RE: The user @Acidyo is insistent on destroying our Community - Important Announcement for the FreeCompliments Community!

DV's are how taxation can be managed on Hive. The power to tax is not reserved on Hive to an official government as in other polities, but is enjoyed by everyone with any stake. DV's are both taxation, and censorship. Any claim they are not simply rejects the accepted definitions of those terms.

While vote buying is surely a thing to be avoided, circle jerks and botnets have been a feature of Hive from the beginning, and these practices exist on a spectrum that few have not participated in at least by simply persistently upvoting their friends and content that reliably tickles their fancy, and enjoying reciprocation. There is at least one bidbot in operation today on Hive, or was last year when I encountered a disgruntled customer who had been blackballed by it.

There is a degree of interest in the affairs of others on Hive that is beneficial to it, to the community, and that promotes a robust and durable platform, and there is an inquisitory interference and controlling interest that destroys the community and reduces it to what is easily controllable by an oligarchy. That interest also exists on a spectrum and has far too wildly veered towards the latter. The results of DV programs that zero out earnings permanently have eliminated 99.9% of human users that have ever come to this platform. The majority of stake on this platform is consequently held by you and the ninjamining oligarchy to this day, which is how you want it.

Sooner or later you will move on in life, or from life itself, and your prudential interest in the platform will subside. The rest of the community will continue to seek to thrive and persist when that happens, and your personal control of them will no longer be potential. IMHO it would be better if you and the other oligarchs on Hive allowed for changes to governance that precluded pure plutocratic control prior to moving on so that Hive could become the voluntarist governance mechanism potential to humanity today, but no one cares what I think.

Either Hive will supersede plutocracy, or it will succumb to it, in due time. I encourage you to consider enabling Hive to supersede it while you can. Failure is the default option, and I hope you prefer Hive succeeds you.