Honestly you are right, I know everyone gets to choose where they vote but hive wants new users but they don't wanna help new users at all.
Hive is the same elite circle jerk steem was.
The same shit IRL is happening here on hive. The elite want to keep earning while there low class get shit on.
Autos votes are the main cause of this. You can see on any community. If the elite don't like it or you most likely you will earn no more than 1 hive.
Yes. I think it got me more as I saw these same names in a private chat group I was invited to as a newbie in 2017. I don’t know how I ended up in there at all but some guy invited me. It was whales and some of the now witnesses and it was called steemit chat 2. They used to laugh at all the newbies coming in and select who they would flag and take down to 1 rep. They made absolutely vile comments about people I wouldn’t even want to repeat and just saw it as fun to trash newbies and make them live in fear of them. I didn’t even speak of it myself because back then I was a bit afraid of them and like every Else toed the line to not get picked on. I then forgot and it’s only recently I remembered, because this behaviour is looking somewhat similar. I would like to add I didn’t see smooth back then, unless it’s a different name. But many of the others I recognise. They did not care at all about new users they just upvoted their own circle and behind closed doors laughed at and terrorised newbies. The only one I saw be helpful and upvote new people was Kyle. Out of them all I remember him as a decent person.
I speak out not cause I lost 20 dollars but the greater picture. One of those in that group was tarakzp or however you spell it and notice his highly paid posts are never marked down.
Yes this is a huge problem. You can see the same people posting memes making 50-100 hive with no downvotes cause they are the elite class.
You see some other making 1000 word SEO perfect post make 10 cents.
This is the problem with hive and I feel will be the hold back of the whole ecosystem.
Absolutely and this is my point. It’s taken completely out of context by suggesting I’m upset cause Lost 40 dollars or whatever.
Your right it’s a mirror of what goes on in the world too. Like we should be grateful they stop us all from working and earning because they let us take a little gov cheque every now and again with a fraction of the amount to stay in line. It’s actually almost an exact mirror. Make you feel grateful for tiny freedoms they allow you and continually keep shortening that rope till your begging for a dollar lol .