RE: The Shit That's Bugging Me: Episode Three
I am still not sure how the down vote is going to improve, or if it will, but it is and has been part of the steem block chain for a long time. The free is the part I don't like, the blind fly by down votes I don't like, but that does not mean I am going to go on a down vote spree just because they are free now.
There is a lot of things I don't like about HF21, I still feel there is more to HF22 that is being mentioned, but I am at times one of those people that see things that may not be there.
Still even with all my dislike of HF20, I am still here, and even though I do not like HF21/22 I am still here, and powered up almost everything I could so I could get closer to 2000 SP.
Comment votes, I think I am glad, if it is true, that they now make only dust. It will stop the larger accounts and smaller accounts that make a post and comment and vote on their own post just for the potential reward. No more Grumpycat lessons, (I still think he did that to show people what was going on, and not to really benefit himself). So that type of reward pool extraction may be cut off.
In the mean time, I am still experimenting with the !BEER token, yesterday I could only give one out, you are my second try today, so hopefully it comes by, if not I will be back tomorrow to drop one by.
The majority will be responsible with the free downvotes. It's not some big conspiracy, it's simply a necessary function that wasn't being used to its full potential. If this was a house packed with people, nobody was cleaning up. People were complaining about the mess, but only a few of us were attempting to clean. I became annoyed because my downvote wouldn't even put a dent in some of that junk they were dumping all over the front lawn. Everyone else on the internet could see our mess as they drove by, and kept on driving, yet this used to be a nice place for people to stop in and relax. Something needed to be done.
HF22 was a bug fix that required a hardfork. Plenty of people inspected it. If there was something else, everyone would know.
2000 SP was once worth about $16000. Wouldn't it be nice to get the ball rolling here again? This cryptocurrency and blockchain is one of the only ones out there that actually does something. All those doom and gloomers help contribute to the lack of confidence. If anything, they're the conspiracy working against the platform. Seems strange they'd put so much effort into disturbing the peace, for free. Maybe a competitor pays them to be annoying. Who knows!
Less money to comments just means more money to posts, and I thought that's what people wanted. I was always upvoting comments to give folks a curation reward boost. They get that by default now, but I'll still upvote comments from time to time. I just won't say when and where.
It does take time for things to settle in, I am still going to fence sit on the down votes. When they come up with a method for me to down vote the stooges, those who have no post, no comments and only hand out annoying down votes I may start to use down votes. I'm talking about accounts like
@deito, the only thing they do is down vote. When a requirement is in place for a comment to be made with a down vote, then I will re think about down voting. I will still down vote items I know are** plagiarized**. People put a lot of work into their art or photography or stories, and plagiarism is one thing I have no issues at all down voting, no matter how high a reputation a person has.