A look into the soon to be past world of centralized social media, groups, splinterlands ref links, and how I feel.
How this all came about...
The other day I jumped on facebook (dont ask me why, idk). I am in a good amount of crypto groups on there that I joined even before I found HIVE in May of this year. I was drawn into it starting with Splinterlands, so for that I am very greatful for finding Splinterlands, even tho I suck at it, I dont get to play every day, its still making some money for me on the side, and I am happy for that. So while on the facebook I seen someone asking for suggestings for NFT games, I normally dont answer many questions, but like I said I feel strongly about splinterlands so I typed up a few sentences telling the guy about how I got into splinterlands, and how its making $ right away, its a falesafe investment IMO. Anyway a few hours later I get this:
Im banned from being a part of the group.... there are 3 admins, and a bunch of mods, so I messaged each of the admins asking if they had banned me, I never got a reply from them, so I went on with my life. So for the next few days I see post come on my wall from this group and I cant comment or anything on, so I came up with an idea to post myself about how I feel once my ban was over. And tonight was that night, and this is what I did... Some people might say I went too far, maybe should have brushed it off, and so on... I hope noone is offended by a few swears, if so, you might not want to view the upcoming photos.
My post:
After posting that, I figued it could go either way.... and whatever way it went, it does not matter to me because Im sick of keeping my feeling bottled inside to please a bunch of tyrants who control people facebook groups all day. I felt I needed to post it... after a few minutes I started getting notifications of replies... and then the fun started.
The replies I got:
So my life goes on.
If your wondering, Yes, admin or mod kicked me out of the group. Thank god!
This is just my story of trying to let peole know about Splinterlands, I had a few more replies but I cant seem to get them uploaded... But my point is made with the ones that are here. I am open to feedback or comments about the situation.
Have a great day all.
@pinkfloyd878
Personally I don't see the merits in perceiving myself as the victim and do my best to consider both sides. Since you mentioned being fairly new to Hive, I figure its best to be as charitable as possible but you really missed the mark on this one and this comes off as a virtue signal or misinformed use of buzzwords. Facebook being centralized is a non factor in this situation as it was a private group you joined and chose to ignore the rules of said group. You could call that centralization but individuals control the communities here so if that's centralization then so is Hive.
This scrutiny you encountered also exists on Hive and if you post in a community like Leofinance but you're not posting financial content or don't follow the rules then you would be met with backlash. Sure you won't be censored but you aren't really censored on FB either just unable to post in that particular group. It also looked like a slap on the wrist to give you a warning as you were only muted for a short while but you decided to overreact and be vile instead of communicating in a civil manner, calling them fuckheads instead of debating them on their implementation. It's their group, they can make whatever rules and moderate however they want and it's generally to clean up the group so it doesn't get junked up by spam. I don't have any authority over what you do with your splinterland cards just like you don't have any authority over their group.
I don't understand where your sense of privilege in this situation comes from. Hope this helps and you maybe check your attitude because people will downvote or flag you if you do that here. People can be very protective of the communities they foster here and there are rules for each community.
I understand 100% ... I have had a life long problem of taking things to heart and over reacting... If You knew me about a year ago go and you read what I said in that group now you would probably think that I have come a long way because I was really bad in the past but I'm working on that period.
I feel as I have a pretty good understanding of where I should post what content on hive, With Leo finance you said keep it it finance. I'll keep marijuana in the weed network, And gaming we'll stay in the gaming, Web development and programming there's plenty of places for that....
I don't know what it is about hive but I feel more at ease but I feel more at ease posting here even though the communities are kind of centralized... I find much more toxicity on Facebook.
But I really do appreciate the reply and it does make me think a little bit different I can't change what I did in that group I'm already kicked out of it but but I'm going to consider some of your advice in the future.
Peace and !LUV
@pinkfloyd878
Have you ever heard of the double slit experiment? To me it always seems like whatever your perception is of a place, that's what you find. People try to explain this with a number of different phenomena such as the law of attraction or observation bias but it's interesting to consider. Theres all sorts of people in all groups so it often comes down to who you surround yourself and the tone you respond to people with. Sometimes a group of people on edge can be a slippery slope when all that anxiety leads to a powderkeg and simple standoffishness can lead to feuds and animosity when some clarity could have eased tensions and lead to friendships and partnerships. There's a lot of different psychological factors at play.
I have not heard of the double slit experiment but I'm going to Google it soon here.. In all honestly I really wanted to get kicked out of the group anyway because most of the post I see in there are negative negative or toxic. I kind of knew deep down inside I was gonna get kicked out so I just wanted to go out with a Bang anyway..
LMFAO.... nailed it.
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We all go overboard sometimes. Or have gone overboard. Probably would have been best to test the waters by just telling them the game is Splinterlands, without the referral. If they banned you just for talking about it, then you'd know they're just trying to shill Eth games or whatever. Live and learn.
I agree, I still am in other groups to test ;)