Follow Friday: Respect

in #hive2 months ago

The News

The crypto prices are not too exciting lately. Although $HIVE has dropped a bit lately it is still doing better than a month ago. As always we can play a part in improving that by talking to people about it and locking up funds in HP. You can see that $LEO is doing much better now since they stopped creating coins. I do hold a bit of that.

Prices from @coingecko

@roelandp announced the tickets for the upcoming Hivefest in Kuala Lumpur. I am not expecting to go this time, but there is a chance to win a ticket from @worldmappin.

With @gadrian not doing his weekly news posts I feel some responsibility to step up for that, but my time is limited. I will continue to post news I see, but I would like to see others doing news posts.

You can get some updates on the various projects on their accounts such as @peakd, @ecency and @leofinance. @hive-echo and @hivetoday post general updates. @arcange and @dalz do comprehensive posts on Hive statistics.

Who do you follow for Hive news? I think it can be good to have dedicated accounts for that.

Friday Follows

The Dog House

In the Dog House is general negativity. For some time I have been hassled on Hive by someone in the UK who feels he is being unfairly downvoted by a large account. I have nothing to do with that, but he seems to think that I do and so I get tagged in dozens of long comments each week with some nasty replies to me. I have met lots of people on Hive, but that does not mean I have any influence on them. Hivers are very independent people and want to be free to do as they want. Some of them will keep their identities hidden to reduce the risk of retaliation, but I have always been public about who I am and where I live, so I have been careful not to get into any big fights. I have done some abuse fighting where I thought it was necessary, but rarely do now. I know what it is like to have all my rewards removed. I am more interested in helping others and building communities on Hive. That is why I have been to so many events.

Even if whales were giving me big rewards (and they are not) it would not be worth getting involved in feuds considering the amount of grief I have had. This has stressed me out and made me lose sleep. This is unacceptable in any situation.

Of course all this is permanently recorded on the blockchain, but please do not go picking fights and making it worse. I have resisted posting about this for a long time, but the person in question refuses to believe that I cannot help him. Bearing grudges is unhealthy. Some have suggested that I just mute him, but I doubt that would stop him and may make it worse. I am deliberately not tagging those involved, but they may see it anyway.

Someone said to me this week that on Hive 'Nothing is forbidden, but everything has consequences'. If you act badly to others then you may get judged on it and there are those who will take action. I will not ask anyone to do that on my behalf, but civilised discussion should be encouraged to calm things down. Of course I have tried that, but it does not seem to help in this case. I just want it all to stop.

It makes me sad to have to write all this, but I feel it needs to be said. I do not want to have to leave Hive as I have made so many friends here. Tomorrow will mark nine years for me on the blockchain and that is something special.

The End

I am giving away the rewards for this post as it feels wrong to earn from it.

Peace and Love.

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@steevc ya gotta know that there are many communities that adore every post you make. We, including the @creativeworkhour crew enjoy who you are and how you show up in the world.

My personal growth on Hive has traces of kindness you shown me and others. You are highly valued!

I’m, too, am recovering from the effects of a persons’ behaviour, but it pales by comparison to what you describe. You accurately describe the stress and loss of sleep that can result.

But it is the hearts of Hivians like you that make this a good place. In fact some of these folk mention your name and the good work you do in audio shows I visit in Hive related Discords. How about that? 😉

If there is something specific I or @bitterirony can do to lend a hand, give us instructions and we’re there for you.

You are a Hive Favourite & I truly hope you recover soon from this situation.

Crazy love is coming your way!!!
#cwh

I really do appreciate it when people say nice things about me. I used to be a pretty solitary guy before getting into some online communities and I've found this one very welcoming. This is why I am so keen not to lose that community. I really don't know why this guy has picked on me.

!LUV

This has stressed me out and made me lose sleep.

Don't let it bother you, and DO use the Mute option. That's what it's for.

Hey @steevc! Great News update, and thank you for doing it! Sorry you got mixed up in drama on Hive (what's new, right? 😏) It's bound to happen when your rep is high and you seem to be everywhere - so naturally people assign power to you and then expect you to resolve for them.

On the positive note, I'm very honored to be mentioned here! ⛵️ Already working on my 'sailors on Hive Introduction' agenda.

Also great of you to mention @loraphoenix, she's spitting some fire, and we're all here for that. 🔥🐣🔥

Another project the be on the look-out for is @geoquiz with its "Where on Earth?!" weekly game. 🔎🌍 its a sub-project of @knOt

Again, thank you for the support!
Love and light!

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Steve you did and are still doing so much for Hive and Hiveans, me included.
I never saw any trace of bad behaviour, malice or bad thoughts in your actions and posts. We all are thankful to you so much, in a way or another. Keep going because you're one of the strong bones of this Hive and you help to keep things moving and inspire us all to be better Hiveans.

There's a quote that says: if you got haters it means you're becoming famous hahaha

Cheers. I appreciate it.

I'm sorry to hear you have your personal "stalker" too on Hive... I hope things will get better...

Cheers. Hive is imperfect and some people have a lot of influence. That does not mean we have to suck up to them, but if you piss them off then it can get bad. I don't even know what the beef is in this case, but going after people like me can't help.

Informative post @steevc, but then I'd expect nothing less from you. Congrats on 9 years on the chain. Don't let the unreasonable chattering classless types rattle you're presence here. Hang in there.

personal attacks should be left to the children who use main stream social media, I do see one individual bad mouthing you on a spam reply that I get now and again. has no effect on me.
Stay calm keep running

What a shame that you won't be at Hivefest this time, @steevc 😞 We will certainly miss you there!

@steevc, I paid out 6.069 HIVE and 0.000 HBD to reward 13 comments in this discussion thread.

I have a feeling something big is on the horizon. !BBH

Nothing is forbidden, but everything has consequences

This is sooooo true, you can do whatever you want, literally anything, but people will react to what you do how they please

Regarding the topic, I would say to mute and ignore, I know you said you don't want, but if you do you won't get anymore notification for pings which is the annoying thing

The pings are not so annoying, but I have my reasons for not muting.

I do like the ability to collapse comments.... it does a great job of cleaning up comment sections. OH.. there is THAT dude... click, gone

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