RE: Two Ways to Screw Your Hive Account .:. Walk & Talk Series

Now all whales are like the one that I

You mean, Not !LOLZ

All that creates a "herd movement" and not a leadership movement...

In my experience, most people are not leaders and more often than not, those playing a leader role are more or less answering to their funders and not exercising leadership qualities. C'est la vie! “In the Midst of Chaos, There Is Also Opportunity” (Sun Tzu) And I must say, there is no shortage of chaos. We may be at a tipping point for the next revolution. France has been a good leading indicator of revolutions.

Back to my Hive experience, I got a few down votes from one whale for telling him to stop blaming others for his losses and error in his ways. The guy tells everyone that they just have to show up everyday and publish shit and in time you can publish more shit about great earnings from upvotes and earn even more votes for gloating about being a whales. It's a #TooFuckeh system. An error in the system. Just like the error in the system that decided Trump would be a great leader for USA and a great example for all democracies in the world.

From what I can tell, with being here for just over a year, Hive is much more than publishing a long post. I see patterns of long postings that get well rewarded and I don't see much value. It takes me a long time to create a blog. I am sure I am not the only one. Why create a long blog when it is not necessary? What is wrong with providing short content more frequently if that is what a project needs to succeed? I see long blogs that are not much different than a previous long blog that gives the same information 3 or 4 different ways in the same blog and they are well rewarded. As I learn more, I see patterns from the voting bots, curation trails and Hivers that power vote each other. It's not the content that is valuable but the upvote reward system itself. Ah well, I am still collecting data and learning.

One day, I upvoted my own post to see if it had an impact in offsetting a downvote from an overly sensitive whale. In less than a minute I am reminded that you should never upvote yourself because some whale will down vote you. Another time, I provided an opinion about the current man made famine in Gaza and the blog author told me not to comment on his blogs or he would down vote me. Ah well, as long as people exist there will be flaws in systems. Not being a pessimist as much as a realist.

Enough rambling. Thanks again for allowing me to exercise some grey matter. !ALIVE