In a free place some people will hate you and you have to be ok with that.
I don’t think that is what is happening.
I think different people in different parts of the world have different limits on what is “ok” to say.
You should be allowed to express yourself.
But the majority of men do cause these problems. The majority of men in the world are too selfish or evil to treat women with a level of respect that maybe no one deserves.
If some of those things come from a documented real place, I don’t know what to say.
It is a fact that Nigeria and many other countries in Africa have way less opportunities for their people when it comes to international commerce because of the absolutely horrific level of intimate scams that come from Africa. And it is very personal.
You are trying to bring people from different parts of the world into this. I am not sure where that instinct comes from? People from Indian, on average, are famous for working their ass off and running huge portions of western companies from behind the scenes. If you live in India, and you are really smart, and you work your ass off, they sometimes do get to western countries and make crazy money. Not everyone. But it does happen for people from India enough that people know about it globally. If you work in the West, and you outsource something to India, no matter what time you call, they will answer and try to fix it. They will literally stay up for days to fix a problem. And when it is fixed, they will tell YOU thank you (the person who gave them the opportunity and the problem to solve).
Do scams come from India? Yes. But people from India do have a really positive reputation on average. People in India make people in the west a lot of money. They are good business partners and it literally gets them jobs that pay well. Western countries import people from India and it is usually a good deal for the West because they make other people more money and not because people feel sorry for them. 🤷♂️
This is crypto and we need to stop trusting people, regardless of where they come from. Don’t trust, verify.
I did not make any of this up. And if you frame life as unfair, and a downvote makes it worse, maybe you should think about what you are asking. Are you being a scammer?
So a person is not allowed to be offensive? A person is not allowed to downvote someone with their stake? We need to do what other people think is correct or they can judge our moral character? I need to try to control his stake through words, not through on chain actions? This is corruption.
I think when people approach things the way you are, where you are pearl clutching and screaming at the wind, it is a scam. I am not saying you are a scammer, but I don’t know why people do this and point fingers for no reason as an instinct.
The person in this case is not from Indian or Venezuela 🤷♂️
Life is not fair and if you want to be somewhere like HIVE where people all over the world can talk to you, it should hurt your feelings sometimes. If you are never offended you are probably doing something weird where you only talk to people who share your values. If someone never hurts your feelings on decentralized social media, if someone is not able to use their stake as they wish without moral judgment tactics, I want to know who decided this for other people and why?
He has a lot of stake. That does matter. That is the only way I can know someone here is serious.
When someone has barely any HIVE and their KE is well over 2, I cannot listen to you as much as him on HIVE. L2 stuff is different then HIVE.
He is more serious than most people here, even if you think he is offensive. He is a large stakeholder and he has guts to do “hard” things here.
I will try to show him respect even if it is hard sometimes.
People are allowed to be mad at what he typed on chain. People are allowed to be mad that I won’t try to fix people’s problems here anymore because I now think it’s bad to “trust” people on the internet.
And feminists are allowed to tell the truth that the majority of pain and suffering in this world is driven by Men. Not accepting things the way they are, only makes life more confusing.
Thanks for replying and the very nice upvote of course :). I’m not saying he can’t say what he wants or downvote what he disagrees with. It’s just unfortunate that some good people are painted this way.
I’ve lost a lot of jobs because I’m Nigerian. In fact when edicted on hive gave me a job the first question I asked was if they knew I was Nigerian. I experience this everytime and it gets difficult every time.
https://peakd.com/hive-167922/@edicted/venmo-pyusd-and-chess-lessons-6mx
I’m just sad about the whole thing. Every time it hurts me. With his large stake he can do anything which is also why I’m writing because of the freedom of speech hive gives at least I can write what I want too 🤗
Ps: would you be open to supporting chess on hive. I run one weekly, but currently on a pause till next year.
I am sad because people keep doing scams. People get “mad” at the things that don’t matter.
And everyone moves on and just scams each other again. And I think people do that here because too many people here are ok with it.
It is ok to steal someone’s money and make them a bag holder. It’s ok to use the reward pool for things it probably shouldn’t be used for.
Well that's also a bad thing on hive. This year as been dramatic for sure.
I believe it will get "worse" before it gets better. We are supporting scammers globally with the reward pool but no one is allowed to try to stop it because downvotes are bad.
Because everyone cares more about money here vs the freedom a decentralized blockchain can provide.
I want to say one thing. Your comment proves what is happening to HIVE. After all this you want to talk about curating chess?
Here in this discussion? Why would you bring that up here now? Is it cause I have a big upvote?
It's not anytime soon. But yes, you already made me understand why I shouldn't feel any different if someone uses their freedom or stake for what they want.
At the end of the day, you're right. For hive and this case, i believe it would eventually sort itself. I do my best to also help the Nigerians on hive and with chess is just another thing I do on hive. Do I benefit from it? Yes I do, however, I just think if there are so many attractive things about hive, more people will come.
I'm thinking of building a game next year. A simple game that I can share on web2.