That's what's so discouraging about the Trending page. People are blindly following and upvoting whoever/whatever is the most popular, thinking it will somehow benefit them.
Yes they do go in the reward pool, but also create hatred, demotivation and disappointment in the community, leading to some whales cashing out their SP, which in turn leads to steem price getting lower. And then some whales like fuzzy sponsor various projects and contests and if they get downvoted, then they have less to share. So yes, you do get affected, you want or not!!!!
As they say all actions in the universe affect us, no matter how much unrelated they seem! :)
If I had something like this happen, I'd ask what it was that caused the flag and what I can change to get the flagging person's buy in, or ask for an alternative proposal.
I have yet to see that mentioned anywhere else in all of this.
Thanks.
That's what's so discouraging about the Trending page. People are blindly following and upvoting whoever/whatever is the most popular, thinking it will somehow benefit them.
That propensity is what will kill Steemit.
Yes that and coupled with flag wars and self comments on votes!!
I am totally unaffected by flag wars.
In fact, if there are whales flagging each other's posts into oblivion, those rewards should go back into the pool shouldn't they?
Yes they do go in the reward pool, but also create hatred, demotivation and disappointment in the community, leading to some whales cashing out their SP, which in turn leads to steem price getting lower. And then some whales like fuzzy sponsor various projects and contests and if they get downvoted, then they have less to share. So yes, you do get affected, you want or not!!!!
As they say all actions in the universe affect us, no matter how much unrelated they seem! :)
Which is why I made this comment on another post.
I have yet to see that mentioned anywhere else in all of this.
But what do I know?
Could you please link this post of yours? Or was it the sweetsssj one only?
It was only a comment on this post:
https://steemit.com/community/@eirik/the-person-you-should-know-officialfuzzy#@theblindsquirl/re-whatsup-re-theblindsquirl-re-eirik-the-person-you-should-know-officialfuzzy-20170803t172508124z