Taking posts that are trending, and deleting all their rewards so they disappear for anyone not following the author, is suppression of information.
This isn't a conversation about "rewards," that is just the excuse/scape-goat that these folks (who admit all the time that their priority is protecting their stake) keep using to avoid the conversation of centralization and censorship.
There are millions of conspiracy theory blogs out there that look exactly alike. Do you think they should all be rewarded for basically copy-pasting the shit the other blog is saying?
- The same could be said of 99.99% of content on Hive. That's the nature of "social media"
- There aren't even a hundred thousand active blogs on Hive much less millions, so your "millions of ...." is obviously not remotely true.
- This is a problem that the IW/DD community has a much lower rate of than Hive as a whole.
By that same logic everyone who comes to Hive as a new user is being suppressed too.
Nobody is entitled to be seen on Hive though, and that has never been suppression, and never will it be.
The posts don't magically "disappear" though. They can still be seen by anyone.
For you to really be suppressed, you'd have to be disconnected from your followers.
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