A recent comment to me during my absence is the catalyst for this post. The comment was basically that much like Steem and Hive, the highest rewarded posts seem to gravitate towards posts about the platform itself. In laymans terms, a circle jerk with a strong flavor of virtue signaling.
Hey look at me, I'm a company man!
While there is truth to that, there is so much more to this place than that and I'm going to discuss my views on this. In order to do this, I need to go back to my start here at Blurt when things were vastly different to how they are today.
When I began powering down at Hive, it was with mixed emotions.
I had developed quite a large community of like minded folks. People who could see through the so called official narratives and call bullshit.
At times, this also involved some I considered way out in left field, chasing windmills that in my opinion didn't exist. But with just enough overlap interesting conversations and connections were made.
I did alright as far as rewards went on Hive (and Steem before that. Surprisingly I didn't get much in the way of down votes, other than occasionally some from THE WHALE who was having a beef with someone else who voted my post. I more often saw crude comments left for some who would comment to me on my posts and their comment would get the down vote.
I finally decided enough and began my power down. Knowing as much as I would miss many acquaintances I'd grown fond of, that I just didn't feel right watching the censorship and censureship hurting so many I'd grown to care for.
Plus, I knew I would miss the economic system.
I know many say this isn't about the money, but I'm not one of them.
While I've never made any realized gains from doing this, I do hope sometime within a couple of years tops this can begin changing my life and allow me a freedom that the money can offer.
I grew quickly at Steem at appreciating how much I can help others while i wait for that time and grow my stake.
Helping others buy a meal, or maybe put some gas in their car. Or maybe to help towards some medical or what not.
While the money isn't there for my countries economic model (yet), it actually is for many members of the block chain economy. I love that I can help another like this despite at times worrying about how the hell I'm going to pay something that can't be ignored (like right now, lol). It's awesome knowing one can help another NOW. Life can be quite taxing when one has many problems and no solutions and no one to help.
I mentioned above about the censorship/censureship at the other chains. When I found out Blurt didn't offer the flags nor rep system that could grey your posts out, I decided to test the waters.
But there wasn't a market here at that time for the conspiracy (red pilled truth in my opinion) discussions. In fact there wasn't much of interest for myself topic wise.
My first month or two was spent redesigning who I am on a social blockchain. Humbling myself to using a translator as others were doing for myself, I began finding a few of other nationalities/languages that had something I could grab onto, and in two such instances shockingly someone i would come to call friend. Something I don't do in my life really.
I contented myself to focus however on building relationships based on a new criteria while I waited for others of similar intent who desire the same bubbles of conspiracy as myself to find their way here.
Poor Rycharde was probably at times afraid to stop lest I run into him, as he was the ONLY one who has the same conspiracy truther viewpoint as myself. I used him for my sanity here, both in relishing the thoughts he shared as well as stalking his comments to find others who were not so easily findable in the new section.
One certainly wouldn't find the folks I'm drawn to for mental exercise on most topics in the Trending or Hot section. These type of posts as was pointed out at the beginning don't get the upvote action that say a post on
Something something something isn't Blurt great
would or will garner.
My truther posts logically will only appeal to a small segment of society, made much smaller in this type of setting. I sometimes see the votes for example on Rycharde posts and think its a shame that one of the smartest men I've interacted with many times can't even get 1000 Blurt in votes while something something lame lame Blurt gets like 2500 Blurt.
But
That's what many here wish for the various reasons they do. Just as I desire what I do for the reasons that I do.
I think for the truther corner that is being fleshed out now, it's actually coming along quite nicely. I believe it will be like the penny doubling, or a boulder gaining momentum as it goes downhill.
The burden is on us to both create what we wish to see more of, and then reward what we wish to see more of.
I feel it's not reasonable to expect that many of the large accounts, especially if they are a foundation account ran by an employee doesn't find value in these posts. Don't up vote them. In fact, given the mindset of the person running one of the foundation accounts I saw mentioned by the person that prompted me to write this, one would expect to be unfollowed and not get votes. They are very much into the narrative that there is only one side that is wrong in a conflict right now.
