No no, nothing personal at all there Frank, I'm just sayin, I have put thousands of lines of code and manhours into releasing apps on the Hive blockchain, a chain that really works great for the use-cases that I like to build. Point of sale, mobile wallets, monetised p2p streaming media, libs, plugins, etc. No way would I want to throw any of that away.

If you're referring to downvoting someone, I feel that downvotes are imperative to the longterm success of a chain like Hive. It would be "ideal" as you said though to not have to downvote anyone.

Question 1: How else will we as a community be able to discourage people from posting nsfw stuff in a kids group for example? Lock him out of his account, or even his funds? KYC him? Dox him? Where does it end?

At least with downvoting, we as a community can collapse his post unless the viewer really wants to expand it to see it. The reputation score of a person is important too because if that guy is getting downvoted a lot then obviously he's posting stuff that people just don't want to see anymore.

If a user's account can get locked via a human's decision, then that chain isn't much better IMO than say facebook or twitter. We want to politely nudge a person to do the right thing, not just lock him out of the house. Free speech is great and all, but everyone knows that you don't walk into a movie theatre and yell FIRE as a joke. That would get people hurt. Proper parenting, setting the example, and the Non-Aggression Principle is everything. Let's nudge the guy in the right direction, not hit him with a crowbar.

Question 2: From my limited understanding of Blurt, your Blurt account can get locked. Is that right?

Without the downvoting mechanism, I think it would be quite hard to discourage someone from posting porn, aggression, scam links in hundreds of comments on various threads with multiple accounts (buy my latest shitcoin!), and so on.

I ask these things Frank with the highest respect for you, I do not want a war or anything, they are just a couple of questions that I have now about Blurt since you promoted here on my post.