We have seen abuse in many shapes and forms on this blockchain... especially recently.
I confirm this. I saw some people downvoted one of your comments to 0 even under my post. And the comment was long, meaningful and engaging. We had a good discussion. I do not understand why they downvoted your comment. The downvote abuse is really starting to ruin this place.
They DV’ed me because I stoodUP to someone who was bullying another person on the blockchain. (And there is a pack of them.) I regrettably decided to DV the offending comment and take away the rewards as I didn’t think it deserved to be placed (and featured) at the top of the posts conversation and it certainly didn’t deserve to be rewarded for its abusive nature.
This tripped off a cascade of DV spamming all across my account for the last 2 days.
Oh! And I also stoodUP to a whale that was on MY business blog telling me what I could and couldn’t do with my PoweredUP (business) capital and who I could and couldn’t talk to on MY business post.
I don’t like bullies. (No matter how much stake they have.) I don’t like abuse. When I see it I don’t like to walk on by and pretend that everything’s hunky dorry on this blockchain... step right UP everybody! Invest your business capital, invest your portfolio capital, invest your personal capital! (Give US your money basically) buuuut by the way... we get to tell you what you can and can’t do with your business on this blockchain (rather than further evolve the blockchains deficiencies at the base layer.)
This is turning into a PR problem but these people don’t seem to realize what they are doing to their own investments in this blockchain (let alone the friendly inviting social culture Hive could be) by continuing to perpetuate an undeveloped DV protocol.
Surely SOMEONE @blocktrades? Is measuring the effect this is having socially and financially on this blockchain?
This is all about trust. User trust, investor trust, entrepreneur trust in this blockchain. You can’t just talk about innovation. At some point someone has to listen and deliver for a user friendly Hive experience... 🤷♂️