I believe they are wrong, as well as several others here. But that's the beauty of this system. We can disagree and to the extent we have stake, we can reward elsewhere that we do agree.
We each have out places here. To be sculptors in the terrain that is being built called Blurt.
I've seen much sculpted in my 15 months here compared to the barren mold I first met.
The burden is ours to carve out what we want here.
And what we carve out, unlike elsewhere can't be taken from us, can't be censored away.
If we want things to be rewarded more, then two things need to happen.
Increase our personal stake
Be a light that draws others of similar view and intent into coming, investing both their thoughts and monetary contributions.
I see a bright future for Blurt for the truther community given the vast censorship taking place online towards it. I see it probably attracting some folks who make me look conservative in my truther views, yet that's good too as usually these folks make for some entertaining reading and sometimes give me new angles to consider.
As we grow, this will all just get bigger. Growing until such a point that as a community we have so here that perhaps it will be common to see the most heavily rewarded posts from the red pill perspective equaling or outshining the
Something something something isn't Blurt great
And I'll still be here plodding along slowly growing my account as I wait to reward and interact with those who find their home here where their voices can't be quieted.
In closing, I can point to my own blog as proof there isn't censoring taking place here. I've at times been critical of the foundation, of the largest whales here etc. Not of the person behind those things (except in one case) but the ideas and such. And I'm still here, still growing and interacting with many great people from around the world. Nothing I've said has been censored, there has been no punitive actions taken against me when I've been at my most controversial.
If you ask me, that's all we can ask for.
A place to carve out as our own. Free from attack other than the times that ideas are challenged by opposing views. If done properly that's the gold standard for learning. And if someone makes it personal, you can decide to either mute them, or let them keep shouting to the community who they are as their words reflect on themselves.
Seems to me this is all falling into place. And with that, I'll now end my post that describes my vision for a Blurt that is more than
Something something something isn't Blurt great
While ironically being a
Something something something isn't Blurt great
type of post.
Gracias por compartir tu publicación en #Blurt. Tu esfuerzo significa mucho para nosotros; por eso has recibido un voto positivo.
Te invito a votar por @blurtlatam como Testigo / Witness
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Only one person benefits, having multiple accounts, voting any nonsense he posts for himself, Selecting poor and junk content. Oops I was thinking out loud.
Yeah, I was sickened quickly after coming here when I caught on how many accounts the person had, and how many of them were getting sweet upvotes from the foundation account he controls, lol. Coupled with the many pretend conversations and curation he does between the accounts my initial impression changed drastically.
Every now and then he will try the multiple accounts on one of my posts, but I started subtly calling out that I'm aware of what's going on and if it continues I'll start educating others as to the dynamics.
Having said all of that, it is not anyones right here to expect a vote from any other account which was why I mentioned it. For whatever reason the person we discuss above has permission to do as they do from the owner of the stake, and as one who respects property rights I'll defend the use here as well, just exercise at the same time my own rights and no longer support the person with my stake.
It's people like you who brought me here along with my fellow 'brat-packers' who are slowly joining us and yes it's weird to find instead of being censored posts that don't 'fit' are shunned instead. It's all good tho because otherwise I'd be preaching to the choir which is what was happening on FB for me.
I prefer a mixed bag coz there is room to educate here, at least those who might stumble across something and find their curiosity awoken.
I know exactly who you're talking about and the old saying 'you catch more flies with sugar' springs to mind. I do enjoy his rants but don't like it when it tips over to being genuinely upset and lashing out. We all like a good rant now and again and I hope he'll stay and keep ranting.
Keep on trucking. It's early days.
I think some don't understand that shunning is also a form of free speech under the freedom to associate umbrella. And at times that can be preferable when both sides understand that all that comes from engaging is a regurgitating of the same points of view considered truth to each side.
I also prefer a mixed bag. It has several uses.
It demonstrates both for myself and witnesses watching the exchange that either my assertion or the counter assertion is correct if there is disagreement. I've learned much in life while being educated on my ignorance that I held firmly to as a truth. As well as taught others when I knew my shit and then was helped by someone demanding me illuminate angles that were lacking in my presentation.
