You're right Jong. I used to give out SBI and a few STEEM to new people to help them get started, and then they started downvoting people like crazy. We've lost a TON of good people because of that. We lost a huge influencer a couple years ago that I had introduced to LeoFinance, when he saw the cracked hearts on so many posts. "What are those little cracked hearts?"

As fast as I would refer people, they'd be turned off or run out by the downvoters. It was like a snake eating its own tail, and we still haven't learned, it's one thing after another.

If you were a whale, it was small fry stuff, but if you were a little guy or new, it was devastating. The fact that people still remember it should tell you how destructive it was to the image of the community. I'll never forget when they downvoted a homeless guy. Heartless.

The fact that a person of your stature is apprehensive speaks volumes.

I didn't know about HBI. I thought all of that ended with the downvoting gangs.