This is great, and all, but in 2017 we drove over a million users off the chain. Merciless opinion flagging was employed without surcease on hundreds of influencers and drove them from the platform. Some very few of them have tried again, and almost all of them have again been met by flags that have successfully censored them here. TLAVagabond sticks it out despite the opinion flags, PressForTruth, RT, and some few others that have sizable audiences outside Hive stick it out here, despite most of them being so suppressed by flags that they receive no author rewards whatsoever. Many, many others, like Jerry Banfield, Pakman, DollarVigilante, that have thousands of millions of followers, and did bring them here once, have quit wasting their time here where their delivery of eyeballs is penalized financially by censors like HW, and the usual suspects - whales that guard their parasitic extraction of the rewards pool.

Hive has a problem that Steem revealed perfectly. It is governed purely by stake, and Sun Yuchen was unethical enough to use the Founder's stake to govern Steem despite the prior reticence of the Founders to use it that way. When Ned sold out, Sun's ethics thereafter applied. It was his stake to do with what he wanted, after all.

Any account can be flagged into the dust to drive authors off the platform. It is ridiculously claimed that silencing people and removing content from Hive in this way isn't censorship by retards that are either incapable of understanding the definition of censorship, or lying, but I reckon most people can understand that definition when they read it. Censorship is any suppression of speech or information, and flagging certainly suppresses speech, which is why it prevents spam, scams, and plagiarism.

By this means the current oligarchy has retained the majority of stake on the platform. In the event the platform gets hot, starts showing rapid growth that will attract investors, that control the oligarchy has is threatened, because all it takes to govern Hive is stake. As long as no one with deeper pockets comes here and buys up accounts and tokens, they will remain the primary recipients of the rewards pool. New investment is capable of dislodging them with facility - with relative lunch money from large stakeholders.

HW continues to flag away at accounts that post good content, all but completely depriving them of author rewards for their content. As long as that continues nothing anyone does to onboard users can keep them from being driven from the platform by flaggots.

Thanks!