), bored person who has disdain for the blockchain? Or a troll who just likes to ruffle people's feathers? An "investor" who for some reason is trying to use his investment to shit on others unsuccessfully? Any of the options of who he is; does he understand the voting system whatsoever? Does he know his downvotes could be weighted more heavily with more manna? Is he just going through random communities and downvoting as many as he can? WHAT IS GOING ON HERE!?
I know he's not the only one- he's just been the most present one I've seen recently. I hope he sees the mention and drops by to add some more. If it's not just automated.
WHO ARE YOU? WHY ARE YOU!?
That's my rant this hour. If I ranted in here as much as I did to myself y'all would probably be downvoting me too ;)
I’ve been poking around the back end and it’s a few accounts associated with that person. They have a nights one as well, and another one waiting for love.
https://hiveblocks.com/@thenights
Well, not to get too off topic but it's not clear that he does this manually, as he downvoted my post but then later returned at a different time to upvote your comment, without a mention. haha
Your current Rank (42) in the battle Arena of Holybread has granted you an Upvote of 23%
There used to be a lot more people down voting things all the time on the other chain. Thankfully it’s improved on this one but it still remains it seems.
Some of the more powerful people who find the need to dictate their ideas to all us others, find that downvotes are a good part of the platform because it reduces the inflation or something. I sort of get their logic with it but those types of things fall on deaf ears a lot of times when they have hundreds of thousands of hive power and a down vote like that is a tickle on their pinky toe. We are trying to scrape some words together to earn a few hive a week so we need all the hive we can get so down votes are a pain in that regard.
This could be one of those who feel they should benefit the reward pool by down voting, meaning a larger account that doesn’t want to reveal their true identity or it could be someone just having fun annoying people. Hard to say but you can find out a lot about a user by their transactions they do. I’ve learned of some people who have alternate accounts that do this type of stuff and it’s interesting to tie them together.
Oh I know it and I understand all that. I know there will also be those hypocritical large accounts who downvote posts they don't believe worthy of payout, yet ironically make much more than that payout simply with their curation rewards. I remember seeing plenty of that.
I feel like it's gotta be someone just trolling to annoy people. That's the most confusing part for me- the vote value. If this was an account with an even slightly significant vote value, I wouldn't question it at all. That's the part confusing me. Like what is the point of this.
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Agreed! ... ? ... Maybe.. maybe not... Don't quite know what your comment means 😂