RE: Super Positive Headline and It's Even A Hive Post!

I generally agree with the post and your opinion. It's kind of stupid people are complaining about trending being shit and then when big accounts attempt to co-operate to get other type of posts to trending with bigger votes (and in turn sacrifice curation rewards due to bigger votes - not to mention ocdb almost always votes late and has shit CR efficiency) to then get disincentivized even more by downvotes. No wonder other big accounts only cast 8-15% votes on content with no rewards to maximize CR and stay off trending.

The term overrewarded is lame in my opinion, they're either not used to the sudden spike of the price or keep seeing rewards as the displayed one and not considering the 50% going to curators. I was sad to see @rainite get downvoted on his post as if $100 is too much to make these days.

It's super annoying to have my work finally make the trending page then have to sit and watch people complain about what's there constantly. They're never specific, but it would make more sense to single content out rather than throwing us all under the bus. So that's been bugging me, I'll be honest. I don't feel like I've done something wrong to deserve that hatred. Doing well here is fucking frowned upon. Nobody ever checks to see that I got there honestly, after years of trying and doing well. That ends that part of the rant.

So many problems would be gone if people could simply mind their own business and learn to celebrate success. I've been saying that forever. Nobody cares it seems, they just keep bitching and don't give anyone credit for a job well done.

I also said this in a comment here:

Witnessing the start of the death spiral. What happens next is fewer quality publishers will have a reason to do a good job, leading to less effort. Fewer curators will vote for things like art, photos, and general content, since their rewards will be wiped away. Then people become desperate and start blogging about hive and crypto, saturaing the market further, making it harder for people succeed and far less appealing to a general audience which leads to fewer potential new members wanting to get involved.

I've already seen this happen on Steem and now it's starting here. I also said what's happening with these abusive downvotes is the worst thing that could happen to content on this platform, but it's happening. I'm not wrong. Been doing this for years. Not just some moron trying to collect tokens with shit posts. I've studied the business model, watched the people, seen the results.

Those free downvotes were part of the EIP deal to help combat abuse since abuse was running rampant. People are using them for stupid reasons like, "I don't like your post." Only a monkey would slap everything they don't like.