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RE: Rethinking Hive author rewards: How can we improve the distribution of rewards?
Your comment and thoughts here have perfectly hit on a conundrum that keeps coming up with this whole discussion:
and on a chain when MANY users are the descendants of the survivors of colonialism and enslavement, that is not the kind of imagery that we need if we want to keep this chain vibrant -- no reminders of European beating and consuming the people of the world are going to be helpful
To this I would ask if you are aware of the ethnicities of the two users you mention above? We actually only see of users here what they choose to share on here, so it is risky to make accusations or assumptions.
The problem with this whole discussion is that we're trying to fix problems and the solutions are being based on assumptions of why people are doing what they are doing. As dlmmqb has already hinted, everyone can be both right and wrong in their reasoning and approaches. The witnesses are in the inenviable position of having to try and make changes in everyone's best interest and every system put in place can be abused.
The fact that Venezuela and Ghana are Hive's two biggest stories is a fact. What was done there by European colonists is big set of facts. The mythos of Krampus, and the control that myth is designed to put into children is also a fact -- and the analog to how European colonizers treated more than a third of the world is also a fact. Also a fact: the creator of the Krampus Coefficient is the type of person who has animations of murder against people who makes comments he doesn't like among his own comments... with the murderer smiling when the victim is dead. Sounds like Krampus and colonial behavior to me ... but go write "nice post" on one of his posts and find out sometimes... go look up Plonkety Piano that he backed up and how it behaved, and come back and tell me what you think.
I don't care what ethnicity anybody is, but I know the historical origins of certain evils. If you adopt those to try to get people to do what you want, there is a good chance you don't have a problem abusing people to get what you want. If you play with devilry, I'm likely to suspect you of devilish behavior, and I have seen enough. I say again: have a look at Plonkety Piano and what it was doing and THINK about what the ramifications there would have been and how Hive's reputation would have been attached to that with its LAST 138K active users according to Hive's five-year stats. Think to yourself: why did far bigger accounts than mine choose to STUFF THAT THING?
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