Abuse fighting on hive has been an ongoing effort from the launch.
I was shamed into it, myself.
If we let folks run amok here the ideal that launched the coin has failed.
This operant idea was personified in @hivewatchers.
Without hivewatchers staunching the outflow of the inflation to low effort posts this experiment in group governance fails.
I don't have much love for them myself, their bedside manner is abrasive, but my bedside manner can be, too, so I sympathize.
If you won't join the effort to make proof of brain a success, why are you here?
Are we supposed to tolerate anyone that acts against it?
Instead of resisting what 'the community' is telling you, why don't you join it and shape what we think?
Maybe make your own efforts to control the outflow that is the inflation pool?
I know people got to eat, but if you are powering down, you are not helping the price, and that needs to be looked at closer by us all, imo.
Folks that can't keep the golden goose alive don't have another one coming, iyam.
I'm certainly not powering down to move funds away from HIVE... my new goal in crypto is actually to power up enough hive to render HW operations obsolete (looking at $2-5M HIVE at this rate). I don't believe HW is "the community", they are simply a small group of authoritarians within the community. In fact, most of the people I've spoken to feel the same, and think they do more harm than good with the way they go about achieving their anti-spam goals.
As far as 'abuse' fighting, we have only one other group effort, hive downvote rewards, that I am aware of.
We tried incentivizing downvoting but our dev was taken out by life during the fork and hasn't made it back to complete the transition into the hive.
Do you downvote spam farms and plagiarists?
Follow any downvoting trails?
I definitely don't follow any downvote trails, and I definitely won't consider joining any. I am well aware that many innocent accounts get caught up in the crossfire of the anti-spam efforts, and I want no part of that.
As for spam farms, it's a debated topic.
My account @freedumbnews was flagged as a spam farm and now gets downvotes on any post.
It's a news curation project that I've been running on twitter since like 2010, but apparently that kind of content is not allowed here on HIVE (says the authoritarian post-police). In reality, embracing all types of content creation (even short form / link posting) is what's needed to take HIVE to greater heights.
Plagiarists on the other hand, deserve the DVs. Does @cheetah still go around flagging potential stolen content with comment links to the source? Haven't seen that cat around in a while.
Cheetah has withdrawn from the field, I understand she was very expensive to run.
I followed fdn, but that type of content was not popular here with the earliest adopters who saw the space as a long form blogging platform and twitter as mostly spam.
It is what it is.
It will be what we make of it.
I'm waiting for all the defi development to kick in.
Hive-engine is killing it with trading bots and diesel pools.
What would put all this posting drama on the back burner is somebody influential noticing that we have 3sec blocks, no fees, and a dedicated community of users and developers.
@jeffjagoe
You should have been blacklisted altogether when we blacklisted your shitpost spam farm that was trashing the blockchain and farming with hundreds of shit posts and refused to stop for months.
See what I mean @antisocialist? The authoritarian (not just authoritarian, but outright asshole) antics of HWs is seriously constricting HIVE’s potential to engulf the web and be more than just a blogging platform.
Looks like they had this conversation with you.
Until 'the community' disagrees with them, this is what we get.
Though, they do have a point, that was some pretty low effort posting.
If you could show some actual eyes on the post, maybe that would be different, but just spamming newslinks to the chain that nobody is looking at is pretty hard to defend.
Make some real content and be one of us.
Lol, ouch.