Why Am I Going to Reduce My HIVE Work? | Unjust Downvotes!
Q. Why am I going to reduce my HIVE activities?
A. Because of unjust downvotes that took away the rewards from my long posts!
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Unjust Downvotes case
On the 31st of August, out of the blue, all the pending rewards from my post were zeroed by the letusbuyhive account. No prior warning, no explanation! I made an Ecency wave tagging him for the explanation. I received no explanations for the downvotes! I asked around in Discord servers. I came to know that the account is run by azircon! I didn't reach out to him for the explanations. I kept posting. Surprisingly, I even got at least two 25% VP upvotes on my posts from the letusbuyhive. I thought that the previous DVs were a one-time thing! I was wrong!
On Friday, September 05, the next DV storm swept my posts and zeroed all the pending rewards! This time, azircon himself!
I made a comment under his last post, asking him to give me the reasons! He replied!
Reason 01:
your posts are either template posts, or spam that offers no value.
Yes. I use a template for my post. But, that's not the only part in my posts. I make at least 2-3 paragraphs, along with photographs, and those are different every day. On my last post, I have 5 paragraphs that are completely new!!
Reason 02:
You have no engagement at your posts and you don’t engage with others
There is no truth to this allegation. At the time of writing this post, I was at number 26 on the Ecency leaderboard! Last Monday when Melinda published the weekly leaderboard post, I was at number 18! There are no comments under my posts, waves, or snaps that are unanswered! On Friday evening, when I saw the DVs, I was even tipping Ecency points to those who interacted with my content!
Reason 03
You are also muted in numerous communities
That's also not correct! I didn't find a single community where I am muted!
His Final Verdict
From my point of view your posts do not require rewards so I removed them.
While over a hundred curators (Ecency curators, DUO project curators, EDS project curators, Alive and Thriving Tribe curators, etc) had different points of view!
I replied to him refuting his reasons-
He then replied
From my point of view, it is nothing but arrogance, and abuse of power!
From August 25, all of my daily posts' rewards (99.99%) have been taken away! Hence, I think, it's quite logical to stop posting for the time being. I am not going to take an impulsive decision by powering down and taking all the assets off the chain. I will be around, somewhat, maybe with Ecency waves and Peakd snap, with occasional long posts!
I am disheartened! I am a bit down now! Other than these, all good :)
Thank you very much for reading this far!
Hafiz
I am having a hard time with this. I like reading your post, how you care for your patients, your family, and the photos you take. I am so sorry this has happened to you, and I can not understand why.
!ALIVE
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Thank you very much for your words :) I appreciate it!
We all have to deal with different kinds of people in our life-offline and online. Sometimes, we can't win! Acceptance of that put our mind at ease!
!LUV
I like your outlook on life.
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I really feel for you. Idiots like this discourage me from posting more. Even though I haven't been personally downvoted. But when I see posts that I like being downvoted, my anxiety kicks in.
I don't even care about the monetary hit. OK, just a little. But it bothers me that this Wild West mentality exists where the fastest gun wins regardless of morality.
Please keep posting. Otherwise the arrogant tosser wins.
!BBH
BTW, don't make it too easy for these bad actors. They won't make much effort before downvoting. So at least make sure that your opening paragraphs are unique. Then go the extra mile by changing the SEO description to something relevant to your post title. Because I can see how anyone who just looks at your post feed is going to get a poor first impression. Unfortunately, some people seem to overreact to first impressions.
Thanks for the suggestion!
But, I think the damage is already done!
I will rest now, regarding publishing long posts!
Thanks again.
Thank you very much for the comment, input, and tip! You are a compassionate good human being!
Despite having many brains and projects on Hive, HIVE couldn't grow to the expected level. Unjust DV and driving away a content creator from the chain is one of them.
I appreciate you!
!LUV
What category this post fell into Mr Kaonashi (@azircon) that deserved the DV?
Because I just shared the facts?
Upvotes don’t require reasons.
Downvotes don’t require reasons.
Complaining on downvotes typically gets more downvotes.
You are NEVER entitled to any rewards just because you have put 10 or 1000 words in the internet.
As I explained your posts doesn’t deserve any rewards so I have removed them. I won’t answer any further questions.
You have no control over votes, up or down. Downvotes the not censorship. Your posts are there and everyone can see and interact if they want. You only care about rewards so you are worried. So I have educated you a bit. Have a good day.
PS. It is a great idea to reduce your posting frequency. I fully support that.
Oh! I shared facts too
I post once daily, like many other authors!
I can't remember when I posted two posts in 24 hours!
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I know this is a decentralized blockchain in which no one can stop others doing what they wish with their VP (hence their DP). The more HP you have, the more power and influence you have in what happens...
I know this guy @azircon and others have good intentions although it's tough sometimes to get their view. Something must be done to stop spammers, farmers and bad actors since there's no mean to do it but DV and removing their rewards. That must not be an easy nor valued task.
Said that above, I think sometimes one can pull the trigger too easily and arbitrarily, it happens.
I don't agree with what's happening with you Hafiz. I enjoy reading your daily humble report of your activities. Your view is unique and special since you make a living by healing ill people, is there a more honorable job?
I encourage you to keep posting as usual since you are not doing damage to our ecosystem at all. Don't let no one tell you what to do.
I will be supporting you in a way that no one can remove your rewards... tipping!
I encorage those that read and vote your posts to tip directly to you the vote value instead, no one can remove it from your wallet.
Have a wonderful Sunday Hafiz 🤗
Thanks a lot for your nice words, brother!
I appreciate it. Also the tip!
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Great idea! The Hive Engine tokens make a good economy - I'll have another look at DUO, thanks!
I believe Hive has all the internals for robust discussions and economy. A major problem is the positive feedback loop linking of payout to the visibility of posts. The assumption that I want to see what the richest Hive accounts want to see is a shallow one. When people see content they prefer in their feed then those posts will get organically monetized more. Efforts to reduce payout will be useful to reduce spam because no one wants to see those anyway.
That's crazy bro
Seems like they are trying to bully everyone with downvotes it's so sad that blocktrades is supporting this behaviour
Hmm.
It's not good for us!
Thanks for stopping by!
!BBH
It's not good at all https://hive.blog/hive/@ureka.stats/the-untrending-report-hive-downvote-analysis-2025-09-07-20250907013710
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