Reading yet another post by a long term Hive blogger who is leaving the platform because they are sick of having their posts downvoted, I felt compelled to have another bleat about this.
https://peakd.com/hive/@jaynie/not-a-doormat
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After having a look around quite a few platforms over the past decade, I still think Hive is really good in many ways. But there are a few things that always hold it back. The biggest of those, ultimately is MONEY and the control of who does or doesn't get any of it.
The downvoting and the relentless control of the reward pool and account reputations by the chosen ones, works against the platform ever succeeding as a creative space for blogging and interacting.
Sometimes I just feel like doing a quick post (yes, a shitpost!) and I don't care if it earns a few cents or not, but like everyone, I don't think we should always be forced to turn the rewards off to stop some dickhead whale downvoting us.
I've said things like this many times over the past seven years on Steemit and Hive, but believe it or not I do see a need for some control of the reward pool. Otherwise a bunch of accounts could just take all the rewards themselves and that would be bad. Wouldn't it?
The other side of the coin is, what if a bunch of accounts controlled what content was allowed to be posted by downvoting anything they disliked?. Wouldn't that result in a censored platform like Facebook?
But if someone came along and said OK, bugger the rewards, I'll turn those off and post whatever I feel like, a problem for those that like to control the content, is that once the rewards are turned off, unlike Facebook, Hive doesn't have a team of performing eunuchs who can suspend accounts. There isn't even much in the way of AI to do that job.
Some days I teeter on the brink of using this site more often, as the PeakD front end really is pretty impressive. The name "Hive" (Hivemind) does suck though, so I've taken to referring to it as PeakD and just ignoring the Hive name altogether.
With rewards off, calling it PeakD, and posting whatever I feel like, I think it would be a better platform, so yeah, that is how I see myself using it more often.
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Okay. Read the first sentence. Already triggered. lol. What is this fucking cabal? If I was a part of something, how do I not know what it is I'm a part of?
Well rewarded insider? I rarely post. lol. People here who I've never heard of earn far more than I.
No. I don't go around being a dickhead with downvotes but DUDE, these opening lines and all that "how it looks on the surface" will be the catalyst eventually turning me into the biggest asshole this world has ever seen. (I go on my breaks so I don't lose it but that's just one of the reasons).
That virus thing dude, I never took a side. I thought everyone was crazy and wrote about it. EVERYONE dude. And still do. So shoot me.
My content is also being driven off. You've known me forever and seen a lot and were also involved in one of the cancel culture attempts meant to take me down.
So what's up? lol
(I'm being kind.)
P.S. I think you should accept rewards and I think anyone downvoting you out of spite is a cunt, but at the same time, if you go around gaslighting and harassing people, then get downvoted, well, you probably got downvoted for being a cunt. So ask yourselves, "What happens when two cunts collide?"
@frot | Sept. 19, 2023, 1:07 a.m. | Votes: 3 | [
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If I turn the rewards on, my rep just gets lower - 69 is as low as I want to go, and it sounds kind of pervy!
The covidhoax - Yes I took a side and it's safe to say I have been proven right many million of times over. It is all bullshit and the vaxtards are now as sick as fuck.
Well rewarded - here is a rough example - if you do a post you will get about $75 in rewards and you will NEVER be downvoted. If I did a post I would get about $2 in rewards but from 2021 EVERYTHING I post is downvoted to zero by accounts with higher reps so my rep goes down. Unless I turn the rewards off and then I'm only downvoted by bots with lower reps.
Now please don't pretend not to know what the cabal is - we were all discussing this on Steemit as far back as 2018 - they are the whales doing a circle jerk system of payouts and hogging the reward pool, who decide who is OK and who isn't. A bunch of them are listed on that other post.
Triggered - LOL - you know me, I'm a complete prick! Now grow a set and stop being so sensitive.
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I don't think I'm "right" dude. We can all do better. I like to think back to those times though, and as a reminder as well. I'm the same dude.
The very instant I got a taste of "success" around here after grinding and struggling for years, well, from my perspective that's the day people like you would come along and start hating on me for it, adding in that bogus narrative about me doing something wrong to get somewhere. Dreemit was always good to have around to randomly kick me in the ass when I needed it so I wouldn't be feeling in the dumps.
Maybe I am a sensitive guy at times. But I think that has more to do with people crossing the line. A dude can only take so much. Pretty much on my own here as well. I was quiet for a bit, busy with life. Come back on here and once again I'm being thrown under the bus for shit I had nothing to do with. Then here you are pulling your typical stunt. People think downvotes are bad? Try wearing these shoes...
Of course I don't like talking about it and for the most part have nobody to talk to about it. Just have to sit here and put up with all this shit, nonstop. For what?
Yeah, there are a few things I talk about that are often on repeat. That's just life. I wasn't saying that to knock you down.
Reverse engineer your conspiracy theories. Watch how nearly everyone like you thought ditching their stake would somehow negatively impact The Haters.
The result. Everyone like you now has literally no say when it comes to the direction of this platform. Most of those like you can't even upvote the content you'd prefer and instead have to depend on a centralized entity (Resonator as an example).
