This is what Hive looks like every time whales go on downvote rampage.
Hive has been promoted under the premise of decentralization, free speech, and monetization (among other things). These things are what make us different from other social media platforms. I guess even the concept of social media does not even apply to us. We are Web 3.0. We are beyond Facebook and Twitter (even with Musk running it).
But how can a downvote war make this platform more attractive? How can hivers produce content when instead of cheering, they have to worry about getting an upvote from a big account which happens to be at war with other big accounts.
The average hiver is powerless and subject to the power struggle that control forces unknown to us. There is no difference between being censored on Facebook or Twitter and being downvoted here for reasons that are not supposed to be personal. There is nothing wrong with your content, but still they are going to downvote it just to make a statement.
I do not see much freedom encouragement in that mentality.
Just when I was in the middle of a promotion campaign I start receiving downvotes and I wonder how do I explain to a new user that far from getting rewards for their content creation, they may get punished for no reason.
The downvote bottom may have a use, but to use it as a who-can-pee-farther game is just unacceptable in my view.
