Eh.. Lets say you ran a bakery and you have a box of 12 muffins sitting there for people coming in to try the muffins. I come in every day and grab a muffin, eat the thing, then proceed to go across the street and purchase a muffin .
Are my actions in this hypothetical muffin situation going to affect you as the bakery owner?
Of course it would. I'm taking value out of your pocket via the free muffin then spending elsewhere .
Taking value from you and moving it to a competitor.
The steem chain is the muffin shop across the street profiting on HIve's free muffin in the examples above.
This is how I believe atleast some of the community sort of sees the situation.
The problem is that in this case nobody is taking anything from anybody. We're all "mining" from the same pool under the same PRO-RATED rules. But when someone big does it better, they get lynched using free downvotes. The attackers feel better as their jealous anger is momentarily relieved, but ultimately it's food today and famine tomorrow . . . and they won't even realize it when they're starving.
Good luck finding heaving hitting bloggers in that environment! Not to mention people with money who want to invest!
we are mining by giving other people votes and for that action we get part of the mined coin. and no one can stop him from mining. he just needs to vote on other people. but when you vote for other people then half of that goes to other people...
i think i don't even know who he is, not sure do i even care, but i see he was in the top of rewards for a while now.
and he still feels the need to vote on his own comments before payouts, i don't really feel sorry.
Your thinking, which you are not alone in - in fact, I think we can put you in the majority, so be consoled if that makes you feel good - is exactly what we can say is the mentality of a miserable leech, common in people who have never worked a day in their lives.
Nobody in their right fucking mind would invest in something where the main selling feature is endless garbage content.. Honestly it would be trivial to train some machine learning algorythms and just have them post, the difference would basically be unnoticable, because nobody basically reads these fucking needless stupid ass trash posts... People don't invest into HIVE because they think blogging is the new crack or that this distribution model is going to be the next craze.. They invest because they see a 3 second blockchain with basically no sending fees and a quite well built suite of developer libraries. That is the appeal here, certainly not the inflation sourced rewards that create unrelenting sell pressure on the market while offering the chain NOTHING of actual value in return.
I know the standard rebuttal or magic words that justified all this ridiculous rewarding of what is essentially waste of storage space was "the content has value"..... No Ned, it's been proven over the past 5 years that nearly all of the content here and on the prior chain is garbage nobody gives a shit about that barely gets read when compared to a site that has "good content" that people actually read and that actually generates revenue (lookin at you reddit).
No sweetie, your post by default has no value here because its basically showing a value more in line with the content's true value. Hate to break it to ya, but majority of the time your post is something nobody gives a shit about and it really fucking DOES NOT, in well over 98% of the cases here, provide the network anything of any actual value.
Honestly the term heavy hitting blogger made me physically wretch.. Your buddies content is mediocre at best and the fact he's pasting the exact same fucking article (basically) spanning 5 platforms isn't a sign of success but rather a quite clear message that fundementals and moral fibre aren't being considered at all in favour of greed fueled FOMO of perhaps posting to one chain or maybe two (aka not a competing chain, you fucking knob) and maybe making a few bucks less but not coming off as some self righteous shitpost lord.
"Oh no I got flagged because I'm blindly shitposting a bunch of places trying to earn some crypto"
How about instead of writing shitposts you get involved with a project helping to make the ecosystem better and actually fucking earn the payouts on the shitposts by providing value to the network and everyone on it.
It's a crab bucket, and so described in the original steem whitepaper.
It is what is, and it will be what 'the community' makes of it.
If you don't like 'the consensus', change it.
Downvoting needs to be eliminated, like yesterday, if HIVE wants to have any chance of surviving, long term, that is. First we'll get a pump to get out on though . . . I'm not sticking around to see what the nitwits at the top do.
Downvotes are a thing for a reason set forth in the whitepaper.
If you choose to go, that is on you.
More cheap hive for everyone else.
What do you demonstrate when you take as unchangeable what is changeable? Being in a whitepaper is not set in stone, nor would anyone suggest that it should stay that way just because it's in a whitepaper. Everything we do always starts out as less than we want, and we do it with expectations of changing things for the better. EVERYTHING.
Once you see that change in any particular is very unlikely, you modify your decision making.
But that's what really sets you apart.
Sorry.
Oh, at a price I guess. But I'm in no hurry. Let me know if you want to bid. 😜
Clearly, imo, this is an opportunity for the rules to change us.
Just because you don't the esoteric, doesn't mean none of us do.
If we change all the rules to suit ourselves, what would we be left with?
Nobody wants to play that game, let me assure you.
HIVE only survives as a real viable social media if the negative incentives are eliminated. You can't reward negative behavior and expect good things to happen.
We just saw another example, which doesn't seem like that big of deal in the grand scheme of things, but as a lesson in what negative rewarding leads to, it was classic.
To each his/her own, but to play the social media game, you've at least got to get the basic rules right.
Said another way, only a fool tries to reinvent the wheel. ;-)
Cheers