downvoting is taking way more effort than upvoting lately.
I admit I've also been super busy with another move but damn, not often I've been considering going autocuration on this account or following a trail just cause there's so much to do.
Some of you that have been here for longer, do you remember how hectic things were during the bull run in early 2018? So much was happening it was ridiculous, compared to that the bear market before that it was a ghost town here.
The more surprising thing though is that this bear market seems to be even more hectic than the last bull run, like wow, what is it going to look like here if we hit ATH again? I'm gonna need more eyes and hands, that's for sure.
Anyway, at first we were not giving out any clarification on the downvotes we've been casting with ocdb strictly on bid botted content and hoping people will figure out what it is about by reading some of the posts we've written about it. Now that we are leaving comments it has become a much bigger task cause there are some accounts there that don't seem to grasp why, take it personally or just want to waste as much time as possible out of spite. It's pretty sad, especially some that have decided they want to take things outside the platform and try to smear our name and anyone else following our trails and even go so far as to threaten them.
I'm hoping the psychology to votes and pending rewards will gradually change over time while downvotes are being normalized more and more. Can you imagine if reddit and youtube had public downvotes that others could see who cast them, do you think the reactions would be the same there?
All in all I am still happy the majority of replies to the explanatory comments have been positive and with a good attitude, understanding the EIP and that curation is coming back and at the same time I am happy to see the amount of curation that is happening only a month later.
Hoping things will just keep improving from here on out and that we as a community stay rational and once there are no more profitable bid bot votes to downvote we can downvote for disagreement of rewards and bring more balance to the ecosystem.