RE: Been doing some thinking.... vol 2

A man was walking along the beach and saw another man fishing in the surf with a bait bucket beside him. As he drew closer, he saw that the bait bucket had no lid and had live crabs inside. “Why don’t you cover your bait bucket so the crabs won’t escape?” he asked. “You don’t understand,” the fisherman replied, “If there is one crab in the bucket it would surely crawl out very quickly. However, when there are many crabs in the bucket, if one tries to crawl up the side, the others grab hold of it and pull it back down so that it will share the same fate as the rest of them.” So it is with people. If one tries to do something different, get better grades, improve herself, escape her environment, or dream big dreams, other people will try to drag her back down to share their fate. Eliminating “abuse” is not possible and shouldn’t be the goal. Even those who are attempting to “abuse” the system are still doing work. Any compensation they get for their successful attempts at abuse or collusion is at least as valuable for the purpose of distributing the currency as the make-work system employed by traditional Bitcoin mining or the collusive mining done via mining pools. All that is necessary is to ensure that abuse isn’t so rampant that it undermines the incentive to do real work in support of the community and its currency. The goal of building a community currency is to get more “crabs in the bucket.” Going to extreme measures to eliminate all abuse is like attempting to put a lid on the bucket to prevent a few crabs from escaping and comes at the expense of making it harder to add new crabs to the bucket. It is sufficient to make the walls slippery and give the other crabs sufficient power to prevent others from escaping.

quoted from ~~steemit~~ whitepaper

Hive is too simple at its core. It's a social media where u perform actions and other people can upvote or downvote u with full freedom.

When people get upvotes, they become unthankful. When they get downvoted, they think it's unfair. Code is the law of hive. Whatever the code allows are rules other stuff is just customs and culture

Going to extreme measures to eliminate all abuse is like attempting to put a lid on the bucket to prevent a few crabs from escaping and comes at the expense of making it harder to add new crabs to the bucket.

I think this is right. I think extreme measures are not necessary. I think how I use downvotes today works pretty well but will never be perfect so I am always adjusting. I am not god; I am just a person. If I downvote someone there is always a path forward with me. But that is just me, other users who downvote would also need to be reconciled with in a positive way.

I have seen a lot of instances where people get off blacklists. So when people freak out and do crazy stuff in reaction to a downvote they just make it worse.

Whatever the code allows are rules other stuff is just customs and culture

This is correct!

Most of the over reactions related to downvotes is culture and norms which is reinforced by other users. People will freak out after being downvoted and then other users encourage them by saying their freakout is justified. If someone just said, "hey, downvotes are not that bad and you can probably get out of it if you relax and are humble," that would go a long way. The other problem is most people let their ego control their life and the ego will consume you if you feed it.