I appreciate the specifics, and everyone here trying to keep the conversation productive.
I think its healthy for the ecosystem to have these discussions, it does seem as if some of these services have gone "too far", and then with layering....
But - it was "peace time", people did things, built "services". And some more creative than others it seems.
For me, we should consider a few things
- the opposite of peace doesn't need to be war, it could be productive discussion about the appropriate limits to the behaviors for what we do with our own money/stake.
- details matter - there are good, creative, math based programs out there doing as good or better (than people manually clicking) at finding users, supporting decentralized curation and using Hive Power.
- I personally do not agree with this, but it must be noted that "downvotes are violence" is a prevalent thought, still to this day.
all in all - you started the conversation. So, let's ALL talk about it!
Hive = Votes, no reason for it to be so mysterious.