RE: WHALE DOWNVOTING AS A MEANS TO EMPOWER MINNOWS AND DOLPHINS – IS IT WORKING?
The automated explanations of the downvote are bullshit. I am seeing posts that have zero whale upvotes being downvoted by these "experimenters". And they have not defined the terms or parameters of their "experiment" so there is no useful data to be gleaned from all the turmoil they are fomenting.
They are trying to counteract a supposed over influence by some whales by an arbitrary and non-useful "experiment" that cannot produce accurate and useful data but can create enormous turmoil in the community.
The arrogance of their automated downvoting is stupefying and would be laughable if it were not causing such harm. Valuable contributions to our platform are being harmed and users are becoming disillusioned.
Downvoting requires conscious deliberation in order to not cause far more harm than good.
Yeah, @smooth was doing personal comments back when the votes were manual, but the whole thing is definitely playing with a lot of people's feelings right now. Thanks @marginal!
Not one of my downvotes has been on a post with zero whale upvotes. I can't speak for others but in my case that simply did not happen.
You are lying...I had no whale votes and you down voted all my blogs yesterday!
@smooth
I'm not lying, I just looked at one of your blog posts and it had whale votes.
@smooth
And the one worth $95.40 that you did not down vote, didn't...?
Not intended but there may be some occasional bot down time for upgrade or other glitches. Congratulations on your windfall I guess.
Here's one right here:
https://steemit.com/bitshares/@testz/youtube-bitshares-hangout-11-w-christopher-hering-and-fuzzy
That post was upvoted by summon and wang, both whale accounts, before my downvote, and my downvote at 2% was less than their upvotes (in fact less than half)
Lol, this really would've gone better if people knew what the fuck was happening...but I think I've caught up--This about right? https://steemit.com/life/@dreemit/to-everyone-who-is-not-a-whale-let-s-see-if-we-can-t-get-something-from-this-experiment-read-on