So to generalize, alternative news and whatnot, fucked themselves, out of spite. To top it off, the consumers also go around claiming the platform is "censored", scaring away their own people. Meanwhile stakeholders are the ones defending them, saying the platform is not censored.
I've been studying this for years dude. I once wrote, "What you don't see behind closed doors is you, walking up to them."
It was an inside job. That's my theory. But I'm not saying you're the insider. More like just another one who got steered over a cliff by their own wheel.
Now I realize this might not sit well with you. It's just my own observations. A similar thing happens with a lot of other content styles.
Notice how people still complain, "No such thing as shortform here!" They ignore the advancements like that leo threads platform, and others. They run with that narrative and scare folks away from learning about these other options. Sadly many in love with LEO centralized their stake through delegation as well, potentially sacrificing its success, for short term gains. Very few can actually support threads with votes. But many produce threads expecting votes of some kind.
I pay a lot of attention to this ecosystem. The ins, outs, and all the betweens.
That VYB thing wasn't quite a failure, but did not reach its full potential. Part of the reason was because the most outspoken people against downvotes quickly dumped their VYB rather than embracing the new design, which was something they claimed would be a requirement. All talk, no action. Pretended it no longer existed and went back to saying the place is doomed. Sometimes I wonder which government they're working for. Of course that's going to tinfoil hat territory.
I don't remember seeing anything pro vax, on here at least. You'd have to show me and maybe I'd remember. I had a great time studying the corporate media approach. Studied reactions as well. Easily one of the darkest periods in human history. We'll all be dead before the lessons are learned, unfortunately.
Saw a lot of anti vax mainly, all over social media as well. I had some satire written up shedding light on a situation I found to be quite peculiar. The anti-vax crowd was so loud, while at the same time claiming to be censored nonstop. Had some art made up with a crowd inside a glass box with their fingers in their ears all saying the same thing but somehow unable to hear themselves. Whole thing just seemed so absurd to me.
Of course I learned society wasn't quite ready to laugh at themselves just yet. Scrapped it. It would have been interpreted as me playing for the wrong team or whatever. I discovered it was difficult for people to grasp my position, which was basically me turning my back on the entire thing and viewing both teams as one unit I didn't want to be a part of.
For me at the time I felt like I was living in a simulation if I put too much focus on media. Avoided becoming a consumer, to the best of my abilities, so I wouldn't become a product of the media or the "environment" at the time. That's how they get you.
Did you know if you removed the "chosen ones" element from your thought process, you'd be able to criticize with confidence rather than fear?
@frot | Sept. 20, 2023, 6:21 a.m. | Votes: 1 | [
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The account names start with @m @s and @t - I'm not going to name them because I can't be arsed starting WW3 again. All three of them pushed the death jabs in the same month and saw their already large post rewards grow even larger. To me that is pretty compelling evidence that they were promoting the covid narrative for their own gains.
But what goes around comes around and it was interesting to see that one of them went on to have a stroke. For some reason he never did any posts exploring the well exposed relationship between the death jabs and increased incidence of strokes.
Here is me being straightforward, honest and direct:
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"COVID" (Certificate Of Vaccination ID) is a fictional disease. In reality it is the flu, or "vaccine" injury (deliberate poisoning) or side effects of other toxins and poisoning.
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"Vaccinations" are also a work of fiction - a giant medical scam designed to sterilize and kill entire populations. Eugenics for profit. Any doctor who refuses to acknowledge that fact, is either mind controlled or deliberately murdering people for profit.
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Germ theory is a thoroughly discredited load of horse shit. To at least grasp the basics I recommend starting with the work of Dr Tom Cowan. https://drtomcowan.com/
If you are studying my delivery I think you will be hard pressed to find evidence of fear. Sometimes things would have been smoother if I had held my tongue, but fear does not frequently shape my delivery, especially not online.
Yes, I would call most of this discussion an argument, simply because we are disagreeing about a bunch of things. For example I think it is very important to expose the entire covidhoax and I think your standing on the fence position is weak and ignorant.
It's not two sides who are both crazy, it is one side comprising of mass murdering eugenicist globalist psychopaths along with a flock of clueless mind controlled followers, vs people who took the time and effort to learn what was going on and had the conviction to resist and expose it.
Standing up to more than 2/3 of the population is not that easy. It's safe to say it leads to a few issues. But if they pull out that bullshit again I will be even more hard line than last time because I've seen the results of their bullshit. And I wasn't exactly a pussy last time...
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Maybe the fear I'm sensing comes from another place. Like it's being directed towards something else so others fear something. You know how in the movie Beetlejuice it was "dangerous" to say his name three times because that's when he'd show up and make a mess? You put yourself in a similar situation.
So the best advice I can offer goes something like this: Speak on the problems, not the people.
That's something that didn't always come naturally to me. Made a few mistakes before I finally figured it out and learned the benefits. In general one is able to reach far more people. No rift. Nobody coming along to take it personally. No colleagues feeling uncomfortable engaging. And so on.
Modern politics limits reach as well. For instance with this comment above, including the Biden imagery would cause you to lose half your reach, if people truly did only play for team red or team blue.
As for you thinking I'm standing on the fence. That's you providing a perfect example of how people have trouble grasping my true position. Ignorance? I've heard everything from both sides, as one. I'm able to see more this way.
