Excellent observations. The real challenge lies in establishing a preemptive dialogue between the various stakeholders before it escalates into voting and countervoting wars. These downvote wars risk eroding the trust of authors and undermining the collaborative spirit that Hive seeks to embody. Unfortunately, a friend of mine, @will91, was also subjected to the practice of downvoting. It's a shame because he was making quality posts. HIVE is now becoming more of a collection of profiles that talk about themselves and less about general topics that might be of interest to everyone. Lately, to find general information, I've been going back to looking at posts about X... and that's not good. Maybe I've been too critical, but I have a bad feeling that HIVE is losing its way. I sincerely hope I'm wrong. !PIZZA