In the past I have only posted to #deepdives if I felt like I really dug in and researched something and provided a lot of references. Other things I'd usually post in #informationwar, or #proofofbrain. I tried to guess at the best of those three communities based upon the flavor of my posts. Once in awhile I'll write about music, or game development and might stray from those communities but those have been the primary communities I post to for some time now.
As I understand it DeepDives is going through a change and soon a new Layer 2 token will be available there. I don't know much about it other than it will be called Delve. I have been asked to post there more often. I suppose I can justify that as I am always taking deepdives into my own mind as I write. I often have no clue where a post will end up going as I begin writing it. I have a starting point but the stream of consciousness turns the entire process into kind of a short mental adventure. Where will my mind take me today?
I am interested in learning more about delve. How will it differ? Will it follow the approach #vyb is using which I very much endorse? More communities where down voting is not a thing will do a lot to turn this more into a market place of ideas. When you go into a store you buy what you are interested in. You don't stop to place little sticky notes on products you have no interest in saying "You can't pay for this!" and that is essentially what occurs with the down vote mechanism here.
In addition, the entire debate over rewards is subjective and always amounts to some authoritarian mindset people thinking they should have the authority to decide what people are interested in and what something is worth. That too goes against the market place of ideas.
Now I do know why some downvoting of rewards to protect the pool needs to exist. In the past there were some large accounts that just kept up voting accounts they controlled that often were just posting bot written short pieces with google scraped images and they were doing so for large amounts. They were rapidly putting their own posts from alt accounts into the trending and each passing day the more and more centralized the rewards pool to themselves.
I could see why people would counter that. It was indeed a bad thing for the experiment that began with steem and continues here.
Yet as happens with authoritarians they take a SOUNDS GOOD reason and then decide to subjectively apply it wherever they want. This is especially true if you piss them off.
This is human nature. We can't just magically make it go away. We also can't really come up with a mechanism to prevent it that would not further centralize things. The things that can prevent it usually can be circumvented simply by using multiple accounts. Furthermore centralization of power can be benevolent at first but over time as the original controllers of that power cycle out it invariably will enter times of corruption. This is why we want to avoid such centralization.
How then do we solve the down voting abuse problem? How do we try to keep an environment from becoming a toxic financially censored zone?
I didn't chime in on solutions as I didn't have one that I couldn't determine how to exploit or circumvent. I knew there was a problem. I just had no viable solution.
#vyb seems like an experiment with promise and it just might work. I would hope that Delve and other layer 2 tokens from communities who truly believe in free speech watch it closely and if it proves to work they should use a similar model.
At the moment I will post to other communities but #vyb and #pob will likely always be two of my 10 tags. They are attempting to do what I think really needed to be done.
I know some great content creators that were active on steemit, and some here. I've seen them produce great things and then catch the attention of the wrong powerful accounts. I watched them financially consistently driven to zero or near that. It was hard to justify producing the level of content they were if they could earn nothing for their time.
Me... I haven't been writing here with the goal of earning. I use it as a form of catharsis.
If I were doing this for earning I'd likely do a lot less stream of consciousness writing and I'd potentially do some serial series.
I may go that route in the future in the game development space, but I have no such plans at this time.
I look forward to trying new experiments and if they work then that could be a great thing for all of HIVE.
