And sometimes that is a good thing.
For five years next month I've been ranting on blockchains about downvotes being bullshit.
Most of my original friends from Steemit threw in the towel long ago, and the main reason in many cases was that they were so fucking sick of being downvoted, while watching whales using downvoting to support an insider cartel and promote a leftist agenda.
When Hive started out in March last year I made a point of no longer complaining or ranting about anything. I walked away from all the negativity and never posted or commented on Steemit ever again after the hardfork. I was glad to see the back of the place when I finished all my power downs, and realised with hindsight that it had been a dead zone for nearly two years.
So why am I still here?
I seldom reveal much about myself online these days, but here goes a few bits of unsalted data: I like Hive (the idea, and the front ends) and want the platform to succeed. I have more than a dozen accounts, and in terms of HP, this #frot one has never been my biggest investment. Over the past five years I have done pretty well on cryptos, mainly by virtue of thinking of them all as giant ponzi schemes, and making sure I bought low and sold high.
So I don't think it is necessary to fully believe in a crypto or a blockchain to use it. And the sorry truth about Steemit/Hive is that I think they have always been corrupt at the core, but like the convid hoax, most people are blind to that. The ones that have researched it and been red pilled have mostly quit. I have stayed on, despite thinking the platform is part psyop and part scam, but I am probably an addict...
The reason I'm a supporter of #lucylin is because he is expressing the same frustrations I have here after five years. I wish he was wrong about Hive, but ultimately I think he is bang on.
And the reason I'm a supporter of #proofofbrain is that I hope that it could potentially be an uncensored platform - which Hive will never be. Sooner or later I hope that downvoting within POB will be controlled, and if that happens I will be more optimistic and more inclined to invest in it. In the meantime I've been dipping my toe in and wondering if it could work.
I support this proposal by #trostparadox and hope that eventually, in some form, it goes through.
This year I also hoped to see the price of cryptos really take off, and they still might, but I feel like the latest crypto bull run has done it's dash, and am mainly holding stable coins at this point. For the record I have no great faith in cryptos and think BTC in particular is a trojan rather than a savior.
At the start of the plandemic in early 2020, I went hard out trying to expose the evil plan, and it has certainly all played out exactly as predicted, but I can't be arsed anymore. Thankfully there are people like #active-truth doing a brilliant job researching and exposing it, and I tip my hat to everyone who is still fighting. I am a burnout case myself.
https://proofofbrain.blog/hive-150329/@active-truth/sci-fi-or-sci-fact
Laughter and creativity are as rare as hen's teeth in these fucked up times, and I figure it is probably better, both for me, and for the incestuous little online world in general, if I focus on those two things rather than attempting to argue with a wall of blue pilled zombies.
Fight on guys, you have my full support!. From this point I'm going to focus more on art and having a laugh. I'm at the point where I have to laugh at this clown show or my head is going to pop...
Heard any good jokes lately?
Jokes are banned....
Oh she's with you. Tell Suzy Aunt Gina's been lookin all over for her.
Wait. Am confused.
Are you leaving or you just ranting?
Just asking because I like shits and giggles.
I'm not leaving Hive, but I am powering down most of my HP, because 13 weeks is way too long to be locked into any crypto in a potentially declining market.
What i'm mainly going to give up is taking any of this shit show seriously!
I'm still supporting POB though, which is a 4 week power down and is at least attempting to address downvote abuse.
That was my last rant - all shits and giggles from this point on, including in these comments.
Well good to hear pretty laddy.
Glad your taking the pole to the breaches!
I think that pic is wrong, Russia is known for steroids, which neuters not emboldens.
Trannies - i go on about them all the time too - oh fuck it - just watch the Tokyo Olympics...
The crypto market is on a declining market? How are you getting this feeling? I think I am reading the market wrong because I see it as stabilising.
i see this as the default pattern - stable is just the top or bottom
That's about right.
The peak ups and downs are what you try to reduce and eventually it all looks straight from a distance.
Unless of course you are those mentally challenged fucks wanting to compete against little girls. Then that would mean the ups and downs don't exists because feelings..
Lol...you are such a serious fucker...
I've been called , hectic, crazy, relentless, immature, childish. First I've been called serious so it probably means I am getting mature now.
