I miss you. 🥺
I like Hive, but to be honest, it's Bloody hard work. It's OK if you're a school kid or out of work; you're able to devote the levels of commitment it requires to not only build but keep those votes rolling in.
Hive, certainly to me, was billed as a complete change from the supposed bad old days of STEEM. Witnesses would be replaced in certain instances, no more "Get rich quick schemes", and many of the support groups who pooled their votes done away with. Little did I know that there would be four or five groups who, in some cases, are little more than Freikorp roaming the Blockchain actively looking for people to rough up for, in some cases, the most pathetic excuses I've ever seen.
Jester: "What was your crime?"
Spudbecker: "Whistling on a Tuesday."
Jester: "You bastard!"
Coming from the FOSS community as I do Freedom means a lot to me, so the promise of a free, open-source platform that is decentralised and no censorship was pretty attractive to me. Little did I know how much lip service is paid to those values. For example, I've had the debate about censorship and apparently, hiding posts is not censorship because you can find them if you look or use A-another Dapp. Sounds like censorship to me. Isn't that what happens in wartime? They block foreign radio and news outlets?
I'm not sure Hive is all that welcoming tbh. True, everyone encourages folk to join, but it's kinda "Lambs to the slaughter" and "Chucked in at the deep end" all rolled into one. There's no list of Do's, and Dont's nobody tells you that EVERY image you use that's not yours requires a source link or that voting for your mother, brother, aunt, and cousins will be classed as "Vote Farming", so best not to encourage your family to join and then just to add insult to injury lodging an appeal is like wading through a French Foreign Legion assault course. I've told HiveWatchers a couple of times that their site https://hivewatchers.com/ is not fit for purpose. Its only function appears to be for reporting people! No advice on what is the accepted format of a post. There is no list of transgressions you could fall foul of and certainly, most importantly, the steps one needs to appeal their case. Scarily, other groups don't even have anywhere that you can go to ask, "Why?"
When I was on STEEM, it was a blogging platform. Sure some folk posted the odd Youtube video, and yes, there was a tonne of memes. Still, ultimately it was a blogging platform where you were rewarded for Good Content Hive apparently is a Media Platform whereby people can create a video on 3speak (Where they get rewards) and post that to Hive with little or no text and get rewarded again! (What happened to the double-dipping I see people get flailed for on blog posts?) Good Content? Who decides what's Good Content because it's not the amount of votes/rewards it gets, especially when there's a Leveling of rewards activity going on.
Rant Over
Come back and post again. I miss some of the old gang.
RE: Why Hive Is Failing.