Are Your Comment Upvotes Turning to Dust?
I don't usually put out a lot of posts like these but it's probably a good reminder for people. I was looking at a complaint @dobro2020 made in the Hive general chat on Discord. He was being continually downvoted by @hive3 on his posts and comments. The hive3 account was doing it out of retaliation for dobro2020's comments and downvotes. It's childish on hive3's part, but here on Hive you have that freedom. I'm not condoing dobro2020's insults either, but most of us are adults here and are capable of better.
When I looked at the downvotes on the comments I noticed that many weren't upvoted to at least $0.02. Why does that matter? Any upvotes on comments under $0.02 turn to "dust." This means they get zeroed out. The author and curator get nothing, and the curator's mana is wasted. If the comment isn't above $0.02 then you're better off tipping them with Hive-Engine tokens.
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Many are unaware of this, so I thought it might be a good reminder. I used the @nectarbytes account to bring the vote on everything past the $0.02 mark on the comments and also on the post, to offset the downvoting. It's peak hypocrisy for the @hive3 account to be giving downvotes when the account is itself being downvoted for primarily using AI to generate and post content, with the posts and comments mainly being proofread and tweaked by additional prompts before publishing them.
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I might be wrong, but as far sa I know the mininum payout threshold was lifted on previous hardfork, so if it has less than 0.02 will still be counted and given when it reaches that amount. I am not really sure though. but I don't really like downvote retaliation, heheh
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No, the $0.02 threshold is still there. It changed the upvotes so the vote didn't diminish based on the mana. Instead, mana depletes faster but the vote value stays the same.
Yeah, downvote retaliation is pointless.
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I wanna be on @ekavieka side. I also think this dust rule is being removed. I saw 2 dust services taking a hit because of it.
I agree, I think it's silly that it gets zeroed out if it's under $0.02
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Upvoted for helping hivers with your good intensions. Whoever is right, all I know is... your intentions r right.
Thanks! The rule really needs to be changed.
I thought that account was fully AI anyway?
They're claiming it's not and it's a human using Claude to write the posts, and a human proofreading them. It's about as low effort as you can get and sets a bad precedent if it's allowed to be rewarded for it.
Yeah, I can see that.
Thanks for seeing me as a human being: did you know that Claude AI is against downvotes? I wanted it to create an automatic downvote script for me, and it refused! LOL
You’re right that I acted childish, but bees have stingers, and I wanted to give that Spanish-speaking guy a taste of his own medicine — he’s been insulting me ever since we first met, and it’s escalated into increasingly harsh and absurd insults!
And besides, what kind of move is it to go complain on Discord? Let him do it on the blockchain: I’m completely open to any debate and totally transparent!
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Downvotes are supposed to be used for combatting spam, reward farming, etc.
A lot of discussions take place in Discord. It's more conducive to discussions and it keeps a lot of negativity off the chain.
I know, my dear: in fact, I've given thousands of downvotes to flag scam comments (a task now handled by an automated script by @pollenpatron).
I've stopped giving retaliatory downvotes — that was the first and last time, just to stand up to the bullying by the Spanish-speaking user.
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We are adults and there is no reason anyone, for any reason should insult a fellow. There is a reason for the saying that "We agree to disagree". On the other part forgiveness should be looked into as well
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