Hi, I would really wish to have set up clear stated behavior guidelines by you big fishes and a kind of official posting as a comment to every newbies first posting or during the sign up process.
I'm here for 9 months now, but still not sure about all those unspoken rules.
The community likes no selfvotes.. uh, okay, didnt know, so as a newbie back than stopped selfvotes, anyway better to give my 0,001 cent ;-) at that time to someone else. But while growing and learning, I see a lot of big fishes making selfvotes, no not after 3 days or so, they klick their publish button and the next they do is vote.
Where starts abuse with an alt account? Only to have one, or just the moment you vote your alt?
What exactly is the definition of a voting circle? Upvoting your friends all the time, who doesnt do this?
Just a few examples, as I told would be great to get this explained.
So please sit down together and write those guidelines down, maybe this will help newbies to find their way without making mistakes.
As Hive is only a mirror of our society, there will always be black sheep doing plagarism or abusing downvotes, but for those who want to behave well it could be helpful.
Although I didnt know about, I'm happy you got well and could meet your love :-)
This actually brings up a good point, I've been on hive less time than you have, but I managed to find written guides. #hivelearners is a great place to start. Most of what I've noticed though is plagiarism and trolling. Pretty obvious when you think about it right? Posting other peoples writings, images, and over all content can get you in trouble. But there should be some kind of in depth guide given to users when they create their hive account. To me, the biggest barrier to entry is figuring everything out.
I had the luck to get explanations from the german speaking communities but still some unspoaken rules remain to find out yourself
You could always apply the golden rule: Treat others like you'd like yourself to be treated.
Yea thats SO true and also shows how important it is to treat ourselfs well :-)
what are they?
I guess each step we grow we will find them out. Am not the right person to answer this now.
I believe most newbies are alright, the wrongs they can do are some things that should be common sense such as no plagiarism or spinning articles. The issue becomes a lot stronger if you're someone who has been earning consistently over a long period of time and then start to repost, re-use images on posts that are about the images, generate lazy posts such as "guess how much this apple costs here" while still claiming those autovotes you're on or vote-trades, etc. Many seem to think that once you become "popular" enough and get a lot of autovotes, same as the way I get them for instance, that it means you can now do what you want and that you're untouchable. It would be similar for instance if I just made very short posts asking random questions, barely replying to my audience and accepting all post rewards (i.e. not forfeiting most of them or part like I usually do if I want to post something I know won't require a lot of effort from my side). This was one of the examples of a user that recently got caught doing, started getting downvotes and instead of apologizing and trying harder he went on the offensive calling others names, making up ridiculous stories and now just spamming that everyone should leave hive and join another shit network cause he burned his bridge here forever.
If you're a normal person you're most likely going to be okay even if you do a mistake eventually. :P
Oh wasnt aware of this thank you for explaining. Think I found the account. Always wondering how quick someone can turn old so called friends into enemies and vasting time and energy just to keep being right.
"If you're a normal person you're most likely going to be okay even if you do a mistake eventually. :P" - Agree 100% 😊