I've had my account nuked 'the powers the be', over this last 6 months (check out my account every.single.post.)
The place is a joke, where tyranny shouts 'muh community'.
Authoritarianism, with sycophantic whale fellatio experts, to keep them propped them up.
I thought you and azircon worked something out for a while, what happened? Also, what happened to that one post that you were going to do in two different styles (one professional) and the other in your usual style that examines the fundamental flaws of dPoS? I think you said one was going to be a video? I was looking forward to that.
@azircon and @lucylin, hug it out already and stop. Ya'll are stinking up the joint and making HIVE look terrible with this forever drama. Plus, HIVE would be a lot less terrible with fewer dramas. Learn to agree to disagree and leave each other alone. This shitshow jumped the shark seasons ago, all the actors have gone home, and nobody is getting paid anymore. Unless it's feeding your ego to downvote this lucy character which would speak volumes about you, let it be. Lucy's a good writer. I'd like to see him/them, whatever talk about something more interesting than the tyrants of HIVE.
If you stop being a tyrant, and he, stop talking about you, maybe ya'll be adults and accomplish something less ordinary than ego beefing on a blockchain that doesn't have as many active users as we're all pretending it does. The reason people don't stick around here is because of the power tripping. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. Imagine if every time you walked past someone bigger and stronger than you, they slapped the shit out of you because they can. That's not a cool place. There are people like that, but they get labeled as sociopaths and get shunned by the rest.
In a way, HIVE can be a lot more AIDS than Facebook is, and many times, it's because people don't act right. Let's not be those people, or when we find that happening, let's get gud, let's do better. I can't control either of your behaviors or force you to get along, but what I can say is that this beef is tired AF. Who will be the bigger man and walk away from this nonsense? Ya'll are worse than Israel and Palestine at this point, and one is underpowered, so the fight isn't even fair or fun to watch.
Lets be very , very clear here....
Lucylin's downvotes .......0
The cabal's ...............approx 200
voting power of lucylin when all this started - around 1500 HP
voting power of the cabal......................- around 10 million HP
Comments made (not including a reaction to comments) by lucylin ....0
Comments made by the cabal without prompts...........................in the hundred's (probably).
Now, I don't know about you, but to me - the facts say it all.
Talk about insecure and weak ego'd individuals running things - it is truly pathetic.
I've made around $40 talking about hive, off hive (so far)
I cannot make money on my account ON hive.
It's not willful blindness, if you're unable to see the facts - it delusion. (no offence, but I think you're not stupid )
I see the facts and realize the power disparity, I'm disgusted by it.
I'd like to see both sides stop talking about and stop downvoting
each other. It's stupid and it makes HIVE look bad and it means
everyone's HIVE will have less valuable because it makes this
place look undesirable. The system is unfair, this is a truism.
Making it so, is a huge challenge that isn't getting solved.
I have neither initiated any conversations, or downvoted.
Let's be crystal fucking clear about this.
There is NO 'both sides'.
It's ALL one way traffic.
My topics I choose post about on MY blog, are inspired by life events.
This is an event.
I was making enough , just - before all the bullshit - to cover my life expenses AND my granddaughters education.
That option to earn on my account was taken away from me - Other peoples actions, not mine.
Ergo - it's a very relevant subject to post about - the stripping away of another ability to earn off their does that to me - silly me. ( as it would if I'd witnessed it elsewhere, and I've spoken up many times over this last 4 years)
The silence of the whales to stop the shit show, also speaks volumes.
...it's their loss, not mine - I'll hack it out wherever I am (if the profit comes from discussing hive, why wouldn't I?)
I think that @theycallmedan was doing some brainstorming on dealing with downvote abuse. I'm not sure where or if any of that panned out or is evolving into something. One thing is certain. If another blockchain figures the thing out, people will ghost the fuck out of HIVE in favor of greener pastures, as well they probably should. We've had time to deal with sociopaths and are collectively either not too worried about it or powerless against it, seemingly.
Oligarchs and the iron rule, tells me nothing will happen.
I purposefully tagged him many times, trying to draw attention to it - nada.
If big player told to he narcissistic sociopaths/children, to shut the fuck up - they would, have no doubts about that.
Whale responses ?... tumbleweed.
Actions say more - an mean more - than glib word salads.
HIVE is broken, no doubt. I don't know if it can be fixed to prevent downvote abuse. I don't even know if the power players have the power to fix the broken system.
They have the power all right - but have zero incentive to change anything. (or at least, they think they have zero incentive - which is incorrect).
Power is being solidified with every sycophant upvote cast among the cabal - the 'in crowd'.
I wonder how this could/will all end, unless fixed? ....('end' being the operative word).