What's interesting is that Hurtlocker is starting this discussion and it's being very well received. It's generating a lot of comments, and that helps shape Hive's culture (the set of unwritten rules).
For me, decentralization isn't just about being able to vote on proposals and control your own wallet keys.
I think the day Hive users, as a society, take on the role of police and judge, the network will be truly decentralized.
The very existence of Hivewatchers indicates that Hive's culture still needs to mature.
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Honestly man, if people actually used the platform vs acting like robots I think most of the problems we have would not even be problems.
Like I write posts about what I care about and my feelings and it literally makes people uncomfortable because it is so uncommon here. I upvote comments when people engage with me which is an incentive to engage with me; a clear win win!
If you told a retired rich person they could come here and just buy HIVE and use it to grow a following quickly, they would be all over this thing and they would not care about the money.
I believe that without the exchange of opinions, Hive wouldn't truly be a social network. Everything would be limited to making a post and just waiting for votes.
With this post, you managed to get many people involved in the discussion. For me, that's more important than the content of the main post itself. We don't all think the same way about every topic; the exchange of opinions is what truly gives life to Hive.
I can only agree with this. I want to say more but it is so on point I just want it to age like a fine wine 😆
It literally "buys" attention, now whether u use it well or not is up to others to decide as well. Like we've had whales like @theycallmedan who've used their stake really, really well. Then we've had whales like @transisto/@newsflash who've just been general assholes and they didn't get as much out of it both in terms of attention and returns because no one cared about them in the end, stake or not, when they didn't use it properly.
To some extent. I think people react to incentive so the way HIVE current works helps. But the people here need to be here because they want to which will naturally promote interesting conversations. I have never talked to theycallmedan. Not sure it is in my best interest to do so. Not saying it isn't, I am just literally not sure.
But that is life. If I knew everything I would not be on HIVE and would have enough money I could waste it on a Boat 😅
As a reminder to everyone. My comments are my opinions and nothing more. This is not me saying how the world works. It is me showing people respect by being honest about where I am coming from.
I will make mistakes and most people will too. That is ok and accepting that does make life a hell of a lot easier.
Cheers man!
I also dislike people who judge too much when "influential users" get a lot of comments saying "they're just commenting for the sake of an upvote", like yeah, that's fine, that's literally the way hive power is supposed to work. Doesn't mean everyone is just fishing for votes or that the comments are less valuable. There's plenty of engagement on literal new users as well even though they have no votes to give and as mentioned in the previous comment, there's minnows with way more engagement than whales at times, attention can work in many different ways but if you don't curate your comments just to not get "the wrong crowd that's only there for the upvotes" you're not really using hive power well. You can of course choose not to and that's fine, or you can just curate the ones you feel are good and ignore the ones u feel are automated/disingenuous/etc.
I generally think judging vs looking in the mirror is not a recipe for success. Some people make good judges. Usually those people are in court room though XD
I try to find these people and support them with my stake. Seems like a good use of stake.
Cheers!