Apparently he wrote a post, lol, this is google translate:

![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmYR2bgUwpgffqiXc5hjUnpBb2ccqbMJaRvoHAdwZBUoSJ/image.png)

Honestly it's one thing to receive them and respond to them or ask why, but to go out of your way to retaliate like this and then write a post stating that he's been "waiting for this" like some kind of lunatic is another, lol.

lol it's kinda funny reading their posts and what people are responding, even though I imagine google translate isn't doing the best of jobs but, someone was in there "Fighting. Is it time to get together?"

lmao.

This does kind of make me think though of what could start happening once we reach main stream adoption. Imagine countries having flag wars vs. other countries. xD

C...h...a...t..u...r...b...a...t...e 

Haha who knows, maybe he's had a bad trading day considering the markets. xD I'm sure they'll tire and realize it was just a random downvote from a random user. Dunno, though, I'd feel weird retaliating like that. Looking forward to the masses joining at some point in the future though, we sure don't lack crazy in here and maybe they can balance things out a bit with some common sense and rationality.

I played a bit today and got rekt too, really hope they'd up the development to allow for 1v1 and leasing of cards etc so we at @teamocd can host more tournaments and help newcomers borrow genesis cards.

Yeah, this was the post in question: https://steemit.com/sct/@kopasi/requires-steemit-inc

I very much agree with you, I just wrote an explanation in his newest post about the EIP and what mindless farming for rewards will quickly turn Steem into which we've been fighting hard to change and gotten a lot of retaliation back for it, not just me but even my team of curators who actively look for quality posts to reward - imagine how backwards that all is. Although I realize now they may not care as much about that and not focus much on curation, I'm glad they at least stopped selling votes after some discussions and after they realized everyone else had stopped selling profitable votes as well.

Who knows honestly, when money doesn't matter anymore? :D

Correct.

And in addition, unfortunately, we are still facing the old STEEM problem: posts of well known or rich users receive many (auto) upvotes already within the first few minutes (even if the majority of the 'curators' don't even look at the content), whereas others get nearly no upvotes at all ...
(To say it drastically, many people prefer to sh.. on the biggest heaps instead to seek for the smaller ones.)

I think the incentive to <a href="https://steemit.com/steem/@jaki01/bad-effects-of-the-small-curation-window">earn more curation rewards when upvoting early</a> is part of the problem. Instead of getting rewarded for hunting the posts of popular authors and upvote them automatically, real curators should try to find <em>these</em> good posts which haven't accumulated much rewards after more than an hour!

This is how Steem was for a long time though, when downvotes cost and were rarely used. Did you see what resulted in that? Bid bots selling votes to whoever bought them, buyers posting content no matter the quality cause they knew they'd get ROI from the bid bots or friends that would vote them. Accounts that would just farm the rewards and SBD on a select few accounts with backroom deals to give back some of the post rewards cause they got the vote in the first place, etc.

We need some regulation and we need to normalize downvotes and that very same emotional thinking you mentioned needs to go away. I get it that it's not the same as on Youtube or Reddit when you get downvoted, even though it may hurt there too here it's squared cause there are pending post rewards in the mix and it feels like you are stealing rewards from them.

We just need to use downvotes well and be able to accept them well. Obviously I get that feeling over me saying "go nuke his active post rewards" but we need to realize that that is not the answer. If my posts get downvoted from random users that disagree with the rewards that's okay, unfortunately lately most of the time the only downvotes I've received have been from people with ulterior motives, grudges or as in this case retaliation and I'm not okay with those.

I do hope communities will change things a bit more and bring some balance into it.

Wasn't this happening, or at the very least possible, way before Tron even entered the discussion?