I think in general we both got upset at one another throughout this whole ordeal. I was pretty pissed off when I saw those notifications that we couldn't use that tweet by LunarCrush because of all your comments. Opportunities like this for Hive aren't easy to get. Normally when someone tries to troll us they just reply to all of the main Hive social media accounts but not to 3rd party mentions. Anyways, that's in the past and what's done is done and we'll just have to catch the next opportunity.

I was out today so let's get to your points now one by one:

1. It seems to me that your entire assumption that Hive is unfriendly is because you got tiny dust downvotes for a few hours from Spaminator. People reported you for comment farming and some even confused you with a bot. You were removed once the team figured out your comments were all original and not pulled from a database but at that time you already started your campaign of outrage.

2. I know you promote Hive. I know of everyone who promotes Hive. I saw you on 7b the other day (much appreciated) which is how I had your Telegram.

3. " it’s about the implementation of policies and practices that should be done at a code level... NOT A HUMAN ONE." This is how we operate and why your account ended up on the bot for a few hours. We look at chain transactions. You ended up doing the exact same thing that malicious botnets do. This happens sometimes. If we had a hands-off approach that was just in the code on chain, it would've still been triggered by your account.

4. In regards to putting anti-abuse provisions into the code, in general, that has to be done as layered solutions. Our main Hive core protocol is designed to have layered solutions built on it. That's in the Hive Technical Vision.

5. I agree with you on downvotes.

6. I'm open to litigation either way when I put my signature on whatever listing agreement for Hive. But I don't particularly care. I know what kind of a risk I took when I picked my roles here. I could've just sat there developing games and doing nothing or blogging about whatever I happen to work on.

7. You're the first person I've ever heard of who actually cared about comment votes for the purposes of ranking. Now I understand.

8. There is no "code of law" programmed into Hive. We're a fast blockchain that's fee-less and can hold huge amounts of content. We can monetize it in various ways and we have further funding mechanisms. That's our code. The code doesn't care for what gets written into the transactions. The transactions are permanent, they're there, that's all there is. What I feel you're getting at is what was referred to as 'governance' under the old Steem Whitepaper, which was directed at the sole platform Steemit. That's not the case in Hive and our own whitepaper makes no mention of it. Correct me if I misinterpreted.

9. Most of the things I said in this post aren't written with you in mind. You have nothing to do with them. The only line where I was thinking of you (and a few others) is the first one. That's why I didn't tag anyone.

I get why you're upset after reading your long comment. In short, you were doing what you thought was best for Hive, put hours a day into it, and got on Spaminator. We can debate in circles forever. I'm a Hive maximalist too (mostly I put my time and money into Hive tech) but we never ran into one another until now.