This is not accurate. Juggling photos implies I am reusing the same photos. This is not happening at all.
Except 10 months ago....the one time I reused photos and this is what they are talking about.
We were in the heart of lockdowns across the western world and I thought it would be interesting to my viewers to do a series called "Flash Back to The Old Norm" Showing my old real life photos of people NOT wearing masks and living normal life. Again I was not trying to "farm" anything. I sincerely thought it was interesting to add a new opening paragraph to those photos and show how things used to be. In fact a few of the post went out, and got up-voted and commented very well. Discussions about the old-norm ensued. I though it was fine especially at 12 cent hive when the rewards where minuscule combined with a good response and comments from the community.
That was 10 months ago, with ZERO mal intent. I've NEVER reposted a photo ever since and immediately abandoned "Flash back to the old norm".....which frankly was a good idea and approved by the community based on the feedback I received.....except from Hive Watchers.
This term "farming rewards" can be applied to any content creator. If you're not into their blog and they are having success here. Accumulated success compound by 4.5 years of people liking me, my blog, and putting me on their autovoter. I can't help that, I thought it meant I was doing a good job!
Above they show my botanical garden series which they call spam. All with 100% different photos and thumbnails showcasing the amazing plants on display there. If you don't like photography, outdoors, nature, botany, plants.....ok maybe you think it's spam. But if you are a fan of these things like I am and many others then it's clearly not spam and something interesting to see during your lunch break our what have you.
Their attack on my blog, is heavily opinion driven, and last I check almost nobody agrees the punishment fits the crime. They downvoted EVERYTHING (before undoing it thank you) including a couple very well written well received articles, and full give-away game that I'm hosting...blanket blacklist downvote...no compromise is what I went to bed thinking last night.
-From the above comment.
Why are they telling me what my post is supposed to be?
and No, in my mind the photos make up the majority of the post. In fact I know most people on here barely read "travel" related posts and just skip right to the photos anyway.
Am I not allowed to share my photos with or without the text I've been including? If people don't like my photos or posts, nobody is forcing anyone to up-vote them.
And finally.....
Instagram is worth 100 billion + dollars. That is just people posting photos, and texting eachother. With this logic we need to all join together and take down instagram.
I planned anyway to improve my blog these days. As I was feeling with a higher price/rewards....I best up my game. And that was and still is my plan. But by no means do I believe I'm spamming, farming, reposting, juggling, or whatever else they are accusing me of.
It's also insulting to me, as if waking up at 4 am driving half asleep to the right spot and waiting for the sun to rise to capture a few good photos for my blog is considered effortless spam farming.(I have to do that two or three times to get 9 photos for that series) Not to mention a good amount of time editing and then finally posting. How about traveling out to some location in the middle of nowhere like my Mung Hilltribe series....that has no value either. Just spam? Very very hurtful what they are trying to do to me.
RE: SURVEY: DO I DESERVE TO BE BLACKLISTED FROM THE PLATFORM ON SAID CRITERIA?