Who is putting these ideas in my head! - [WE102]
In the sweetest moment of my sleep, I wake up with chapped lips and a dry palate. This happens over and over in 6-7 hours of sleep… And it happened again!
With my eyes still half-awake, I reach for the jug of water I left on the nightstand. The moment the jug touches my lips; I sip my water with the thirst of someone who has been thirsty for days in the desert under the sun and is starting to see mirages.
It's not normal for me to drink that much water! My sugar may have risen again, but I don't care, I want to continue my sleep from where I left off.
I remember applying lip balm every night before going to sleep for my chapped lips, but it doesn't help. I lick it because it tastes like chocolate. I am definitely high in sugar! … and I'm on my way to becoming a diabetic.
I wish I had a life where I could eat whatever I wanted and had no side effects. If I ate as much oily, salty, cholesterol and sugar-raising foods as I wanted, and I wouldn't gain weight. Wouldn't it be great?
For years, I could only feed on pizza and hamburgers. I would drink as much acidic drinks as I wanted, but lead a healthy life.
I would like to find and produce a medicine containing a mixture of natural and chemical substances, placed in a capsule that is white on one side and red on the other.
Thus, I can eat all kinds of food by looking at its taste, I can drink whatever I want, but heart, blood pressure, sugar, atherosclerosis, cancer, obesity etc. I could be the inventor of a drug that prevents all possible diseases.
I would have a healthy life by eating the way I want without having to do sports. Moreover, I could burn the next one with the fire of the first cigarette I lit, and the next one with his, and I could stretch the chain ring as long as I wanted.
I would also benefit others; no one would die from the disease anymore, and all that was needed was to swallow one capsule a day.
Damn it! Who is putting these ideas in my head! When my mind is busy with something, I get don't sleepy… I'm don't sleepy again and I will stare at the ceiling for hours and daydream!
I reached for my phone on the nightstand to check what time it was. It's 4 in the morning and I'm not sleepy, but I need to sleep.
Before going to sleep rather than watching the ceiling, I turned on my phone's wifi connection to check the rewards and comments for the content I shared on Hive...
… But since my eyes were not seeing as clearly as before, I reached for my glasses on the nightstand. When I put on my glasses and look at the screen of my phone glowing in the dark of the night, I can see all the dust and stains on my glasses.
These are pretty annoying!
I reached over the nightstand once more, took one of the wet wipes out of the package and cleaned the lenses of my glasses. I mutter to myself, "Look at what I did when I should have gone to sleep!"
When I saw the last content I shared on Hive, I realized that it did not receive any awards or comments. Several people have rated my content by clicking the downvote button!
Again I began to grumble; "Isn't the downvote button a kind of censorship?"
If I had the chance to change it and add a new one, I would definitely remove the downvote button. Shouldn't ideas be freely shared? It is inevitable that you do not touch someone's nerve endings while sharing your thoughts on radical issues. When you anger them, they don't hesitate to use their power (HP) to silence you.
There will be supporters and opponents of an idea.
I think the downvote button is blocking to reflect 100% of thoughts. Moreover, those who use the downvote button don't even bother to explain why they use it.
I'm thinking of becoming a magician and waving my wand and destroying the downvote button from the Hive. I've done harder! Now that I have found the capsule with the formula that cures all diseases, why not do it?
I continue to wander around Hive smiling...
What day was it today? With a short pause, I thought about what date it was. Although it's quite normal to mix up the days at this time of night, I finally remembered. Today; Friday
I went to the WEEKEND Community and checked the prompt generated regularly by @galenkp. It's been 4 hours since I shared and pinned the content.
[WE102] Weekend-Engagement concept
Even though my last content did not receive an award, saying "it will not be in vain to clean the lenses of my glasses"; I read the content...
… and pressing the voice record button of my phone;
I said, "I must attend this week's request." And I set the alarm on the phone for 09:00 in the morning. I put my phone and glasses back on the nightstand and wiped all thoughts from my head and lay my head on the pillow to sleep.
I wanted to participate in this week's request with a fictional story. I hope it complies with the rules and has been successful in meeting the request. Although the story is fictional, it contains my facts to reflect my thoughts.
All content and images belong to me.
