I noticed the downvote of that guy to your post but didn't know that has been doing that in all the posts related with art. This place as steemit, has a lot of problems yet (well in steemit is a lot worse). I'm very drastical when it comes to this kind of shitty behaviour. Imo HIVE should have methods to avoid these practices because if we haven't such methods then the spammers, scammers, bad actors and JS friends will boycott this place.
And I give a shit if someone says "hey and our freedom of speech?". The freedom of speech isn't a right to piss in others houses without consecuences. I see everyday that asshole of bountyking spamming all the "new" trend and we're doing nearly nothing except downvoting him, that has to stop. For god sake nobody had the idea to put a trend of spammers and sending all that spam to that place?. Then you donwvote their shit if you want that way we have "new" clean of assholes.
We need more drastic tools agains those who want to destroy HIVE. Seriously, whales should be thinking about this aspect, because if not we're going to fail the same way steemit did.
Nothing can be done. People just leave. It you were a witness, would you be here right now talking to me or would you be worried about losing a big witness vote if you did? Those people are cornered.
Super pro Hive posters won't touch this because they might lose support if they did.
Crypto crowd won't touch this for the same reasons, and many of them are used to not having comments under their posts anyway so why would they care if fewer consumers were around when really, they just post for more crypto. They're all cornered. Can't and won't do shit, and for the most part don't care either.
I could be wrong but that's the vibe I get. They're not getting downvoted so why would they care, plus the competition is being forced out.
Then we're doomed if the target is keep winning rewards instead of making a better place for potential users. If I were a whale I would try to stop this. Because my target isn't win some crypto and leave this place to the ones who want destroy it.
And yes, they probably would loose some support but the reward is much higher if we manage to succeed with HIVE as a good rewarding social media for ALL not just for a few. For me that pow that you pointed isn't very clever. Egoist yes but has no future vision, is very short sighted and I thought that we had some really clever people here. Not just comformist that want their money now, what you said is very dissapointing but I'm almost sure that you're right because you know them much better than I.
Plenty of folks do actually care but I still think many will remain quiet. Looking long was my plan but it was with Steem as well and many shortsighted types ran the show. It's hard for me to think that'll change here, especially now, and I don't have the patience to hope like I once had.
All I can do is point these problems out. It's up to many more to take it to the next level. While everyone waits, the problem will get worse and more will leave. This will be the third time I've said it here in the comments but this problem is the start of a death spiral. Seen it happen before under different circumstances and even some of the same. It's quite common for people around here to fuck things up for everyone else.