Hey Everyone,
Some time ago I created a report that lived at HiveAlive.io that listed the latest downvoting activity on Hive - mainly because it isn't possible to access this information elswhere and it is a significant detail to the daily operations of the Hive ecosystem.
With the creation of @ureka.social, I have mothballed Hivealive and recoded the untrending report. It's now more efficient and also processes 100% of the downvotes cast in the last 7 days. From now on it will be regularly published onchain via the account @ureka.stats
The first report is available here.
Let me know if you have any feedback or would like to see any additional data - or other stats entirely!
Wishing you well,
Ura Soul
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Including the only way to track downvotes on Hive - The Untrending report
Great to see the downvoting report back! 🐎 Glad @ureka.social is keeping us informed. 👍
#hive #posh
Good report! It would be nice a link to the downvoted post /comment but I can imagine with the top downvoter casting 800 votes might become problematic... Maybe a top20 of the biggest downvotes of the day?
You are welcome. What I see is a microcosmic reflection of the wider reality on Earth. Almost every situation I can think of in life which involves a kind of community - if large enough - ends up with splits in it which tend to involve one group trying to impose control on the others.
As we saw in the Milgrim shock therapy experiments, for example, many people will even go as far as killing other people if an 'authority figure' tells them to. They took 'average students' and basically exposed their propensity for psychopathic evil - with very little effort.
Freedom of speech means little without freedom of association, since there are those who seek to dominate and even attack others based on their words. Not everyone agrees on who is in the right and the wrong of each situation and so the division continues - unless people can form sub-communities that meet their needs.
Hive will be proriving Layer 2 communities to address all of these issues. The technology is not too far away.
Tyrannically minded individuals tend to be more triggered by voices that directly challenge the systems they rely on to steal power. The percentage of people who don't engage in these systems and who also make moves to create change is pretty small - so most people never find out how much censorship takes place online or offline. Hive does at least enable the truth of the situation to come to light and without that it may never be fixed.
Splinterlands is an example of a Layer 2 project on Hive. These are systems that use Hive's base layer for key functionality, but that have their own economics and rewards systems. There are Layer 2 tokens on Hive Engine already, but they don't tend to go very far because they lack specialised code to create interesting websites to support their needs. This is changing now and we also have VSC smart contracts which will enable anyone to create general smart contracts in line with those supported by Ethereum and Solana etc.
So the short version is that Hive's stable technical foundation can now be built upon to create whatever kind of social app people can think up - including those which regulate their own rewards pools and vote payouts.
Sure, you can mail me at ura@ureka.org.
I know Ken already, yes. I think he probably invited me there before but I have limited time and I don't go there atm.
@vsc.network is a new technology, yes - it isn't fully ready yet - but is pretty close. Creating smart contracts is the sole function of VSC.
You would learn their system and then write the code to create the contract - the same as already happens with smart contracts on Ethereum, for example.
Anyone can create smart contracts, but they can't force user accounts to change their voting patterns directly. They are good for economic processes, like fund raising, running NFT projects, creating DAOs or even running an entire organisational structure (along the lines of a corporation or government). The best way to overcome downvote problems that I am aware of is to create L2 tokens which are designed to prevent downvote abuse. If people buy in to the token and become too abusive, the community creator can opt to fork the token and exclude the problem maker - the same as was done to Justin Sun during the Steem hostile takeover. This is a foolproof system because the new users continue on as normal. The challenge is that this then shifts the 'censorship' power away from downvoters (the community) and onto the community creator (or a board that shares the responsibility) - with the goal not being to censor content but to remove abusive downvoters.
This is all in the pipeline.
And cross chain future
More comments you make better it is for me :)