Viewing a response to: @curatorcat/curator-cat-says-the-name-of-the-social-game-is-engagement
I think with the almost year long decline in the value of steem, the people that are primarily on steemit, and the steem blockchain are those that are here for as an alternative to other more mainstream social media places. If it was all about the money people would be over on other sites that offer similar as the steem blockchain. There may be some others out there, I know of a few, but I am still here because, well chasing around a bunch of others looking for the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow, just is not my cup of tea any more. About the cats, One of my chihuahua's loves his Loki cat. Even though Loki is almost 3 times bigger than him. As long as there are people posting pictures and actually telling a little bit about them, or posting stories, or just posting friendly things, I think there will always be people being people on the blockchains. I tried another blockchain, post had to be reviewed before they would be posted, the one post I tried to do did not have enough words, and was about another blockchain. Yeah they offered and still as far as I know offer their coin/token just for signing in. Then they made it difficult, they wanted to put a tracking cookie and wanted you to agree to it, so I have not been fully back in the account, I keep checking to see if they removed the cookie tracker, but they have not as of last check. Steem blockchain for now is free of that sort of stuff, and I think that is one of the biggest sellers of steem blockchain. Not how fast or how many transactions it can handle, but mostly how people treat each other here, there are issue, there always will be issues when people are involved. Is it gamification? Not so sure about that, I too have seen the gamification post, but I think most people, well at least 0.23% of them are real humans, and that is enough for now, and that number will grow.
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| author | bashadow |
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I agree with your post 100%, well said. I like that i have not been attacked here by the Shitposters that run rabid on the Twatter / Fecesbook Socialist Media sites. I wish i would have came over here sooner. I got a down vote on one of My posts awhile back from a psycho shitposter on here posing as a Legion Creep. I see my Cat Friend has a downvote on this post. I am new here, So let me ask, why would anyone down vote a good post like this or my harmless cat post...?  Posted using [Partiko Android](https://steemit.com/@partiko-android)
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There are reasons to downvote, most of it seems to do with greed. Some people do not want to see other post get a big payout, big payout being a relative term to the one doing the down voting. Some people think they can downvote anything for any reason at all. Then there is the "do as I say, not as I do crowd", that will down vote anything at all they do not like. It does not matter where you go in the world real or virtual, there are always those that want to control what you can say, or do. Only thing I can say is if it is a meaningless abusive down vote, report it to @steemcleaners, they may do something about it, they may not. The number of meaningless "social Justice warrior" down voters are beginning to fade away. They have become meaningless to most of the people on steemit. Most of the down votes are at only $0.0001 completely meaningless, laughable in fact in most cases. Those down voters are so afraid of life and reactions to their down votes that they are very careful to have never uttered a word on the steem blockchain. Some people like to dish it out, they just can not take it when it is served back up to them. Ignore them, or report them, only two real options. When/if you ever get high enough on the reputation chain to where their retaliatory down votes can not touch you then you could think about stooping to their low ego/self esteem level and down vote them as revenge. but it would get you nothing.
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| author | bashadow |
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Can't really add much to what @bashadow said... the "random downvoters" are just some disgruntled people who got extensively flagged for plagiarism, spam and shitposting. The particular downvote I am thinking about (I get it, from time to time) is all but worthless... it's something like a 2% downvote from an account with 50 Steem Power and perpetually 5% remaining voting power. It's effect is meant to be purely *psychological,* to make newcomers feel unwelcome and thereby "hurt" Steemit. I have learned to just ignore them... =^..^=
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| author | curatorcat |
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Hi @bashadow, thanks for stopping by and sharing your thoughts! History (or at least my previous personal experience) tells me that there are *always* going to be "cash grabbers" whenever a venue even *hints* at the possibility that you can get rewarded for your efforts. History *also* suggests that they tend to be a pretty impatient lot, and most of them have wildly unrealistic "get rick quick" expectations. In general, *two* primary outcomes are possible... (1) they suck a venue dry and things simply stop because all the "good actors" have left in disgust or (2) they discover it's just *too difficult* to make those hoped-for riches, so they leave in disgust, or in the pursuit of a pot-of-gold placed by *someone else* who was able to tell a better story about riches. For me, the appeal of Steemit is that I can *build stake in the venue I am using,* and I am part of a system that has at least the *potential* to change the way we treat rewarding web content. I love the whole pay-it-forward and "gift economy" principle... we reward *each other;* we don't get rewards from some "central authority" that might go bankrupt tomorrow... or the owners run away with all the cash. Any types of gamification helps make Steemit "sticky" for me. For example, I often check my rank on steemst.com... try to see if I can't keep on climbing. Same thing keeps me returning to Asher's leagues. Trying to become a Minnow, here... keep plugging away! =^..^=
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