On my last post I waited 5 minutes to curate my own post like a good little curator. Only after clicking "upvote" did I realize that waiting for the 5 minute mark is totally pointless now with the new hardfork operational.
The new rules dictate that I can upvote posts anytime within the first 24 hours. I guess I no longer have to worry about upvoting my own posts, as there's that auto-upvote option on all the frontends anyway.
One of my first posts on Steem was a tiny rant about how dumb it is to upvote your own content. That's because I was coming from Facebook rules. If you upvote yourself on Facebook it's like giving yourself a high-five. Pretty self-centered, ridiculous, and petty.
Meanwhile if you don't upvote yourself on crypto social media it's kinda like you don't value your own work. Either that or you're living so deep in abundance (whale) that you really don't need to be showering yourself in self-upvotes.
I've also felt weird about upvoting whales on the platform from time to time. Isn't that the opposite of decentralization? Why would we distribute tokens to accounts that already arguably have too many tokens? However, once again with this logic, we hit that wall of, "Well, do you support the message/content in question... or not?" On a very real level every single post or comment should be taken at face value rather than trying to factor in other outside metrics.
And then on another other very real level all of this has nothing to do with "quality content" and much more to do with reputation, networking, and making connections. All of these concepts coalesce and many of them are completely contradictory. Hive is to us what we say it is. Perception is reality.
Out in the real world there are plenty of habits/routines that also become outdated or toxic. Addiction is certainly one of them. I seem to be having a hard time just drinking less coffee these days even if I try. How many people justified and even celebrated their heavy drinking last year during quarantine? Lucky for me, I wasn't hit that hard psychologically by lockdown. I've been social distancing for decades now. Introvert for life!
I sold my car the other day because it would cost multiple factors more than its total value to ship across the country. I still catch myself looking outside to see where it is. Oh right... it's gone... kinda like a friend that moved or passed away and you forgot for a second. Not as intense, but same concept. "Oh yeah, I forgot I lost that..." Phantom memories.
In celebration of HF25 I'll be heavily upvoting comments on this one.
RIP convergent curve.
RIP competitive curation.
You will not be missed, but the history will live on blockchain forever.
