RE: An Idea to Find Compromise on Downvotes

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RE: An Idea to Find Compromise on Downvotes

hurtlocker in #hive • 5 days ago (edited)

it's a free environment and just as someone has the right to extract and take advantage of the reward pool, others have the right to downvote for that reason.

I agree with this 100%

I'm fairly convinced the "leave a comment" request is just a lite scam. That standard forces the minority of people who downvote to waste time leaving comments that provide little value. A lot of times leaving a comment just creates a dumpster fire and makes HIVE more toxic if anything.

I deleted my old discord and made a new one when I started downvoting because there is no way I was going to handle the constant DMs trying to lobby me to remove downvotes.

I’m only in OCDB discord now. I’m really only in there to learn more about curating from the people there.

I mostly just talk on HIVE now. If I find your account on discord I’ll send you a request but I don’t have discord open as much as I used to.

Thanks for leaving a comment and showing support as I go down this path of learning about downvotes. It has been very weird and is draining at times!

5 days ago in #hive by hurtlocker

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galenkp 5 days ago (edited)

Yeah, fair enough I used to get DM's like that, still do. I ignore them all, never respond or engage. No point to it. I don't use Discord much, only to communicate in a small group a few of us have going on, we talk about non-hive stuff mostly and it's quite sporadic at best really.

I sometimes also get Hive people dropping demands for an explanation on something or other; depending on how they "ask" I'll give them a short response but mostly they're demanding and rude so they get nothing.

Edit: Sorry, edited a couple typos out. Lol. (I see you did the same.)

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hurtlocker 5 days ago

No worries on the edit 😆. I wish multiple edits didn’t have so many notifications. If I see a typo I cant help myself sometimes 😅

In an effort to practice self control, I will not edit this comment regardless of how many typos I see later 😄

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galenkp 5 days ago

If I see a typo I cant help myself sometimes

If I see a typo I can't help myself all the time! 🤣

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hurtlocker 5 days ago

Kudos to you for even putting up with a little bit of that nonsense 🤣

I just assumed the discord DMs would get insane when I started downvoting because back when I had only a little HIVE, people would regularly DM me in discord for upvotes and it was exhausting 😅

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galenkp 5 days ago

That's what happened although it soon slows down when literally zero response happens.

For several years I also got a lot of DM's requesting money, all from Nigeria. One asked me for money to buy a bigger TV for her gaming console "business" as the competitor down the road had a better TV and she was losing "business." I recall my response being very long, scathing and rather brutal.

I don't get requests like that much these days but unless I've communicated on Hive with someone for a long time, favourably, I don't respond to DM's. I have a really nice (small) group of people I communicate with in Threema and Whatsapp (most know my address and I theirs as we swap stuff), and that's one of my biggest benefits from Hive - they're good people.

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hurtlocker 5 days ago

I have given interest free loans to people on HIVE and some of them never even paid me back. I don't do anything like that anymore because I just don't have the bandwidth to keep up with it. I only loaned to friendly aquiantensces anyways so I was always open to never getting paid back.

Lots of good people on HIVE. It's actually not that hard to find good people here. That being said, a lot of people on HIVE trust when there really doesn't need to be trust and that creates a lot of problems imo.

The reward pool is easy to access and a lot of people view it as free money. It makes sense so many scammers pop up here and it makes sense “good” people get greedy and start scamming.

I’m not going to do that though. I try to watch for greed when it starts impacting me because greed can become very consuming and is particularly good at changing people in a bad way without them even noticing.

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galenkp 5 days ago

I've done the same, for the right reason with no repayment also and I'm ok with that because it helped them and they were deserving.

On the reward pool, yep exactly, like the user from earlier today, once she got some autos the floodgates opened and now feel entitled to those rewards from an auto that doesn't even read or engage. It becomes a habit and that's ok, freedom for all right? Including the freedom for others to do as they please with their own stake, built the hard way.

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