Have you always wanted to ask me something?
Now is your chance, there won't be another!
(ok, ok, there will)
Hit me up in the comment section with a question and I will do my best to answer it. I post a new AMA post every 2 months or so.
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What is an AMA?
AMA is a format popular on Reddit where one person offers to answer questions for a limited period of time.
How long will I answer questions?
I will usually answer them pretty quickly, and I should be around for a few hours. I will continue to answer them as they come in. I am going to hop out in a few hours to go see Violent Santa but will be back to answering questions after.
What type of questions can you ask?
I'm open to pretty much anything but I can give the best answers about:
- Hive
- Hive Witness
- Crypto
- PCs
- Gaming (Video, Board, Crypto)
- NFTs
- Minecraft
- Elden Ring
- RimWorld
- Popping off in Hunt: Showdown
- Hating Red Dead Redemption 2
- Ape Mining Club
- Hive Punks
- Photography
- Development
- Technology
- Raspberry Pi
- 3D Printing
- Productivity
- Movies & TV
- Comedy
- Memes
- Pool maintenance
Don't feel limited to the above categories, just things I generally know about.
This AMA brought to you while listing to Boys will be bugs by Cavetown.
So let's get this shit started!
Why you should vote me as witness
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How's this post not downvoted yet? 🤔 or they've turned a new leaf... New year's resolution eh? 🤔
Give it time.
Where can I learn more about the Hive Ecosystem? Any new plans for the StemGeeks community in the future?
https://hive.io
Not sure, it's going pretty well but the price doesn't reflect that.
Thanks Marky!
Well I have a couple:
I missed your last 17 AMAs so I am trying to make up xD..
My dishwasher reeks. I already cleaned it and replaced the drain hose, but it still smells. What do I do to fix it?
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Not really my wheelhouse, but get these.
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Thanks!
Lol
If you could change things about hive what would they be?
What things are missing in hive from your perspective?
What do you expect from users?
What do you expect from those who are even more committed to the platform?
Do you have anything planned for the future with ape mining club and hivepunks?
Smart Contracts!
Users
Nothing
I really don't have any expectations of anyone. Everyone is a free individual to do what they please. This is the premise behind decentralization. I hope they find something they find interesting and enjoyable.
I did have a game planned for Hive Punks called Plunder Punks, but I'm working on other things now. As for Ape Mining Club, nothing to announce.
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Thanks for the answers Mark!
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Why haven't you been posting as before, plus what other projects are you working on that's keeping you occupied?
I stopped posting as a few whales are throwing a hissy fit I downvoted abuse they were voting and started downvoting everything I post and everyone I vote.
I'm working on an Ethereum game and an NFT project.
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Do you like watching movies, and what type of movies? also, what's the name of the cat in the post?
I love movies, but I feel at this point Hollywood is so focused on pushing their agendas there really isn't anything good anymore.
Like music, I am all over the place. I like action, drama, comedy, pretty much everything. I especially love "epic scale" and period movies.
Some of my favorite movies:
Her name is Oreo, not my choice, we took her in.
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Wow!
My regards to Oreo😊
Happy joining in.
Welcome back to posting! Hoping the downvote brigade is done now, but I guess we'll see.
As for questions... hmm.
What would you say is your most niche or surprising(to us, who semi-know you via hive) hobby?
I love playing board games, the more complex the rules the better. I am not a fan of simple rules games, but I do like party games like Werewolves of Miller Hollow.
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Ah, very cool! If you ever decide to jump into tabletop roleplaying, I highly recommend Starforged It's crunchy and coop friendly.
How much did you think Hive would be worth in 2023? And how much it will be in 2024?
No clue, I don't even know what it will be an hour from now, no one does.
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Love your optimism.
I'm more of a realist. I firmly believe no one knows where a token will be in a year much less a day from now. There are so many factors it is impossible to predict. Anyone who tells you otherwise is full of shit.
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I have a few questions here and there:
First, I've been thinking of working on some projects here on Hive, but feel constrained as I am not so popular and may not get my voice heard properly. So, I would like to ask you: What will it take for you to buy into a Hive-based project proposal (like what kind of projects do you see potential in, e.g., niche and more)? What would be a good pitch to you?
Do you do autovotes? If yes, what will it take to earn that secure spot in your heart to take out the time to add someone to earn a portion of your HP? What criteria/qualities do you look out for in a user? If no, what are your reasons, and do you consider autovoting unethical?
