The only upgrade I desire in hive Blockchain
Hello friends. I'm glad that I have the privilege to participate in week 85 and edition 1 prompt. When I saw the topic I felt like not participating at all, because I have been too blessed by this hive Blockchain. Since the very month I was onboarded I have learnt alot of things that I never had the opportunity of learning it from somewhere else. But nevertheless, I have an experience that really hurt me alot few months after I started hiving and I was almost thrown out of the Blockchain. Thank God for the people who kept encouraging until I overcame all the challenges and I am standing in the Blockchain today.
I want to specialy thank the hive learners community for bringing up the newbies initiative because it has helped allot of people. When I first saw it i said to myself this is what should have helped me when I was onboarded. But it was so unfortunat that i did not have that opportunity. I remember mentioning it in the hive learners community hangout.
WHAT I WISHED TO SEE IN HIVE BLOCKCHAIN
Starting from what happened to me at the beginning of my hive journey. I had problem of plagiarism. I was giving a punishment by the watchers. I tried to make them understand that I don't even know how things are done here because I just started hiving. All my explanation was never accepted. I had to serve the punishments. I started noticing others who also fail victims but could not stand the punishment and ran away from the Blockchain. We have no one to listen to us when we have problems. Our fate is just decided by people who don't care how you feel.
I wish so much that the Blockchain will have something that will help it to know when someone committed a mistake unknowingly from when someone knows that something is wrong and still went on to do it. The Bible says that he that committed a crime without knowing it will receive little punishment, but he that knows the right thing to do and did not do it will receive even more punishment because he was sopposed to know the right thing to do. I believe that people who have stayed for a long time in the Blockchain will know how things are done. But new people may not know much and as a result, the may end up breaking some rules here.
I know of some children that refused to go to school because of how the teacher tries to correct them. Yes, they may be lazy students. Dirty students and all of that. But when a teacher who is meant to help them out of that situation has positioned himself in such a way that the students becomes afraid of him. Yes I know that correcting someone when he or she goes wrong is very good and also important. But when we do it in such a way that the person being corrected can't stand up again, then this is not correction. We correct with love to make the person better. But if after correcting someone, the person ends up having more injury than before, then we have not achieved the purpose of the correction.
I have watched some individuals who ended up living the Blockchain because of the manner in which they were corrected. Sometimes it seems as if we have another motive of corrections. I believe that the only motive should be to make that person realize his or her mistake and never go back to do it again.
Please 🙏 let the drive be for correcting hivers generally expecially newbies. Hivers should also be given the opportunity to explain whenever they go wrong. Of cause when anyone trespasses the line then they have the right to punish the person.
We have a saying that says- to er is human and to forgive is divine. No matter what we do, we must see people who do something that is not expected of them. Some do it purposely, while some do it ignorantly. Are we supposed to treat them the same? The answer is no.
In my own view, I think that hive Blockchain should temper justice with mercy when dealing with newbies. If the person have stayed for a long time in the Blockchain and breaks a law, then let that person receive the punishments meant for that offence.
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I love the fact that your concern is focused on newbies. Most newbies don't have mentors, when they come to the platform, you see them struggling to get things done and as such they end up breaking rules. I wish they could be a system where the dos and donts of the chain would be boldly stated out for all to see especially newbies. Thanks God for newbie Initiative, I also missed it. I was not opportune to take part and I am seriously biting my fingers for that. It is a very good one for every beginner.
The issue of plagiarism, is something that I expect everyone to know that it is being frowned upon by almost all blogging platforms. It doesn't look nice to just go and pick something that someone has done without making reference to the person. It's wrong, our normal sense should teach us that. How would you feel as an author when someone picks your work and make claims of it? The end of every punishment is to make us realize our mistake and take correction. Falling into the hands of hive watchers is not a dead sentence, I know how strict they are but they are here to correct us and make the platform fair. Sorry for your experience as a newbie. It's not easy but I am glad you didn't allow your experience make you quit.
I think the way out to this is for newbies to make thorough research about hive including it's rule before they venture into posting anything
Yeah they need to make research. Someone also suggested having a mentor which I strongly agree with. Thanks for hopping in
You are welcome ma
I can remember few weeks ago I asked for some written documents that I can use for guiding newbies because it is so stressful for me to guide newbies especially those who are not close.
I remember days when I was in school during my project days that my supervisor made sure I sourced every dot, that helped to guide my performance in all I do.
When newbies get to know what is expected of them in the system it will go a long way. Am glad you came out of it and the humility to serve the punishment too.
I do wish you a blessed week ahead
Thanks dear. You have also serve as a source of strength for me. God bless you ma'am
this is a thorough observation and like wise a correction that should be taken in order to accommodate every one here you really spoke well i believe newbie is created to serve as guidelines to new comers so any one that did not pass through the newbie will understand better as you have said some know the right thing but they dont so it as expected while some dont know but you have to know that hive is a division project that every aspect is handle by every one assigned it might be robot who dont know how to listen to your complain the are set to carryout there duties as expected if punish is for one to take correction but some that left they are not ready to learn as for me even though am punish 100 times i will still continue because hive have really upgraded me educationally financially and intellectually thank you for the post
Thanks for adding your voice dear.
you are welcome ma and your face look familiar like you are from akwanga
Yes. I live in Akwanga, Lafia road.
you have a computer shop right?
Newbies initiative is good but I don't think newbies usually see it in time and this initiative happens for only a certain period of time if im not wrong. We need something that helps those that start out with there very first post up to maybe their 3rd post to make sure they are on the right track so as u mentioned about breaking rules. this can be totally avoided if someone was there to guide or mentor from the very start or if there was some tutorial they could see right of the bat sharing all the key information like whats the difference between active and posting key , how to write an introduction post, etc.
This is correct dear. I hope this gets to the right ears so they can take action.
Thanks dear
Hopefully it does TT and you're welcome!
This is so true. Hive is very complicated especially for a newbie and it's very easy to break rules which you don't even know exist in the first place. There's already a system that warns newbies when they make mistakes but it's not efficient and some times, it doesn't even give any warning or correction
That is the problem. For me no one warned me and I had to suffer alot before standing up again. I guess that needs to change.
Thanks for hopping in
There is need for the newly onboard to be guided