When people are not rewarded by their expectations, they begin to look for other places to go...
People are people, and decentralization expands the ways in which people should communicate or react to the resources they have.
I wouldn't say that HIVE is different than any other platform about how humans interact on it, but there is one huge difference that many (including myself many times) can't grasp... You said it in the first quoted sentence... When people are not getting what they EXPECT to get, they begin with hatred, negative rants, etc.
The main "problem" (I wouldn't say that it is, but some would) of HIVE is that it tends to be a decentralized ecosystem, and decentralization isn't something that CAN please EVERYONE... And it requires participants to RESPECT the will of others, even if it is wrong, against their belief, or whatever... But, like you said, that is really hard for us humans, but it's not impossible... It needs time...
We tend to take things very personally, and most of the time, they aren't! The same goes with this Splinterlands proposal... It wasn't personal, but many took it like that...
Thanks for the wonderful input, I can't help but agree.
With splinterlands proposal, I think old wounds were opened, some people had the time to reignite their grudges. Unfortunately the place where the allegiance of a person lies can make it easier to attract enemies or will I say anti-friends..
In the case of Hive, I think decentralization allows people to over express themselves and this can bring issues.
Maybe in the future the chain can find ways to mitigate some of the issues that comes with over-decentralization