Thirdly, I believe that at some point, we grow so much that we need the services of others. I am enthusiastic about supporting some projects and users here, as I believe that would give me more relevance and useful exposure. So, do you already run a team? If yes, what remote spots could someone reach out to, and what qualities do you look out for? If you are a lone operator, why do you think it's better to work alone than with a team?
Popularity is great, but if you have an amazing idea, it will get popular on it's own. We all started from nowhere here.
Onboarding in my opinion is the biggest thing, anything that brings in more users.
I am not against auto votes, I always curated people I thought created good content and added value. As for what it takes to get my vote, I never really go into that, there is nothing anyone can do to influance how I vote. For the last year though I have had angry whales countering my upvotes because I downvoted their votes on abuse and they threw a fit. So I don't have the luxury anymore to choose what I vote on.
I am a lone operator. Trust is a big factor for me, trust in the integrity, but also performance. Many people come on strong, but then quickly move on to other things abandoning their responsibilities.
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Thanks a lot for your swift and satisfying feedback.
I just asked @acidyo this on his AMA, but I'll throw it to you too. I don't think we've talked about it in the Mancave before, or if so I don't remember.
What do you think about ChatGPT and it's effect on Hive? Should Hive try to implement a way to detect it? Or should we just let the newbies who use it run wild and burn out after awhile before disappearing, as many new users do. More grandly, do you see good effects from this technology or bad ones? No doubt it will eventually lead to a reform of how we (society) teach schools, but that could be good or bad depending on who you talk to.
I think ChatGPT is a short term thing, there has been AI content creation for ages but ChatGPT took it to the next level. It won't be free and open forever, OpenAI always puts their models behind expensive paywalls, this will drastically reduce the availability to most people. It's a major problem for Hive and almost any industry. Colleges are having a hard time right now as well.
I don't think we have the resources to do that, there are some tools used to detect AI content, but they are marginal at best.
AI will change almost everything as we know it. As amazing as ChatGPT seems, it's merely a stepping stone to what's coming next.
We will find ways to adapt as a society and hopefully we find good uses of AI that moves us forward.
Most people are looking at the toy aspects of ChatGPT, but once people estabilish serious uses for it, it will be a game changer.
A good example is a company who created an AI lawyer to help fight tickets, by feeding answers into a set of glasses to help argue your case. Lawyers grouped together though and shut them down. An interesting story though nonetheless.
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Hello hello happy day How long did it take you to get to the reputation you have on hive what are your strategies.
Reputation is very slow after around 65, but it is largely meaningless and I wouldn't worry about it. We want to come up with a better reputation system, but for now this is what we have.
As for how long it took, probably around 4-5 years, but I stopped posting 8-12 months ago. My original goal was to post daily since I got here.
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Guaooooo if you weren't left that long without publishing your reputation would be higher excellent
It gets really slow after 80
For me it would be an eternity hahahaha, well I will go at a slow but sure pace thanks for taking the time and answering blessings 💞.
This opportunity came right in time, I appreciate it.
My question is on the Hive voting aspect, what is your reason for downvoting quality posts? I think I've seen a few of them you downvoted including mine 🥲
I think there are a few things I'm yet to know about how the downvoting system works on Hive? I'd like to know from you.
I don't really get into why I downvote or upvote content. The same reason I don't ask why anyone else does either.
I don't see any votes by me on your content, up or down.
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Okay, that answer is valid too!
Sorry, I got the downvote on my main account. Thought that was the one I was using to join the AMA right now.
Answer taken, thanks!
Is 2023 a bullish year or are we about to find out differently?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Your guess is as good as mine, there are so many things that can happen that would affect things. I don't pretend to have any magical insight.
Ok yes, too bad :)
I was chasing for some good news.
What would be your 2 cents on how Twitter has been evolving over the last months?
I'm very concerned about the downward mobility of Hive Reputation. It takes a lot to get up and a single bigger stake can reset the pretty easily with a downvote trail on your posts and comments.
Do you feel like there's room for improvement or is the current rule of the jungle working its way decently well?
As I mentioned in another comment, reputation system is useless. It is merely a measure of how many upvotes you have had vs how many downvotes. It takes just as much downvotes as it took upvotes to move your rep.
