RE: How many weeks do you think powerdown should be?

"...the creator now owns downvotes as well."

Just like you own what's left of your paycheck.

"...quite beneficial to Hive."

You're delusional. You want to live in an echo chamber in which only the voices you approve can be heard. This censorship has destroyed Hive's user retention and prevented it's token from gaining the value a vibrant community would give it.

"...fairly dormant..."

Now that we're down to <10k actual users, perhaps ~3k actual people here now, there are a lot fewer flags flying. Most of the market has already been destroyed. However, such censorship remains ongoing, and I personally donate 25% of my author rewards to encourage such authors to continue to post on Hive, to it's benefit.

I wasn't able to stem the flow when hundreds of thousands were being driven from the platform, but I am doing what I can today.

"Have more money"

Nice burn!

"100mil USD marketcap is peanuts..."

It is and Hive has earned it's decline to wherever it has plunged from it's early heights when it debuted as Steem in 2016, because it has utterly belied it's claims of censorship resistance and potentiating mom and pop bloggers to be able to post and earn here. Hive has failed miserably to fulfill it's promise to the market, and that's why we are today somewhere below 200 in the crypto rankings, from once being in the top ten.

"I dont deny it, im calling it absolute horseshit that has absolutely nothing to do with reality."

That's completely self-contradictory, and denial of reality. You believe in some kind of lala land where a rally car can attract bloggers to a social media platform at a cost of $M's, while censoring hundreds of thousands of people that came here and started posting has nothing to do with user retention and growth today. That's just denial of reality.

"...our frontends are outdated, the censorship resistance narrative is dead, UX is bad on all levels, the crypto market offers other alternatives, we have no faces that are relevant in the wider crypto market here, and the earning potential here doesnt justify dealing with the steep learning curve for individuals based in high income regions. Thats why we mostly get poor people here in it for a few dollars."

All those things are consequences of expelling that influx of users we had by censoring them, especially the censorship resistance narrative. Creators are increasingly censored elsewhere and desperate for platforms that allow free speech. They started coming here in 2017 and were censored off the platform. We had a shot at capitalizing on that shot of market share, but that market growth is a threat to the oligarchy and their control of governance. Sun Yuchen proved that. Hive remains just as vulnerable to concentration of stake assuming control of governance, and the whales extract their ROI because they have the majority of stake.

That's why Hive censored that market away, and why it stays nice and controllable today.

However, lots of influencers and market leaders in alternative media came here back then, looking for an uncensored home. Hive was growing and attracting investment interest. People with plenty of money ventured the learning curve and did so because the offer was good: free speech and the opportunity to capitalize on content because of it. However the delivery fell short. Even as the whales flagged away the market, Steem was captured when @ned capitulated to the oligarchy, took the money, and ran.

1a1v, oracles, and non-plutocratic governance of Hive threatened the oligarchy's control of governance and disproportionate command of inflation. They had a bird in the hand and didn't care about the flock in the bush.

New users that come here do so despite the reek of censorship that Hive continues to generate. They're not the market leaders we poisoned against the platform back when it was Steem, that came here and would have made it great but for the deathgrip on governance profiteers kept. That's what happened and that's where we're at, and you're sucking at that teat today.