There are some big accounts who don't care what anyone thinks of them and maybe they don't care about Hive either. I hope they are a small minority. It is bad that people have to fear retribution for doing what they think is right, but it's another price of freedom.
Anyone can create an auto-vote service, so even if one reduced the power another might not implement that. As far as I know haejin has control of the rancho posting keys, so he can make it do what he wants, but I saw a post from someone claiming to be the owner of the rancho account saying they had lost their keys, so I guess it can never power down. That seems very careless.
It is my hope that Hive can keep on growing with more people getting to orca level and above. That helps to spread the voting power and so the whales would have less influence. For now it is really a tiny community compared to the big sites. These could be considered growing pains I guess.
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eeeshhhh thats a shitty situation for hive but I guess it serves to challenge us to grow and find our own weak points. I did not know he had the keys, i thought he had been left on autovote by a dude who disappeared years ago.
Well I am trying to encourage some more brainstorming to come up with ways to protect small users against bullying which I see one person doing a lot of and 2 or 3 large stakeholders enabling. It's not about using downvotes on a single post, it's about targeting innocent people and continuously nuking their posts until their supporters give up on supporting them because their upvotes are all cancelled out anyway. I'm not talking about argumentative or even fringe people either (not that I think they deserve it) . I'm talking about hard-core Hivers who have never powered down and get involved in multiple communities and projects.
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