-I'm not sure I understand why you think it's strange. They call them "likes" or "upvotes", not "carefully considered and rational verbal responses." It's all about the feels with social media. The original idea of Steem (now Hive) was that you could do all the stuff you do on other social media platforms but you own your content and get paid for it. Another aspect of the original concept was that trolling was disincentivized by flagging here and that you could do your thing without being harassed by them. If people can't do what they do on other social media platforms here ad the trolls own the flagging/downvoting apparatus, and the trolls can run them out of town, then the whole conceptual framework collapses. I've been here since the first few months of this experiment, and that's the rhetoric that was being thrown around by both the founders and the early community. It's obvious that it's transformed into a few social cliques that exclude everyone else (I say that as a member of one of them). If the people here want this place to be worth anything that can be used as an exchange of value outside of the Hive community, that needs to change. Otherwise, the whole thing will continue to deteriorate into obscurity. Honestly I'm getting a bit tired of waiting for everyone here to get the memo.
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-Nothing is free, not even vapid horseshit.
-Unique, as in, only a tiny group of people that the outside world doesn't know about participate in it.
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Well stated.
fair enough.
anyway her latest video showing the slack chat has changed my opinion a lot and I feel a bit guilty. Oh well, abandon ship.
I sent the bloody memo years ago! lol