TL;DR: Acidyo is a top 2 witness with 600k HP and a level 84 account. He has the powerful to ruin an account. He has downvoted me twice for "painting him in a bad light". If someone that powerful wants to fight me I will just quit and let them win. I don't have to deal with this.
Hive goes up less than other goes and goes down more than other coins. All it has is community but community is ruined for me.
It started yesterday when I made a post about Hive possily being at the bottom, the post was well timed, the bottom seems to have been when and where I said.
In the post I did poke Acidyo, he is a top 2 witness getting funded by the DHF. Poking important figures like that is natural in democracies but of course Hive is not a democracy, it is an oligarchy.
As it is natural for an oligarchy there are few very powerful people, one of them is Acidyo. For reasons you can see on the thread he has downvoted me with 100% of his power. He is a top 2 witness with 600k HP and level 84 downvoting someone who is a no one.
A 100% downvote from someone that big can wipe post rewards and tank and account reputation, he knows it very well and uses it intentionally.
Today he did the same, in his post about his DHF funded AI subscriptions I asked if he would take a 20% fee regardless of the performance of his proposal. He downvoted me with 100% again.
This post is likely to get 100% downvoted too but doesn't matter. I am out.
Acidyo is a top 2 witness, this means he has influence, no one gets there, he is behind only blocktrades who does essential work on protocol level.
Acidyo is a level 84 account, this means his account has the power to raise or lower someone's account level. Reputation is something you build slow.
600k HP means he can wipe post rewards.
I don't have to deal with this. I am grateful for Hive, thanks to the experience I hve got here I managed to get a job at Uber and then Pinterest and migrate to Europe.
However grateful I am the experience has been ruined. When someone that powerful picks up a fight with you there are two options, you fight back or you run.
Some people choose to fight back, there are 14 accounts that downvote everything acidyo posts, but those accounts naturally have no reputation and no HP, they effectively do nothing and may even paind Acidyo as a victim.
I chose to run. I am not fighting, I don't have friends who can outweight his downvotes and I don't want to be in a blockchain that is so centralized and at the same time has someone so powerful exercising his full power through 100% downvotes.
Had I seen he does that to other people I would have left before he did that me.
Goodbye Hive.
