Hi @megadrive, I just wanted to let you know that I'm absolutely blown away with your decisions on how you think Blurt should be promoted and who you support here with your very large upvotes, and that is not all.
Last week I saw @ctime (a huge investor in Blurt and incredible supporter of the user base) voice his opinions about the parasitic entity called @upvu and how you chose to do nothing about correcting this problem but instead only make "do nothing" excuses. After taking some time to research the issue in detail, I fully support @ctime and you can see his post about it here.
Furthermore when I first visited the blurt.blog home page I was taken back by the image of the lady with the hair covering one eye and the occult imagery all over the place. I almost did not invest and join just based on that alone. Thank you for changing it. I'd really like to know what you were thinking when that image was chosen to be put front and center.
Now what really got me motivated to write this post and withdraw my witness vote from you, is having a look at @yakubenko's recent posts. Instead of support the community in whole with your mega up-votes like @ctime does, you choose to concentrate your votes into virtue signaling anything and everything pro Ukraine especially with a Blurt logo attached to it.
There is nothing wrong with supporting her posts but this is just over the top, while you ignore people here who are really making a difference putting lots of time and energy into growing the platform. Why don't you upvote @georgetachia's post titled "Blurt Now In The Centre Of Commerce Nigeria" you can see here.
Is he the wrong skin color? Is he from the wrong country? Why don't you support everything I do? After all, my ancestry is almost entirely from Ukraine. It's clear you seemingly go out of your way to support all things Ukraine especially with the blurt logo on it.
The only thing that I can commend you on is your tech savy skill to create such a blockchain but you sure as hell don't know how to sell it. In fact you are doing the complete opposite. You have successfully run off over 10 million Blurt from @double-u and company having the price drop in half, and I hold you directly responsible. As @double-u was entirely correct even though I'm not a fan of how he expressed himself.
It looks like your do nothing attitude with @upvu is priming @ctime to make another major price dump. This time my and other's efforts promoting the hell out of Blurt across all three blockchains will probably not be enough to bring the price back. Maybe I need to dump my half million Blurt before he dumps his nearly 13 million Blurt!
Your concentration on supporting selfies with a Ukraine/Blurt photo while ignoring so many people putting serious effort into really making a difference here is frankly a total disgrace. You are clearly on the "Go Woke Go Broke" train and it's damn time people here stand up and call you out on it before you harm this platform even further.
I'm almost in dismay that I bought half a million Blurt not fully understanding that our top man here has no problem running off investment and watching the price drop. Hence screwing investors like myself to support an extremely one sided political view with Blurts logo on it. This is all while posting occult imagery front and center on the blurt.blog main page.
It's gonna take a lot to turn my support around in favor of you. I'm here to see this place succeed as a business. I'm here to encourage the price to go up and the user base to go up as well. I'm not here to promote Ukraine with Blurts name on it while ignoring so much good that is currently growing the platform, making you rich as the price increases.
Why don't you surprise us all and spread your votes around like @ctime and fix the @upvu issue? Maybe then I'd be happy to support you again and encourage others to do the same. You can start by dropping the endless Ukraine virtue signaling tied to the Blurt logo. Until then I suggest other large investor here remove their witness support with a full understanding that you have totally failed to do what is best for Blurt and the users and investors of the platform.
Note to @yakubenko and the Ukrainian people on Blurt: I fully support you guys, my heart goes out to what is going on in Ukraine. I lived in Ukraine for four months in 2018. My blood is mostly Ukrainian. I support donating to the refugees and so on. But tying Blurt to an extremely heated political topic is frankly dumb business practice and to have the founder lopsidedly support all things Ukraine while ignoring practically everything else going here I find shocking and irresponsible.
I find it interesting how many folks are against private property rights. I'm not going to rewrite the many thousands of words I've already written on this. But will sum it up with what others do with their private stake is no one elses business. Unless you believe that you have some right to how others are choosing to use that stake. I do find it hypoctirical when folks are against the VTS but upvote their own posts 100%. The only difference is one probably gets more of the cut after the self vote.
