Blurt doesn’t have downvotes. That’s literally why they made Blurt is because people did not like downvotes on HIVE and people wanted a downvote free alternative.

I know a lot of people don’t like cross posting, I don’t really know where that philosophy comes from though and I’m still trying to understand that.

I can appreciate why people like you don’t think Blurt is a reasonable alternative and would rather stay here and argue for HIVE to not have downvotes.

People want me to leave a reason why I downvote and talk to people about it. I would like to talk about it to some extent but it just seems like most of these conversations are not productive for me or other people.

Like I’m not even sure what I did that was so terrible. I am not sure why people on this platform want the platform to grow while not using it as designed.

I have “a lot” HP compared to an average user. I think people with a lot of HP do take steps to watch how the reward pool is distributed and try to shift the reward pool to be allocated in a way that is in the ecosystem’s “best interest.”

Some people do this by upvoting HW proposal. Some people do anti abuse independently. Some people have developed complex processes that downvote people at scale. I don’t really do anything that is that complicated. If I have time to downvote people I do it in my way. Usually I just respond to comments first then downvote if I have time. I only stopped downvoting you because I was busy. I was not trying to make you think our last conversation changed anything by me wanting to do something else with my time.

I told you I downvote based on KE. Your KE is VERY high. You did not take steps to improve your KE. You don’t need to improve your KE. To your point, other people have been downvoting you a lot longer than me. Maybe you improve your KE and they keep downvoting you? Seems risky if I was in your shoes but I can only ponder on this. I have no idea what is going to happen on HIVE.

Like I thought you and I had a good conversation about this before. I have told you why I’m downvoting you but you clearly don’t care about me or what I think. It looks like you are trying to create a narrative to get people not to like me. I didn’t create downvotes and I’m using them as designed. I think treating me the way you are treating me is unfair. I think the way you are treating antisocialist is unfair. You think you getting downvoted is unfair. I don’t know what to say. Like it’s possible to get rid of downvotes but it just looks like a precarious route to try to get rid of downvotes. Someone would have to power up more HP than all the whales combined and have enough witnesses that organically want to get rid of downvotes.

I think trying to brute force changes through large stake won’t work very well on HIVE. Rich people tried to make brute force changes to Steem and that created HIVE and people lost a lot of money. Seems like a bad idea to make changes that way.

I am not mad at you. I want everyone to do “well” on HIVE in a way that makes sense. I want you to do “well” but I’m not sure what “well” even means for you personally.

It doesn’t seem like you want me to do well. It seems like you don’t like me. I don’t think that’s fair just because I downvoted which is easy to do and fairly innocuous. I didn’t create downvotes, I’m just using them. I’m not going to get mad at you because you are mad at me. That does not seem fair to you for me to try to ramp up the temperature just to defend my own ego. I think taming the ego is very important. These conversations are very hard for me but I think it makes me a better person if I can downvote people for the “right” reasons and learn how not to downvote people if I’m upset. I have a lot of personal issues in a general context. I have a weird life and I’m a very “weird” person. I’m a contrarian and operating in today’s society without conforming is emotionally painful. But being a contrarian has helped me a lot in life. I’ve had a lot of unique experiences. I’ve lived my life in a fulfilling way. I have done plenty of things in my life that are “bad.” I’m not inherently “good.” I think people are human and are probably inherently bad just in general. I try not to do things that make me a “bad” person. But good and bad is very subjective. Should someone try to hurt me emotionally because of the things I believe? I mean many areas of the world are like this. Maybe it makes sense for you to treat me like this based on where you live. I don’t know? 🤷‍♂️ You would have to tell me that. Like “hey in my country this is how we deal with disputes. We just argue forever until everyone is exhausted and people move on with their lives.” I don’t like to do that. I think it’s a waste of time. But if this is your process for handling disagreements I will at least try to engage your process. But I am doing this at my expense. You are getting something out of this and if this back and forth is what you need I will do my best to reciprocate.

I have 400+ notifications right now. I would like to get to the people that are nice to me and that is my goal today. If you leave another comment I will try to respond but I cannot promise it will be today. Just give me some time and I will get back to you.

Happy New Year and I hope you have a wonderful 2026! (I am not trying to be cute, seriously, Happy New Year!)