It also allows for a demonstration if all parties are of a mind to showcase we are not in most cases our perceptions and beliefs, and that we can find common ground by seeing the other through the talking points.
While I have been known to have rants of my own, they are typically specific with a goal to their usage. I'm not a fan of rants that are made for the sole intent of stirring the pot just to hurt others with no real goal other than that. I've always for the most part preferred if it reaches the stage of no return where I just want to hurt others walk away unless I'm somehow blocked from doing so. Seems a waste of time and energy and usually forces collateral damage on others who weren't involved. When I left Hive for example, I just quietly powered down and left. Didn't tell anyone or make any big production out of it.
Yeh I see that, rants need to be constructive not destructive.
I quietly powered down too but I also copied and deleted a lot of my posts over here and left the link only on hive. Hopefully it will lure more over here, that was my intention anyway. No dramatics, just up and left with a forwarding address. If you had a lot of followers you should try that.
Cancel culture is absolutely a stain on modern society. People should be able to speak their mind.
Exactly. One way of speaking it that is often not considered is silence, or abstaining from supporting ideas one does not wish to embrace as well. If more understood this they wouldn't necessarily seek to stop ALL from embracing things they don't.
I like your view on blurt. You know when I first came to the hive blockchain, I made a comment to a post, and a supposedly experienced user replied to it. Words more, words less he told me: hive is not a job, and if you are looking for a job, this is not the place for you. Ironically this character makes a living from blockchain, which is absurd from the above comment.
That said, and analyzing the whole picture now why the fuck does someone have to tell me what to do, it was all wrong. Now we have to build a free network where we can express ourselves without fear, and why not, work on it.
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Lol all the ones saying it’s not about the money do 🤣
There is money, but it's not about it. 😂
im one of those ppl I would never say I don't want the money I would love to earn good money here for blogging . BUT I won't do anything against my morals for money, i.e financially support the hive platform now I see just how bad and deep the corruption runs.
En realidad estoy de acuerdo con esto. Creo que muchos malinterpretan el lado social de esto, lo cual es triste, ya que está en el nombre de la plataforma social.
A más de uno le he dicho aquí que no soy su jefe. No trabajan para mí. Que si va a haber alguna conexión tiene que ser a nivel personal de mutuo acuerdo e interés. No soy el señor de nadie y los que consiguen un hueco en mi comunidad están ahí porque me apetece interactuar con ellos.
Si quiero leer información árida y aburrida, Internet ya está lleno de eso.
Sí estoy de acuerdo en que si la persona te dijo lo que podías o no podías hacer eso también estuvo mal.
I actually agree with this somewhat. I think many misunderstand the social side of this which is sad as it's in the name social platform.
I've told more than a few people here that I'm not their boss. They don't work for me. That if there is to be any connection it has to be on a personal level of mutual agreement and interest. I'm not anyone's sir and those who get a spot in my community are there because I look forward to interacting with them.
If I want to read dry boring information the internet is already filled with that.
I do agree if the person told you what you could or couldn't do that was also wrong.
Tiene muchas lecturas, de hecho esto para mi es un pasatiempo productivo. Ya que me divierto y gano monedas, hacemos comunidad y amigos también. ¿Pero decir que no es el lugar para mi?. La idea es atraer a nuevos usuarios y orientarlos para lograr una red sana.
Creo que nos estamos perdiendo debido a los puntos de vista contextuales. Por favor, permítanme que me explaye.
He visto a muchos que ven esto como un trabajo quejarse de que no reciben votos de valor. Insinúan que se les deben esos votos.
Su planteamiento era que esto era un trabajo y que ellos habían hecho el trabajo, ahora se les debe la paga.
Aquí no se le debe nada a nadie, no hay sueldo. Esto sólo funciona si uno desarrolla conexiones que salvan el espacio, el lenguaje, etc.
Para los que vinieron pensando que esto era como trabajar para un hombre en los campos, etc., este lugar no es lo que piensan y vinieron con expectativas que los llevan al fracaso.
I think we are losing one another due to contextual views. Please allow me to elaborate.
I've seen many who view this as a job complain that they get no votes of value. They insinuate they are owed these votes.
