I'm relatively new to the Steemit community, so I don't profess to know all the ins and outs of the community and the histories of those that have been here, etc, but what I do know is that when I first joined Steemit, the community stood out to me as being nice, respectful, and supportive.
In the past 10 days I've noticed a HUGE change. All of a sudden, my feed is being bombarded with STEEM DRAMA, and try as I might I cannot seem to get to the bottom of it.
STEEM DETECTIVES, HELP ME OUT!
The first sign of drama I noticed was the dramatic "I'm Out" post by .
https://steemit.com/steem/@craig-grant/1-million-steem-power
After some digging it seems that Craig's posts were being downvoted by . The main issues seemed to be
constant draining of the reward pool by self-voting, his promotion of Bitconnect that many believe to be a scam, and his downvoting others to get more rewards into the pool.
After the dramatic "I'm Out" post, it seems is no longer downvoting, and
is back to posting.
When the dust had settled on that, seemingly out of no where, more drama reared its head.
had posted two posts addressing critiques and claims by Ether creator in regards to EOS. This in itself is not too noteworthy, as I think anyone would want to set the record straight on their creation, life's work. What was interesting was that Steemit creator
flagged/downvoted one of the posts created by
! This is shocking to me!
has previously said there is no drama between him and
, but this flag makes me think that might not be the case.
https://steemit.com/eos/@dan/response-to-vitalik-buterin-on-eos
Then I wake up this morning to find this investigative post by ! Please read as he explains the situation better than I ever could.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@joseph/an-open-ended-question-to-ned-and-dan
For those that didn't read the short of it is downvoted arguably the most popular posted of Steemit
. Although there is much speculation, we do not know why. My guess is that
realized there is a flaw in the Steemit platform that allows for the same people to constantly be on the trending page, and he wanted to combat that a little. Steemit sees downvoting as legitimate as upvoting in the community; sort of a checks and balances system.
What is strange is that, around the same time, the very popular people's hero, was being downvoted by
! No one seems to know why, and I have no guesses as to why this is happening, but
left us a clue with this comment, " Ned apparently doesnt pay attention to the fact that this post gives away more than it receives...
Thank God you have no control over me ned. Thank GOD i didnt sell out to u early on for double my sp (like u wanted).
And im not a whale compared to ned. I just do more for his community with less. He cant have me showing him up.
Keep downvoting me ned. I wont stop building and youll never shut me up."
WOW.. would love to know more about what happened there...
If anyone has anymore information on these feuds please comment below! It really feels like the beginning of a war is about to breakout in the Steemit community. Also, if anyone has any comments about why they think this is happening now, I would love to hear your theories.
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