With the malicious people and the mean spirit of most of the people involved with downvoting and this claims of white knighting is really driving the community apart. And running off many honest real.content creators.
This behavior has been getting worse.
Hivewatchers got a false report about me and one individual blanket banned and blacklisted me with no cause no Investigation and also banned a innocent account... It took the community and the hivewatchers themselves to object to remove it and give me a reprimand.
I'm no Angel. I'll accept the reprimand.
But the hivewatchers group does huge amounts of help to the blockchain. And need more funding and community support.
If you are bad... And get nuked... Well the community needs to know this information.
If a community member gets nuked for little or no reason... We need to have a community group and community support.
I approve of this. Great idea. The worst of the worst can be highlighted for why they are getting hammered....
And then community members that have messed up a little... Can have support.
If small things go on there needs to be a process. Which wasn't followed in my case and others....
If one false report can have resources misallocated... Others have happened.
We need more community involvement. It's plain and simple. We need funding for community leaders and strict term limits. However honored leaders need to get nominated Into a pool of talent to support the Legacy of the leadership.
Great work. And hopefully you will continue growing!
Thanks! Ultimately, those with the most stake are going to be tempted to act like monarchs, even when the power has been 'delegated' to them by the community. Decentralisation should really explore the opposite of this wherever possible imo. That being said, we do need organisation to achieve common goals. If the community makes clear it's intent and needs, then there can be an organised meeting of minds rather than random butting of heads.
Motives it all comes down to motives and who wants to really be a part of the future.
Is the future going to turn into an authoritarian crazy lockdown world or are we going to embrace freedom and liberty?
The great law of peace will continue to grow. All human beings have the right to speak their hearts and be free.
I just now we have to fight to maintain those rights and liberties. As human beings will continue to do for the rest of human history.
Yes, ultimately this is about free will vs. suppression of free will. The former is life and the latter is death. The principles at play might not seem so grand when applied to a few accounts on Hive, but in truth, they are the same principles that apply when governments ban the right to process (as happened in the UK recently!) or activists are murdered by oil companies. The same personality constructs empower all such situations.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
A lot of people when they are given the chance to have power go crazy. It is just too much for most people. When they get the crazy thinking that they are entitled to this power... Things start to shift and end up extremely badly.
However with so many good community members fighting back... I have a lot of Hope for our blockchain.
I know what you mean - people often have a lot of unrecognised or underaccepted emotional imbalances based in lack of self acceptance that has them constantly trying to 'beat' everyone else in any way possible. This can manifest as exceptionally loud people who never listen to anything but who just keep talking or it can be the powermonger money obsessive on Wall St. - or it can be those who start literal wars, killing millions without a second thought.
Unfortunately, the flipside is that these people can generally only operate because the mass of people has been brainwashed to reject personal power as 'bad' - partially as a result of looking at the powermongers and being fed the idea that if they hold personal power that they will be just as much of a problem for humanity. In both the case of the powermonger and those who abdicate power, it is a lack of self acceptance that is at the root of the dysfunction.
Powerful words.
The first time I read this I realized that I needed to read this again.
Second time I read this I realized that I definitely needed to read this again.
Third time I read this I started breaking it down.
Fourth time I read this a bunch of these truths really became self-evident.
The Great Law of Peace is exactly that and I have a feeling that it is even older than the Iroquois Confederacy. I am sure that the Great Law of Peace was a large part of the Cherokee Confederacy.
Not only do we have some amazing knowledge that human beings have passed around. But we are always and as a whole destined to fight for freedom. To hold and keep our liberties.
As a Native American it was my right to travel and speak my heart wherever I went. However you also have the right to defend yourself when somebody attacked you for traveling or speaking. Right and wrong are polarized concepts that human beings have forced into our own brains.
There really is no fair in the world. However standing with honor and integrity, so many people see that and admire that.
The community here just needs to pull together even tighter than when we had the Justin Sun issue and we really need to have a balanced government system that includes everybody from the witnesses to the individual community members.
We need to have representation based upon stake and we also have to have representation based upon community.
We need an executive branch as well as a judicial branch.
And we also need Hive watchers to be funded because defunding them please has only resulted in skyrocketing crime as well as murder and general chaos.
Hive watchers needs community support as well as community funding to keep our blockchain safe however there needs to be an appeals process that community is able to help individuals with small transgressions come back and operate within our rules and protocols here on the blockchain.
I have hope. One day our grievances can be taken to our own blockchain judges.
Personally if need be I will volunteer and start working to set a positive and honorable change. Where we can go speak and share our differences and have a redress of our grievances.
Personally I think should that happen we could all benefit greatly.
As I said we have a massive opportunity. If we are able to take advantage of it in a good way we will all succeed.
However it's going to take the majority of the community coming together.... And the only time I've seen the community come together and such a huge fashion was with Justin's son.
And actually that situation is going down right now!
Steemit hackers attacking hive accounts! So change your keys on all of your accounts!!!!
Go look what happened to@shepherd-stories and spread the news...
This will give us all a lot of reasons to speak. To come together. And also get governance process started really.
And personally I'm guilty of not being involved with it as well. I'll admit that right now. Only real actin I've taken is just trying to inspire acting not leading the charge and fight...
Well, I have never set foot on the USA corporation land in this life, but this is not my first rodeo and I have lived lives in the tribes in that region and elsewhere before. :)
The underlying nature of reality can never really change and so the understandings needed to create harmony, peace and longevity don't really change either - but unfortunately, for all of human history everyone has been missing some of the puzzle pieces.
Yes, today I call this voluntarism / anarchy - but it has had other names too.
The universe is polarised in order to experience - without the polarisation we would have undifferentiated oneness. I have aligned my own sense of right and wrong around free will and it's respect. Respect of free will is right (leading to life) and denial of free will is wrong, leading to death. It gets complicated in that some people want to not exist and so it's not wrong, in a sense, for them to deny themselves into nothingness - but they have to be allowed to do that without harming the will.
There is what we create. There is a huge gap of denial, heartlessness, power loss and unfairness - but that can heal.
I agree on the community cohesion, but not on the government part. I am not aware of any examples where government has provably resulted in a better outcome than a decentralised alternative that fully respects free will. As you said, absolute power corrupts absolutely and there is nowhere on Earth where power is concentrated enough to be close to absolute than in governments. Creating the best alternative is a challenge for everyone to voluntarily co-create and it may take a while, with some ups and downs - but in the end it will work.
That's fair enough but I would add that it needs to be understood that having stake is in no way proof of intelligence or capacity to drive a complex system like Hive. We need a balance that fully recognises this truth.
Even better would be to create decentralised, transparent code that does it all without human intervention. That way there is only a minimal risk of bias being introduced and even that can be ironed out over time. Humans are great for some tasks but computers are better at others.. The problem of policing the network is a grey area in the middle of that, but transparent automation is necessary.
As I mentioned to smooth earlier, it is accepted scientific truth that generally our psychology is much more focused into the possibility of losing something than of gaining something.. So that is a large part of why people came together to face Justin Sun than in other situations.
When it comes to the downvoting, people don't see it as a loss so they don't get engaged. However, I will demonstrate using maths that it is a loss overall as things stand.
Thanks for the tip about steemit hackers, that's good to know!
Bless-sings!