Every word you used in your comment was not created by you, and could theoretically be claimed to be plagiarism according to the flimsy argument you make here. Berwick's content is not plagiarism. It's not flagged because of plagiarism, nor because it's spam, or a scam. It's flagged because of it's potential to become financially rewarded enough to threaten the cabal of which you're a part of loss of it's control of the rewards pool, AFAICT. It's flagged because the political views he expresses do not dovetail with whatever political views ya'll want expressed on Hive.
Hive could be a platform that enables voluntarist governments to replace legacy tyrannies, except for the censorship you and your cabal effect. You're smarter than I am. You could prolly devise code that could enable such voluntarist governments to be undertaken on Hive without suffering the economic suppression that makes attempting them futile. However, it seems your pecuniary interest in your personal financial growth is more valuable to you than a free world.
While I don't care about my financial power because I depend on goodwill for my economic survival, my intellectual capacity is inadequate, or I would have done it long ago. Hive is kneecapped by the ability of whales to maintain control of the rewards pool by flagging. I probably would never have grasped this except ya'll flag to suppress political content, trolls, and free speech whales find distasteful. @logiczombie and @baah have never been a threat to the rewards pool, never spammed or scammed anyone, but their content has been suppressed no less than @dollarvigilante's. Little guys like @skeptic were crushed by one whale.
Until there's some limitation on the ability to flag accounts into the dust for opinion, the extant cabal will maintain it's total economic control of the majority of rewards, and that makes Hive unable to provide actual freedom of speech that potentially challenges tyranny, whether of Hive or legacy governments.
I posted the other comment just before now.
Your opinion on why we flag things is out of date.
Join the hive-dr discord and see for yourself what we do.
https://discord.gg/tVjRSwTG9v
I do agree that 2016 through 2018 was a different consensus.
Not near as broad.
However, the whales are much less involved than they were then.
The removal of the bernster made voicing opinions contrary to his much less hazardous.
Time was when he wiped dozens for daring to differ, now is not that time.
If you care to put links in freezpeach, https://discord.gg/TXPkMRXYuG, they will get looked at by the hive-dr group for defensive actions and restorative votes.
There is very little abuse for opinions since the fork.
Please offer links to evidence I am wrong.
I am not afraid of being corrected.
It won't be the first time I have had to admit that my opinion was wrong.
Thank you for the Discord link, joined!
https://discord.gg/SUwJ2s2
This is another server to spread to ya'll's users, it is 'the official' hive discord server.
Any questions about hive can be asked in there and will receive a responsive answer, generally pretty quick.
And to be specific, berwick is monetizing videos he didn't create and offering that he sends the creators the money.
We don't accept that excuse that from others, we won't accept it from him.
I've advocated that any videos with beneficiaries set to the original creators not be flagged, but separating them is time consuming.
Better that the original creators post them on their own accounts.
Just a heads up, @kencode is right now implementing so we can set creators with no Hive account to "decline payment".
That will solve this issue as far as I am concerned.
We are only looking for an equal application of the rules.
The standard is original content every time, or decline/burn the rewards.
That isn't too much to ask in light of the number of spammers/plagiarizers we have driven from the pool up to this point.
I will make a post as soon as it is implemented, have made it #1 priority!
Wonderful, thank you for your attention to the matter.
All posts now decline payouts: https://peakd.com/hive/@michaelnyboebach/vigilantetv-or-all-payouts-for-posts-now-declined
Seems like it'd be pretty simple to sort that with a bot, but what do I know?
Maybe if ya'll didn't flag original content creators whose opinions you don't like off the platform, reposts wouldn't be the only source on Hive for that content. If you don't like it being reposted, don't flag the creators off Hive. Disagreement of opinion is the whole reason free speech is useful. The flagging of creators is just cancel culture on Hive.
Is it profitable to cancel people by flagging them off Hive? I wouldn't have thought you would want to profit by that means, even if it was profitable. It just seems like killing Hive to me, not even harming those creators much, since they just post elsewhere. Hive has so much potential, it's sad to see it killed one creator at a time, when it could instead enable a diversity of voluntarist governments to replace the corrupt legacy tyrannies destroying themselves around the world today.
I guess I'll have to watch the slow death of that potential until a successor that does prevent opinion flagging arises, and others enable that platform to moon when they don't kill it with cancel culture.
Give me a link, or a name, to that happening in the last 2 years.
