Now if only we were founded by leaders rather than impetuous rich children that could hire code done for them.
I agree that 'the community' will have to step up to take on leadership roles, if they so decide, but I hope many of those names continue to make the improvements that have brought us here.
Not that long ago we would never again see the light of day for having said as much as we have.
The current crop of deciders made it clear that those days were at an end.
The hive has benefited from that, not only in removing the chilling effect that it had on free speech, but in ending the sense of entitlement that led to such behaviors.
'Yes, you were here at the launch, no that doesn't make this your kingdom to off people's heads over dissenting speech.'
I have no doubt that if your facts are accurate, very few will join in the silencing of them.
That doesn't mean that opinions are safe, just facts.
Everybody gets an opinion and that opinion includes disagreement on rewards.
It's just a rule of this game.
If we change the rules on improvident whims to please a few, there might as well not be a game.
Games have rules.
No rules results in no games.
Changing rules impacts retention.
Increasing it, if the crowd agrees, and decreasing it if they don't.
Hive will be what we make of it, now that the one who's name we don't speak has ostensibly left the building.
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The reward pool is a crab bucket, I'm just being a good crab.
What is it that you think folks might be doing?
Hive's distribution is actually fairly well dispersed.
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I see, as with any stream of consciousness, hive has more below the surface than above.
Not out of any malice, that I have detected, but because chasing down the facts is sooo difficult.
I'd bet that our moles actively working to sabotage undetected are covering their tracks well, there has been no shortage of folks looking.
We ran off ned over his kneecappening and two year walkabout, we haven't run off those enabled by him to harm us.
I'd be surprised to learn that he still doesn't have a sizable chunk of hive.
I don't think anybody has been able to out freedom, and maybe a couple others, I would look into accounts with worthwhile amounts of hive, but not really active much that delegate out their hive power.
It would be a clue if they didn't vote witnesses during the fork to hive.
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A high percentage of the people that have been here long enough to have witnessed what happened are pretty insular and are not looking to make new old friends.
Especially when their power base is threatened.
We've got a pretty good crop of users, just some rough edges to smooth off a few of them.
They will get my respect when they institute a 1000mv voting limit.
Until then, they are just greedy control freak bastards to me.
I hope you take up the poor tax, too.
I still haven't heard it mentioned in the developer meetings.
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Did you get into the club, or what?
I am not a part of any club.....if the powers that be want to push me away because they want to maintain the status quo, then it is what it is.
I never thought this conversation would turn into a contentious, shit talking battle. I thought Hive was something different then it is, and ultimately that is on me.
I really am genetically coded to build, not destroy.....when I realized that the conversation had no chance of progressing, or of building anything meaningful from it, I have to let it go or I will be lost as a person.....as love and growth and connecting are really the only currencies that motivate me. Destroying something, or trying to emotionally hurt someone, is a toll to the mind and body that I really try to avoid at all costs, save a few exceptions, as I see no overall value to the World with it.
I will continue to try to create the World I want to live in......and with lessons learned from this historically unique situation, I will try to focus almost all of my energy on building and virtually no effort in convincing anyone else in what I am trying to accomplish.....I will just lead by example.