"If people are fearful of a backlash, and choosing not to support a post"
I had that exact same problem when I was first targeted by a whale. Nobody really knew me, they didn't want to get involved. I can understand the fear. But there will eventually come a point where the powertripping downvoter learns his power just isn't enough to keep it up.
"My own disappointments? In just simply speaking out for how I was wrongly treated the individual chose to behave like a child and had a downvote frenzy towards my post and various messages neutralizing countless hours of work."
Yes, we've all been there. But they will eventually stop. Always. It is a waste of resources for them too.
"I agree some should have different views, but there are some huge inherent problems that hive needs to tackle if it ever hopes to 5-10x it's current size."
I believe that will fix it automatically. 5 to 10 times more people on Hive, means that while they have plenty of power, their power to downvote a post will be inevitably passed by the power of multiple thousand minnows (and a few dolphins) upvoting it.
Oh man I'm not sure how I skipped this reply or why I didn't see it. Well I won't mention it here but this is someone on another level I am starting to see now, but that doesn't give you the right to mistreat others. His one vote neutralized over 100 of others even jarvie and when he used peakd also as well as a few active members in community just not enough stake I suppose in comparison.
Yeah issue is those resources to them probably doesn't amount to much as it is resources lost for the receiving party. But yeah after a few days they did stop. My rep went from 50something to 0 to 30 somethning to zero with just a few votes and has been quite the grind.
Well it only fixes as witnesses and those in power choose to implement or experiment with changes in structure if not it keeps it from being a 10x platform from an investors point of view. But I believe hive itself has a lot of amazing layer 2 and projects in the works.
Well, if someone does abuse their power on Hive, I believe it will eventually come back and bite their own ass. They are not only hurting you, but they are hurting themselves by doing so.
It is however completely another thing if their reasoning is correct, and they aren't doing it out of spite. I mean there was a particular bidbot issue that was solved by whales stepping in, and while people complained (pretty much about the same things) about getting downvoted, the bidbots eventually disappeared.
Layer 2 projects may help solve some of the power abuse issues, yes. Mass adoption will likely fix the rest. But we also need to be sure the system will be able to handle a mass migration to Hive.
Reputation may not mean much to them, but I spent countless of hours making posts, comments, and interaction and through several minutes of rage he neutralized all of my effort... (3 post and dozens of downvote brought me from 50something to 0)
Well I feel as it was out of spite as after I posted that I received a barrage of downvotes.https://ecency.com/neoxian/@infinitytcg/my-last-post-here-in-neoxian-or-using-this-tag-ever
Yeah I'm noticing there are some bidbots at play in tribal now and I plan on creating a system to solve that in the future or lower their amounts of profit to better help distribute the resources to those who need it.
I mean sure communities such has vyb are great, but that is an infrastructure issue that layer 1 and witnesses will need to have serious thoughts about. Well issue is mass adoption won't fix it as it is proof of stake atm and that instance is reason I haven't scaled in promotions for the network on various of my channels at the moment, but I'm only 2 months here so I won't suggest more and try to absorb more information about all of this first.