Hello buzzparty poeple! Yesterday on august 24th we me up at the Feuerdorf in the popular Prater area in Vienna. The Viennese Hive community has a buzzparty each month and we rotate in organizing the meetup and posting the announcement posts. This particular buzzparty is called Hive Stammtisch. The meaning of Stammtisch is the table in any pub that is reserved for the regulars.
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Who is who of HIVE Vienna
8 Hiveans made it to the fantastic location chosen by Vikisecrets aka Viktor who organized the last 2 buzzparties and will also do the next one in September.
We had 
I won a crypto stamp!
Viktor did a provably fair giveaway between 6 participants and
We had an interesting discussion about downvotes and if and wen they are necessary. We took sides and tried to argument for and against downvotes. We really did not get to a consensus, and we will continue the discussion next time. The arguments of both sides pro and contra downvote where equally legitimate.
In my opinion, downvotes are necessary for keeping our community safe and clean from stolen and or recycled content, or even worse criminal or fraudulent content.
The popular opinion is that you are entitled to rewards on your post, but this is not the case in my opinion. The community decides with their very own stake if and how much rewards are distributed to a certain post.
This encourages curators to vote on genuine and original content and not just dump their upvotes on anything coming along. However, downvotes can be abused just as upvotes can and might discourage new users from coming to HIVE if they see their reputation obliterated when they make a mistake.
Anyways, it was a really interesting discussion with good points on either side.
The Leo proposal
We where also discussing the LEO DHF proposal and how most of the members find it too expensive. Also I could sense some trust issues towards LEO in general.
Then again everyone is complaining about HIVE not being marketed properly. But when it comes that there is a proposal for doing so they do not want it either. Mainly because of trust issues regarding the failed IDO on cubdefi namely Cakepop. (This IDO was done by a third party and they where scammers their project went nowhere... but that is not the fault of LEO finance Team in my opinion)
The group photo
And of course we did the obligatory group photo.
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Upland news by
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You can decide if you want to invest in the game or not. However, to be able to buy and sell properties for USD you will have to go through a KYC process. Digitalmike explained some basic strategies and also revealed plans that he wants to launch his own game in the ecosystem of Upland.
Photo of prater
The view from the balkony of Feuerdorf was awesome so I had to sneak up there to snap a picture
Conclusion
All in all it was an awesome experience to see all the Hiveans again and I will try to make it to the next buzzparty! If you want to stay tuned about meetups in Vienna make sure to follow us so you do not miss out on any announcement posts and reminders.
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