RE: Although subjectively downvoting posts to zero is anathema to me, the Layer 1 ability to do so must remain (for now at least)

Has a history of trying to defend anyone and everyone as long as it allows him to go on endless rants, many of whom have been clear abusers but as long as it gets him some attention he seems to love it. Caught voting up comments of alts and other nice stuff.

Ah ha! One of the people I wanted to speak with about this! 👍

Before I get into it… you may want to consider removing yourself from the trail you are associated with… it’s a bad look especially with the level of conflict, debate, and turmoil currently at play around the issue of DV’ing…But this is just a suggestion. I respect ownership and freedom most of all and so I am not going to tell you what you should or shouldn’t do with your stake. (Unlike some around here…) 🤷‍♂️

First things first… your jumping immediately to the conclusion that I have done something “wrong”.

So this is we’re we need to start.

There are people here on the blockchain that think that they can determine what people should or shouldn’t do with their stake (as mentioned above) and then there are those who have put it upon themselves to label other Hive owners and subsequently downvote them indiscriminately without proper basis or process. (In my context I believe this to be DV Spam and also Abuse.)

Here’s an example of this when I announced that I was shutting down my fitness business (incorporated and trademarked I will add) after 3 years of attempting to make them succeed on the blockchain:
https://ecency.com/automaticwin/@adventureready/adventure-ready-milestone-marker-oct

As you can see I stood up for myself against a whale asserting my rights as a Hive owner. (This is also when the DV situation I described above transpired and is now on going.)

To be plain before the above mentioned situations… originally I was accused of “comment farming”.

I have openly contested this and even written a White Paper on the importance of engagement and rewarding engagement with a “comment ranking” method.

Here’s the official #CometWeek White Paper:
https://ecency.com/hive/@wil.metcalfe/launching-cometweek-1000-hive-reward

As well… it should be noted that I have personally given away thousands of Hive before I was labeled in this way and have also given away thousands of Hive afterward. I, first and foremost, value social capital and believe that engagement is the best way to compound trust on the blockchain. This is why I have been giving away so much Hive for close to 4 years now.

You can verify my transactions in all of my accounts:
Fitness Business’s: @AdventureReady
@BeachReady

Hive Engagement Service:
@Comet.Ranker

And my personal training account (I’m a certified personal trainer with over 10 years of experience in the fitness industry as a trainer and business owner.)
@wil.metcalfe

Check and you will see. Thousands of Hive.

I find it insulting that petty and small minded people would accuse me of such nonsense… and I’m not even going to get into just how subjective the labels are that have been imposed and thrown around. It’s to the point where I have to call it what it is… labels and lies.

There’s a lot of breadcrumbs to follow… and I’m not in the habit of answering to anyone about what I choose to do with my stake…

Stake I accumulated by selling my physical business, my stock accumulations, and also my savings, and the posts and content I have generated over the years to add value to the Hive community and blockchain.

I even have held top 5 position for the promotion of Hive on Twitter (which takes 5hrs plus per. day) for months and as everyone knows… this is all work done for free.

I know for a fact that I don’t deserve this sort of shitty treatment…. And I wonder to myself how many people have already concluded this.

And I also wonder how many new people (be they power players or regular beginners) would put up with this level of disfunction and abuse?

Needless to say…

Until the DV is further developed with the entire Hive community in mind I won’t be telling my friends, family, and famous about Hive.

And just for 1 example… one of my Twitter friends is Mark Moss. (Him and I speak occasionally.)

What I’m saying here is…

We gotta see the current DV for what it is… a perpetuation of abuse and a system that trades 1 abuse for another.

This is effecting our standing within the wider crypto community and it is wiping out our marketability and market prospects across the board.

Savvy investors know it and are watching… this is an embarrassment and most people won’t stake their reputation let alone their capital while these practices continue.

I hope that you can see…

I care a lot about the Hive community and the technology it is based UPon…

I see Hive as a once in a lifetime opportunity to innovate new and better ways to human.

That’s what excited me nearly 4 years ago… and it’s why I never powered down (only invested) year after year after year…

The current DV structure has me having second thoughts…

I’m saddened by this…

Very much.

If you doubt my sincerity…

Please check each of my comments that I have made. You will note that I put a lot of care into each comment.

Also note the attention to detail and what I have put into my posts over the years…

I have respected the blockchain foundations my content is hosted on… I even ditched Facebook and only used Twitter to promote Hive. (And that’s saying something because I have the @beachready Twitter handle… it’s a coveted user name…)

Have I convinced you yet?

I hope so…

Please stop what you are doing and give the current DV structure more thought… especially when it is used in a trail like this.

It’s doing more harm than good.

@wil.metcalfe