Just wanted to add my experience with wil, he's literally all talk and no substance nor integrity.

I do agree that downvote trails should be kept on posts, though, on comments it's not a good look.

I do so whether they have rewards or not.

It's to show my disapproval until he gets off his high horse.

nuking every comment to zero via a trail of 20 people is ridiculous.

100% THIS.

Thank you Dan.

I do appreciate your consideration in this matter. It is quite ridiculous. I agree. And as you can see… here are the 2 accounts. (They just commented. LoL!)

The whale with a wanton desire to tell other legitimate owners what they can and can’t do with their accounts and stake and the bully that’s been going around doing his bidding.

Rather than allowing the code to authenticate account capability and the function of people’s accounts these individuals are busy undermining Hive utility spreading a message about DV’ing that only serves them rather than the community as a whole.

Isn’t it the code that gives investors and developers the confidence to actually invest and develop on the blockchain?

I think so (It’s what has given me the confidence to invest my time, reputation, and capital up until today.) and Yet here they are undermining Hive’s stability and invest-ability.

I believe in solutions implemented with code rather than human lead ones that can easily go against the very spirit and reason why this blockchain exists in the first place.

If we needed people calling the shots on other people why would we even bother to innovate this blockchain in the first place…?

What these people propose as “measures” meant to safe guard Hive Integrity end up being shallow hollowed out methods of keeping the blockchain static and controlled rather than innovating and growing.

Technology in general is ever changing and crypto is evolving at an even faster rate. We can’t afford implementation that propagates the group think a few misguided individuals propagate.

We need ideas, innovation, and people with the chop to make big things happen so that we can maintain our first mover advantage and out pace those looking to eat our lunch.

Hive should be a top 10 coin and so we have got to ask ourselves honestly where we need to go and what we need to do to get there… and we need to fully understand what has been holding us back.

I believe this can’t happen without fully examining how the current DV is being used to shape (police?) thought that’s different from some individuals agendas. Hive desperately needs minds that are open and the proof will always be in terms of engagement. I mean REAL engagement.

When all the best ideas are hashed out continually we will have an unfair advantage in terms of the social edge this blockchain has over other competing projects.

But it all begins with utilizing, democratizing, and decentralizing how we literally think.

This begins with the main features of the blockchain and it is my firm belief that the DV needs serious consideration to ballance out the inner workings of the blockchain.

@Comet.Ranker is my response to catalyze this while also bringing good people together who have good ideas for a better innovating and growing Hive Blockchain. It is my attempt to spread Good Wil 😉on this blockchain and get people engaged and actually talking about what’s working and what’s not working…

As a service I utilize my stake to rank comments valuing them in order of what they bring to the content that’s been posted to the blockchain.

I also use @Comet.Ranker to bring attention to posts that I believe to be important to this blockchain. Sometimes this content is light and sometimes (lately) it is some pretty tough medicine to swallow.

Back to the comment ranking I mentioned above.

As you know, we have a lot of bot comments on posts. I consider these utility comments but they shouldn’t be featured first and foremost.

These comments usually trigger first so when people look at a posts engagement… that’s what they see. Bot bots and more bots! All auto commenting. 🤖Not exactly a good look in my opinion… (First impressions matter right?)

I think that real people deserve to have the spot light when it comes to engagement on posts… so I take the time to read through the entire comment section of the posts I target with @Comet.Ranker (this can take hours depending on the post) and as stated before… I also rank those comments with UPvotes to encourage both the person taking the time to comment and the author for taking the time to engage with their audience.

In addition to this… I might also (if I have time) make an effort to leave a thoughtful/insightful comment on the post.

In the past I have ranked my own comment using @Comet.Ranker (and before the launch of that service I would occasionally rank my own comment.)

This is/was never done for the piddly rewards that might bring. I could care less about that and this should be obvious to anyone open minded enough to take a look. As I’ve said before… I have given away thousands of Hive.

I do this for visibility/readability (We all fight obscurity even on this blockchain.) and for social capital rather than rewards.

If this was some sort of sneaky way to “earn” it’s quite pathetic in terms of ROI Anyways… lol! I suspect this might be an occasion that some have taken to level accusation and attempt to discredit me. But mostly… I don’t see why my comments have to be bellow all the bot comments.

Regardless of my thoughts about this… I have since deferred ranking my own comments putting my trust in the community to do that for me. I’ve had to change my approach, even though the blockchain’s code allows for this functionality, because their are people loosing their marbles about things like this… 🙄

Still…

There are people labeling this as “comment farming” when really it is “comment ranking” as detailed in the #CometWeek White Paper.

And these people using human intervention rather than truly innovating at a code level would have me go off the blockchain into their private chambers to answer to them for how I utilize my stake? I think not.

How many new people signing up for a Hive account will understand all of this hostility?

Why would they go off the blockchain to answer for things the blockchain allows in its code?

They didn’t sign up for a Discord account… they signed up for a Hive account.

…and speaking of which, none of them signed any agreements when they launched their Hive account granting them ownership access to the full functionality of their account and the stake they decide to PowerUP… So why then are these people using the DV to force themselves on other owners on the blockchain?

This can never scale and it’s not a solid blueprint for the development of a healthy community of innovating, open minded people.

This is a method for group thinking our users and reducing our numbers to the lowest common denominator.

We need to do better than this if we want to do all that we aim to with this blockchain.

I believe this is a once in a lifetime opportunity… and I’m not going to stand by idle while static minds perpetuate this sort of abuse.

I won’t stand for it within terms of my own accounts and enterprises and I won’t stand for it destroying all the hard work we have all been putting into getting people to this blockchain.

This absolutely MUST change and I’m willing to fall on my sword in front of everyone on Hive to get the message across.

I’m saying all this, Dan, because I sincerely respect you and what you are doing for and on this blockchain. I know that, as entrepreneurs, you and I see the world in very similar ways.

I’m also saying this because I know that these people want to pull you aside into their private groups… but I know your one who can think for yourself.

But I wanted you to know more of my side of the story.

So again…

Thank you for taking the time to read up on what is happening with the DV and what is happening with my particular situation.

Thank you as well for being willing to step into the gaps and make your intent known.

This means a lot to me. 🙏

Sincerely,

-Wil