Hey Glen, I just finished reading this through (the thread) and I agree with most you say and am pleased to see how polite you have been as you've made your points. I'd expect no less from a bloke of your calibre (caliber)

I don't want to get into lengthy discussions here but just wanted to say that I think many simply don't know what some of the larger accounts are doing behind the scenes. They sit up there in their ivory towers looking down on all the plebs (like me) and pretty much lord-over us...

Well nah, not really.

I also often feel a little frustrated that larger accounts don't comment much, certainly not on my blog anyway, but at the end of the day they need to be doing what they do so that I can go ahead and do what I do (create mediocre content) without having to worry about all that really confusing stuff they do.

I trust my brother will inform me of anything he thinks I need to know (you should hear some of our discussions) and I just get on with my own thing...Trusting that people are up there, in said ivory tower, doing the right thing. Doing something to push the platform forward.

I happen to know that @abh12345 is a rockstar on hive and the other thingamy we used to blog on, as is @justineh ...Good hard working people with the platform in mind. I don't know what they do, only that they do a lot of it. And I'm grateful to them, and others like them.

Of course there's also people doing the wrong thing, but let's not go there right now.

It's easy for me to observe them from my lowly position at the bottom, brandishing a pitch fork yelling you bastards...But like any community, certain people have their place; A role as such. I'm sure Justine would like to kick-back and blog and chat about guns or Lego like me, (or goats), but she's doing other stuff. Same with Asher and others I probably don't need to name-drop.

I don't know, maybe I'm missing the point of it all but I reckon (as we discussed elsewhere) that we need to change the culture here and I don't know how to do it any more than anyone else. But we can start by looking inwardly and doing what it is we feel is the right thing, for us the individual, and then throw that pebble into the pond and watch what happens, watch the ripples spread.

I'm thankful to the ivory-tower people way up there...If not for them I may be still on Facebook (thankfully not.) The thing is that they're not really ivory-tower-people...They're just like you and me...We're all the same and all have a part...Even the bad actors...They expose what's wrong here to allow the rest of us to address it.

Anyway, you're a champ and I don't reckon a hive-user here could say a bad word about you...That's admirable. Like us all here, your opinion matters. Thanks for sharing. (And thanks for the two mentioned above and @azircon for allowing you to voice your thoughts and responding so pleasingly.) Well done to all for a hearty, but respectful engagement.

Did the G-dog say engagement? Oh yes he did...Get on it y'all, it's a good thing.

Oh, one last thing...I reckon we should get rid of trending. Like literally just get rid of it. Just saying.