RE: Hi @adamada, @traciyork, and @galenkp.. As i have acquired very useful information from a

While my involvement in this situation was purely about abuse (recycling content and plagiarism), and @adamada has pretty much said it all (very well, I might add), I will add a bit more. I do curation work for some projects and have no problem recommending/upvoting short posts (aka micro-blogging) if it's obvious some thought went into it. I know I'm not alone in that either.

I don't think the majority of the community is working towards "molding people to become professional bloggers" - it's more that members who see people seemingly trying to abuse the reward pool for coins tend to show their displeasure with their downvotes. And they might blanket downvote an account if they feel it's been a "bad actor" of sorts, regardless of the quality of individual posts, as a way to get their point across.

And I completely agree with @adamada's statement, "When people complain about downvotes 9/10 its really just a loss of token rewards and less about the content." I know some people who have been downvoted for years, but it doesn't stop them from posting because they're here for the community, and not so concerned about the crypto.

The upvote/downvote system here isn't perfect, but given the decentralized nature of the blockchain, it's far less Wild West than it could be, and it's getting better all the time. In my humble opinion, of course. 😊

Oh, and yes, I'm well aware that SoMee is a microblogging platform - there are a few of those on Hive, and I'm sure there are more on the way, which I think is awesome. But it also means more time needs to be spent educating people that "shit posting" in whatever form that takes, is not seen favorably here in the same way it is on web 2 platforms.