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RE: Is SBI Still Taboo Or Is It A Valuable Tool On Hive?

in The CTP Swarm2 years ago

It hurt my community. I had quite a few people stop posting on the blockchain because I had sponsored them with SBI. And he went on a rampage and downvoted everyone who was receiving shares. I brought quite a few entrepreneurs that said to hell with this after they started getting downvoted. Might of been one guy, but it really hurt my community and I'm sure Hive as well.

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I tend to agree, bad actors have no good effects. I am generally happy how we responded to it, I doubt you are interested in all the details but I actually had some pretty clever battles with him myself - he was automating most of his activities and I always love trying to trick bots - I like to think I was annoying enough to help him get bored sooner.

Also the community did team up to try to 'heal' some of the damage, but in the end these are the mechanisms on which this chain works. Many users defend downvotes as a part of the consensus mechanism, and this is completely unrelated to HIVE SBI. Luckily, these users did not join with mmmmmkkk - they had a chance but decided that HSBI brings value to the chain. No one else downvoted. There is some discussion on whether ctime is the same person as an alt or not. So maybe he did have one 'friend'.

One thing that surprises me still, is how fresh this stays in people's minds - how hurtful it 'appeared', as you say - 'it hurt', even if it only lasted two months, year(s) later we get people wondering if its 'safe to use SBI again?'. You are not the only one, it has not happened as frequently recently, but every once in a while user will come into discord with this exact question -

'Are users still getting downvoted for using HIVE SBI?'

Fascinating stuff. A hurtful episode in the history of HSBI, and the HIVE chain. I still love the program personally, and sponsor people all the time.

Yeah I mean, I'd love to jump back in and start sending them to my community again. Just haven't seen anything official on the site in a while? Got any inside scoop on that?

Yes, the program is under active development - there is a new webapp, the back end is undergoing revitalization and there is a roadmap towards a DAO (unpublished but discussed in discord). Its still alive!

https://www.hivesbi.com/

Awesome stuff. Yeah I poked around the new website, and looking forward to seeing it progress. Again, it was a very useful project in my opinion that really helped people feel valued on chain.

We need much more of that, and less Negative Nancies lol

At least that mess is over :) ...

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It was just mmmmkkkk who decided to downvote everybody with hbi shares x)

Yeah and he had a buddy of his take part too. Apparently, they aren't even on chain anymore?

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ironically, he went to blurt because 'downvotes are bad'

lol oh the irony....

hahaha.

He's probably still on hive too, just under a new name.

ctime? Right?
No they left for blurt I think.

But if it was ctime, he then reason got outted from blurt aswell xD

lol as the blockchain turns!!! lol

Ye haha xS

That's sad... Aren't they interested in growing the platform?