Wow! People really do that to you? I apologize for all of humanity!
Maybe Steem should look at making it so that we don't know who Whales are in order that things like this don't happen. Really. Why do we need to know who has more upvote power and who has less? We should just concern ourselves with putting decent content out and the audience will take it from there.
Best of luck in dealing with the riff raff.
It is always frustrating at first as a newbie but after serious of articles i guess we adapt
Maybe that's not such a bad idea... Hide people's power! But I guess that goes against the transparency aspect... Hmm.
I suppose. But it is one thing to be transparent, and another to be invasive.
I guess the example that came to mind for me was, everyone knows how much Elon Musk, Bill Gates and JK Rowling are worth. But we don't have access to them to bug the crap out of them.
What would their lives be like if everyone on the planet could get $100 each time one of them gave you a thumbs up? I can't begin to imagine the swarms.
Actually, that sounds like something I could explore in a short story. Haha Thanks for making me think this morning @devi1714!
Ah, now that you mention it, that is a very good point. I didn't think of it like that at all! I guess if you look at it like that it would be entirely possible (and probably not a bad idea) to hide the levels of people as as we can see... It causes some problems.
Haha, thanks for making me think too! This post definitely made me pause to think a bit!
If we are forced to treat everyone as if everyone out here is a whale, and we don't know where the next big upvote could come from, we might find people treating each other better.
Of course the alternative is that what happened in steem.chat happens to everyone all the time, because it is easiest to just beg everyone for upvotes rather than putting out content that stands on its own.
Begging is easier than working, a Steem and universal truth. Haha
Now we need @transisto to add a philosophy tag to this thread!
Your first point I definitely have to agree with. Sadly people would treat each other better if some people could possibly benefit them I think... I think people would be a lot more wary and conscious of how they act if anyone could possibly be a while.
Haha, your second point is too true as well, I have heard this statement echoed a few times by different people.
I think that the possible downside of hiding whale's levels is that people may possibly just begin to beg even more in the hopes that people are whales... But you know what? This would make a great experiment! Hide levels for a month and see what happens!
Haha, that we do! Funny how such a short post can encourage such big thoughts.