My 2 cents here... I can see mindset of "The Thank You Economy" book by GaryVee ;)
I will spent my time and throw my thoughts about it to this post because I know and like Jongo! and probably it is worth it to do that.
LFG!
Yes that is true, when someone left a value comment then you definitely should reply but I can see other problem here on Hive. You know this because we have meet in person at SteemFest3 so it is a different dynamic but that was Steem, this is Hive. People have no idea who the fuck NEO is here (maybe a few). I haven't been active here but I did upload content from time to time but then I have stopped again because I haven't received any upvotes and yes in my case it was like a motivator to do that (probably 90% others too or like your paper shows 68%) . Last week I have received "downvotes" on 4 of my video posts by @galenkp and I have even received upvotes from @dtube on them. He thought I was a scammer or what? I don't understand it. Fuckin go to my profile and check if that's me. Why throw a fucking "downvote"? You get it? You have got a $1 or $2 for your post whatever and then someone came and took it out from me. No hard feelings just like "why the fuck I will upload anything then?" no one will see this and no one really care. I can see that there is like a "cult" groups here who gave each other upvotes (more than possibly by hive.vote automatically) and that also happened before on Steem with us, DDaily and then after SteemFest3 which is fine. I have got a few nice upvotes from @leofinance too which I am greatful about. Hive-Engine platforms don't really upvote posts with their tokens. It's a tricky game. I don't personally feel appreciated as a content creator here and I don't do spam/scam/AI and low quality content in my opinion. Ok sometimes I might not do "proper description" so it takes it from my YouTube but this is my content, and I am a vlogger/video creator not a blogger at all! Most of these blog posts are AI created in 30 seconds and I spent a lot of hours to record, edit, good lighting, background, quality camera not fuckin selfie one from Nokia 3310 :D and I also show my face to the public. I don't hide behind keyboard. I guess there should be more open-minded people around here to catch up content creators like me, who are working hard every day to pay their bills and support them more. I thought that it was an idea of "web3 social media" so content creators like me can monetize their work or it is a "Hive Cult" let "whales" be bigger "whales". Nothing wrong about it let just make it clear ones for all...
Ok. That is my shit here. Take it or leave it. Upvote it or downvote it, ban me or do whatever you fucking want. I do not fucking care.
Thank you.
Stay safe.
Peace.
/NEO
Yeah I'm not a fan of the downvoting to be honest, never really was. Dtube hit me with a big one last week for whatever reason, their stake and all...But if I was new, it would have put me off right away.
Appreciate ya man, and you are one of the guys I've broken bread with in real life. You are a good dude Neo. Sucks that you have been having these experiences on chain :(
!CTP
Thank you Jongo! :)
I have never got "downvotes" before or maybe I did but not a big ones that affects my payment and this guy arrived out of nowhere and killed 4 of my posts. @dtube usually gave me small ones like $1-2. @threespeak nothing at all. @leofinance is usually nice. Don't see any other place to share my videos.
You know the trap for me is that my content is about Telos Blockchain not Hive and as long as there is "freedom of speech" or "we are open for all content creators" that long if it's about a different blockchain than what is the point to give it an upvote if it's not about Hive that content is shared on? It should bring people to use Hive not outside of Hive. Which is logical so it's a "Hive Cult" at the end and people still use YouTube and they will do even without upvotes.
Happened in the past with DDaily, DTube and Steem. Our goal wasn't to people use YouTube, right?