No one ran anyone off. After months of being pushed and insulted megadrive finally hit back. His hitting back consisting of saying those who were pushing others to use a badge stating they didn't use VTS or be shunned wouldn't get an airdrop from his upcoming project. This was further (and in my opinion not a good shot, but then I wasn't the one being hit at for months) exacerbated when it was pointed out that the circle pushing the non VTS or else scenario heavily voted for one another with much of their shares, as well as some heavily self voting.
No one was forced out. They all could have stayed, all kept their non VTS banners and said fuck the airdrop, which they did without staying. Do I wish they would have stayed, I sure do and not because of the token value which has largely recovered. I wish they would have stayed because outside of the drama of trying to tell others how to use their property overall they were good for Blurt. I miss one very much as we had grown to be friends.
Your comment regarding skin color is not a good look from where I sit, and is unfounded as some other charges I've seen you make elsewhere with others.
I would also point out that megadrive did do something regarding upvu, he stood firm in the face of coercion and verbal attacks as several large whales tried to force this chain to allow others to dictate how one uses their private property. I commend him in not buckling. He tried his best to ignore them, even after they tried forcing a vote that failed. He ignored them for some time with many insults. Then he finally had enough and let them know that there would be no airdrop. I probably would have made that decision with the ones calling me out of name the first time I was called out of name.
I'm going to close out as I really didn't have time nor energy for this, but felt something needed saying.
If one is an advocate for property rights, then one doesn't get involved how others are using their property, whether it is VTS or self voting.
I can tell by your response that you’re a very insightful person. So far you’re the one who’s given the most accurate description of what happened with the gang that left Blurt a few weeks ago.
There was a lot more that went on behind the scenes that we didn’t make public for the sake of people’s dignity.
BTW, in the end, nobody was excluded from the airdrop. The snapshot has already been taken, and everyone who has attested will get their airdrop when the token launches.
Glad to hear this as I think it’s inportant, once ppl start getting excluded from airdrops because of personal grievances that’s rocky territory for a site that’s aiming to be somewhat decentralised.
What's behind the scenes ? Is it a blockchain community ? What airdrop? You mean steem vs blurt ? Or something else. Anyway, I'll be happy to know what's going on behind the scenes. Maybe there is a post you can refer to, or an account. Sometimes it is really hard to be aware of everything going on. I consider everyone has a word to say, no matter how much the stake he/she has. I'm still here at least and a lot are.
From @ultravioletmag...spot on.
I'm not against people's property rights not being exercised with-in a given system. While UPVU is up and running, by all mean I should probably use it too then, like why not? More money for me right? But I support changing the system. I see a difference maybe you don't.
The original steemit system was flawless with no delegation option. Once the distortions happened, the gaming of the system began. That is what upvu is, a gaming of an otherwise highly successful flawless economic model. The gaming of this system acts like a parasite on the whole, eventually it will take it over, just like we have seen on Steemit. If you and the platform in general are ok with that in the name of property rights, than I will certainly take that into consideration when timing a top to this market.
If you don't dislike me after writing this post, I'll makes some jokes and up-vote you on the next. I'm very well aware you are not a fan of my hard nose ways of pushing out an issue, but that's what makes me, me! And that is not gonna change for anything. Hope you are doing well with your new job and you can hold out for more than a month ;)
That is your right and I defend it if you so choose.
I don't dislike you at all, you are likable. I just disagree with many of your conclusions and presentations. :/
Many! Say it aint so! Hahaha
Honestly, I think Im a bit shell shocked from building up a blog and reputation on hive for almost 5 years, to have it destroyed the way they did.
Im gonna make an effort to chill and focus on having fun and not care so much about any of this stuff.
I think that the platfOrm can be altered tho to minimise abuse etc as long as it’s applied to everyone. Blurt does alrwady have aspects of its platform that mean certain precendent is set, changing that is the same. I don’t believe for example in directly targeting upvu but if this behaviour is causing issues that the majority of the users don’t like then there can be options like ‘no one can delegate to people with more stake than them’ type scenarios. I’ve not read enough into it to have a proper opinion but I think on a site like this it’s important to have discussions. That includes wtp having his opinion and then people agreeing or disagreeing. I guess ultimately there will be a consensus that makes final decisions and changes.
