It does not matter which platform it is held. It is the joy and the fun that I consider as important.
It could be the case of "Out of the pan into the fire" where the pan is Hive and the fire is Steemit.
I cannot but agree with you, my friend. I do run blog at Steemit and from time to time I witness...let say, very nasty stuff, my experience cat be named positive no way. I even dare to name the situation corrupted and rotten, one need to kiss some assess to beat the game, which is surely no fun - definitely its a fire scenario, as you choosed to describe it.
In my opinion, TopicStarter should solve problems with Hivewatchers and bend over and give in to their written rules, other options are seemingly worse ... ehehe
extra !BEER as a consolation