RE: 1776 Shots Fired (or) Why I Proxied to LZ's Witlist & You Can Too! ✨

See, that's the thing, early on, the GUI wasn't always this way. There was a flag button for prescribed uses, and there was an upvote button. Over time, that evolved into this nightmare that we have now, and if you want to understand it: Watch the 'Black Mirror' episode called 'Nose Dive' (s03e01), watch 'The Orville' episode called 'Majority Rule' (s01e07), and watch the 'Community' episode called 'MeowMeowBeenz' (s05e08).

These thought experiments demonstrate why it's more natural to act more naturally. I prefer to treat HIVE like a market. If I see content that I like, read, and enjoy, I'll upvote it. If there is something that I don't like, I'll do like in the marketplace--I won't buy it. In the case of HIVE, I won't upvote it. But sometimes, I'll upvote stuff I don't like. And this is especially true if people challenge my thinking process in a way that makes sense and causes me to think about something differently.

What I don't do is downvote. Just like I wouldn't firebomb a storefront for selling things I don't like, I'm not going to downvote a post. It's impossible to come to standards for overrewarded posts. Some of the biggest enforcers that demerit the so-called overrewarded posts are the biggest violators of their own rules. What I'm saying is, they're hypocrites, and they'd do better off letting it go.

Besides some of the most overrewarded posts, these people are either untouchable in two ways. They are either highly regarded in the community and do boatloads of personal sacrifice for the blockchain. Either that--or they have enough stake to completely obliterate the rep of anyone who presses that downvote button on their post.

And this is why I say people ought to focus on: Spam, Scams, Plagiarism, and NSFW images that haven't gotten tagged appropriately. This way, people's hard-earned posts do not get penalized for ideological differences, and people don't have to concern themselves with the so-called overrewarded posts in the most hypocritical ways this blockchain has ever seen.

As far as witnesses go, I'd prefer to vote for those who don't vote for witnesses that target some of my favorite communities with opinion downvotes, stake-trolling, or abusive downvotes. I don't care if they are particularly-skilled witnesses in that regard, as far as I'm concerned, once someone learns how to run and update the code--it's mostly autopilot from there on out. That may be a gross over-or-under simplification depending on who you ask in their level of involvement on the chain.