This is something that I have been repeating over and over lately, and I wanted to take the chance to make a post about it and see where you all stand on this issue.
I want to start by showing you something that came to my attention, about how 'TOXIC' our community is.
I watched as much of this video as I could handle. Certainly I am not in disagreement that we have toxic users here - I get downvotes on all my posts from 
I remember the legendary haejin flag wars, and I have chatted with BernieSanders in discord.
This technology is not designed for User Experience. It is however designed with freedom and ownership in mind, as 
My direct response for cryptofinally, this is not really a place to get upvotes. Its a place to own your own content and have it be immutable. Notice that when you are talking about your content and the comments, they are all there, on hive, they are not hard to find, even 6 months later, and they won't be hard to find after a year or two more.
There is just a bunch of random people doing their own things. Applications can build here and use HIVE in such a way that upvotes and downvotes don't matter (customjson). You can post here and that content is yours. No one else can edit it. They can leave comments, nice - mean - or in between - but they can never get you banned!
You can have your reputation lowered, or raised, and it may not be a reflection of how good of a person you really are.
But no one can stop someone with 'skin in the game' from using HIVE.
This is not a community, it is a technology stack with a lot of people around the world behind it.
Within HIVE of course, some communities have developed. We have photography, we have science, we have devs, we have a lot of finance and crypto people, we have television and movies - All within their own little bubbles.
Anyone can create a community on hive and control which users can interact there. They can mute, blacklist or silence any users they choose - in their community, built on HIVE.
Toxic people are generally not apart of a community, they tend to be loaners, but that is not always the case as some groups can and do have toxic members. Surely internet users the world over exist on a spectrum that ranges from delightful to toxic, and its not always the case that these attributes are objective, many things (notoriously "quality") are subjective.
Sure we have built a number of interfaces like hive.blog and peakd.com and leofinance.io and neoxian.city and splintertalk.io and 1up.zone and cinetv.blog and others - HIVE is really a protocol. We can cast 'posts', 'customjsons', or 'wallet transactions' into a magical void and have other people recognize that stuff for what it is!
Different applications can be created to filter, select or direct the actions of accounts on HIVE. There are many possibilities and tons of potential ideas to build - we are a blockchain like others - but better than them!
Staked Hive gives RC which is a rechargeable pool of 'tx fees' so that's how we get away with free tx. (stake to be free). We do fast by having a community selected consortium of block producers (we call them witnesses) - so we are fast and free - and that's FREE SPEECH and FREE BEER.
We don't all agree, we don't all get along and we are definitely not a community. We are a bunch of skin in the game builders in charge of our own destinies - free from the control of centralized overlords.
We are definitely not just a place to 'get votes'. If 'your votes' are ever taken away, you can remember that they weren't 'your votes'. They are a consensus mechanism to distribute inflation to new OWNERS of this platform, and you are paid your due in 7 days - before that they certainly aren't yours.
Any one can cast their vote up or down at any time before the 7 day window closes, and give any post or comment a bit of inflation and future ownership into this platform, or subtract from the total.
Social media on layer 1 has its downsides. Layer 2(s) are constantly being built. Things have started to move fast recently, but buidlers gonna buidl!
