@opidia is very generous and helpful
and has over a million blurt
i see no reason why they shouldn't be able to post whatever they want and vote however they wish
https://blurt.one/blurtmeme/@opidia/very-interesting
RE: If I Was Still On Hive
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I agree, I just said community tends to vote on self voting without a need to downvote, it seems a lot of people don't like excessive self voting as she doesn't get much on her posts outside of her own vote. I am not saying she shouldn't be able to self vote at all, she holds stake and it's her right. I am just saying the community has pretty much voted at this point they do not like it judging by the engagement she gets, or did last time I looked which, admittedly was ages ago now, since she is the only person on blurt I have ever muted.
This has been my position on self votes and VTS. Folks will determine for themselves if they support those doing such, and overwhelmingly folks haven't been rewarding those who act with more self interest as you mention here.
This is a crude analogy and not meant to imply those using such are trash.
But there is a saying that the trash will take itself out. This is a much cruder way of saying that water rises to its own level.
Give folks the rope to be who they are, and they will almost always run with it. This allows those who find the direction repugnant to look elsewhere and those who support it to do so as well.
good point
mute or ignore
in economic terms, self-voting is no different from voting for others
I put down voting instead of self voting
It's interesting... the topic of self-voting (which on Hive was an excuse to downvote etc. those who picked the low hanging forbidden fruit dangling above their heads).
I think that if it was something that was so taboo... for purposes of user-friendliness (and new users especially) it would be best that the code simply did not allow for it... rather than have a bunch of humans taking it UPon themselves to police and stirUP trouble (like on Hive).
Because the code does make self-voting possible... it shouldn't be considered taboo. However... Is it good for the price of Blurt? No. I don't believe so... as it releases inflation into the system while also opening the door to low value content (SPAM even) being rewarded and highlighted.
Still... the system does allow a self-vote.
But I think there is something being missed when someone self-votes their own content. When you do that you give yourself a little Financial Capital... but I believe it comes with a cost to ones Social Capital and how others perceive you. (big picture vs small picture)
That's why I choose NOT to self-vote (even for ranking my comments for visibility) but rather choose to fall into the arms of the community where value is concerned.
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i'm not sure "self-voting" is any different than BUYING ADVERTISING SPACE
"self-voting" is "self-promotion"
and anyone with enough stake to put themselves on the all-trending page is also necessarily a big contributor to the value of the community token
first by buying, and second by holding the token