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RE: What's in it for me?
...but I don't think people need to be helped in the form of compensation when it comes to voting differences.
I'm not proposing giving anyone steem. Just counter-voting unfair downvotes. Net-zero-gain.
Not doing that either. Or maybe did once in a while, cannot remember. But rarely. I wouldn't argue about it with you, though. I think people in their diversity are doing different things, perceiving different and should therefor be distinguishable. That's the richness of us all.
I take a distance - investigating other groups and topics - as not to narrow myself in this one. It can easily drag one into it and biting its teeth into me. So I prefer to walk somewhere else and refresh and broaden the view again. Taking my time. No hurry.
Upon further investigation, downvoting isn't quite as bad as I thought.
For example, @superheroes seems completely oblivious to their (-14) rep, and good for them.
Steem doesn't really have a "ban-hammer", it's more of a "squeaky-mallet".
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Yeah, you could take it all in a much more relaxed way, as I said to @hon.heke, Steemit is actually a game, similar to the one we already all play offline, but with the less confusing fact that we only exist once in the physical world and there are no multiple avatars of us running around.
Those who invest here with Fiat money, however, now think that they are doing serious business. Which of course is also a really successful self-deception. People assume that if they invest a part of their currency in here, that they can claim a strange right to be serious. Forgetting that they have a stock market here, highly speculative. It's still betting on future behavior, a big guessing game. When I go to the casino, I naturally expect to win something, but I also expect to lose. This is a big gambling table in my eyes and I lost sight of that at times and got too serious in some debates because the hypocrisy behind it annoyed me. It's very easy to go from being a relaxed player to a fierce one. Frighteningly fast. So I stayed out of it all for months to get back to easy sense.
Blogging and looking at a readers base also would be more authentic without votes at all.
Well stated.