I only ran 36 GPUs mining Ethereum before joining Steem but I have five kids so we are even. :-)
Question: What should we do about abusive whales (ie Bernie) who drive away good people from Hive and pollute good posts with their hateful bile.
How can we maintain decentralisation and censorship resistance, while mitigating or eliminating the damage and giving users the choice of a Bernie free experience?
Mute him.
There is global mute lists being worked on that allows users to subscribe to public mute lists.
Global mute will be good but I really have to ask why people "producing low effort content" like @fernandosoder are being downvoted for the few cents they earn while someone like Bernie (xxxxxxxxxx & innerhive) are engaging in the most appalling abuse, foul language and spamming of legitimate posts which are driving people away from Hive and are not being blacklisted and downvoted by you.
That's a pretty good question.
I don't really get involved in people saying bad words. That's not what the blacklist is for. Never has been.
Its not just bad words. Its spam because he posts the same abusive comment multiple times.
Its also defamatory (and thus illegal) abuse that harms Hive far more that someone who posts some often interesting memes with a few comments.