There has been talks of replacing it, but until we find a better algorithm, it is what we have. The problem is most signals that would represent good reputation can easily be manipulated, many without any stake at all (like if we used followers, or number of upvotes as key signals).
That is a very interesting point you're making there. Maybe a third party can create different Reputations as a service. Some things are not meant to be solved on-chain.
One stupid question if you don't mind, what's the best-looking Hive Punk?
I kind of like this one
nice.
https://punks.usehive.com/punk/9801
what do you think is the future of Hive in let's say the next 2-3 years?
Also, what do you believe Hive lacks?
Finally what do you like doing in your free time?
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Hopefully more users.
Smart Contracts.
Hanging out with friends and family. Playing video games with my son. Building Games.
Do you think having regular spaces like CTT might help bring more users to the HIVE ecosystem?
If users who are not already on Hive attend, potentially.
When you come to El Salvador the Bitcoin city?
if you come here you will drink a cofee with me?
the user enmy and enmimente are not bothering with you now?
I don't think I'd ever get out there. We usually go to the Caribbean.
Not a coffee drinker, hot chocolate sure, but not coffee or beer.
They still throwing a hissy fit. What ya going to do.
There's this tingling in me nuts, do you think the world is flat because of the sensation?
No, you might need to go to a doctor or take your hands out of your pants.
Lol
Yeah I'll take them monkeys off me left pocket maybe it will solve world peace in the process.
Two questions:
When (if ever) do you see the Raspberry Pi market returning to MSRP equilibrium on Amazon?
Now that RISC-V boards are becoming more common, do you foresee that technology eclipsing the Pi, or even the Pi 5 switching from ARM to RISC-V?
I think it will take a while, the Amazon marketplace has always price gouged the Raspberry Pi trying to push people to bundles, usually you can get a better deal through Arrow or Adafruit when they have them in stock.
I don't think so, there is a lot of compatibility issues to deal with, the Pi has really good support right now compared to compeitors and it's largest selling point compared to just getting a knock off. Maybe Pi 6 or 7, but I doubt it for the Pi 5. The Pi 5 isn't coming soon either, probably 2024 or 2025.
I was OK with buying a bundle for my first board, but yeah, just getting the second on its own was a challenge even before the COVID chaos and bundle seller buy-up. I do like the community hub approach they take. It's like Apple, but without the walled garden nonsense. And I doubt the ARM license fee is a significant hurdle to warrant switching away soon.
ARM licensing fee is based on the features you use too. I can't imagine they are paying that much especially seeing as they are considered a Charity in the UK.
Forgot to sell Gods unchained cards ages ago, is it time to sell them now, wait? 😀
I've been selling a little at a time, it's hard to sell but I have a lot listed.
👍
I'm pretty sure you know a lot about this subject. But nevertheless, I have my reservations that you are going to answer my question with complete and absolute sincerity. But either way here you go! Let's see if you have the balls to answer it with outright frankness and honesty.
Why the freaking hell, you the "cleaners" and all the satan-worshipping members of your arsonist cult of anarchical "clean freaks" always enjoying setting fire with downvotes to everything in your path that is not in communion with your wrongful, brainless and whimsical agenda of zeroing everything which otherwise should be a duly and well deservedly rewarded content according the upvotes of everyone else?
¿Why the hell until now none of you freaks have met in assembly to deliberate about correcting and quit all your abuses, robberies, arbitrariness and your damn behavior once and for all?
¿Is it that perhaps you are not already feed up of people hating you all so much for your sick "curation" criteria, constant relapsing and reiterative stupid & wicked wrongdoings which have no forgiveness or justification of any kind at all? ¿Huh?
I am not and never have been associated with Steem Cleaners or Hive Watchers.
Yeah, that may be true. But I would bet you can't deny that you have and have always had access to their secret meetings and you know most of them very well and even personally as to know what they do and what they plan to do to at least try to influence them inviting them to reconsider that what they do is intolerable, unjustifiable, absolutely unacceptable and for what they will have to pay a very high price pretty soon if they do not amend their conduct. And yet, the chances are that you have not spoken out against their stupid actions and rather you have opted to join them in the same greedy and arbitrary maneuvers alone and on your own to continue being welcomed and accepted by them. Amirite?
Like I said, I am not and never have been associated with them. I have no access to any of their anything. You could even see I've been flagging the Hivewatcher account for ages. Do some research.