I'm not seeing any abuse. People are choosing to use their stake how they see fit. It's none of anyone's business if this involves delegating to another.
I believe there is room here for pure investors as well, and services such as VTS make the idea more appealing to them. I welcome investment.
I think how people use the site is everyone’s business as a community but the point is we decide how to make changes to the community as a community not 3 ppl picking ina. Few ppl for fun. It’s very different. To me anywyas. It’s also ok to choose how to vote, highlight things etc. Being free doesn’t mean no one has personal and group moral compasses, that might vary to others.
If you don't like what someone is doing with their speech, then there is a mute button. If you feel that we have the right to dictate to others how they use their stake the other chains already have that feature, it's called flagging/downvoting.
I prefer freedom of speech and property rights being protected myself.
Speech I agree but the site already has some rules and technical aspects so changing them based on collective (not stake based) consensus to me seems inevitable as something grows and isn’t rly different to having existing settings. Like for example the fact one can self upvote is the same in essence as there being no option to self upvote, I don’t mind a site having its own rules, I just don’t like it being able to pick off specific ppl for personal reasons. Having the option to self vote / not self upvote isn’t removing freedom of speech or ability to earn like everyone else IMO. It simply still gives everyone on the site the same / equal rights as one another.
When the failed idea of democracy takes root, money flees so as not to allow the masses of poor strip their often hard earned wealth from them by consensus.
To any pondering this logically, those tow positions are glaringly diametrically opposed. Telling another what they can or can't do with their property is limiting their speech regardless of how you wish it weren't so.
We already have equal rights. What you propose is equal outcome which is a crime against nature and will once again see a withdrawal of those tasked with fulfilling others poorness until we all have equality in being poor. No logical person of wealth will agree to such a lopsided demand.
We all come here with an equal chance to deposit funds into our wallet, an equal chance to grow followers and grow our wallets.
It's not realistic to think we all start out of the gate equally. We weren't equal when we got here. An example of this would be this.
It would be ludicrous for me to think myself and Ctime were equal in our start here. He came with a much larger wallet than myself. We were not equal in our choices in life leading up to our arrival here. He is entitled to the rewards of his start here, as are we all. He owes me nothing because he got a better start than I did.
Equality in outcome is an emotional outlook that isn't grounded in reality and actually tears asunder any foundations those with more to contribute have built.
Communism other than on a voluntary bases destroys all in its path as those who create throw their hands up in the air and go home with their ball.
I would urge you to listen to this brilliant podcast from famigliacurione.
https://blurt.blog/blurt/@famigliacurione/the-blurtopian-experience-big-wallet-big-head
I don’t see it like that at all. Blurt already is a platform that has changed certain features since it’s brginning. Even in the beginning it mirrored the site but took away the downvote... essentially changing the platform to work more in alignment with what users wanted... no downvote button. If the majority of users also wanted no stake to be delegated to people with more stake that would essentially be the same.. tweaking the site to adapt to user preference. I’m not even saying what I would prefer but that I don’t believe the rules on a site make something discriminatory as long as they are applied across the board to everyone. I mean blurt alrwady has rules. It says one can’t plagerise etc. People know if they use blurt that’s a site rule, it doesn’t just discriminate individual people for their actions.
I’m not anti any site rules I’m anti discrimination.
Please explain to me how one using their stake as they wish is discrimination?
I would also point out that the word itself has a mostly negative connotation, which is absurd. One uses the ability to discriminate constantly, usually under the more approved wordage called preferences. We see this as one example in womans romance literature.
The man coveted is usually some musclebound guy who has a shitload of money. It's never the overweight mechanic down at the local car garage who is scraping by to make ends meet and has a shitty selection of clothes that aren't grease stained while paying two ex wives child support and alimony.
