RE: Let's Play Hive Politics for a While

From our recent talks I hope you understand that I really don't wanna go out of my way to "punish" communities and people putting in work and doing good things just because they may be doing one thing that I don't agree with and think generally hurts stakeholders alike. I'm sure others wouldn't have given things a second thought and revoked support and kicked your community out after finding out about this, but the primary people this hurts is the regular authors who may lose out on curation and also generates disdain and grudges overall which is not a fun thing to have when we all should be working towards empowering users and the economy we all share.

My post was quite long and I realized the next day I hadn't even gone through some of the points I wanted to bring up, one of them being witness votes. It's kind of disappointing to see people unvote your witness because you chased away someone refusing to abuse curation, as if it makes all of the other things we do any less valid. At first I thought maybe it's cause I started a powerdown recently on it so had a few discussions with some of them and some seemed like they had good reason to, albeit weird timing, to vote for lower witnesses which I'm all for. Sure glancing at who else they vote for didn't help my ego/acceptance but what can you do, we all have different views and opinions of others and how they vote and not vote. I personally wouldn't have unvoted your witness cause of this cause it's only a small thing out of many different things you guys provide value through.

Now naturally if there was a series of things that kept on occurring time after time that I disagreed with it'd be different, but yeah.

People like to really take things personally I feel like, I guess it's kind of that "I'm the main character" mindset at play as well, everything has to be about me and not just this one particular action that may be getting me in trouble.