Should Hive Have a Community Reset?

I do write a posts or two and I often read some of the posts from the whales on Hive. I find most of them pretty interesting when the big boys do find time to write but every time a whale posts you get the same old accounts crying foul for being downvoted all the time. You know the ones. The usual comment that is muted and goes on forever. Now many of these accounts were downvoted for running elaborate scams and were not playing by the rules of the community and deserve to be downvoted. There were a couple recently that were downvoted because they posted up a weekly template about betting results. The guy has been on Hive years. I see nothing wrong with his posts . What is a shit post to some may not be a shit post to others who like betting results posts and all that. Some guys use Hive as a type of diary entry. How better to do it than a blockchain. Many more posters on Hive admit the posts they write are a diary of their lives so maybe this sports stuff is a diary of a different kind. It is all subjective. Take @dbuzz a few years ago. They were considered fiends and enemies of Steem or Hive or where ever they started because of short form content and now we have many short form content Dapp's popping up and it is now considered the way to go. Turns out @dbuzz was before its time and were making waves. They were on the decentralised buzz before any of us. Now everyone is trying to do it. Who knew!

I never forget my first post I ever wrote on Hive after my introductory post was about Bancor. Something happened and it was rugged or something so I uploaded a Youtube video of the news. I was happy out with my post and I published it. A while later I received a comment from an account called @cheetah saying my post had been found elsewhere on the internet. But I was not aware of the consequences. I was horrified when I found out cheetah was bad and it was for plagiarizing and I was to be dammed to hell. I was delighted in a way that I had made this mistake on my second post because it set me on my way on Hive and that was the last time I have ever been flagged for anything of that kind again. Plus as you can see from my grammatically tragic posts, there is no chance I am using AI either which is now a strength. The first time I was properly downvoted was a couple of weeks ago after calling a guy a bit of a fool for giving a loan to someone on Hive. I was not aware he was in the loan business at the time so I was quite ignorant to the fact and I was promptly downvoted on the posts for that week. I was quite pissed off by this and I learnt my lesson but I can imagine if this kept happening I would be packing my bags and powering down pretty swiftly I would imagine. Some of the people that are downvoted ( whether it is for legitimate reasons or not ) have stuck around which I find quite surprising. They still post even though their posts are downvoted to 0. So we ask why are they even still here?? Maybe it is a layer 2 token that they are interested in. I am not sure.

There have been many arguments over the years and downvote wars. Even today someone upvoted me and commented and there were 6 downvotes on his comment. I don't care what people say it must be annoying in the very least especially for the whales. I have conversed with a few of our heavy stakeholders and most of them are sound as a bell and dedicated to Hive. The people that are being downvoted by them must have had an elaborate scam going on or are not abiding by the posting rules. But how long is the prison period for the sullied? 1 year? , 5 years? Infinity? Or are these people eternally banned from Hive? Where does it end? These people are forever in purgatory or making a post and being downvoted off the map. But when we go back to some of the ways, there are downvote trails following them around like little fish on a whale.

The question I will put out is should there be a date where we should wipe the slate clean. Bring a few tin foil helmets back in from the cold. Give them the final written warning and see how they get on. For the whale rows we could bring in a Hive mediator to sort through some stuff and move forward. Get a few back from Blurt and even bring the old Steem heads back in from the cold. I realised recently that Hive is a very very small place really and any controversial posts about anything are read by everyone. We are all alot closer to each other than you may think. Even the nutbags stay around and post their comment trail whenever they get the chance. But they are our nutbags and somethings you need them as if anything they are dedicated to Hive.

So since the end of hivewatchers , would it be a call to action to wipe the slate clean on any beefs or downvote trails. Start a fresh. Clean bill of health. And if someone starts being a Scammy Mcginty again then they thoroughly deserve it and the Community just blows them out of the water. We can come up with a name for it.

• The Great Hive Reset.
• 2nd Chance Saloon
• Eating with the Enemy. Where two Hive stalwarts sit down for a meal and discuss their differences to discover they are best of friends.(DHF will cover location and meal expenses)
• Rage in the Cage. Steel cage match where @woowrestlers will organise. Put two whales who hate each other in a steel cage ladder match. On top of the ladder is a raspberry pi node.

Pledge
I will start by putting a stop to sending kiss emojii's to my serial sullied commenter @kgakakillerg and @bpcvoter and like a few of their posts.

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