Welcome I can see you followed the same path if many of us to drop hive like a bag of hot potatoes due to downvoting nonsense. It’s a bit quiet here but much better. It’s amazing to not have to sit and worry about posts. Pure freedom.
Welcome I can see you followed the same path if many of us to drop hive like a bag of hot potatoes due to downvoting nonsense. It’s a bit quiet here but much better. It’s amazing to not have to sit and worry about posts. Pure freedom.
I was a fan of hive-watchers and steemcleaners when they were protecting the platform from actual abuse like identity theft and plagiarism.
Now that it is just whales "protecting" the rewards pool so that the whales get a bigger slice of the pie, the down vote feature has turned from good to evil.
They never have been the whales and ocd crew have been abusing their power since 2017 at least you just didn’t see it as publicly. I was in a private chat group ( a spin off from steemit chat) with them in 2017 they just picked out newbies to downvote and take to rep 0 for fun. Steemit would have had 10 x at least more users had they not driven so many off. Obviously I didn’t last long in it as I called them out. Maybe they just didn’t like someone’s opinion, the way they looked, that they couldn’t speak English, that they didn’t listen to their advice and they would joyfully take them down to 0 and in public make up some random reason why, versus trying to help them and guide them to use the platform. They took great delight in it behind the scenes. They also chased a bunch of quite big instagrammers off at one point. I can only assume they don’t want the platform to be big and they want it to be a smallish selection of people who will happily act as minions and do everything they say without challenging it. Notice how they don’t like anyone powering down but them. They can do it but for anyone else it’s a reason to downvote. It’s essentially a kind of pyramid scheme really. Anyone who doesn’t just fall in line needs to go.
I didn’t realise just how big they were till later on when it all became more public. Many of those accounts it was found were started before steemit went live to the public too.