Maybe I’m not explaining how I mean. My point is that targeting for example upvu and saying upvu can’t do stuff with his stake is discrimination but adjusting the platform to say not be able to delegate to higher stake accounts isn’t personal descrimiation just making general site updates if a consensus thinks it would make the platform better. To me it’s very different to tell one person they can’t do something than it is to tweak a platform so that certain behaviours are not able to be done. That’s exactly for example what blurt did alrwady by mirroring the original platform but removing the downvote button. Not sure if I’m making sense here.
Do you think that upvoting ourselves is worse than buying votes and delegating to someone to upvote you ?
I believe both actions are equally self stunting ones growth here. By nature, most people will tend to shun those who are stingy with their votes, regardless of how they are being stingy (VTS or self vote). So the folks who primarily self vote heavily or use VTS will lose out on more rewards usually because the main votes they will get are either from themselves directly or through a VTS indirectly.
I think however that those using the VTS are shorting themselves some of their self vote profit however by relegating the self vote to a service who will be wanting a cut from it.
While I don't advocate for heavy self voting or VTS, for the reason I stated above, I will defend anyones right to use their property as they see fit. One of the reasons I came to Blurt and wasn't just done with this whole social blockchain experience was because unlike there (mother and sister chains) where property rights can be nullified with downvote, here property rights are honored, as well as free speech.
Sometimes that freedom means others will act with their property and words in ways we don't embrace, a price worth paying to have those rights myself.
We should rly re name @practicalthought ‘the sage’ tho lol every community needs someone like this.
Thank you for your kind words. :)
My friend @practicalthought, if you don't mind me still calling you that, you are not taking one major thing into consideration, when you state this.
They can to this in less than five minutes a day, then go to the beach. Doesn't sound like a bad deal to me. How many hours do real active members spend on here a day, a week?...then yes they earn more.
Now to think about it, I could be watching a movie with @junglegirl right now instead of putting time and thought into this response. Maybe it's time for Travel Pro to UPVU and check in from time to time. It's a far better time/earnings ratio.....like no comparison.
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There is a difference between property and something created out of nothing, or code based. I don't think developers bought that blurt power they have. They kind of created the code, that you call here property. But, the code was meant to support decentralization, or to put all the power in their hands ?
If that was to support decentralization in the world and make a new blockchain more decentralized, where people really decide what should be trending, who to vote for as a witness, what development to support ... etc. That would be nice to see of course.
But if those who created the code feels that they own it all here, and they have more rights to decide things, but not the community, or big investors. So, we may have an issue there. Because depending on this post This is how upvu works, I don't see that investor with 12 millions blurt that happy about what's going on.
So, the question I have in mind, who really decide things here ? The stake ? The community ? Or too simply the team on the top ?
Is it proof of work, of stake, of development, or what ? What's the most important concept in blurt ? What's the use case for investors to understand ?
Great questions
First, there is no such thing as decentralization. I'm not sure why so many are under the illusion there is. I think Rycharde sums it up best when he says its a matter of dependencies.
I haven't bothered to check the funds of the co-founders. I personally chose to come give this one more try because of m y research into Jacob. Since my time here, my respect for megadrive has grown immensely.
I find that they have more skin in this than most anyone. They came up with the idea, they funded to make it so. Then through all the tough times they continued funding this to keep it going, ensuring out of their own pocket that the price stayed at least at a level of .003.
They also have skin in this game by the amount of time they have to spend dealing with seeking to improve Blurt. As well as dealing with personality conflicts which at times has went into the realm of verbal abuse.
As for trending, I've yet to ever see a trending section that appealed to me anywhere. So I say we make our own, it's called a follow feed.
The foundation is still calling a lot of the shots, but they could be outvoted as we saw attempted by the whales once before. And I think it might have gotten the votes if he hadn't tried expanding the vote to include all delegations regardless of to whom or what reason. Which would have been a crime against property rights in my eyes.
The case for investors. There is total free speech here. You can even say the most despicable things about the founders here and your words will not be censored, any stake pulls from votes agreeing will be honored. And you can say the most controversial positions, and not only does it stand but all who agree cane reward you and join in, creating a community of like minded folks who are chased out of most corners of the world now.
