That's a tough one, was your weed the bomb? Cause if it were, that could alert some dogs. Snoop Dogg is a primo example. 🐾 🌿🌲🐶🚬

I know that you are not "taking the rewards," but you are not allocating them either. When you diminish the earmarked rewards for a post, you are, in effect, invalidating the upvote actions of

The curation rewards must be pretty sick, though. How many of those spam comments do you upvote at 100% daily?

"You can stop right there. Downvotes aren't punitive, they are voting on where rewards go. You are free to post and no one is punishing you, but you aren't entitled to rewards unless the blockchain

Thanks, you|rs| too!

From my vantage point, Steem sold its users a false bill of goods. I don't know whether it was intentional, a marketing ploy, failure of imagination, or what exactly happened. However, the blue paper touted

@sift666, I didn't hear about that one, is there some content somewhere about it?

I very much appreciate your willingness to read it! Oh that kind of gets into bashadows idea, which is clever af!

Thank you for your thoughtful feedback, @valued-customer, and well said! Great to see you again!

"As for getting noticed....rather hard for me not to. I stand out in a crowd, I refuse to conform and I speak my piece. Although I do strive to be civil about it." Always stand your ground! As

Interesting theory, @oivas. That's entirely possible, thanks for the feedback!

Pass the dutchie to the left hand side, I want some of that! Seems like a meditation practice of sorts.

Thanks for your feedback, @angryman!

"Downvoting has been killing steemit and now hive for 5 years." I agree, it discourages morale and chases a lot of people off. That second part seems like it's harder to identify. Thanks for

@article61, thanks for your thoughtful feedback! "People like this will ruin hive if they get their way." What you said: That's exactly what I'm worried about!

Thanks for the upvote, @proofofbrainio. The Steem/HIVE ecosystem is quite complex. Somehow, they've managed to create a system that incentivizes people to get creative and better their craft. It does so

Hey, @jasonliberty, thank you for your thoughtful reply! I completely agree with you that the entire experience is very demoralizing, especially if you put forth a lot of effort into a post. I also notice

Ahh, you think-thanked me, and I "think you" to someone for one of their comments earlier, but just minutes before your post I went backed in and fixed my spelling error. Too funny!

Ahh, you found my typo! : -)

Some people got wrecked in the last chain split because of the people they gave witness votes to; I was almost one of them. I had voted on a witness who said they were going to lobby against downvoting.