Hello @foryoubtc09
I have enjoyed your writing style but on this particular instance I tend to disagree with your opinion and I feel that we should be able to have differences of opinion and express them - the vote buttons are essentially that, they actually support free speech because if you don't like something you have the choice to use the downvote button or not, very similar to being in a discussion with a person and being able to say
"No, I actually do not agree and I don't like this conversation" - this happens all the time in real life.
I personally feel that this is something that Facebook, Instagram and even YouTube now are pushing - that you are only allowed to express an opinion if it is supporting and positive, if it opposes someone or could potentially make someone take offence, then you essentially need to CENSOR YOURSELF instead of being able to healthily express an opposing opinion/feeling or line of thought. That is very skewed. I have been downvoted and I don't say anything about it - that person is expressing and exercising their right to not like my content for whatever reason.
It is not going to prevent me from creating content and I know that what I write is not going to appeal to every person, I'm not expecting it to and I'm not trying to write for everyone on Hive, I'm writing for me and sharing it, those that like it will respond and gravitate towards me and possibly upvote me, those that don't will move away from me and possibly downvote me. That's life and that's perfectly OK in my opinion.
Helle @andrastia,
Firstly, thank you. For expressing your thoughts in a calmer tone and style.
I would like to share the sadness I experienced at a few points in a content that I stated to be a fictional story and to which I added my real reflection.
First of all, I respect your opinion. Criticizing the downvote button is not my red line!
As I stated in this sentence, I know that there will be those who disagree. One of the things I am upset about is the accusation that I tried to get an award by criticizing the downvote button. If I had such a purpose Hive and communities, community admins etc. Instead of criticizing situations, I would use words of praise.
This is the content that I have stated as a reflection of my realities created on a fiction. For example; In the article, I say that I am on the way to becoming a diabetic, but I am not a diabetic!
I'm talking about wanting to change it like a magician or inventor by criticizing the downvote button. Just like a capsule with one end white and the other red; I don't have a chance to create such a capsule, nor can I destroy the negative vote button!
To say that even my muttering in the content contains an expectation (reward) is not seeing the fictional part of the story.
Destroying the downvote button is a dream! The capsule that will cure all diseases is a dream! Chapped lips and applied lip balm are a dream!
Some of the ideas on the downvote button are the work of my true opinion, but the other elements that connect it to the story are fiction!
I don't understand why the whole story is only evaluated by clicking the minus vote button and we have to make so many sentences about it. My Hive adventure has a history of only 1 month if I count my active use and I enjoy being here. I'm surprised I got so loud just because I criticize a single feature on a platform.
I'm not even one to be affected by the negative votes yet! I'm not the only person or the last person to criticize the downvote button here.
It was one of the few content that I enjoyed writing the most in my 6-7 Month Hive adventure, but at the point I came to, it turned into a content that I regret writing!
I'm sorry if it included statements that hurt the community or community admins, but I don't think I did anything like that. I wanted to add some reality to a story created on fiction with short transitions by using my right to a bit of criticism.
I thought there would be people who would oppose it, but I never thought it would come this far… and I didn't think it would be equated with being accused of things I didn't do and asking for a reward plus votes.
Other platforms I've written with Hive are read.cash and blurt. I have never asked, requested, or implied anything from anyone that I did not deserve!
If I had turned my back on every platform / person that did not agree with my ideas, there would be no one around me to talk to, including my family. Not just mine, but I guess that would be the case in all of our lives!
Believe me, I don't want to mention the name of the negative vote button in my future content, and I don't even want to read an article where the negative vote button is criticized.
Sorry for the inconvenience and long replies! I made you waste your time, have a nice weekend!
I really liked this post initially and yes, it's ok to do fiction if you call it out to be fiction. I'm more interested in the participation and creativity someone shows.
Just on the downvote/reward thing.
Rewards are not a right and I think no one should expect them (here on Hive or anywhere else.) Here though, they are given by the user reading the post and it's freedom of choice that allows them to give it or not.
Your text below:
Downvotes are not censorship at all. Downvotes are people expressing their freedom of choice to do as they please on a decentralised blockchain.