In a world where places to speak and have ones property honored is shrinking by the day, I'd say this is a pretty good selling point.
All of this is my opinion, and I speak only for myself on this.
Yeah, I respect what they did. And I'm glad they created blurt and still supporting it. I just shared what I think about how things should be done now. I'm just a regular little investor and a content creator. I still can don't know a lot of things. And of course I'll be glad to hear @rycharde opinion about all this.
I just scrolled through his posts and found what I believe was my first encounter to his thoughts on this, to which I find myself in agreement (and have since my first exposure to crypto).
https://blurt.blog/blurt/@rycharde/dependencies-are-more-important-than-decentralisation
I sometimes forget just how brilliant he is. In looking at many of his posts as I scrolled through just now to find this one, it serves a a reminder to me that sometimes there are many posts in an authors blog worth revisiting despite the passage of time.
I'll be curious what your thoughts on the post are. If you comment to him on that post, could you tag me so I can give it a read? I'd greatly appreciate it.
It's always depending on what we mean by decentralization. Even those witnesses can do everything to not lose that power and always stay in charge. Or to not care about that and keep building it for people. But letting only stake to decide what's trending, who should be in charge, is not right to do. We should also consider other concepts. And the more of them will be considered the healthier the space will be. @ultravioletmag said it right, that we have to have the balance between proof of stake and proof of brain. Going fully proof of stake and making mostly corrupted upvotes in trending, for me is not right to do. If those upvotes can be corrupt, so other types of votes could be corrupt as well. Maybe that's the biggest reason why I hated them in steem first, and now in blurt. Imagine most whales turning to upvote bots when such service will be created like the one in steem.
Slow down buddy, you mixed up a lot of things. @megadrive is a person manually curating content. He does not run any script for auto vote like @ctime
Me neither and people have asked me same thing
We don't do partiality of voting one content and not voting other content.
It's just that it's natural to have some left unvoted, because of human urge to follow everyone. Only we forget the more you follow, the less posts you will have time to see.
So if I see your post while scrolling I may check it out and vote. But if I don't see your post, how the hell I can know what your post is about.
So as another blogger ( and not team) I would say just calm down
If you think I am wrong, check out my profile and you will know there are not many upvotes from him, being on the same team.
So here the thing is not like supporting because of reasons and not supporting because of reasons.
It's just content have a value, and only when seen properly.
Thanks
Thank you for sharing you opinion.
I kindly disagree after viewing a consistent pattern of the founder going out of his way to tie blurt to Ukraine, a highly politicized topic with many narratives and beliefs among people across the globe. It's not smart business. Plain and simple. Maybe we need to start tying Blurt to pro-abortion logos and posts, or maybe he can to support North Korea over South Korea, with a blurt logo on that. Again it's not smart business to tie Blurt to a heated political topic, plain and simple and that is exactly what he is concentrating much of his huge voting power on, when it could be used for far more beneficial things, like supporting the user base.
Hey you joined Blurt, thank you! Here's a 5% up-vote on most your posts. That is immensely more valuable and productive and for those who don't see that, than I can't help you.
Firstly please don’t tell me how to use my personal vote, incase you didn’t realise I am 100% pro Ukraine and sympathise with their people, I honestly don’t care what you vote and will not tell you what to support. Because I vote something as myself doesn’t mean Blurt as a whole supports it. I have previously instructed our team to vote as neutral as possible and to not promote or support Upvu either.
Regarding Yakubenku, I was informed by our team that she is doing some good stuff regarding promoting Blurt and the fact she has a large Instagram following so I voted accordingly, if I was informer about anyone else’s posts I would have voted them as well.
I already responded to @ctime, there really isn’t much we can do about Upvu, there really aren’t many available devs that can code graphene. we are currently looking at removing proxy voting so Upvu can’t amass such power as he did on Steem and perhaps changes in voting where there isn’t 30x leverage on witness votes.
