Thanks for that info about ocd. They were incredibly nasty to me multiple times on Hive. If you don't suck up to them, they dislike you. They appear to have some political ideologies that don't mix with mine, also. And they love to support certain people when it suits them, to make a point even, or to profit themselves. And deny support to those that don't play the game their way. They are powerhungry and a menace to the blockchain.
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this was back in 2017 I was a total newbie and it affected my entire time on steemit, I was never really that positive after that and was always kind of half off and half on and didn't trust it at all. Even worse if I told anyone they just suggested I was being over dramatic or just basically assumed I was making it up. I think these people have become far more brazen now and more and more ppl actually believe me now and I can speak about it. I did actually live in fear of speaking out on it for years beyond the odd person and it seems crazy to me now as now I just don't give a flying F about talking about it but I guess I was still attached in some way to the way they try and get their worker drones on the keep your head down and we might just not downvote you to oblivion mentality. I guess I was just attached to the fact I was getting good payouts and had spent years building communities and contacts, essentially like building a business and speaking out or defending people basically destroys that part of your business. I didn't realise back then though how deeply ingrained this was, like I knew they had much bigger upvotes than me etc and I tried to just keep my head down for years and not come on their radar, but then more recently they all popped up again and I saw just how dark and incidous and deeply engrained it was, that it wasn't just me that had no chance, it was essentially anybody or even a group of people had nothing on them, they essentially had control of the entire voice of the platform through fear of their collective downvotes and people wanting the money they had worked so hard for, it feel almost like it was planned that way to get people comfy first then hit them so by leaving or challenging it they have a lot to lose. Steevc once said to me not many ppl complain on hive, lol of course they don't i's like 1984 if you complain your nuked, I think it goes without saying you either shut up and pretend it's ok, turn a blind eye and try and pretend you don't see it happening to other people so you can sleep at night or you leave. There isn't really a complain about it option, which we do at least have on blurt, we can still speak about things we don't like here without getting nuked into oblivion and for that I am still grateful even though there have been some less than great things happening lately it does feel like we can make change and create change here as a community. On hive I stood up for a few people in arguments, not even much, nothing like I do on blurt and I got downvoted as punishment, I was allowed around 80 dollar payouts but anything more than that, even though I put years in at a few dollars would get 'over rewarded' and downvoted even though they were all allowed to earn over a hundred for bullshit posts or screen shots off twitter. I had that loser mr boom downvoting me cause I posted on steemit, yet I bet they don't dare touch acidyo who farms on there all the damn time... of course they don't. I was actually just really miserable on there towards the end, I got no enjoyment I would just try and post and log off, if you ever got a good payout and were like wow awesome then you literally would have to sit there wondering if it would make it to day 7 and especially on day 6 as you know thats the day they are going to strike, because it's far more fun for them to strike on day 6 or 7 than it is day 1 lol. It honestly became such a negative energy and I really didn't even realise how much it was affecting me on there until I left, it's like living in constant fear that if you say anything wrong or speak up you will essentially lose all potential income you just spent hours working on that week. It is probably the most toxic thing I have ever been involved in in my life, I really wish I had pulled the plug on it way earlier but it's kind of addictive to just think I can just go on post, come off and not engage at all etc but even then it gets too annoying. I ended up having to sabotage it to make myself never go back and it worked as I have not even logged in there at all for about 7 months and I feel infinitely better. I would never ever go back on that site as long as it has the structure that it does.
Definitely something sinister going on. What we know is that they are evil plotting scumbags who will do whatever they can to make easy money and stay in control. What we don't know is how deep it goes. I bet it goes all the way to the core. I bet there was/is a conspiracy to use the hard fork process to capture the freedom-loving people of the world on Hive, and destroy them there, like happened to me, you, and thousands more. A plan by some of the blockchain elites, you could say. Organized off chain, where they think they are totally safe and their scheming will never be discovered. But even that will some day become known to very intelligent machines scouring the internet and analyzing everything from every possible angle. Any action will eventually be known, and potentially judged/punished. Who will control that process? That remains to be seen. Hopefully it is the people, not the current powers that be. As technology becomes more powerful eventually we will be able to catch every cyber criminal, calculate every instance of gaslighting, and financial terrorism, and fraud, etc. The cheating bullying lying bastards will not get away with it forever. But yeah, great comment, your experience really matches mine and I identify with how you felt and feel. I know that I was only accepted when I was bringing in new investment by putting out great content. I was tolerated. But once I finally had a good bunch of grassroots curation support, and decided to make my very first powerdown, they nailed me. They pretended @MediKatie and I were farming money off the platform and hurting the community, along with other "crimes". None of it was true. Did we vote for each other's posts and comments, yes, but not unfairly whatsoever. I would tend to give her 1 or 2 votes a day, myself 1 or 2 votes a day, and everything else went to manual curation of other people's content. They couldn't get us for anything else, so they pretended we had self voted too much. Bullshit. If we had, it sure didn't work! Were we making millions like they were? Nope, barely pennies per day. We were just grinding from zero like most other non-insiders. Always told we could someday withdraw and begin to profit.... but once that day came we were denied. You know, I put in more than 4 years of fulltime work on Steem/Hive, not to mention a lot of time and effort spent by my wife, and our team of canna-models the @GirlsofGreen. All to create content for the blockchain, original and high quality stuff that people want to see. And yet we never got the support of the big curators, who prefer curating each other, and themselves, and lucrative chosen projects. We had to get tiny votes from minnows, day by day, putting out piles of amazing content just to equal the payout of one of their single-image meme posts. YEARS of sacrifice, and I invested 0.2 BTC to power up our accounts. That was always welcome. But to ever withdraw funds, that's not allowed. They suddenly decide you are abusing the system and can't be allowed any further payouts. And you will be downvoted toward full censorship if you continue. I was actually told "if you struggle it will only feel worse", like rapists say to victims. Totally sick fuckers. They delight in intimidating, controlling, abusing, and harming others. Censorists, liars, blockchain terrorists, nonconsentual sadists of the worst kind. A disgusting cabal of damned souls, most of whom are unable to stop what they're doing or become ripped apart by their fellow devils.
I absolutely could have just sucked up, laughed at them nuking newbies and probably been very rich by now though lol
Yeah but you're smart and wise, not just another pretty face. And you have integrity too. So that was a possibility but then again not really! Glad to have you on the good team.
sometimes having integrity sucks a bit for the wallet right lol almost all my issues on hive came from standing up for people that I saw getting treated badly and not joining in with nuking newbies, just as I stand up for things I feel are unjust here. I feel you on it though it doesn't always pay but hey at least we know we always acted with integrity in life. <3 I would love for blurt to do well and all those who actually had the balls to stand up and walk away form something like that could get some reward.
The good guys need a win! It would be very nice to see.