What is killing hive is people having their facts wrong, braying loudly, and giving us an undeserved bad reputation.
Stinc kneecapped us intentionally, we still haven't recovered from that.
People are not getting driven from the platform unless they are clearly abusive.
If you think otherwise, provide the facts.
@logiczombie. Still votes but no longer posts, because they can't post without getting flagged by massive stake. @baah. Still posting despite being flagged into the negative, because they're obstinate. @lucylin. Flagged off the platform. @worldtravelpro. Flagged off the platform. @r0nd0n still a witness and still running @freezepeach AFAIK, but last post was last October and flagged to zero by Marky (and himself. He's known to do that from time to time). @kennyskitchen. Flagged off the platform. @lukewearechange. Still posting (or posting again after a hiatus), still getting flagged to zero most every time. @dbroze. Getting flagged hard, still posting. I myself have been only mildly flagged since the Bern ended, and that despite riling Marky excessively, for which I grant him credit due.
If I hadn't wanted to spare you I could keep going, and I cleaned out the list I follow a few months ago, so I'm prolly missing many.
That's vague, and ill defined. Some of my favorite people - like you - are clearly abusive. I think you called me a Communist once. The audacity! I really admire audacity, so thanks for that. On second thought, you might have called yourself a Communist. My recollection is vague.
Some of the above list are excellent reporters and prolific posters, while some are obnoxious trolls. I reckon we need both ends of that spectrum. I also don't think you're the kingpin and ringleader of the cabal, and suspect you're there to make the difference that seems to be why @ura-soul isn't on that list, despite he was flagged like a Panamanian freighter for months. That flagging seems to have mysteriously stopped after he recommended voting for a certain witness that shall not be named (just to seem mysterious. I don't think that particular witness is the reason, and think I vote them too).
So, thanks for that hard work I reckon you're doing.
If people posting stupid and incorrect stuff is killing Hive, we're doomed along with all other places people post. Nowhere more than Twatter, Fakebook, or Youtool.
I want you to know I sincerely appreciate you stepping into the fray. Thank you.
@baah is enlightened, unlike your feeble-minded self. He doesn't give a damn, and I commend him for that. He knows his words will never fade away no matter who thinks can "censor" him.
@logiczombie can do whatever he wants. He has his posting keys.
Lucy is just here for the money. Pretty easy to see why he left in a hurry when it's no longer yields financial rewards. But hey, let's pretend posting is the only way to earn on the chain after all these years.
Worldtravelpro was outted for recycling his content which people used to curate him did not like. Then, proceeded to libel everyone who was once his benefactor when they no longer wanted to vote on his stuff.
@freezepeach is still operational. Not that you would know that. @r0nd0n is not weak like others who decided to censor themselves. He's actively doing other things and he is a mid-level witness on the chain. By your definition, he might as well be part of the cabal because he collaborates with many people you detest.
I think your reading comprehension is inadequate, because you inform me of what I have stated. Anywho, @antisocialist asked for a list, so there is a list. You misapprehend me grievously, and ascribe to me feelings that I don't have.
I am cut to the quick, wounded to my core. I will go have a sad now, while I mourn the consequences you will bear due to your misunderstanding.
You will bear the consequences of your understanding, or lack of it, without exception. Nothing I can do about that except to state precisely what I mean, which I did as best I could.
You demonstrated you lacked the background info for the "list".
There's no lack of understanding. I know underlying motives to discredit people when I see it.
Good day.
More people need to think like you.
I'm one guy. My voice doesn't dictate what others do.
As I recall, that group eventually resorted to doing stuff like this:
Actions were taken against them. It's not as black and white as everyone else tries to make them.
We got this email from Dan Dicks of PressForTruth yesterday:
Max Igan messaged me this yesterday:
These are just a couple of creators, but it is the general sentiment unfortunately. None of them knows excaclty why they get hammered or by who, it's just game over. So let's turn it around and make Hive explode!
Here is an image of the last 3 posts from Dan Dicks before he stopped.
Max Igan's account is posting now, and has posted a couple time in the last month.
https://peakd.com/@maxigan
His last post.
https://peakd.com/hive-160545/@maxigan/enxsqtdr
So, some clarification may be advisable to see if he's posting, someone is posting on his behalf, or is posting from his hacked account.
Now declining payouts on all posts :) https://peakd.com/hive/@michaelnyboebach/vigilantetv-or-all-payouts-for-posts-now-declined