RE: Steemexclusive
I'm afraid that if you're on Hive, you'll have to deal with the old Steemit "staff." They hoped to maintain control and were furious when it turned out one of the owners had sold his stake to Justin Sun (this is the owner's prerogative). The result was a clone of Steemit, and many who wanted to be on both platforms were vilified on Steemit. Disgusting comments were left, including ones depicting naked guys waving giant penises. They then downvoted everyone, and of course, the SBI (HSBI on Hive) came under fire. This could and can be disabled with a comment. Then, a blacklist was published on Hive containing names of everyone who also remained on Steemit. And yes, I received these comments, and my name was on that list. There was quite a stir, but many people stayed on Hive and took advantage of it. I was never accepted and could indeed have earned much more there, but I don't like being yelled at, and I also have a good memory.
I think it's great when someone starts their own platform, but you should put your energy into that, not into ruining and downvoting others' lives.
Some of these people also deliberately left their witness posts on Steemit open, creating gaps in the blocks (and data transfer), because they're sitting between the actual active witnesses.
I agree with you that it's extremely childish, and I can only say that Steemit witnesses would prefer the platforms to collaborate. Unfortunately, this isn't the case, and Steemit's prize pool (just like HIVE's) isn't infinite. Because of the way HIVE operates (the witch hunt), there do seem to be fewer scammers.
Nothing remains of the original intention (anonymity), but this also applies to the original plan (the white papers), where the intention was for everyone to read and upvote each other! The current SC teams shouldn't exist and weren't there in the beginning.
This is a perk, but not how it should be. Given that most people are here to earn money and are too lazy to read, comment, and vote for each other (a vote with a value of 0.00 is no vote at all in my opinion), I do believe the Steemit Team, and therefore the SCs, have the right to withhold upvotes for certain posts. A fair division of the pie seems only fair to me. Anyone who posts the same thing on more than one platform can earn money on all those platforms with a single post, unlike those who continually put their creativity to work and genuinely dedicate themselves to this platform.
With you I agree that the power a small group has is easily abused. That happened in the past, happens today, and will happen in the future. I can guarantee you, that is was way worse in 2024, where people who were in powerdown (out of need) but very loyal to the platform were ignored and treated like a pariah. I did my best to change this attitude. Today, we see that club status is no longer of importance; the SCs can upvote more freely and everyone can receive a reward in principle if they are found and here is a lot of work to do. Using the right hashtags for starters. You have no idea how many hours I invest in finding posts, reading them, checking them and and and... (I just speak for me, not the other SCs since I also see they upvote and nominate another and make deals).
Is very sad, and I feel that people is so selfish, is natural, I know, but anyway I don't understand because I know that the reward pool resourses are enough for everyone, but some people want more and find the way to obtain more, making scams.
I appreciate your honesty about saying that everyone here want be rewarder, because is the true, because we all can go to X or Blogger to write for free.
But I agree that the reward's sharing should be fair and cheaters users wouldn't receive reward's if they're detected.
And here lies the difficulty. When Steemit first started, we had to upvote each other. And that worked to some extent. Of course, there were also whales who had much more, and everyone tried to get in with them, or rather, to suck up to them in the hope of getting a single vote. I just don't believe that at that time, the platform was really there to provide people with an income. Of course, it was nice when you earned 30 or 40 or 80 dollars on a post, but the intention was not to earn an income. Then upvote bots appeared. I was, of course, one of those slowpokes who only found out about it later, and when I finally figured it out, it was banned. At that point, there was already a group that had amassed a lot of money thanks to these bots, and they were also in power, so to speak. A large group of them went on to set up Hive. So let's put it this way: ordinary people were banned from using these upvote bots, while the whales who had used them themselves continued to do so.
Incidentally, these upvote bots still exist on this platform and are used in WOX, among other places. This is also the reason why you see such high amounts under a post, full of language errors, regardless of whether it is something interesting. In addition, there are of course the self-votes. Again, it's the same story: you rank higher, often don't belong to a club, don't burn Steem and engage in self-voting, something that has been severely punished in recent years for the average user. And I'm not even talking about those who went into Power Down out of necessity. Apart from the communities that you and I probably see on average, there are of course many more. These are mainly found among the Koreans, Chinese, Bangladesh has a self-sufficient community and there are many more. There, too, you often see incredibly high amounts around posts that are not very significant. Here, too, the bots are at work, and at some point they vote themselves and so on. Loans are also granted, and people delegate all their SP to one person for an upvote. That is all Steem that stays with very large accounts and circulates and is absorbed. So it is not only the small players who are scammers or empty pools, but also whales and Steem witnesses who participate or cooperate, and that is of course where the biggest problem lies. It is understandable that an investor also wants to see some form of return on their investment and not just a loss or the same balance, because that is not why you invest, and large sums of money are involved. But there are also those who literally take in as much as possible and are absolutely not interested in how to maintain this platform.
In any case, this platform does not pay for what you and I post. Not on the basis of any particular body. That was never the intention; the intention is that we pay and reward each other, but that message does not get across to most people, and that is the biggest problem. The sad thing is that it costs you nothing to give someone else an upvote, except a little time and a tap on that button. The reward you give is not deducted from your earnings, so what's the problem? There are many whose upvotes are worthless, and yet... when they give a vote, they quickly get a valuable upvote in return. So why not make the effort? Many small ones add up to a big one, right?
What will happen when there are no more SC teams? I think that nowadays SC01 and SC02 are already giving fewer and lower votes... Often to the same people, but still.
Suppose all this stops, how many people will continue to write? Of course, the advantage of this over Facebook or Instagram, for example, is that you can get paid, but that also costs money. And on X, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram, you can also earn a lot of money if you know how.
And why do people talk for hours on WhatsApp but are too lazy to read a comment here and write a few replies or send a message to three people a day? I don't think WhatsApp pays yet. Not that I have WhatsApp, but that's how it seems to me.
Things are always weird than should be! I'd had read many super rare things about the Bifurcation, stolen tokens, but also about satanic rites about the Hive founders group, and as far as some of them involve large money amount I don't know what to think.
The fact is that when money is in the game the worst side of people is showed up.
Luckily most of the users is normal people, at least is what I want to believe.
0.00 SBD,
0.14 STEEM,
0.14 SP
Stolen tokens, downvoting, making people miserable, being abused.. it's all there not to forget to mention the threads especially at meeting days. If it comes to that there were communities/countries here as well fighting, threatening their members and there were Steemit days where those who went tried to kill others... money indeed shows the worst of people. (and without money they would kill for food, a watch, a shovel or whatever they want).
For sure the most users are normal and these people you will most likely not hear.
It's hard to fight scam, plagiarism, AI use and so on. It's also hard to be the witch (Steemit had them, still have them I assume).
Sometimes my capacity for amazement is overwhelmed, and that's saying something, because I 'm not exactly expecting much from people. I just think nobody should hurt others just for the sake of it, you know?
At the end of the day, it's better to focus on the good stuff, or else we,'d all go crazy 🤣
(Translation by Meta AI)