I see the spaminator downvote on so many good user accounts, back in the day, if I saw that downvote, I wouldn't have touched the post. However, now I just assume "someone did something that 2 or 3 people decided was a new rule".

It used to be you had to really do something harmful to attract attention from Hive Watchers, but now I've seen team members telling people what language they can post in, how many times they can post and even using too many tags, and while I know being politically neutral is mentioned, there is clear evidence on the chain, that might be a goal, but not a reality.

The scope is ever increasing and the result is a community that doesn't understand the "rules" and feels "worried" about posting in case they break some rule. Most well adjusted people aren't interested in being micro-managed by a small group of people, thus we run off middle class casual users and attract those who are "hungry" enough to put up with it. It's a complete "fun sucker".

I'm fine with individual users using their stake how they want, even when I disagree, but a community funded operation, should hold it's self to the highest standards.