I don't mean to be rude but when I saw my name tagged with 8000+ others it felt like a bad taste in my mouth. That's a bad sign before I even started reading.

@cranium you don't want someone to read your post while they're already angry at you. You have some good arguments but I'm pretty sure 99% of the people you tagged won't read them BECAUSE they know they're not tagged for being themselves BECAUSE they see other 8000+ users tagged with them... I'm assuming you probably know that and you want to have your chances with the remaining %1?

Now I'm thinking what would I do if I were you, and the options you listed are only the ones I would have... I probably won't start a war, either I'll post knowing I won't get any rewards or I would go somewhere else.

Usually I don't do things against the rules of the platform I'm in... On HIVE the rules are decided by the majority. Some big users are making the rules right now, but that's only because the majority supports them. If you had larger number of people supporting you, you'll can flip the rules here, but the others will have to make a Hive fork if they don't like your new system.

There is one difference between here and centralized social media though: They can't delete what you post here! Even if you got 0 HIVE for it, and even if you were hidden from the major interfaces. You can make your own interface with its own rules and maybe even its own token. You probably should do that?

The majority here don't like spam. They might tolerate it if the rewards are burned, but if you got like $10 three times on the same content, that's $20 less for a different content. If you're self upvoting (even with other accounts) to accomplish that, that would make more people angry... In a way I agree with their mindset, but I think they take it too far sometimes.

I'm just glad you're replying to people here. Hope to see what you think about my comment as well.