We are also looking into moving codebase where we can have more development resources.
Also please can you enlighten me what is the issue with the Ukraine flag, I really don’t get it, I see businesses everyone putting it up in support, here is an example of a 3dmodelling site https://cgtrader.com they have a support Ukraine section and certain items purchased give donations as well.
@world-travel-pro @megadrive @practicalthought
Hey guys, what do you think about asking upvu to sponsor good content with two or three full votes a day? They would just follow with their votes accounts like r2cornell, visualblock, onchain-curator and language orientated curation projects
If they agreed to it, even I would accept their existence on Blurt
I think that asking is always a good path forward. While I will respect their right of refusal, approaching them with respect and asking them to use their service to make the community stronger may be something they find appealing.
And then someone else with a bunch of money comes along and says they're going to do the same thing, unless you cut them a personal deal too?
No, such an arrangement would set the standard. You want to invest big money in Blurt and earn 10 - 25% more than other curators? We welcome you as long as you support curation groups (at the moment we probably have more of them than Hive lol)
All these ideas are interesting. I agree we have to find compromises that keeps big investors and bloggers happy not just one or the other.
I really started a shit storm didn't I @ctime! hahaha oooops. But I'm fully of the conclusion that all this discussion is good for everyone when all said and done.
Please have a look at my final thoughts and conclusion on these maters here...
https://blurt.blog/blurt/@world-travel-pro/a-response-making-peace-and-showing-some-respect-to-megadrive
I myself would like to see that and would like to see more great content been noticed especially in the travel sectors a lot of that seems to just go un-noticed.
And would just like to thank you @ctime for the great work you are doing.
https://blurt.blog/upvu/@practicalthought/rbmoll
People who wanted to donate to #ukraine directly can refer to ua24 @megadrive, just some addition.
https://twitter.com/U24_gov_ua
Please have a look here
https://blurt.blog/blurt/@world-travel-pro/a-response-making-peace-and-showing-some-respect-to-megadrive
I actually don't see support from blurt helping @georgetachia to take blurt to the top in Kano state as far as I can tell, take a look at his current page
This state has the potential to move to blurt to ahead also, i think you should take him more seriously, thank you @megadrive
You know what would be cool a round table chat on video. Where we could ask questions etc. Can we organise this?
I agree with you and @ctime! I have never understood the inferior posts on the trending page, thanks to "bought" votes through @upvu. Something just has to give...
Why you don't write about the main issue @tekraze, and @bestkizito. Isn't clear that @world-travel-pro is talking more about the distribution of the rewards and how the bots can ruin it all. We didn't have such an issue before, it was created recently. And it's not about black and white, because racism is not only about that. Here is the definition of racism :
So, it's for sure not about the color of skin. But about political agenda that's supported more than the other one. I mean, that's the team should focus more on development and marketing of the blockchain, but not supporting one group or another. And let people decide with their stake and investment what they are willing to support. That will motivate both parts to create a competition of them, so a lot will be invested in blurt. And that way the stake will decide. Maybe we should create a kind of voting system, where people show their support, or against the idea. And based on that, we will understand what the whole community wants.
Or the curation is a taboo to talk about ?
Nicely put
Well we write often, but sadly blockchain does not keep all latest posts, because there is a thousands of post everyday.
I have some plans to keep all informative posts, somewhere. Just wait. We have plans just not time, because of unexpected dramas and events. And some of things, community don't even know.
We just try to convey nice information to keep blurt community happy.
In the end we all devs are human..
No, there is no taboo in talking about curation. But the way how it's put is bad most of the time.
Discussions should be healthy to keep the system in motion.
I hope things can be discussed
Yeah, we all got more reasonable when we calm down. So, everything is ok now. ☺
Great 😁
I'm new on this platform I can't say much.
But let us come together as one regardless of our position, and level settle this as growups civilise people. It's not right when majority is complaining about one thing, and no actions is been taken to resolve it.
If we want blurt to excel we have to be willing to examine and listen to everyone.
