Thanks and thanks for letting me know about your situation with the downvotes. You may be unaware, but I have had most of my posts Zeroed on Hive since October. In my case there has been zero real jutification given beyond a loose 'you don't know shit about science'. I invited Curangel to provide any kind of evidence whatsoever that what I have been saying is wrong, yet they have failed 100% to even attempt to do so. As with your case, most people can see that the downvoters are not being motivated by legitimate concerns and are carrying out some kind of agenda which has nothing to do with growing Hive. Who knows, maybe they are even double agents seeking to trash Hive from within, in order to promote Steem! lol.
Either way, you are right, many people are withdrawing support for Hive due to their reckless and stupid behaviour.
Here are a variety of relevant links to articles I have written. I have also created a dApp to track downvotes called the untrending report:
When Is a Censor Not A Censor? The Wider Implication of Downvote/Cancel Culture on Hive.
How Many Of My Upvoters Are Actively Using Hive? (Addressing Downvote Cancel Culture on Hive)
Your Comments On The Cancel Culture And Zeroing of Viral Posts on Hive By Curangel.
NEW Hive dApp: Hive Alive | Includes a 1st For Hive -> The UnTrending Report To Track Downvotes.
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Your situation isn't related to Hivewatchers at all and is very different. You're writing original content and even those who downvote you know that you put a lot of work into your posts. That's a given. You're not recycling content because you couldn't be bothered to create something new.
One of the problems with the anonymisation of voting is that no-one really knows who is voting for who and why, most of the time. You are right that Hivewatchers has never downvoted me and I appreciate that - however, I have heard plenty of complaints about the downvoting that Hivewatchers does that certainly make them feel and look similar to what is being done to me. His comments about racism and verbal abuse have been echoed to me from far too many different people for me to be willing to disbelieve him.
He shouldn't be bringing up racism considering that he's asking for special treatment. I think what you're getting at is there can be an option on frontends to state why an upvote or downvote is cast (an option outside of commenting I mean). I believe some frontends are piloting this type of idea but this discussion isn't for this thread.
I'm not really sure what you are saying here - he's described direct racism through verbal statements. Are you saying that disagreeing with Hivewatchers' decision is justification for racist attacks?
That isn't going to make any difference when there are openly sociopathic whales that even celebrate their state of mind in public. They aren't going to leave comments and even if they did it wouldn't change anything much when they want to autodownvote for their own agenda.
Bottom line is that there is a huge amount of hypocrisy, denial and unconscious activity happening in the 'community' here and it is being directly supported by some of the largest stakeholders who have had ample time to take action but who have mostly done nothing. If people want to create that for some reason, then that's their choice, but in highly competitive spaces, such as social media and crypto - it will only lead to nowhere.
He took a photo from an individual's blog and assumed that because that individual is of a different ethnicity to himself that it's racism. I can write an essay here about why this mentality is flawed but a basic google search can also answer this question.
I'm not sure if we are talking about the same thing.
I am referring to this:
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Are you saying that this person is actually also white, but has an asian style image and that it's therefore ok for them to ridicule based on race?
I called him those and clearly all those traits don't apply to his physique. Now if someone calls me Asian with a tan brown skin, I should be offended because it's my right to be offended for someone spitting facts about my Asian heritage and tan brown skin. He's going for the racial slur angle when he has got nothing else and used it to frame like HW did that on their own accord. He lost his case when he made ridwant a tool for his agenda here. He accused me of being part of HW when I just spoke my opinion about the guy. Not everything has to be taken in the context of race. And WTP is a grown man upset about negative emojis.
See DM.
I'm talking to my friend on Discord as any rational person would. We are now talking about the Fediverse. I don't want to respond any further to you today like I said as I can see you're not in the state of mind to logically discuss any topic. Just trying to do what's right here.
Hi. Just looking around again and noticed you said this:
... after that member already told you directly they made the decision on their own and that you had in fact embarrassed them with your behavior here today.
I think that's worth pointing out, especially when I see you using the spin doctor angle as an insult, while spinning yourself.
Anyway. Please continue talking and just 'being yourself'. It helps others observing learn about you and your situation a little better.
you shared a screen shot proof of their racism, they are obviously lefty crybaby lunatics' thinking government is good and they are Hives "government" in their minds... they are sabotaging Hive and add no value... now as high rank witnesses there is no chance to catch up to them in stake (as a witness myself of 7 months ranking 122 of 97 active, there is no chance without being in their circle jerk club!