I pretty much agree with you, but did not understand how I had lost goodwill with you until I read this. While I understand your disappointment that I have been supporting Karen's account with tips, I sought to explain to her and you both that I was demonstrating the Hive features that could blunt the impact of DV's you and I both noted she was reacting to as if they were catastrophic. I also noted you stating this explicitly and politely to her, and despite her scathing ad hominems, were rising above the outrage she was attempting to cause you to match the outrage she felt you were causing her, in an effort to demonstrate reason and good manners, just as I was demonstrating Hive features, in order to discourage hyperbole and bring reason to the interaction.

I also stated that she had employed the burn feature of Peakd and my tips were no longer necessary. She has declined to seek tips from her curators so seemed uninterested in them.

My intention wasn't to support her scathing comments to you, anymore than your replies to her were. I hope this reduces your questions regarding my judgement, and enables you to view them in the context of my perspective that developed from your own continued polite and respectful discourse here.

Edit: I would clarify one thing.

"...he does not want to build a large HIVE stake."

This is not what I said, and not accurate. I have continually managed my stake so that it continually grows, in order to increase the size of my stake. However, I did state that I do not use Hive tokens as money, and do not have pecuniary interest in my stake. Instead I use my stake to encourage authors, and to attempt to increase user retention, both of which I will better achieve with more stake. I am not uninterested in growing my account and eventually attaining substantial stake, but I use my stake for different purposes based on different principles than people using Hive as money. I don't disapprove of that pecuniary interest, I am cautious about pecuniary interest altogether, and focus my economic activity on goodwill instead, to remarkably good effect, beyond my expectations, as a result of my assets being stripped from me through fraud and corruption I am incompetent to prevent. I cannot rely on something I cannot defend.

It is this focus I have on goodwill that greatly alarmed me when I lost goodwill with you, for reasons I did not understand. Now I do understand the reasons, and hope I have clarified why I was demonstrating the tip function to Karen, not to support her ad hominems, and thought I was following your lead as you overlooked them and continued to interact with her politely.