inside of the mind of a serial villain

23 days ago (Edited)

I hate to have to write this post, I just got back from vacation and again it's more bullshit I got to deal with. The bullshit in question is some accounts I added to ZERO to remove rewards as I disagreed with them. This resulted in many conversations on and off chain and a lot upset people. Some people left discord, changed their name to Bot676765563773 and removed their avatar out of protest.

These four accounts were brought to my attention a few days ago. After looking at them, I agreed I disagreed with them and added them to ZERO.

The four accounts all create posts/comments to earn rewards to buy back/burn Hive Engine tokens, specifically tokens related to Rising Star game. The general idea is a post is created, players of the game vote on it, and half of the rewards earned are used to buy back tokens and potentially burn them. I do not believe this is a fair use of the shared reward pool and is why I added them to ZERO.

I was accused of having something against Hive Engine tokens, and to be honest I couldn't care less what people do with their rewards in terms of buying/selling/burning Hive tokens. The problem I have is how the rewards are earned. Creating daily posts to just stick upvotes to so the rewards (not even all, but half) are used to manipulate a second layer token only benefits a small group of people for selfish reasons. This was not done only one account, but multiple different accounts.

Rising Star made it clear it was not their accounts, and doesn't change my opinion of it, but it is good to know.

I was sarcastically asked by Rising Star if it would be better if the poster put a picture of their lunch in the post. This wouldn't change anything, it would still remain the same selfish self serving automated churn.

But but we are not using automation. Again, I really don't care, it's a systematic daily automation, either by computer or human. There is no value being created and offered to the community, just extracting rewards and turning it into a benefit for those who vote or at least have assets in the game. I have nothing against Rising Star, and in fact love they are around. I played around the game briefly and I have nothing bad to say about it.

This has nothing to do with that. There have been thousands of attempts to create this same cycle each with their own justification on why it is a good thing and why it isn't abuse. Even Hive Watchers did the same thing with their 60-80 self voted comments a day. Hive is suppose to be proof of brain, not proof of reward. Almost every project attempts to create a "curation report" or tokenomics report that "gives to the community" but in reality is just a way to get votes.

@stickupboys posted you can't build on Hive and I (and others) are just bullying users. I find this laughably ironic considering how he messaged users in the Man Cave discord threatening to crash the price of LGN if they didn't stop selling a few dollars worth of LGN tokens. Not sure what is more bullying than this. Against popular believe, this has nothing to do with anyone and is not just bullying people because I can. I have guidelines that determine what I add and remove from ZERO. I don't just add stuff because I want to bully some random people I don't know. I am sorry to be the one to say this, but creating multiple accounts that create daily posts just to get votes so you can buy/burn Hive Engine tokens isn't building things, it's taking the easy way out and doing what just about every other project has attempted to do because it is easy af and takes zero effort. If that's all it took to build something on Hive, we would all be rich.

Building on Hive or anywhere, is hard af. It takes effort and work and clever ideas. Building on Hive is probably easier than anywhere else on the Internet. I have said many times, Hive is probably the easiest way to make money on the Internet ever created. Granted it doesn't always scale to lambos, but it is stupid easy. Creating a sustainable business on the other hand is harder than finding diamonds in your backyard, it certainly isn't creating a cookie cutter post daily begging for votes.

I tried to read all the posts and comments, but being in the middle of the Atlantic ocean there was only so much I get through. There wasn't anything new being discussed though and none of it changed my mind on the topic.

I could go on, but it doesn't really change anything.

I don't dislike Hive Engine tokens
I don't dislike Rising Star
I don't dislike building on Hive

Don't be lazy.

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114 comments

@rscardclub 64

23 days ago

You have Rscardclub wrong.

The club posts once a week right now to show where it spent the earned finance.

This finance earned at 3 HBD a month is used to buy the token. The finance comes from members and their contribution to the club of 50 HBD.

The post rewards go to interest or to provide some financial assistance during event to perform missions.

The interest from HBD savings is used to buy the game tokens and other tokens outside of the game example Archon and Pizza.

These tokens are distributed then to members of the club.

Who accused "Thehive" of scamming rewards?

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@themarkymark 81

23 days ago (Edited)

The club posts once a week right now to show where it spent the earned finance.

Move it to a month, and I'll remove it from ZERO.

Who accused "Thehive" of scamming rewards?

Not me, it was in the list I was given but I skipped over it for obvious reasons. I did not touch that account.

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@stickupboys 75

22 days ago (Edited)

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@themarkymark 81

20 days ago

Don't forget to delete this. That will show them!

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@bpcvoter1 -12

17 days ago

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inside of the mind of a serial villain

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