Grammar aside, this is a completely insane statement.
I have onboarded dozens of people. I have no responsibility for them, though (just a few is still active anyway).
To punish someone for the deeds of onboarded people is simply insane. It may just cause people to stop onboarding, since being blacklisted by HW is a serious threat.
I consider it ill-considered, but not insane. As a teacher, I am responsible for my students knowing how to navigate in the world, and my responsibility is to make sure I have taught them well. What they do with the knowledge is their responsibility, of course.
If a student of yours commit a crime, should you face a trial?
Or something more realistic and less dramatic - if a student of yours cheats during an important exam, should you be punished for this misconduct? Or their parents perhaps?
I already delineated where my responsibility would begin and end. The point is, there is some responsibility for those bringing people into a new setting. When I have onboarded, I have taken this quite seriously, writing my own guide for it. Now, if they don't follow the guide...
Yes, I even wrote a six or seven volume series in Czech, and I publish weekly Czech educational summary on the Hive events and principles.
Yet I don't feel personally responsible for anything the people I oboarded, and to be punished for their misbehaviour would be a huge injustice from my point of view. I am not sure if HW share this opinion, though.
We do not know yet if that is actually what is happening. If HW is bringing to the onboarder's attention that they need to train (just as they would in other settings in which money changes hands and contributions are permanent), that makes sense, though it will still chill.
In no situation in life would I even consider bringing anyone into a situation in which contributions are permanent and money changes hands without understanding I have to train first. That would be my responsibility.
But now, in terms of HW, is there actual punishment going on in this case, or is it still a threat?
I cannot tell, it was not addressed to me. However, the onboarder complained - it was not the onboarder who appealed.
Feel free to check the conversation on the HW's Discord, in #querries.
OK ... so, we don't know yet ... but I will await further developments, there being no cause for me to join that Discord and investigate. I am sure this will have a chilling effect on onboarding if it continues: on that, we agree.
Yes, we do.