Their approach was this was a job and they did the work, now they are owed pay.
No one here is owed anything, there is no paycheck. This works only if one develops connections that bridge space, language etc.
For those who came thinking this was like working for a man down at the fields etc this place is not what they think and they came here with expectations setting them up for failure.
Claro, ya entiendo tu punto amigo. Pero la verdad no me refería a eso en el sentido de un pago o que nos debieran algo en la plataforma, sino al hecho de trabajar para construir tu marca, crear relaciones y avanzar como usuario notable dentro de la plataforma.
Sí, de acuerdo. Pienso que en lugar de un trabajo, es una mezcla de nuestro propio negocio que depende de las conexiones sociales. Cuanto más valor tengan las conexiones reales es lo que determina el éxito de uno.
He aconsejado a muchos a lo largo de los años que no dejen comentarios genéricos porque veían una gran cartera y querían ese dulce upvote. En su lugar, busquen publicaciones que resuenen profundamente y que no sólo puedan comentar, sino que lo hagan con conocimiento o pasión o, preferiblemente, con ambos.
Así será como uno hace crecer su círculo (negocio) y también será descubierto por otros debido a esas interacciones genuinas.
Yes, ok. I think of it that instead of a job, it's a mix of our own business that hinges on social connections. The more value there are in real connections is what determines ones success.
I've advised many over the years not to leave generic comments because they saw a large wallet and wanted that sweet upvote. To instead look for posts that resonate deeply that they can not only comment but do so with either knowledge or passion or preferably both.
Those will be how one grows their circle (business) and also be discovered by others because of those genuine interactions.
lol I was thinking that this is a something something something isn't blurt great post, and got a great chuckle out of your last line.
I feel this way too. There is a community here of people who are like-minded to me. I follow only them, and come here for information and viewpoints that are not accepted in other spaces. I believe distressing conditions will crop up again and again, because humans are human. I don't think we can control conditions to thwart negative behavior, if there is even such a thing as negative behavior.
I feel the same way about Hive. Eventually, sands will shift and the culture will change, but not if those of us who don't quite fit in with things as they are now all up and leave. I disagree with the censorship and control, and have made that clear to a couple of top dogs and their sycophants. My creative writing nearly always carries a message about how I feel. Since creative writing is not something something something isn't hive or splinterlands great, these posts make very little, but do get quite a bit of engagement, unusual on hive. That's what I am there for. Making little dents in the force fields people have erected around their powers of thought.
I don't hold anything against those who still post there. I only mention it to those who are triggered by what occurs there to seek their reflection on why they feed that beast with their time, intellectual property that then becomes owned by those they are at odds with.
I recognized almost a year before joining Blurt I didn't like how it was making me feel to watch some with power be dicks to others simply because they could get away with it. I saw many I grew to care for have meltdowns, which bothered me greatly. I also missed many who left after their meltdowns.
The final straw for me there was I had named another (article61) beneficiary of a post. He was fighting to keep his niece out of foster care and needed money for legal representation. He was part of a larger group I belonged to called family protection. He was one of the real heroes there, raising so much money by raffling his silver coins off for donations given to the family protection group.
The whale that took the greatest pleasure in destroying accounts knocked 2/3rds of the rewards off just because he could. I knew then it was time to just quietly power down and ride off into the sunset.
lol good. The irony wasn't lost on me before I began the post.
I have tailored my content there so that I don't get downvoted. I realize this is caving to the slave masters' wishes. I don't even need the money! But many do, and many give to others, and have no choice but to completely avoid certain content, and to be careful what they say on any site in case word gets back to bigwigs on hive. Downvotes fines, fees, and punishment for not thinking as one is 'supposed" to think. A system of justice that is uncontrolled. Very dangerous!
But but but... my friends!
So I won't be getting any whale votes because of one single comment I made here. I hope, some day, TPTB on Hive see how controlling they are, how insidious their control is, and how dangerous their actions are. Not holding my breath though!
They not only do see it, they take great pleasure in it.
