I knew you were a Splinterlander and a Hive Witness when I reached out to you and, as your profile says you are in Marketing, as am I, I thought you might think I was at least worth hearing out, rather than leaping to assumptions as you actually did.

Your "advice" was that I need to prove I can do something before doing something, which is literally impossible.

A rational response would be to listen to my plan, ask thoughtful questions, and if you found it stacked up, give it your support and if it doesn't, point out what is wrong.

I don't know what your business background or experience is, but there is nothing at all strange about reaching out to influential people to gather consensus and support for new initiatives.

Finally, as you like quotes so much, what i asked you was

"I am trying to build consensus and support for the plan, so if I could gain that from you, it would be awesome. All I ask is let me lay it out for you and you can see for yourself if it stacks or not, and so worth supporting or not".

To which you replied "There isnt really much I can help you with now. especially put my name behind an idea you might have. especially if you will request funding for it.

You have to prove you can deliver something or build value for Hive before you can get a real answer from anyone. Sorry."

In summary, you refused to listen, leapt to conclusions, and blew me off without ever taking the trouble to find out if my plan had any merit at all.

Those are the facts mate,

I had to look up disingenuous and it equates to deception, so again you have just made stuff up, (hurtful, insulting stuff), when you could have just as easily and with less effort asked a question or two and actually learned something.

All in all, you have been exactly what I said about Hivers, which is you are not a group that is either open or welcoming.

You try and paint that as fud, aka fear, uncertainty, and doubt. No idea where you pulled that from but it is just as false as your other unmerited attacks on me.

Don't worry though, I don't hold grudges and won't be getting involved in downvoting or blacklisting people, which is just petty.

I would strongly recommend taking a more fact based, question lead, approach rather than making stuff up, but you do you! 😀