Again, I'm not necessarily talking about the bidbot itself. I'm talking about the collection of initiatives and pushes on Hive to find ways to terrify people who were never told they are doing anything wrong up front, and then have to face waves of DVs that they do not understand. You wrote your post to be scary to folks -- that one person paused his, but you scared plenty more people who are not going to feel they can help themselves in any way without being targeted. You published that big list of names of Hive users that are not going to understand why they are on blast -- and this is crypto, in which anonymity and privacy and being able to live under central control of what you can do with your resources is very important. If we are trying to communicate that Hive is decentralized, free, and safe, every threat of punitive action involving people who are suddenly all on blast with threats of future witch hunting and downvoting reads just like I said it. That's what Hive starts to look like. Everyone isn't going to wait for you to explain -- they are going to RUN.
4,779 users left -- MAYBE. Between folks barely clearing the signup hurdles, not knowing the rules when they come in and falling afoul of Hivewatchers, having Krampus the child-beating demon being made a measure to judge them ... that's Azircon's choice of name for his ratio ... not knowing about the history of bidbots and so being judged by a standard they have no way of even knowing exists ... that sounds like it is not worth the effort.
Meanwhile, you and Acidyo have open wallets too. I've looked in them and found that you both are sending enough Hive to exchanges so that if you backed off by just ten percent, you would have time to take a gentler approach to little accounts who don't account for that much Hive going out the door. Now immediately you will explain that you and he have things to do with all that powering down and exchanging... but I'm a business person. I already know that. But no one without such a background is going to know or care: they will know you are going after them for pennies while clearing thousands of dollars. The story is that the rich on Hive are running a circle jerk that also abuses the little people, and that's the story people who leave are telling, too. Just read all of your comments ... you'll see it. Understand that the narrative on Hive in the world is being affected quite a bit by this perception. So even IF we had 4,779 users telling good stories in the world about Hive, that would already be what we have to work against.
And, no matter what we do, altcoins lose 90 percent of their value in the bear times on average ... so,if there are not an influx of people we can get interested and excited and feeling safe on Hive this year, there will be no way to get them in 2026 when people will be running out of the crypto market as a whole, and when every bad story will be amplified. But let me make this easy: what is your entire whale stack worth, at ten percent of its present value? That's where we're going if we don't get a better narrative out there and sustain it, SOON.