I think my friend was frustrated as down-voted without notifying in advance. Regarding black and white photography, I also thought that it was useful idea for amateur user as not a expert content provider, relieving the burden of what to post daily. If you notify before down voting, he might not overact.
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He's not even using the community, just the tag: https://peakd.com/trending/bnwphotography
notice anything weird about the rest of posts compared to his original $16+ post rewards? Yeah the other's aren't votetrading. Just cause you have more stake doesn't mean your photos are worth more than other members doing the same thing. You're already getting higher curation rewards from your stake, don't try to also get max post rewards as if you're selfvoting 10x and you're fine. It's quite simple really and there's a lot of leeway to vote for friends and have them vote back, but if you're constantly doing it, never skipping a post, never posting more than once per day it looks like quite obvious maximization of voting power. There's nothing stopping you from thinking, oh this 1 picture is already at $10 so I'm not going to vote this person today and use my vote somewhere else instead to make this platform fairer, but somehow that thought process is nonexisting to all of you in the same voting circle. To maybe look around and check how others are doing or the difference between rewards of people doing the exact same thing but not having the same amount of voting power as you. I've even seen those same people commenting on you guy's posts and being ignored both from the comments and their posts just so you guys can focus on voting on each other in exchange for votes. Don't try to play dumb please.
OK. It's an old issue since Steem starting. I respect your action. I don't mean to listen your words like "Don't try to play dumb please." And you should also consider you've got over $100 rewards because of your high stakes once you post. What if you don't think others also think same as your post? and why persons like my friend should be blamed for it. My point is whether you announced before you down voting. The situation is same like a hen and egg paradox. I apology in advance if you feel unpleasant on my answers. Down-vote and its justification is an issue about balance and mutual understanding. It will always induce exhausted emotional conflict.
I don't need to warn you before I downvote abusive behavior against proof of brain and curation, mate. If you think my posts that I don't self-vote, forfeit half of the rewards to hbd.fund and have many weeks where I go without posting compared to you and your friends farming one low effort post per day are even considered the same as to what you're doing where you're providing quite literally close to 0 value to Hive then you're more gone than I originally assumed seeing your responses.
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I don't mean to disrespect people at random, you can imagine it is quite frustrating going over this issue with each and everyone and everyone behaving differently. At some point you've got to ask yourself if what you're doing is bringing value to Hive, many contribute in many different ways or spend all their time doing things for the platform and in exchange are valued for that and get rewards no matter what they post, I'm lucky to be in that position but I can tell you it's quite a lot of work and I try my best not to abuse my position of autovotes. If you think about content creators in other places and how much effort, time and investment they have to put in to even earn $5 per video, blog or article, most content creators here have it really well. Instead of realizing that this is a social media platform where engagement, connections and give and take are the main important things to drive the currency forward, people are instead choosing to take their earnings or investment and focus on maximizing returns in low effort ways and not caring about the rest of the platform and quite literally shooting themselves in the foot but at the same time bringing down the effects of the efforts and contributions of others who aren't just focusing on maximizing their hive returns.
I respect your perspectives on hive. Because I'm not good at english writing, simple is the best policy with hive. ok?
ps. Your sentence is too long for me to understand and have to ask google translater and ask you notify me before down-voting. It makes me sad being regarded as disrespect.
There's nothing stopping you from posting more and self-voting is also okay but the fact you only post once per day and everyone else in your voting circle does the same looks like maximization for least amount of effort.
You don't always need to vote back as a thanks, leaving a comment saying thanks is okay if they're posts are already well rewarded. If they don't like that and don't vote you anymore in the future then they voted you with the intention of getting a vote back which is the issue in the first place. It shouldn't be quid pro quo voting, it should be voting cause they really like your content and wanted to reward it without expecting something in return - that's what proof of brain is.
Looking at your commenting history it is hard to determine who your friends are when you barely comment:
You must understand that this looks a lot more like you are the same user as the other accounts as you barely have any activity, engagement, votes going to people outside of the circle and in general not being social on a social media platform. You've commented more in the last day than you did in 2 months before that and that only happened cause someone stepped up and attempted to break off the votetrading with some downvotes. That's not the right way to use Hive and appreciate how it works. Look at how other people use Hive, how their voting habits go, peakd.com is a good front-end to check user activity, etc and try and do better. Aim to get votes from as many different accounts as possible and that only works by putting in time and effort to connecting with other people, primarily those who share the same interests as you and in that way it'll make Hive a better experience for yourself as well where you'll enjoy spending time here and not just focus on the rewards.
If he's frustrated over 5 downvotes, imagine how frustrated others are seeing 100+ posts overrewarded due to blatant votetrading.