Once again you are slandering and misleading here. No-one is bribing a witness here, there is no evidence or even reason to think that is what is happening. The HP has been proxied to me to use to vote for witnesses who are supportive of intent to direct Hive in a direction whereby downvotes are not used abusively.
The purpose and use of downvotes on Hive is open to interpretation, as are several other elements of the voting process on Hive - they are subjective. Therefore, different people have differing perspectives on what constitutes abusive use of votes or how votes should best be used. In this case many people disagree with the use of downvotes as you are sometimes using them and have come together to do what can be done to initiate changes that change the situation in favour of what they perceive to be a more beneficial direction for the marketing and growth of Hive.
As such, these witness votes are being offered to those witnesses who are willing to align with this intention and make minimal public statements to that effect. There is no bribery here, it is simply policy statement and alignment.
You like to speak as if you know everything about subjects, which you clearly do not. Here you are literally speaking about my own personal life, despite not even knowing the bare basics about it. This is totally obvious to numerous people - many of whom contact me regularly and in increasing numbers. I have no interest in wasting my time arguing over this.
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