RE: We Could Be Great Already
"Regarding downvoting, I am personally not a fan. Someone dear to me is being ritually downvoted, because he dared to use the downvote mechanism precisely as it was designed — to bring out-of-line rewards back in line, and enable those who are producing quality content to earn their rightful share of the reward pool."
I just came back on Steem yesterday after almost a year absence, for varied life reasons, and was a little excited to get back to creating some content. My post yesterday afternoon had a potential payout of around $10. Then someone with lots of voting power, that I will not mention here, down voted it.
Ok, so you don't like the post, so you screw someone because of your personal tastes were offended? Then I go to this persons profile and they have not created in content or contributed much in the last two years on Steemit.
I appreciate @adetorrent and his commitment to Steem. He is a great ambassador for the platform, but if this is the way it is going to be, I am not going to waste my time writing and sharing content for nothing. I can do that on Facebook or a personal blog and get a much better return.
Yeah, I might stop in for the occasional tid bit of information and stay in contact with peeps, but man...what a welcome back!....pffff
Exactly!!!
It's not that he didn't like your post, he downvoted it just because. He's lashing out because the community disagreed that posting screenshots 12 times a day and upvoting himself at 100%, and nobody else, was a good thing.
Following HF21/22, the community have free downvotes, so we used it to put a stop to the years of reward pool raiding. He now targets a few of us for constant downvotes, and he randomly hits posts that the community have upovted to a good amount. He also upvotes shitposts randomly, just to be a troll.
Free down votes? That's ridiculous!! If one feels so strongly that content is crap, and wants everyone to know it, then they should be willing to pay for the down vote.
I am was just working on writing another post and was almost done until I saw this reply. Not wasting my time posting it if ass hats are doing that stuff.
As it is now, there are many tribes you can post on that have their own token. For instance, there's Palnet or SteemLeo for different communities. You can post on there or use their tag, and you'll get the tokens. If you look at
http://www.palnet.io/@adetorrent, you will see all my posts just fine, even if greyed out on Steemit. The earned tokens on there are not affected either by downvoting on Steem.
When SMTs arrive, this will be even more important. I think many people might stop posting on Steem directly and focus more on their tribe/community.
Thanks for sharing. Where do I look to find existing communities like coin collecting (fiat type), fishing, computers etc...
Hmm. Good question. I'm not really that much of an expert on which tribes are what. I'm part of RaggaeSteem, Palnet and CreativeCoin.
Best bet is to check out SteemEngine - all the coins are there. If you click on the (information icon) "i", it will display some info about the coin/community
Thanks my friend, I’ll check it out.
Please don’t give up, @joebrochin. Just find the things that make this platform work for you and focus on those things.
This is a great response. I’m catching up after a few days of life madness and wanted to let you know I really appreciate this perspective, @adetorrent.