You are literally going out of your way to nuke the platform.

Calling a downvote an "attack" on free speech has downstream consequences. It makes people who want to be the hero stand up against "corruption" go around and harass people that do not deserve to be treated this way.

No one deserves to be harassed like @kgakakillerg is doing to other people. This is terrible and wrong.

He should not be doing this for 5+ years. He should focus on his art and his music to try and make the world a better place.

Harassing people on HIVE does not make HIVE a better place.

Your post is still here. Your speech is not being stopped.

I literally get downvoted by an account that says downvotes are against free speech. 🤷‍♂

People claim that a downvote is an attack on free speech and then turn around and downvote me. Like what the hell is going on here?

I do not think a downvote is an attack on free speech because the reward pool has nothing to do with speech.

It is about rewarding users who use and CARE about the platform.

I do not agree that people who try to run people off the platform should get rewards.

If there are other stakeholders that disagree with me and they like this activity they are welcome to downvote me back or upvote your post.

They can use their stake as they wish.

The reward pool is allocated by the community and I am 1 stakeholder.

We need to make money and do good with the reward pool.

I do not believe people getting rewards for running people off the platform is legitimate.

If someone wants to disagree with this I am always open to change my mind and remove my downvote.

I do not systemically downvote people. I talk to them.

In my post I said I downvote people who call downvotes an attack which is what you did. I am trying to be consistent.

I also disagree with you, I do not believe me upvoting a burn post is against community norms. I am rejecting author rewards and curating something that would have less rewards than if I curate this @hbd.funder/comments

I make less HIVE by curating this post. I wrote this post because I really do care about HIVE. I am making no author rewards from this post.

I care about the people that poor their life and soul into this platform.

I care about the people who have been waiting for years for alt season and it never happened.

I care about the people who think all we need is more users while we onboard more people and that fixes nothing.

I am buying as much HIVE as I believe is reasonable.

If people want to go to zero I will not go kicking and screaming.

I will go with them. Because I do care about people here even if they are not my friends and even if they are random people on the internet.

No one deserves to invest in something and then have people turn around and try to nuke that investment for some random reason no one can understand.

I need to figure out how to power up with some of the new bridges we have versus going through Hive Engine. That was my goal today and I am going to get it done.

I do not think this was a waste of time but I am mostly just in shock.

Who knows how low we go in 2026. It is not looking pretty.