Everyone operates on the whole hive.

A key bug or feature (I am honestly not sure which it is right now), of the reward pool is it forces us to interact even if we don't want to.

The reward pool is our "Common Good" not a "Public Good."

How we use the reward pool is the most important thing on HIVE in my opinion.

I do not run blacklists. I do not have a discord you need to go to if you want to appeal my downvote.

I will upvote and downvote the same person based on what they post. I am a human and using the platform like a human. That should not be crazy.

I have a blog and you can come talk to me about why I downvoted you. And I will upvote you for stopping by and actually posting something with feeling.

I think that is a good deal even if you do not like being downvoted. If I downvote you, we can talk about it on HIVE, it is documented forever.

If people want to use this as evidence I am a bad person they were lied to when they were onboarded.

The reward pool is a "reward." It is not guaranteed by any stretch. It is a giveaway not a dividend.