The few conversations I have had with them make me think otherwise. They are very focused on the money, protecting the money, and equate health with lots of money. I think this misleads them some, as it does all of us. Probably the true purpose of money is to corrupt us, divide us, and enslave us. Few of us escape. I think they believe they are doing what is best for Hive, as any business person will do what is best for the business, but not what is best for each and every employee. It's complicated!
BUT, I believe they violate one of Hive's primary missions , as I understand it, which is to NOT be controlling. Maybe I dreamt that.
I think their actions demonstrate quite accurately the joy they take in demolishing accounts. They go out of their way often to make the targeting personal, which would be absent if it was strictly a monetary drive. They derive pleasure when they can force a meltdown.
Meltdowns love company. It's meltdowns all around these parts it seems, as if they are in vogue. I did have some calm and reasonable conversations with acidyo, until I said the wrong thing on blurt, which isn't even in his control. It was an issue on Hive that needs addressing, one of the more insidious ways of controlling accounts (via granting or withholding curation, not via downvoting). I hoped we would discuss it further, he seems more reasonable than most of the others, but...
The most recent meltdowns I'm seeing here at Blurt baffle me. I'm not sure why the topics became the subject of meltdown, especially when the one has been over for about a month with the person retracting their initial position.
He reveals that he has power over your account there if you use that chain. I would suggest the fact he stalks you (or someone within that circle reports back to the gang) reveals much about the tight control they hold and the swiftness they will take joy at punishing those who don't toe the line. His approach (I didn't read it so speaking in general) could have been to elicit a conversation on whatever it was you said that he took umbrage with. But no, the moment you did something frowned upon, the immediate go to was no longer being reasonable. To me that suggests someone that relishes flexing on another.
🤬!🆔
I have a sympathy for the whole what you said thar ☝️
Now to distract...
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Vert few care about truth and even fewer care to write about it. Like you and Rycharde, I believe in disseminating as much truth as possible in the short time I have left -- tilting at windmills, as you put it. What worries me most about Blurt in addition to the circle jerk is that it will turn into another Weku where the value will be bled off before it ever reaches monetization.
I believe strongly as more realize they can post uncensored here that Blurt will become very popular and the price will reflect that. Then we can have a truther circle jerk. 😇
I hope you're right. I see a lot of garbage posts like on Weku: "Look at the picture of this flower" that people post just for the money. There's no quality of content. As soon as Weku hit the exchanges the value plummeted and within 2 weeks it was worthless. I'd hate to see that happen here.
Blurt was sold to those of us who came over from Hive for it's freedom of speech. If that continues then the growth of interesting content will also grow.
I wish I could access my Hive account, I'd convert it all to Blurt. BTW, I posted another installment on the chapter on Religion yesterday
why can't you access ur hive account? I didn't have much but converting it made a big difference. Thanx will go read ur post after I deal with my replies. x
I guess I told a little too much truth. I can't log in or even access my posts. I can't even access Hive on Discord. Looks like I pissed off someone powerful
Isn't that illegal? Surely that's your intellectual property AND your crypto!! That is theft. A crime.
Blurt will do just fine. :)
I think you know very well about these three blockchains, hive, steemit and also Blurt.
With that experience, hopefully you can apply it here, and again Blurt will really need programs that will develop in the future. As you said that Blurt currently doesn't have a flag pattern on every post or comment, so people can make dirty posts or comments that have a low rating or gray, I also think that it's good to fill it out ASAP, because there are many it will happen in the future.
It will cost them blurt , and it will ( by the norm ) give no profit .
And why cancel downgrade or ban them if you can simply ignore ?
We have no rep other on here then what comes from what we post comment and reply on here .
It's not digitally measured or even saved on the blockchain , it lives among the users .
Any other system or app to prevent trolling and dirty shit from posting is always open to abuse and corruption , so please no flagging or rep status on Blurt . If i see bad shit , ill just move on and ignore it .
;-)
I think if someone is doing something wrong and I let it or I ignore it then the person doesn't feel guilty, and even he might repeat it because no one is against it, the purpose is just to preserve a platform that is running well, and maybe Blurt in the future will be known by many circles, not only for personal gain but as a cryptocurrency-based world media.
That's my opinion and logic, however it goes back to the authorities here, we can't force them, we only give advice, good or bad, back to them.