Yeah, I have seen it. But only and if anything in some eventual post of their proposals when they are looking for new financing to continue with their continual misdeeds and arbitrariness. I never speak without a due and exhaustive investigation first.
But you know what Marky? I've already read in some of your answers to other users in this post that what you miss the most and what you hope will happen in Hive more often is that there are more users. But, ¿how do you think that could be possible?
In order you can gain the trust of everyone here. And confirm that you are actually telling us the truth replying to my comments in this AMA. I'd say we would really like to see if you would dare to start handing out juicy upvotes from now on through your own and @buildawhale HP to all content that has been unfairly downvoted and zeroed by this gang of freaks, only to counteract and reverse the damage done by these obtuse and stubborn retards. Yeah! that would be neat!
Oh! C'mon Chris! Can you now make me a 3D Print of a very strong upvote to counteract your brown-nosing downvote?
And by the way. How did you do to find my comments and express so much sycophant love? ¿Was it through hivewp?
Yeah, don't hesitate dude. You've already made quite a new good friend in some outlandish niche throughout the entire Hive community. LoL
How do you usually deal with projects that are overly-supported yet poor to minimal positive implication to the platform?
There are so many, not a lot I can do about it.
:)
What's your favorite Pokemon?
I'm not into Pokemon. I know of like two in passing, Squirtel and Pikkichu.
If you watch Premier League, which team do you support?
I don't even know what Premier League is, I am assumining it is soccer?
Yup, I guess you are not related with football 😅 What's your favorite movie?
Probably Gladiator, I have a few, but that's the first to come to mind.
Definitely one of the best movies. Thanks for your answer.
Hello,
I would like to ask,
how to know which blockchain is going to be a great success. POW, POS, DPOS, or whatever. what factors count. security, community growth, mining power, and how to make predictions about it. provide some data. 😅
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You don't, you have to go with your gut.
There is no quantifyable data that really can answer this. A blockchain could have great marketing, lots of funding, and turn out to be a rug pull. A small blockchain might have no real team but have a great idea that catches on. You can have everything and not be seen due to lack of marketing or just bad luck.
that is weird and not good. something valuable couldn't get traction which is worrisome.
btw Thanks for the clarification. 😍
Oh goody... it's that time of the month again. (This one... not that one)
How old were you when you first heard "Boys will be bugs" and how often do you listen to it?
What have you made with the 3D printer in the last bit?
Do you believe people can change? :)
I think I heard it about 2 years ago. I like Alec Benjamin's weird music, which is very similar which eventually turned me on to this song.
I recently printed these signs.
Of course, but most don't bother.
Thanks for that 😊
You have cool taste in music (will dig up Alex B next) 👍. My son wants to know where we can get one (if the 12 year old gives it the thumbs up, you're in the club).
And yes. You're totally correct. Of course.
See you next time 👣
(stay you)
I think we need to clarify this answer.
I reckon people can amend their behaviour but whether they can change is still up for discussion...
I think not after some more experience.
I mean... their nature, that is. And what drives and motivates them.
Like that.
I'm thinking that scorpion frog thing may be correct after all.
tbc or d or not because time and more questions.
Lemme know if you stick those signs up for sale sometime :)
People can change, but 99%+ don't have the will to do so.
Hmmmm... not sure anymore, although I thought this once as well.
Was always more nurture than nature in the debate.
But the scorpion and the frog. Perhaps we aren't as evolved as we like to think we are.
A human being's nature is different to a behavior.
A behavior can be modified. Yes.
Can a person's nature be altered? I'm not so sure it can, actually.
Guess it's one more thing we may never know for sure.
Thanks for the reply 👍🏻
I don't suppose you know who threw me a life jacket on the "Keep Calm and Carry On" post per chance?
I'd like to send them a strippogram or buy them a coffee. Or at least beam them up if they decide to evacuate the planet when I get the rocket sorted out.
Q: WOULD YOU BE THE MAIN PHILANTHROPIST FOR A NON-PROFIT?
I am thinking about making a non-profit Hive account. Ironically, my plan is to save a lot of pollinators. Sure hive is close to a bee's hive so bees are the first in mind, but there will be much more. All the wild bees and small little flies are making even bigger jobs than domestic bees. I won't now talk too much what will be main activities but will just give a short recap:
...