I always tell this to myself but I can't help but rant here sometimes lol. But not giving a shit is freedom !
sad to hear you are powering down just as people are saying the curation rewards have increased substantially in some cases https://ecency.com/hive-167922/@toofasteddie/28-in-curation-rewards
The curation rewards are icing on the cake, and at this point the rewards on POB are awesome, while the rewards on Hive are better than before but maybe not worth taking big risks for.
It's always worth keeping in mind that a drop in the price of any token can be worth serious money if you are holding way more than is probably a good idea.
Dammit i'm being a serious fucker again - here is a fat man pic:
pics of fat fucks make any situation less serious :)))
That brain is beautiful.
I like what you did with the last edit also. It feels like a water color. I have at times wavered but I see today there is no contest. Proof of brain is the way a blockchain community should be.
POB is a representation of people from around the world with the same hope that their voice can be heard and their efforts rewarded. I like it.
Did I mention that I like it?
Me too
Thanks - i might do a post showing all my edits of that drawing
Sure. It's hot here. We need some New Zealand weather and a pure art post.
If i could bottle antarctic wind i'd send you some!
British'ism as its finest. Is this your commonwealth roots spilling over?
that is the foundation of NZ speech bugger it...
https://www.anitahendrieka.com/56-typical-new-zealand-slang-words-use-like-kiwi/
There's a lot of cross-over in that list. It's early here.. I need more coffee.
cross over? - you mean ideas stolen by poms?
I think they should do away with Downvoting or at least keep the mana same upvoting so ppl use it cautiosly.
I think the downvoter should get half the reward same as upvoting...see how keen these twats are on downvoting then...lol
Everything has advantages and disadvantages, but did you know that we should look at the positive side more that Downvote, as long as it exists, prevents the exploitation of the Reward pool and makes there a reason that plagiarist to be afraid of .
so say the whales as they downvote the content they don't like!
but never mind, i'm washing my hands of this aren't I?
@cristina-zac, unfortunately it's not that easy. There's a certain lack of care that comes from DV even when trying to reduce fraud. I have to be very...very careful nowadays because when I DV for something like plagiarism it can go from "I know this is" to "I think it is and that is enough". It's why I avoid DV'ing unless I add the required commenting or consensus/commenting.
In POB, I feel like we're trying to work from the outliers to the more complicated. It's easy to stand against something like copy/paste, but not so easy with other things. It's a long horrible process.
The one thing I will always promote is transparency. Want to downvote? Sure, just justify the DV in a manner the community can get behind. Can't justify it? The report it or move on with your life. A lack of transparency, in my opinion, contributes to abuse in voting (both up and down votes).
This is you washing your balls off it all and sitting down to relax and just enjoy. I can't quarell with that, man. Goodluck on taking a big step, ball washing can be difficult sometimes.
Future looks dim.. Might as well have as much fun as we can before the lights go out.. So lets go crazy..
I believe the first downvote was cast when Øgg the caveman pounded his cavemate Bløgg over the head with a log after he tried to scratch the likeness of a penis on the cave wall.
Millennia later... and we're still trying to sort that same debate out? No wonder you can't be arsed anymore! Whereas I admire @lucylin's tenacity... at some point I think we all get tired of pissing into the wind...
I give it a week. ;)
Before what?
Before the CD starts skipping again.
I am a broken record, no new fangled CD's here...
The thing is, there are diverse of people here. Different folks, different thoughts and believes. So it would be hard for everyone to come to terms with a particular decision.
Hehe, using that watermelon as a helmet got me laughing😂😂
It will still prevent covid, haha!😂😂
It’s difficult to get the vainglorious virtue signalling face nappy wearers to wise up to the truth, number of arguments I’ve had on fuckbook and in real life over this is scary. I have been on a few piers corbyn rallies when they were in vogue, but the problem is “preaching to the converted”.
I have given up along time ago, fuck the sheeple, I’m living my life by my rules, and so far I’m surviving.
On the issue of down votes front ends BTC etc etc etc. I went into Homer Simpson dreaming mode. Totally overhead 😂
But loved reading the article, it’s a fucking big learning curve in here, I’m from a generation that used log books and slide rules!
😂
good post...
thanks - sometimes i wonder if we are living in a virtual reality!
At last.
Sell all your cryptos, and run to BLURT. They sure are missing you.
And never look back.
Hive and POB will be a better place without you.
thanks, i will take that to heart and have a good gush about it...
have we met somewhere before?
a public toilet with the hole in the wall?
or was that someone else?