If I downvoted this post for instance...The text is still there, so how has it been censored? Censorship is (very loosely) taking away or editing something that someone says or writes. The downvote doesn't take that away, it simply adjusts potential rewards which are not the users until the 7 day window closes anyway!
Downvotes don't silence you as you comment in the text I have screen captured above.
Whinging about the lack of rewards and receiving downvotes won't get you rewards and upvotes. It'll do the opposite. Now, I know you said this is fiction, but you also said the below, so I feel I can address you non-fictionally.
When I started reading this post I thought it was nice and then it twisted into something different and it didn't feel so nice anymore. That will affect the value of vote you get. That's me exercising my right to vote according to my own thoughts and opinions. That's what people do when they downvote also.
In life people are not always going to agree and you're not always going to get your way. But here's the thing...You have the power to affect that, to do something about it. Let me demonstrate:
Someone in real life treats you in a manner in which you disagree with: You can walk away.
You don't like Hive: You can walk away.*
See how easy it is?
I'm not suggesting you walk away from Hive though, just making a point.
If you blame downvotes for what you haven't got then you'll not magically receive what you want.
People demonise the downvote but in truth, they need to look in the mirror and say, *what can I do to improve my situation, gain more upvotes from bigger accounts and those around me I value. How can I improve my work, build better relationships.
Let me assure you, complaining and whinging about downvotes will only ever see you gravitate towards others who do the same. If that's what you want then fine. If you want something different, do something differently.
You may see this comment as helpful or a hindrance, it matters not to me. It is meant as a helpful comment though.
I think you need to shift your paradigm slightly. Had you continued with your initial text and not got stuck in the downvote quagmire text I would have dropped a 20% vote on it and curangeled this. As it is, you'll get a 5% vote and I'll move on.
If you disagree with this comment, don't like it, hate me for being open and honest, please downvote it and every single post I make. It is your right to do so.
(Now, I'm off to see how many downvotes you have received, what values, and potentially why.)
Awards and comments were used as an excuse to enter the hive platform at that time of night in the fiction.
How and to whom the awards will be given is, of course, a decision that everyone will make of their own free will. I don't think I interfered with it.
My latest content received more votes than I expected. You've misunderstood the line between fiction and factual thinking, or I've misrepresented it here.
Negative votes are censorship in my opinion; The negatively voted article may still be there, but the person sharing the content will be negatively affected by the next content they create due to the pressure of negative votes. This is my opinion. I am not saying that my opinion is absolutely correct.
One fix I could change and take as an inventor was the minus vote button. Also, as far as I remember, I didn't get a serious negative vote in Hive...
…and the murmur in the content is the sentence added as a binding feature to make the plot and your request more appropriate.
I'm sorry that you perceive humming as asking for a prize and upvotes and reflect it that way!
No part of this content is underlined by you, as you have said more than once; It is not a letter to deprive anyone of their right to vote!
I think you are definitely in a misunderstanding here and overreacting.
In many of my content I say that people may have different opinions. In this article, I am not advocating a stable idea.
I did not make the distinction between fiction and reality sentence by sentence. Although the story is fiction, the parts about reflecting my facts are reserved only for me.
I didn't say I don't like Hive and I don't want to be here! I didn't use it in an implying word or sentence. It is thought-provoking how right it is to say that I can go from Hive!
In a sub-sentence, you say that you do not suggest that I move away from Hive, but you say that you can go up… but you take the story too seriously, where I say that some parts of it based on fiction reflect my reality. And you are overreacting.
Sorry for everything but there is a huge gap between my content and your reaction!
I blame my downvotes for things I really don't have? Please take some time and take a look at my contents. Do I deserve this accusation when I haven't yet been downvoted?
You mentioned that people demonize negative votes. However, in my articles, I constantly emphasize that I am a learner, not a teacher, and that I want to improve myself… and I see and think that I am trying to do better.
Your comment will certainly be found helpful by other readers. At the very least, many people will be wary of talking about the downvote button.
I can't understand how such a harsh criticism would benefit me by looking at an article that I tried to do the best by just agreeing with your request without knowing much about me and my content.
You are the host here! I am your guest! The host's behavior should not have been like this!
Thank you for your votes and response! I wish you a good weekend!
Nope, it's not harsh criticism, just my thoughts based on what I read.
thanks
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