People on Hive have been posting anti-covid conspiracies since it started, many are still ongoing. Who knows how many may have died due to not protecting themselves with a simple mask cause they've read shit like this on the internet. It's been trending on Hive constantly and most downvotes land late when the algo has pushed it down from trending due to age either way.
Certain authors don't deserve to get zero'd, like your case, but other "influencers" I've seen that bring 0 value to Hive in any way shape or form and constantly trend and earn a big pie from the rewardspool due to these autovote is what I'm against the most.
Hive isn't throwing people adrevenue money where it doesn't matter if they're faking their views, comments or following cause it's someone else paying for those ads, this is stake that people have either paid for or held onto long enough. It should go to those bringing some value back to Hive, not just willy nilly be thrown around - doesn't matter if you've bought the stake yourself, post rewards you create and curation you get from them aren't guaranteed until a post pays out. If you're constantly voting up stuff that others disagree with you're going to end up with less inflation.
All these discussions over downvotes, "censorship" and endless walls of texts could've easily been turned into working towards a layer 2 token that would want to reward this kind of content and these kind of influencers. Until then I'm going to try my best to protect the reward pool and make sure it goes to users who are putting in work and being active, whether or not they're big outside of Hive or in their Hive wallets.
Here's an easy example, do you think user https://peakd.com/@highimpactflix is bringing value to Hive? I checked all his other socials, not a single mention of Hive, no traffic coming in, no views on his 3speak, barely any engagement from himself or others on his posts yet he's getting $50+ on every post before the downvotes.
Now let's look at https://peakd.com/@gubbatv, a big influencer according to her website and what I've seen on her Twitch streams, consistent 2k+ viewers. Even though she may not be bringing in traffic directly to Hive, she's at least using the platform. Blogging, showing her artwork, using dapps (nftshowroom) and engaging.
Would you rather someone who's somehow landed themselves big autovotes got the stake or someone who is trying, not getting autovotes no matter what she posts and might eventually start promoting Hive than someone who's not even trying, not promoting Hive but 20+ other socials (even steemit and dlive) and posting controversial content on top of it all.
Yet Israel and other countries that have a vaccination rate of 70% to 90% and all have massive covid outbreaks and they all wear masks.
The "masks" you are thinking of simply don't work, unless it's a KN-95 mask. No government that I have heard of has reccomended everyone wear those, which proves they don't really care about our health.
Masks are also supposed to be changed every 20 to 30 minutes if it isn't the KN-95 mask in order to even do anything, when Doctors wear those blue masks in the ER they are not supposed to wear the cheap junky blue ones that don't actually filter anything for very long, they supposed to wear KN-95 masks that actually filter viruses.
All of the people wearing masks and other face coverings are totally unaware that they are not doing something that actually is helpful in any meaningful way. Oh, and by the way, I always wear a mask and I have my covid vaccine through moderna(I suffered side effects of heart pain for a month). After 20 to 30 minutes the standard blue mask becomes so saturated with a person's hot breathe that it stops going "through the mask" when breathing and starts to go out the sides, thus not stoping almost anything any longer and it needs to be changed. Nobody changes their masks. You don't, your family doesn't, nobody you know does.
A person who actually follows the science would wear a KN-95 masks and follow the protocols of cleaning it and reusing it. We actually have KN-95 masks and clean them regularly.
So should people downvote you for your anti-science stuff you just posted?
https://japantoday.com/category/features/health/explainer-what%27s-with-the-confusion-over-masks
https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/EPO/Pages/Wildfire%20Pages/N95-Respirators-FAQs.aspx
yep.
Thanks, yes, the mainstream narrative on the 'science' of COVID response is mostly absolute propaganda nonsense. It's really sad that so many people do no research of their own to learn who is really doing the lying. Masks are a topic that I rarely cover because it is one that so many have bought into and get so emotive over, yet the evidence is so overwhelming of the complete pointlessness of most masks, that if people continue to support their use then I know they don't do any real research... hence there isn't much point in me speaking with them (unless they do actually have an open mind and heart).
I can share numerous sources, including WHO and pretty much all studies prior to COVID that state that respiratory viral pandemics should not invoke mass mask wearing. It was a single study early on in COVID19 that claimed mask wearing was a good idea which was used to overturn decades of wisdom - it was later disproven, but the mask policies continue anyway. There are several high profile health ministers and policy makers on record stating that the masks do virtually nothing to protect people but that the policies are in place to try to curb people's anxiety and to give them a sense that they aren't powerless. This is such a perversion of reality I am almost lost for words. There is really only one explanation for this situation and it is that the policy makers are corrupt or evil. There's a long list of nutritional action people can take to drastically improve their chances with SARS CoV2, yet these were very rarely mentioned. These are one of the main, correct ways for people to feel empowered. The fact that they are rarely mentioned, even ridiculed and then replaced with a mask fantasy is literally criminal.