Sorry this is part of your welcome to blurt, but the good news is nobody can downvote eachother off the platform for speaking up here. Game changer! Why Blurt will steadily continue to grow.
No problem at all, thank you.
I can say you are wrong @world-travel-pro 'cause those I'm trying to convince a lot of people to join blurt, but they're not contented by my level of votes.
So they're doubting, scared that the platform won't be nice to them they've shared their experiences with me about other platforms. But if that would change more will join and experience it for themselves, understand, motivated and tempted to invest which will increase the value and grow blurt because of more investors.
I'm sure we all want the growth of blurt right!
Let's make it one big happy family!
That's exactly my point, they are not content with your level of votes. If @megadrive spread his mega votes around like @ctime instead of concentrating them in Ukraine Virtue signaling in the name of the platform, than maybe the people you are trying to onboard would be more confident and willing to join.
Thanks very much for your support!
Most times I don't show them my posts because that will definitely discourage them.
In a gathering of great minds, I'll probably be a joke.
Please!!! Let's all understand what @world-travel-pro is driving to, for the sake of blurt let's understand and not misunderstand. I can't be an ingrate I immensely thank @instablurt for his support, of course @frankbacon, @r2cornell as been with me since I started promoting blurt he takes his time to advice me like a father. Also @leifasaur, @ultravioletmag I also thank you @offgridlife and so many more I didn't mention I acknowledge you all❤️. Let me break the news to you guys, most of this hangouts blurt.blog is always my major topic and I pay for permit card, but I don't mention it in my posts, because I also what blurt to grow. I do most things in life not because of the rewards but, because it's the right thing to do. 🙏🙏🙏🙇♂️🙇♂️🙇♂️
It is YOU who are providing great inspiration.
My highest regards for YOUR impressive efforts.
That's why they call them bills. In Russia, it's even worse. The rouble people use in the country is the one that costs now $0.015. But the government has its own rouble to use it in international financial relations. The one that they use internationally, and that's the one they sell oil and gas and other stuff for, cost $1.77. That's unbelievable, but seems true. Even the Russian central bank is sharing those courses : http://www.cbr.ru/eng/currency_base/gosbankcurs/ That's the official website. And they are not even hiding that. But most people don't even know that. Even in other countries.
Hey, his video was removed. Can you find his channel ? I wanted to watch other his videos, but cant find him now.
Those are some beautiful friends and family you have there! Thank you for sticking with Blurt and I'll try to support you more, even though I'm now supporting so many my up-votes are spread so thin. But if I had 4 million blurt, you would have nothing to worry about.
Thanks so much big brother!!!!!✊🙇♂️
You will one day!
Hmmm ?.. You have a problem with the Ukraine 🇺🇦 flag on @yakubenko Blurt promotions ?
Maybe we could ask her to remove this flag and everyone would be happy ?
Would that work ? I could ask her …
FYI @yakubenko has been promoting Blurt everywhere since Day 1.
Long before the War…. Long before anyone else even heard of Blurt.
When I questioned this stuff u called me a Putin puppet😂
Glad to see the vibes chilled out a bit.
For real though I hope all is well!
I just didn’t appreciate being called a kremlin Troll for questioning the narrative. I came across some old comments from ya and know ur good peeps. Hoping we can agree to disagree on some stuff snd be cool again. Cheers bud
Ha ha … Very true. I’m still Praying for peace in the Ukraine. 🇺🇦
Peace I will cheers to and pray for indeed 🙏
Yeah, that's what such people are great in. Calling others with names instead of discussing the issue and prove they are right with arguments. Funny to see.
Blurt doesn’t have a downvote button but it still has people with strong opinions lol. We just need to all get better at discussions and accepting other people have different views. I think we should host some blurt round table events where everyone hashes our arguments @clixmoney maybe we could start here ? There are several topics around racism, Ukraine, voting use, vote bots. Of course we can’t make rules but we can discuss things of interest to the community.
