You seem to have ignored how Steem and Hive have operated all this time. You are not the first to get a big downvote. This was 3 years ago.
You ignore the work smooth and other witnesses have done. Without them there would be no Hive and you would not be able to earn at all. Most of them make a loss running their nodes. Smooth is not in the top 20 and so is not guaranteed rewards. Witnesses will be judged and can lose votes from their actions.
Would you have made all those $thousands on other posts on another platform? You talk about the cost of your paintings, but wouldn't you make them anyway?
I've lost count of how many people have 'rage quit', Meanwhile thousands benefit from this platform every day. Isn't that worth trying to keep going?
As I said, it's the wild west and bad shit will happen because it can. Good shit happens too.
They make it worse not better. No new ppl can ever get started now at all, no ones truly helping them. Maybe some of the witnesses are great but I know ones that when I first joined steemit were in a private chat room just bullying newbies and laughing at their posts and threatening them to reduce their rep to 1 ( they did this a few times too). They hAd no interest in helping newbies and only terrorising them and making fun of them whilst upvoting each other. Those ppl still never get downvotes now.
You are scaring me! 🙄
This was back in the old steemit days in 2017 I refused to join in so didn’t last long there but I was invited to private rooms with this group of not whales but biggish guys, at least one who is now a witness, im sure more . They used to laugh at all the newbies and decide who to take to rep 1 and flag the shit out of them. Maybe cause the person had a different opinion or they just didn’t like them. They would find any stupid excuse to do it too like now they use ‘ over rewarded’ as a blanket excuse back then was trying to pick up on any minuscule plagerism like someoen bad used a photo in a post etc. They upvoted each other and just laughed and picked on newbies. Being nice to them in the main chat area and slagging them off in the private chat room. These ppl are just down right bullies. I can give all the names of people in that room and you’ll see they never got a downvote.
One thing I can tell you, when ill-intentioned people run something you will never see progress. Another thing I understand very well about the markets, when someone sells a lot the price collapses and if they over reward themselves believing they will make a profit in the end they will see losses when their investment is worthless because they simply treated a system so beautiful as HIVE as if it was a cow to be milked.
I agree, these ppl ruined steem,, moved here and are ruining hive. I mean keep a hand in on everything as ultimately its finding the nice community within the platform, the platform is just that a platform. I like the idea of blurt though as it's no downvotes so you can't get a handful of ppl dictating by just using their power to flag anyone they disagree with - don't like etc It's a bit more of an even playing field and everyone seems lovely,, it would be nice if ppl couldmake it grow as no downvotes will eliminate these power hungry bullies, it's the only power they have.
I see the poor animal shelter raising money for a great cause is getting the down vote treatment now too lol. We deem it too much for the animals 🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣 I think these men need wives to occupy them with something other than taking from others!!!!
I can give you a list of all the active users in that chat and you can go search them and see not one of them has gotten a single down vote despite getting highly paid posts regularly.
No, please don't, I'm just familiarizing myself with the environment and it's horrible to think that there are people like that.
Besides, I don't think someone like me could do anything at the moment. Maybe in the future I will invest a lot of money, then I will make sure to penalize whoever is abusing. But for now I'm just an observer trying to blend in.
Don’t worry those days are gone they aim for middle people now lol now your left alone entirely and not helped but not bullied till you start getting around 40 dollar posts. That when you need to be careful lol. Or just accept what it is and get in a few platforms so there are options.
Absolutes are almost always wrong.
You keep going on about what happened four years ago, which I have seen refuted. What is happening now is what matters. You got one downvote and lots of big upvotes before and since. I am not going to let you trash the work that hundreds of people have done to build up Hive. It is nowhere near as bad as you are making out and you do it a disservice.
It was not refuted acidyo admitted it in the comments. It’s important and Something I really wanted to voice after years of silence on it. That was actually a rly traumatic experience for a lot of newbies and most around that time left. You can not say it is not important background how these people saw and treated newbies behind closed doors. It took a lot for me to say that actually hence it taking years to do so. I voiced to them at the time how bad it was. I had an active social life but for those without one who spent all their time online the way they treated people could have led to quite serious consequences. You could say people should grow thicker skin but not everyone’s ok with being targeted and abused and laughed at and threatened online. You can’t judge everyone’s life and feelings like that. Even for me, who had a whole life and lots of friends outside of that it was quite a traumatic experience. Some people have social problems and that’s why they want to find an online community and no one should ever be treated like that, especially by people running the official chat chatroom at the time. It was linked from the website where they could go for help.
To me it’s awful an animal charity just got taken down from 100 to 30 dollars for a post. People chose to give to that shelter because they wanted to support it. All the inner circle regularly get 80-100 dollars plus for average posts and no one downvotes. What’s the point anymore if everytime you get a good payout or try and support causes you like it’s swiped? There is no growth or chance for growth essentially for anyone they don’t want to grow. People are gonna get bored and lose morale pretty quickly. Maybe I’m the first but yeah It’s stripped my enjoyment here for sure for now and any faith in the platform. I certainly would not recommend it to friends in this climate. Each to their own and it’s sad but whilst those people are doing that it’s of no enjoyment to me to constantly see posts stripped away cause they don’t value people’s choices and votes.
Each to their own but we should all be able to voice an opinion without fear of being silenced. I mean you tagged me in a post and I’m happy to discuss it openly but I’m not just going to convert to a new way of thinking on it.
If I only wanted money I could have sucked theit ass, terrorised some newbies, upvoted all the circle and been huge now. And morally bankrupt.