Bots are the reason you couldn't do that.
Bots have ruined most of the gaming aspects of this game as originally designed.

I agree with this. I do think AI agents are going to get out of control in the sense that they are bots that we cannot easily detect. AI detectors are not even that good like people think. AI detectors are a product that gives people want they want vs what they need; AI detectors give a false sense of security that we can control the future.

Hive is doing much better since the fork.

This is good to hear someone actually say this for once. The way people act on HIVE I believed it was the opposite.

Before, these conversations would not have been allowed.

I have been pleasantly surprised people are letting us have these conversation without nuking our reward potential.

Character assassination and emotional meltdowns are hard to come back from

I think they are hard to come back from because it creates a situation where the person doing it has to apologize knowing they might not get anything out of it. Not taming the ego can provide a lot of dopamine to the individual but it typically comes at the expense of everyone the person interacts with. We see this in real-time on HIVE all the time; it is very interesting.

I would love there to be a world where people can come back from character assassinations. If anyone is going to lay down their ego and their own self respect at their own expense to help out others on HIVE it is probably me; not a humble thing for me to say which I guess is ironic LOL. That being said, I would get something out of it too; I enjoy solving "impossible" problems. But I cannot save someone; the person needs to save themselves first. Also coming back from a character assassination attempt requires the person doing it to force themselves to go down a path of self reflection. It is hard to teach an old dog new tricks. Sometimes it is better for everyone to let the old dog enjoy their life and live the way it wants. (I am not referring to anyone in particular when I say old dog, I just like that saying lol).

It's a good place to lurk, you could get interviewed on the weekly show, if you wanted to do that

I would love to get interviewed on HIVE over text. This could easily be done with comments back and forth. It would be a good time for me personally. I am not a big discord person.

Lots of folks looking for their names to speak up.

Usually people who want to talk don't have a lot to say that is worth listening too. Usually delusions of grandeur are heavy with folks like this. Not always but usually 🤣

The longer I watch this game play out, the more convinced I am that we should have let the rules change us rather than changing the rules to suit tptb

Adaptation is healthy....sometimes. Adaptation keeps us from becoming old dogs that can't learn new tricks. But it is stressful to learn and is not always a good way to live a life for a lot of people who enjoy their life as it is.

If you could expand on 2 things please cause I do not understand them:

The flag wars would have been epic, but the n2 could have been defended, its lottery aspects made curation a game well worth playing.

What do you mean by flag wars and n2?

Look at m-t's reports and ask yourself why he got ran off.

Sorry if you pointed me here before but can you point me in this direction on what you are referring too?