It's concerning that you people are trying to onboard new users to Hive just to maintain control and power over the platform and look good.
This behaviour resembles a Ponzi scheme, where early adopters benefit at the expense of those who join later.
The real community on Hive seems to be voiceless and powerless, with no say in how the platform is managed.
Paying people to promote Hive won't change the fact that the platform appears to be a joke to many outsiders looking in.
Bad Downvotes could be the end of Hive, as they reveal the inherent flaws in the system as a whole and the power that farmers and scammers hold is not good.
Hive seems to be a lack of true freedom, with certain individuals controlling the platform and its direction without real community input.
How so?
Downvotes are part of Hive and were always supposed to be. That's just how the voting scheme was designed, that's why there's 7 days to establish value. That's nothing that any of us had anything to do with.