RE: Is There a Fix For Hive's Downvote Problems?
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You have no way to know the lost growth that has occurred due to public perception of the presence of misplaced downvotes. I feel I have a better perspective on that because I am aware of the people making the comments and their reach. I feel that you can't be hearing them or you wouldn't be taking the position that you are taking here - assuming that you want Hive to grow.
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I'm sure you do.
I am probably the most downvoted person here, I also give out the most downvotes. I can't even post right now because I am downvoted for $60 on every post and I can't curate because whoever I upvote gets downvoted. Yet I still support downvotes.
I think your logic suggests that you don't have a burning desire to post and to be read on Hive, otherwise you would just try to rebalance your relationship with the community to stop the downvotes you receive.. Plus would feel the frustration of not being able to post and would be more likely to view the situation as a form of censorship.
A network that offers 'uncensored' posting has a powerful selling point in the wider world, but not if perception of it is negative for other (and related) reasons.
The people who most want to be heard and who are censored a lot are going to do what they can to go where they aren't censored. If they get 'demonetised' in any way (including through excessive downvoting) they will tend to label it as censorship. I personally agree with them because I can't logically view the situation in any other way without denying something.
LOL, it's one party who is mad that the abuser he was upvoting got downvoted. It has nothing to do with the community. You can read about it here if you care, but it's just nonsense and I just don't give a shit anymore I got better things to do with my time. It's what comes with dealing with abuse, and it is one of the rare cases downvotes are used maliciously. For everyone else, it's extremely rare and not even remotely a large scale problem. You seem to have recovered just fine with your $100+ posts, yet you were going everywhere anyone would listen to you screaming bloody murder about downvotes.
During the Steemit.com days, there was a general agreement to only use downvotes to combat blatant spam and abuses that the community generally agreed on. It worked reasonably well as I recall.. Then things got 'organised' by way of 'enforcers' taking on the job of network cops. No-one really asked for it, but they bravely stepped up anyway.
I don't know exactly what is motivating the continuing downvotes against you, but I presume that it is possible for you to do or say something that would change the situation. If I had to guess I would say it's likely that the downvotes continue because of your unchanging opinions on the topic. As far as I can tell, you make enough money from being in the top 20 witness spot that you aren't really bothered about some author rewards or the downvotes involved.
I took a long break from posting here and put my energy elsewhere instead of helping to directly grow Hive. I guarantee that there are many people who would have put their own time into marketing and growing Hive, who didn't, specifically because of the lack of restraint on Hive with downvoting and the top-down attempt to control the network for 'safety' that didn't exist so much on Steem. It's sad that we had to leave Steem due to top-down control and yet the first thing certain people did when creating Hive is to add a bit of that in themselves. I don't personally think it has helped and those who mock the 'anarcho' aspect of the design behind Steem and Hive are clueless as to what makes it work, why Steem was the once number 2/3 chain in the world and why Hive will never get anywhere near that as long as their behaviour continues.
Again, I'm not really talking about you with this later comments - but you do seem to share the view that none of this is a problem.
I was there on Steemit in those days when certain people decided they had to protect the rewards pool and went on downvoting sprees to do just that. And then there were the downvote wars. Entire groups of people attacking other groups with downvotes just to prove a point. Was it widespread? Probably not. But it was ridiculous watching it happen.
I do recall that too, yes, but the overall 'guidelines' for what was 'fair game' for downvotes was far more open at that time. That being said, yes, ultimately anyone could downvote anything in any way and face the consequences.