Thank you for the disappointing..lol, I mean very informative video. !LOLZ
I only said disappoint cause that is what came to mind at the start, which got me thinking, imagine if I followed the advice of a whale? Would I be helping them at the expense of messing up my account and not focus on my own objective?
Now all whales are like the one that I described in the video... Some of them are great with awesome ideas, but some are "rotten apples" that have no idea what they are doing and have no idea of the power that they have... And we know that saying when you give power to the wrong hands...
Would I be helping them at the expense of messing up my account and not focus on my own objective?
Well, that is happening a lot... Many people are "selling their souls/ideals" to get better upvotes from whales... Forgetting the real purpose, or why they came here in the first place... Or, like you said, "focus on your objective"...
All that creates a "herd movement" and not a leadership movement... and the herd is always the best for...
Cheers! Have a great weekend!
Now all whales are like the one that I
You mean, Not !LOLZ
All that creates a "herd movement" and not a leadership movement...
In my experience, most people are not leaders and more often than not, those playing a leader role are more or less answering to their funders and not exercising leadership qualities. C'est la vie! “In the Midst of Chaos, There Is Also Opportunity” (Sun Tzu) And I must say, there is no shortage of chaos. We may be at a tipping point for the next revolution. France has been a good leading indicator of revolutions.
Back to my Hive experience, I got a few down votes from one whale for telling him to stop blaming others for his losses and error in his ways. The guy tells everyone that they just have to show up everyday and publish shit and in time you can publish more shit about great earnings from upvotes and earn even more votes for gloating about being a whales. It's a #TooFuckeh system. An error in the system. Just like the error in the system that decided Trump would be a great leader for USA and a great example for all democracies in the world.
From what I can tell, with being here for just over a year, Hive is much more than publishing a long post. I see patterns of long postings that get well rewarded and I don't see much value. It takes me a long time to create a blog. I am sure I am not the only one. Why create a long blog when it is not necessary? What is wrong with providing short content more frequently if that is what a project needs to succeed? I see long blogs that are not much different than a previous long blog that gives the same information 3 or 4 different ways in the same blog and they are well rewarded. As I learn more, I see patterns from the voting bots, curation trails and Hivers that power vote each other. It's not the content that is valuable but the upvote reward system itself. Ah well, I am still collecting data and learning.
One day, I upvoted my own post to see if it had an impact in offsetting a downvote from an overly sensitive whale. In less than a minute I am reminded that you should never upvote yourself because some whale will down vote you. Another time, I provided an opinion about the current man made famine in Gaza and the blog author told me not to comment on his blogs or he would down vote me. Ah well, as long as people exist there will be flaws in systems. Not being a pessimist as much as a realist.
Enough rambling. Thanks again for allowing me to exercise some grey matter. !ALIVE
You mean, Not !LOLZ
lol... darn spellchecker... 😂
Thanks for exercising your grey matter! I had a discussion this morning about HIVE, and in general, all this is still a big (or small) experiment... It's not an easy task to create a decentralized social media network... It looked easy from the "outside" and when it was launched, but as with any other experiment, issues come to the surface when it is "practiced"...
I suppose that the best way to look at it is that nothing is set in stone, and anything can change if there is a consensus... Like you said in the comment regarding revolutions... critical mass is the one that pushes for changes... It's not the one who is doing them, but it is the one who makes it happen... With bigger or smaller impact, that's another story...
Thank you for your time!