If you really feel like it , just comment your disapproval to open a discussion and let that account know it should feel guilty , and do not vote on the content .
They will get zero votes , telling , no one is in favor of them ,.. but probably against them . There is no need for all users to somehow "down" vote unwanted content , because , my unwanted differs probably from your unwanted , or even the unwanted of many others .
Freespeech , it is not only the good speech , it's also the bad ,.. we can't ignore that fact i guess , so we might better learn to deal with it . ;-)
That's your view, and may fall into the category of Freedom. Makes sense.
Hopefully that way things don't happen that we don't want in the future.
If they do we have the power to walk away. I've done it now twice (Steem and Hive).
I think if you look at stolen posts they don't fare well here. Between not being curated and the math for the pool being designed as it is, the impact is minimal.
Also, as I mentioned in this post the burden is on us to find and grow an audience that our words or creations will resonate with. No one is owed a vote, and on the flip side of that if I find value in something and decide to use my stake claim to support it then that is between myself and the author. Anyone who would insist on inserting themselves between the stakeholder and author are not for property rights.
Why did that ridiculous thing happen (about stolen posts)?
yes, because there is no firmness from them, otherwise it might decrease, in the sense that it is not non-existent.
I don't know clearly the program of this platform, whether it's about Freedom or otherwise, meaning if they want the platform to run well then new regulations will be here soon, it will greatly affect the value of $Blurt going forward, so the new Whales will come in here.
But it all comes back to those who run it.
It happens because someone made the decision to copy and paste the work another created. For a myriad of reasons.
I believe in most cases it's because the person has low self esteem and is afraid of being themselves. They think they will be rejected, or have nothing to offer another would value.
A shame really. I'm convinced EVERYONE is a genius at what interests them.
It is not the fault of those who run it someone else decided to be a thief. Anymore than it is your fault that one of your neighbors might decides to break into other peoples houses in your neighborhood. The burden for that lies on the one who took the action, not those victimized by it.
So much this
And never will :)
How can you know that?
Believe or not, this not my uber conspiratorial mind at work here, I think the point was made to me by @owasco or @northern-tracey.(apologies if it was someon else).
Theoretically....
...What would stop the top witness changing the code, and (for example), make it identical to the system currently on steem or hive.
'it never will' ....How can you know this...?
Is there some kind of 'unalterable code' that would prevent witnesses from doing it , or something ?
Ok, let me rephrase this.
Under the current structure it will never change and I'll explain how I can know this.
You may or may not remember the recent contest of wills between several whales and the Foundation. That resulted in many whales and others of the German community powering down which in turn devastated the value of Blurt to its current value over the last month.
That battle initiated with the whales in question (really one was leading the charge) in trying to force a code change that would have stripped property rights they disagreed with. The Foundation tried to find a compromise which was rejected as it didn't check off all of their demands.
So then the whale I mentioned tried to force a vote to expand what was to be limited. This was thwarted again by the Foundation who had enough witness votes to stop the forced vote for code change.
This then expanded the reaction by the whale who was seeking to limit others property rights (a freedom of expression). Who then took many shots at the co founder in such ways as calling him a dictator. Which ultimately after many weeks of this resulted in the co founder declaring that no one who was backing the whale with a badge he desired one place on their profile would be receiving an airdrop from him for his Game State project that is still forthcoming.
That is the condensed version, and I wrote on it a few times as things developed.
The actions of the co founder and the witnesses that stood their ground with him gives me a peace of mind that there will never be flags here.
This fork was made by the co founders @megadrive and @jacobgadikian to correct what they saw as major flaws with Steem. Which largely was the flag tool which steals stake claims while censoring.
There have been times I've been vocal AGAINST the foundations ideas. I was Highly critical of the desire by one of them to get involved as a chain in the Russia/Ukraine conflict. On my post on that the co founders both responded, and not in an attacking way. They've never sought any retribution for my expression of thought that was contrary to theirs. NEVER.
They both believe in freedom of expression and property rights. As does @rycharde who is also a large part of the foundation as he designs the math used for our reward pool.