I'm ready to talk about any topic you like. Of course everyone has the right to support what ever he/she wants, but when they start calling you with names, it's unacceptable. Creating rumors, theories about people not supporting the narrative. That's not a constructive criticism, so I prefer to not waste my time on those. But if the discussion will be accepted from everyone, and no one will call others with names, so of course I'll be happy to participate.
I think sometimes it’s necessary for everyone to air theIr full opibion.- a lot of disagreements stem from misunderstandings and not seeing another persons side. For example I saw someone say offgrid life gets so much money on posts when I post the same and I said yes but he has been on here a long time and literally spends hours every day promoting blurt, running twitter accounts etc etc it’s natural he gets more support. Then the person understood and stopped taking it personally that there was such a vote disparity. I think mostly communication and hearing both sides without getting aggressive solves a lot of problems. This was the problem over on hive. Maybe the down voters has some valid points but when all they can say is F off, eat shit and downvote more nothing is ever going to get solved over there and no ones ever going to meet in the middle. I hope blurt might be different
It’s natural a site like this will have teething prOblems with communicatIon and respect, none of us are perfect beings.
I am Just getting sick and tired of how easily people get triggered by a flag. 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇮🇪 🇮🇹 🏴 🇬🇧 🇦🇺 🇳🇬 🇵🇸 🇳🇿 🇬🇭 🇯🇲 Etc etc ….
I didn’t get triggered, u did weeks back. My point is I wanna put it behind us. Cheers 🍻
Ha ha ha…l lol ok …lol … Everyone gets triggered these days. Especially by this little icon. 🇺🇦
Take a look at the bigger picture from a business perspective please. That is all I ask.
You should also look at the bigger picture. Why attack megadrive like this ? Are you serious ? Why don’t you approach him directly when you have suggestions or questions ? Why so much Drama ? You seem to prefer the Very Public FUD… this is very interesting.
I had to look up FUD. hahaha. I guess I do!
Tying a business or in this case an internationally used block chain to a heated political view is a huge turn off to the extremely large % of global population that take the oposing view. I have nothing against Ukraine, Im just against dumb business practices. And thank you for ignoring the entire part about ctime and upvu. We see how you are a big fan of taking as much as you can from the platform, but I do commend you for the promotion work you have done as well.
Thanks. Why don’t you maybe talk to Megadrive or the developers before posting something like this ??? They are working on the issues with Upvu and the trending page.
You should say that, it's not professional "begging for votes". This is business and everyone needs to be aware of everything going on not been in the dark, I expect this to be a simple issue.
Without investors I'm sure this platform won't be in existence, is because I'm into business that is why am telling you. Am not arguing, if you are saying this what do you expect me to think of this platform.
I'm on this platform because I trust @georgetachia so don't make other who are having doubts, doubt more. I'm not supporting anyone let's be clear. Okay...
Good points.
He is making good efforts but I'm not seeing support from this platform.
Transparency has great value, but it can also come at an expense on the individual level for some. Just how it is, I have not regrets going public with what I posted, and I thank @megadrive for basically being a good sport and keeping a level head when I may have been a bit too harsh and coming from a place of misunderstanding to certain degree.
Maybe you are right, and that is what I should have done, but the issue was already public, and so were @megadrives comments on @ctime's post. And those comments implied, ho hum excuses and nothing more. Leaving us to assume the opposite of what you state above. Know that it was the combination of all my points in this article that encouraged me to write this, not just one.
If you have issues with someone talk to them.
I guess he is lol
https://blurt.blog/r2cornell/@bestkizito/i-am-black-i-am-a-blurt-team-member
Nobody cares that you are black and nobody cares that Yakubanko is white. And nobody is calling @megadrive a racist. The point is, he is hyper focused on supporting Ukraine blurt posts, while ingoring eveyrone else. So if @georgetechia was a black Ukranian @megadrive would must likely support him....but he is not.
WOW, this is some discussing going on here I am a little lost with it because of been new here but do hope it all comes to a agreeable happy ending.
I think it has. See my response.
https://blurt.blog/blurt/@world-travel-pro/a-response-making-peace-and-showing-some-respect-to-megadrive
Maybe ooo, may not