Vote trading schemes were also called out by much of the community. It's why other curation trails don't work that way. If people want to put idle stake to use, they can follow any number of curation trails. Curators like OCD and Curangel put a lot of effort into combing through Hive. They have community curators searching for things to recommend and cross-checking each other. Anybody doing a "join our group and get upvotes" style system is going to get downvoted. A massive majority of Hive users decided we didn't like how things were going when that was going on. It just isn't a winnable fight to tell us all we're wrong and that it should be profitable. The downvotes are going to win
It isn't really two large communities that need to come together. It's one person doing some false advertising about what's considered acceptable by the vast majority of users on Hive, not being able to meet the expectations they're setting in their advertising, and setting people up for a bad time when they find out the truth
Then maybe it is quite easy - there isn't a group of users expecting to make money from posting memes to Hive? I thought that was the grumpiness. Someone wanted to make money from Hive by joining this group that would auto vote you from other accounts within the group. If users aren't expecting that, then maybe I don't understand what people are even upset about
It is hard to put a bunch of work into something, have it work for a while, have a bunch of people that like it, then find out that a bunch of other people don't like it, and will go through quite a bit of effort to make sure it isn't profitable - I feel for lan for sure. I'm guessing he was just out of the loop for a bit and didn't realize that type of activity had been shot down, felt a bit shocked, and rather than the "ok. sorry. don't want to be considered a negative force in the community" he lashed back with all that "you're violating the geneva convention" styled stuff that I mistook for a troll (it really did seem funny... I feel kinda bad for thinking it was a troll... only kinda...)
It sounds like things are well on their way tho. Maybe just emotions running high still but resolution in progress 🤞