So while nothing is ever permanently set in stone, I believe it's safe to know there will be no flags which runs counter to why the chain was founded and why so many who are here (witnesses included) came here.
They respect freedom of expression, even when it doesn't align with their own. It's that simple.
It's been a long time since I stopped by to see what's happening on Blurt and especially what you're doing.
My heart bleeds when I read what you have written. Have they clouded your clear mind or have you gone to the dark side?
You were always a compass to follow but now you seem to have lost direction. I write this as your friend and not to criticise you.
Have you really forgotten the beginnings? The abolition of the delegations was only a stopgap, we were not happy with it either. The beginning was to find a way to prevent @upvu from getting as big as it did with Steem.
If you're interested, upvu now determines a large part of the top20 on Steem. Ironically, he's just using his ownership rights to do that. If he keeps this up he might actually take Steem under his control if it isn't already.
I and my friends had quite different plans than taking away anyone's property rights. Witness votes, for example, were to be split so that no single account could take control. As a side effect, Megadrive would no longer have been able to determine the Top20, as is the case now. Maybe he didn't like that and that's why he chased us away?
As you noticed, he and Jacob did not respond to my open letter. Why? Why did he and Jacob remain silent and take a stand on the lies spread by Megadrive?
Well, for me Blurt is now very far away. And it is only with this great distance that I see how bad it has become. The energy that prevails here is comparable to that in the outside world. Part of the people still believe in the goodness of their so-called leaders.
In the real world you didn't fall for it, here on Blurt you obviously do. This saddens me and I hope the shock of realisation does not hit you too hard.
I wish you all the best with all my heart and take care of yourself!
Danke, mein Freund!
Yep, that sums up the dispute - it sadly got tangled up with the second issue of "the war", so ended up with double-rage, which could at some future overshadow the original clash of ideas.
In hindsight it was (in my opinion) the point where Mega said fuck this shit after many weeks of being attacked. While I wasn't in favor of the war stance, as I posted my thoughts on, watching what happened between Mega and Double-u during that was like being a spectator at a train wreck as it happens. Watching as words that shouldn't be said were thrown out viciously. Smack out at someone enough times with no reprisal often leads the attacker into assuming weakness, as this demonstrated.
Then the smacker is often left bewildered when the reprisal finally comes and they find out they weren't standing on as solid a ground as they had tricked themselves into believing.
true ;-)
Aha! So you actually do the math in these parts?! I'm pleased to know that!
yeah, if you're interested there are quite a few older posts on the maths of the economic system.
I still think the original steem idea was naive.
social media + money changes behaviour totally.
money + social --> MONEY + social
Which is why, I suspect, the big socmedia sites are wary of going down this route.
Tipping is different, as is zero-sum.
Ok, cool. (not your rage, the understanding )
Thanks for that reply - I know nothing of what you've just illustrated.
...did all this happen during the time I stopped posting , trying to organize my life to build blurt house?
(and failing miserably - due to 80% my old customer base all getting ill/dying from the clot shot...bugger)
Good to know .
These 'dilemma horns' that I find myself sitting on , are a real pain in the ass...
It was building up for months. I wrote on it a few times. It reached its climax about 3-4 weeks ago which is why the price has fallen so dramatically as several whales among others have powered down and left.
I'm really glad to hear that you feel that way, I know that's what we both wanted
thanks
It's a shame if that never would have happened here, it should have gotten better. :(
Getting late here in Thailand. Wish I had time to comment more, but I'll leave you with this... ..
Eye opening article from you. Thank you for sharing. I was not aware of your experience. I'm thrilled to be here in such good company without any of "them" and their down-vote button.....control freaks is what they are.
I couldn't agree more with the points you made! Re-Blurted!
Thank you
😀
Great article I feel very similarly
Thank you :)
it gets exhausting talking to the same people all he time and feels like you're in a echo chamber at times, really interesting day and age to be a critical thinker.
It's always been this way I think. I loved the books written by Mark Twain as a child, and even more so the words of the author (Samuel Clemens) behind that pen name.
His observations then on the common person illustrated a disgust for the lack of thinking.
the last one made me laugh lol thanks for that
What you just said is not quite far from the truth @practicalthought!