Open Letter to @curangel

February 24^th, 2021

Wrong is Wrong, It is That Simple

To @curangel
This is from your introductory post:

... In addition to that, they can use our website to propose overrated posts to downvote, lowering the rewards for those posts without having to be afraid of direct retaliation.

Our curation team has a lot more freedom than with other projects. We don't enforce certain formatting rules, arbitrary quality standards, or focussing on new accounts. We are aware that every curator has a different understanding of what an underrated post is, and trust their common sense. That does not mean that we will turn a blind eye on abuse or circle voting though, the suggestions are watched and we will regularly evaluate the work of our team members.

This was a nice concept, it worked for awhile, but the program has become corrupted. There was absolutely no visible reason for @lucylin's Sunday post to be down voted other than for a disagreement on his point of view and his experience, growth and changing attitude toward Saul Alinksy in this post:@lucylin/understanding-the-real-saul-alinksy-and-the-shamen-the-deepest-of-dives-part-1

There is no plagiarism, the sources used were given, and this was nothing more than a post about his journey and what he felt was the opening of his eyes toward the book **Rules for Radicals **.

The post was not over rewarded, and the abuse was conducted by the curangel account.

People may say their HP their Vote, that does not fly here, the @curangel account is an account that the community has delegated a large amount of HP to (almost one half).

@curangel Owes @lucylin an apology for the down vote and removal of the down vote on this post.

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I would like my name added to what ever list you maintain for accounts not allowed @curangel votes. I can not stand by and watch in silence as one account tries to control what type of content is allowed to be rewarded on Hive and what is not allowed to be rewarded. I will not turn a blind eye toward this abuse conducted by the @curangel account.

The actions taken on Sunday goes against everything that Hive Block Chain was created for from the Justin Sun fiasco of Steem. By trying to control what type of content is deemed rewardable @curangel has become nothing more than a puppet account of facebook, youtube and twitter by trying to control the allowed content on Hive.

While I have been a recipient of @curangel votes in the past I would hope that the @curangel curators will no longer submit any of my content to be rewarded by @curangel

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