That had some to do with it. Not just for me. I got angry when I saw it done to other people. I chose to view this like a market where people could vote for the things they were interested in. It was that, but then it also became a place where people could walk into the market and start slapping markers on things saying "this should not be supportable."

For some reason it was decided that SOMEONE not wanting to purchase something was equally important to those that do want to purchase a thing.

It is much like some wealthy guy being able to walk into a store and instead of purchasing the things they are interested in, they also can walk around slapping stickers on things they don't like and essentially saying. "No one should be allowed to pay anything for this. You may still see it but, only if the price is free. The time of the people producing things I do not like should not be perceived to have value."

This place would have thrived as a market. It did show the flaw in stake and voting though when applied in the negative. It destroyed any resemblance to a market.

Those few that established their presence early and thus were able to maintain it and grow their wealth and simultaneously silence those they dislike have remained. Yet they also are responsible in a large way for the fact the platform never became what it had the potential of becoming.

Now, I rarely post here. If I am going to post for FREE there are much larger places to do that. Occasionally though I still feel the desire to post here. I don't do it expecting anything.

Yet it is still ridiculous that you can upvote my reply to you and even that is immediately downvoted.

I also didn't know about the having to CLICK to be able to view the post at all.

That's even worse. Oh well, I may post some more in the future, but I don't have anything in the platform that really incentivizes it at all now.

I do so only because for whatever reason I may suddenly feel the itch to do so.