So, @dreemsteem and @acidyo ... I have been going through the dispute between @themarkymark with his bot @buildawhale with @xeldal and @enki, and here is the issue of the overly large DVs: @themarkymark and @buildawhale are not accounting for the fact that @xeldal is powering down, so @themarkymark and company's votes are getting out of proportion. They also are DVing within 24 hours, and that dissuades anyone else from voting up the post. That freezes the author out entirely as well.

(Now, IN FAIRNESS: @xeldal and @enki make it their business, EVERY TIME @themarkymark posts, to hit him with a $42 DV. Mark gets ZEROED, every single time. That has not been addressed either, so, while it is no excuse for attacking smaller Hivers indiscriminately, it is context.)

I am one of Hive's most prolific and highest quality-producers. I have enough support so I have endured the FOOLISHNESS ... but because I also produce Things Ms. Dee Likes every week and add New Hivers, I know that New Hivers are being caught up in this and that SLOWLY, our growth is slowing because that's one more person who doesn't have a good story to tell about Hive -- so if @themarkymark and his bots and friends persist in this, they will have a negative impact on Hive's eventual adoption.

I agree with you, @acidyo, that quality posts should be left alone. I also have it on good authority that @themarkymark spent a year DVing stuff he hadn't even bothered to check for quality --the founder of Cast Garden, @kencode, has some stories to tell about THAT kind of irresponsible behavior. What we DO NOT NEED TO BE DOING is discouraging quality work on Hive and indiscriminately DVing. @deraaa has done nothing wrong. She does not need to be DVed into the ground. Neither does anyone else that is coming and sharing their genius with Hive.

I look forward to seeing a workaround for this issue, @dreemsteem and @acidyo. Keep the reality of the fact that Hive is NOWHERE NEAR the top of most used decentralized platforms in mind -- read what @steevc discovered about that on CoinGecko and take it to heart. Hive needs us to be able to wholeheartedly SELL IT; we can't do that when whales are rolling over quality people because they can't work out their differences. We can't do that when authors have no recourse -- but a workaround would help a LOT. It would help the most if the whales sit down and work this out before this type of foolery becomes a part of Hive's reputation in the world and hampers its growth. Hive has enough enemies as it is. We do not need to make them of good Hivers like @deraaa.