What did I do already for this plan? I bought two lands (altogether 100 acres, one is in the national park). This land will serve as a pollinator sanctuary and activity, land for growing honey plants, honey production place (later some of the honey will be sold and the profit will go into the non-profit). I am also collecting seeds of honey plants and most of them were already grown in the garden...
When will we play a Minecraft vanilla server? :P
me? Never. So boring.
I haven't really played minecraft at all in a while, my son really isn't into these days.
What are you playing nowadays then? Among Us? 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢
Nah but jokes aside, still playing Hunt or Elden? You should try Stalcraft. I played it with a friends some days ago and it was pretty good tbh
I currently playing Witcher 3, Hades, Hunt, Overwatch 2, Disco Elysium, Rimworld, Red Dead 2. I'm trying to get through my backlog of games. I probably won't play anymore Elden Ring until the DLC gets released.
I wanted to see what's new in The Witcher with the new updates but I guess my poor GPU couldn't handle it XD
What about GoW Ragnarok? Have you tried it? Dunno if you have a PS4/PS5 tho
I recently finished God of War, but haven't got Ragnarok yet.
Intro before question:
Question:
You have to convince stake holders your proposal benefits the greater good of the hive community as much or more than you are asking. At least that is what it is in theory.
I have created a proposal, and it was funded for only a short amount of time.
Why would you think it is any different, it isn't the smallest stake holder who holds the deciding vote. You either need whales, or lots of smaller votes, it's simple math, not a conspiracy.
Do something they care about.
No one owes you anything, no one asked you to do anything. Keep that in mind when you work on it.
I see a lot of comments about you playing games with your son.
Does that bother the Lady of the house? Does that create little bit of friction?
If yes, How do you deal with it?
Nope. Not at all.
How do you check the first block you've produced as a witness?
You can use a block explorer like Hiveblocks.com
Apologies for bringing you back to the voting war, but don't you think it's about time you call for trues and renegotiation, because most of these ways have redirected their voting too various communities and smaller accounts are not caught in the cross fire of what they don't understand wont it be fair too have a level ground.... U said you want hive too grow and have new user yet what's welcomes someoff them each time they get a huge upvote from a whale you are at war with it results too a huge down vote, how then can we convince them too stay?
Hello Mark,
Please you downvoted my post could you let me know what I did wrong please? I really take my time on my post and my contents are original. I’m an optometrist based in Ghana, kindly give me a feedback because I’m very confused u took a huge chunk out the of my hard work away with ur downvote. Thank you
So I'm asking why you keep downvoting my works and you didn't even state a reason for doing so
Still getting downvoted?
Yeah, but I don't post anymore so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Maybe its time to post in a 2nd account :P
Good day @themarkymark, I noticed you downvote this my post, please can I know the reason for that, thanks in advance.
https://hive.blog/hive-161155/@olatun/will-decentralised-applications-ever-rule-the-world
Hello,
Is it possible to add sound to a post?
Like audio, people can listen while reading the post?
Only if you post a video
and how to post a video? 😂
3speak, youtube, or any other video service.
👍 Thanks
@themarkymark From my tiny corner of Hive from I'm guessing many people on Hive.
Sorry we humans can be such a bunch on insensitive c*nts. We're just not as smart as Dolphins at the end of the day.
It's not you. It's "us".
Try not to take things personally. Although we humans do like to make it so. I blame Donald Trump. And Facebook. Of course.
I guess none of us were taught conscious relating and it's all difficult and awkward.
I blame Dr Spock for this. Of course.
Actually... I blame myself. I was ranting about actions and consequences and didn't take you into consideration as an individual and human being. I'm sorry. :(
Behavior can be hurtful. But rarely is it the people who are "bad". See? My bad. I behaved like a cnt. But I am not a cnt.
Hopefully see you soon.
Checking in. Hope you're holding up and stepping up and forward.
Just another only human. Not tryin' to get into your Deadpool outfit or nuthin'.
We're all naked underneath our sadly invisible dress up anyway. Eh
Last touch. Off to see some sunshine. Barefoot of course. 👣❣️🌼
Hello Marky,
Please I am quite curious about something. I got down voted by @buildawhale account yesterday and I sincerely do not know why. I don't know if you could be of help, I just want to know what I did wrong and to know how to avoid that next time.
I would reply appreciate it if I could get a reply to this as soon as possible. Thank you.