Can someone explain to me where this weird sense of entitlement comes from in some people I notice on Hive?
I don't mean to take a break from my break from hive and create a drama post sitting in a chair in my hotel room, but sometimes these things drive me to do it as it really bugs me. Maybe it's cause I've always been a bit of an introvert growing up and didn't expect much of life or did the whole spiel of "if you don't expect anything you won't be disappointed", dunno why it bugs me so much.
I've seen this happen time after time, whether it's about downvotes and how they turn people into raging lunatic narcissists or about the lack of upvotes even though hive has literally one of the best barriers to earnings compared to any other social media platform/blogging site. Here you may just need a couple stakeholders wanting to welcome newcomers to get a few cents to a few dollars in upvotes on your first post, you don't need to give us information about who you are, you don't need to sign tax documents, send us a copy of your passport, etc.
The weirdest thing is that most do understand the pending reward system we have here, and that pending doesn't just mean "it can only go up from here", it may also mean that someone may change their mind and unvote (even though those things happen rarely) or that someone may downvote the post which also happens rarely, or that price active may adjust the pending displayed rewards in usd based on the 3 day average of hive's price. (I've even gotten many questsions about that in the past, naturally when hive was going down only)
Maybe it's cause I've been through many different scenarios involving downvotes and reward adjustments that I usually don't expect any until they pay out. Such as downvote wars, large staekholders downvoting me for months because a shitpost of theirs was trending and I dared to lower the rewards a bit. Maybe cause some thought they could upvote friends to trending constantly even though they barely made an effort to bring some value to the ecosystem while their posts also didn't garner any attention on here, or the crazier times where some would go after my upvotes to downvote cause I wasn't posting at the time, etc.
I don't wanna single anyone out, but I feel like most people expect to get high salaries for even lifting a finger at doing something. Maybe that explains why most of the DHF proposals pay people for upcoming work rather than past work and we've somehow normalized that. Or how most devs/authors just disappear when the price of hive isn't to their liking even if the amount of rewards they get in hive is the same as it was before (authors).
You can maybe imagine my trigger when I get a notification of a tag of literally one of the top rewarded authors asking why their post wasn't curated. I don't usually burst out at random but knowing and having followed this particular user for a while and seen some other questions and activities of him that lead to this maximization mindset - I kinda had to say something. I'm just wondering what it is that drives people to tunnelvision into maximization of rewards at all cost, especially their dignity. Similarly the same user had been delegating to projects, leaving them a comment checking if he'd get "support" after mentioning the delegation which has increased this weird activity on chain where most people are just getting their own votes back + more while enriching literal autovote bots at the cost of distributing their stake manually to other users and connecting with them. I'm sure you're aware by now which projects may do this and I'm thankful to some of you who don't participate in such activities.
Either way, kind of a rant. Other than that I'm kind of chilling at the moment, walking a lot and trying to survive on a small daily budget in an expensive city, which isn't that fun but what can you do when the markets are the way they are and debt and bills have to be re/paid.
I'm kinda missing being back behind the screen and working more on scrobble,life, games for it and eventually toggle back towards holozing development.
Hope ya'll been well and that I'll see you soon again. Nice to see some games sprouting on hive and thanks to everyone testing some I've released.
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