I had exactly the same issue on two of my posts, so I also asked zaku, he was kind enough to explain, long story short, it's a whale war things, with one disagreeing with the upvotes of the other or didn't agree with the behaviour of the other, nothing personal to you.
Thanks for your reply on this, my main issue is not the fact that I was downvoted, because that is just a mechanic of the system, it was that I thought that I had done something that may have warranted my content to be downvoted and I wanted to know what I could do better.
I just find the deflection and not voting based on the merit of the content to be amateurish and counterproductive to encouraging users to produce good content for the chain and ecosystem.
I am over it, thing will be how they are, but I hope that the community would try to engage in more constructive and welcoming interactions to better HIVE. It seems that the witness engaged in this war thinks that this is what they are doing, but I am not sure the people watching it play out would agree.
Rule No 1 on HIVE: Never ever ask why someone downvoted you.
Rule No 2 on HIVE: Ignore all downvotes.
Rule No 3 on HIVE: If you cannot follow 1+2, you will get more downvotes.
But I asked you. I do not even know @zaku and they did not downvote me for what seems to be no reason at all, but my assumption is that you may have done similar to them in the past and they know what the chip on your shoulder is and you are sending me to them to further punish them for something they did long ago.
It is not a very good representation of personal character to answer a direct and honest question with a clear deflection, when you could just answer my question with the same or just a tiny bit more effort.
Did I do something that is deserving of a downvote or are you just trying to discourage users from posting on HIVE and have them move to some place like nostr to spend their time and effort creating content and bringing value to an ecosystem?
I would think that you would want to encourage as many users to stay on HIVE as you can, considering you seem to want to see HIVE moon, based on your stake and content.
Downvoting a users content, especially when they have just started to produce it recently, is a good way to turn them off to providing any future value or content to the somewhat struggling HIVE ecosystem. It is even worse if it is coming from a witness and without comment or explanation, even after being asked politely for a general explanation as to why the content deserved a downvote.
I am not part of any HIVE war, that I am aware of, and I am trying to produce content that I feel would be beneficial to both HIVE and Splinterlands as a whole. I am not posting random and somewhat redundant content, I am trying to post quality, thoughtful content that expresses ideas and innovation.
I find it hard to believe that someone that I do not know in any context other than this specific interaction would come to intentionally try to discourage me for anything I have put out, especially someone who seems to be well empowered and invested in the HIVE ecosystem. I would think that you would want to do the exact opposite and let me know how I could improve my content moving forward to better engage on the HIVE chain.
I do not even really care about the tiny impact on the rewards for the post, I just want to know how I became a target of downvoting, which is not typically an activity that many well intentioned actors do without good reasoning.
So, I will ask again, could you please let me know what it is that led you to downvote me for the content I have created?
But I asked you. I do not even know @zaku and they did not downvote me for what seems to be no reason at all, but my assumption is that you may have done similar to them in the past and they know what the chip on your shoulder is and you are sending me to them to further punish them for something they did long ago.
I had exactly the same issue on two of my posts, so I also asked zaku, he was kind enough to explain, long story short, it's a whale war things, with one disagreeing with the upvotes of the other or didn't agree with the behaviour of the other, nothing personal to you.
Thanks for your reply on this, my main issue is not the fact that I was downvoted, because that is just a mechanic of the system, it was that I thought that I had done something that may have warranted my content to be downvoted and I wanted to know what I could do better.
I just find the deflection and not voting based on the merit of the content to be amateurish and counterproductive to encouraging users to produce good content for the chain and ecosystem.
I am over it, thing will be how they are, but I hope that the community would try to engage in more constructive and welcoming interactions to better HIVE. It seems that the witness engaged in this war thinks that this is what they are doing, but I am not sure the people watching it play out would agree.
It is what it is.
Rule No 1 on HIVE: Never ever ask why someone downvoted you.
Rule No 2 on HIVE: Ignore all downvotes.
Rule No 3 on HIVE: If you cannot follow 1+2, you will get more downvotes.
Nah, I'm not going to downvote someone for asking.
I wasn't actually referring to you but more of some general "rules".
There are no rules just a bunch of people doing whatever they feel like.
Zaku can answer that for you.
But I asked you. I do not even know @zaku and they did not downvote me for what seems to be no reason at all, but my assumption is that you may have done similar to them in the past and they know what the chip on your shoulder is and you are sending me to them to further punish them for something they did long ago.
It is not a very good representation of personal character to answer a direct and honest question with a clear deflection, when you could just answer my question with the same or just a tiny bit more effort.
Did I do something that is deserving of a downvote or are you just trying to discourage users from posting on HIVE and have them move to some place like nostr to spend their time and effort creating content and bringing value to an ecosystem?
I would think that you would want to encourage as many users to stay on HIVE as you can, considering you seem to want to see HIVE moon, based on your stake and content.
Downvoting a users content, especially when they have just started to produce it recently, is a good way to turn them off to providing any future value or content to the somewhat struggling HIVE ecosystem. It is even worse if it is coming from a witness and without comment or explanation, even after being asked politely for a general explanation as to why the content deserved a downvote.
I am not part of any HIVE war, that I am aware of, and I am trying to produce content that I feel would be beneficial to both HIVE and Splinterlands as a whole. I am not posting random and somewhat redundant content, I am trying to post quality, thoughtful content that expresses ideas and innovation.
I find it hard to believe that someone that I do not know in any context other than this specific interaction would come to intentionally try to discourage me for anything I have put out, especially someone who seems to be well empowered and invested in the HIVE ecosystem. I would think that you would want to do the exact opposite and let me know how I could improve my content moving forward to better engage on the HIVE chain.
I do not even really care about the tiny impact on the rewards for the post, I just want to know how I became a target of downvoting, which is not typically an activity that many well intentioned actors do without good reasoning.
So, I will ask again, could you please let me know what it is that led you to downvote me for the content I have created?
Sounds like you got it all figured out then.
What I have figured out is that it is not only cream that rises to the top, shit floats too.
It depends on how much fat you eat.