Even though I've been following you since before the dawn of time I took your no name off the shout out list because I know you have the fixed opinion that down voting is not a problem.
About 20 of the people on the list would strongly disagree, and by all means feel free to have a quick look at my own posts and comments for the past three months if you would like to draw back your curtains on this subject.
I don't really care that I didn't make your list.
And at this point I don't care you'd put words in my mouth and thoughts in my head, then act like I said those words and thought those thoughts.
I don't recall you ever asking how I felt about that shit. I think because I don't follow the official narrative within your clique, then follow suit and act like the rest of the herd, and because your mind can't see beyond black or white, up or down, left or right, coke or pepsi, you automatically assume I'm on some imaginary 'other team' and think like how you think that imaginary 'other team' must think.
So if you want to be a dick. Go ahead.
I thought this new tribe was progress towards achieving a goal. Providing a platform where folks didn't feel like they're ruled by downvotes and could feel free because they didn't before. It's everything some folks wanted. I thought a 'solution' to a 'problem'. I suppose you got what you want/needed/asked for but still don't see that as the solution.
You mistake my displeasure with the rift being created and all the hate coming from all directions as me expressing an opinion on whether or not downvotes are a problem or not. Maybe pull your head out of your ass and take a good long look around instead of asking me to pull back the curtains.
Don't put fucking words in my mouth.
Er...OK...
Exactly. Stand there and mumble.
Honestly and sincerely, to the best of my ability in words, please understand, I don't care about not being on that list. I don't care about what reason you want to offer me as to why, as I never asked, nor cared. I haven't even published anything in four months and I doubt I'll start any time soon. The vibe is just fucked nowadays.
Yes...the vibe is unfriendly...
Yeah. Maybe don't be a dick. Try that.
I'm pretty sure the comment I left here was of a positive nature. So maybe pull that stick out of your ass, inspect it, and if it needs to go back in, shove it back in, but don't ask me for lube, because I don't have any.
Great comment at the end of that thread, very big picture. Hope you can find the vibe to create a bit more over here, it's not all completely fucked.
Every year I go away for awhile and I completely disconnect from the internet, and damn near everything else.
Coming back online often feels like entering a new world or foreign country and you don't speak the language. I was incredibly excited to come back and in a stellar mood as well. To make a long story short, it didn't take long to discover some drama around here. Someone took it upon themselves to mention me in a bashing session. Followed that notification and the trail of breadcrumbs. Wasn't impressed with what I saw. Even here in this fucking comment section I'm being treated like I'm in support of something that I wasn't even around to see. Being accused of all kinds of bullshit and I wasn't even around to be a part of it.
Last time you and I spoke was probably back in July. Was I in support of a few issues around here and bashing you folks? No. I spent several hours and a few days trying to help sort things out, providing a good healthy dose of honesty, and not putting up with any bullshit, because I wanted some problems solved once and for all.
I just found out about this new tribe from this post after someone I follow reblogged it. So here's the 'solution' but unfortunately I've a feeling it'll be a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. Hive, and the decentralized nature of Hive, now provides members with a platform free of downvotes. It exactly what they fucking wanted. But I doubt they'll make the adjustment, put the problems in the past, and move forward. There's literally no excuse now to be out there bashing the community and pretending to be suppressed. There were second layer options the entire time but those were ignored as well.
These second layer tokens, it's still Hive. If HIVE is the dollar, these tokens are like the pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters. They can earn on Hive. They can covert their pennies into dollars if they want. They can convert their efforts into having a say in governance. All these choices are on the table and available to everyone. But like I said in that comment, you can make a million changes, but you can't change the people. They'll continue on bashing.
So all this combined and having my heart ripped out of my chest for no good reason at all makes it damn near impossible to want to 'create' something. My head's not in the right place now. Maybe in the new year. I want to get back into it but... blah...
Lube makes the world go round...
You see how easy it was to drop the ridiculous platform politics and go back to fucking around?
I am not choosing sides here. I wanted to point out something about #vyb. People are free to be a dick and have different opinions. They just no longer will be downvoted for it. Always feel free to counter with your words.
I will say I don't think he was trying to be a dick to you (I could be wrong). It looks like one of those cases where you may have misread the intent. I've been there and done that myself.
No need to choose sides. The being a dick part was putting words in my mouth and painting me as a villain the instant I walked in the door. If you think back to July you'll remember the talks between you, myself, several others.
In over five years here, not at one point have I ever been 100% happy with how downvotes are being used. I walk into the new tribe free of downvotes and I'm made out to be one of the reasons something like this needs to exist. I didn't misread something. It clearly says I feel a certain way about something, yet what was said isn't true.
Several others in what I'll call the anti-downvote crew lately have also been incredibly difficult to work with and have been throwing me under the bus then dragging me through the mud since before I even returned from a nearly four month hiatus. So my frustration has snowballed into a much larger issue. But frot and I go way back so it's not like I'm sitting here holding a grudge.
Probably worth mentioning as well. People are reading a Canuck and a Kiwi banter back and forth. It's not as serious as it sounds.
Breathe deep... Remove butt plug...Release sphincter...
A New Year's post might come in pleasant though.
I'll think about it. In the meantime you can have this really old new year post that now looks like crap and seems like it was written by an idiot.