The Devs do deserve all the spotlight! HIVE is still a project under work and will need a lot of tweaks here and there in the coming days, but as you said, Impressive stuff to kick things off!
One thing I'm starting to see being carried over from last platform is circle jerking. I hope i'm wrong! I really do hope I'm wrong, but it just seems it's carrying over. This is one thing I'd like to see NOT EXIST at all on hive. This is a fresh start and the people with influential delegations/HP/Curation need to take this seriously and have a neutral eye out and try to look for good content from anyone, not just their friends 95% of the time!
As a content creator, I'm all in on producing quality content, as I'm sure a lot of authors here are. But for an ecosystem to survive, every one need to play their part right.
Have a great day!
Show me a couple of examples where you suspect that to be happening.
Are you on discord?
No. I've been invited many times but I typically stick to the chain to talk. Part of the reason for that is highlighted in the post above. I'm also not much of a fan of behind the scenes drama and I heard it can be a zoo there at times. Then I see people posting screenshots of conversations taken out of context to smear people and embarrass them. I don't need that kind of headache so I just talk out here.
If you're seeing foul play or whatever I think it's best to point to the facts so others aren't being thrown under the bus along with the rumor. I know some folks like to stick to their social circles. That happens with any level of 'wealth' here. You'll see on Steem a lot of folks who like to complain sticking together and only voting each other. It's hard to avoid that in this setting. I think what needs to happen eventually is more organized curating. Things like Curie and OCD, Curangel, etc. I might even look into delegating at some point in the future, but at the same time I'm not a fan of delegation pools. If there were enough dedicated consumers with HP, we wouldn't have problems. Everyone wants to be a content producer though. It's hard to be both.
Yes, it does become a zoo at times and I'm personally not a big fan of sharing SS of a private conversation, but I'll be honest , that has saved my back on one occasion where i too was being falsely accused of something and I had the proof right there.
I understand your point of sticking to chain talk, but sometimes it's just so much easier to reach a certain person on discord as they'll reply quicker on discord than on the chain in a post comment, where for certain popular users, a comment will usually get blasted into an ocean of comments!
And no, I wasn't really trying to throw anyone under the bus. I'm sorry if my tone came off that way, but I was just voicing my concern.
Thanks for responding! Will look forward to interacting with you more on the chain!
It's a valid concern and when hardfork 22 was introduced, many stepped in to try to remedy the situation. Man did that ever cause problems. So many folks tried to do the right thing and all they got was a headache.
You're talking about discord being fast. Look how fast I am. I'd be much slower if I had more apps open. I don't find this to be difficult, at all.
You indeed respond really quickly. This is something I should learn from you. I wish more people on the chain would do the same :)
This one user (not mentioning publicly, I'd send you on discord if you wanted to check yourself) was getting a lot of support on plagiarized posts.
Now I went back to check, he apparently was blacklisted by steemcleaners recently and most of the votes have been removed, which is why I'm not mentioning it publicly as I think it could very well be an error of my judgement on my part (and I really hope it is an error on my part).
Some of the votes are still there and it seems like they hadn’t checked for plagiarism before voting. The user has appealed to steemcleaners.
So I'll follow him a bit more and see how it goes on from there.
Most posts that can be plagiarized are boring anyway. I don't see why people bother posting generic information. A social setting like this, adding personality goes such a long way. People don't follow writing, they follow writers. They don't follow art, they follow artists. They don't follow photos, they follow photographers. I find it so strange people post blandness and expect to get paid. Those groups that help keep the streets clean are important. They get a bad name but those words are usually coming from shit heads who tried to cheat and got caught.