I'm talking rewarding consumers and you guys are saying we shouldn't be promoting rewarding consumers.

No i am not. That is absolutely false. Did you even read the post?

He just focused on blogs because that is what he sees as a new user.

Exactly. Because he doesnt understand Hive and doesnt know what the hell he is talking
about.

So why is it so bad that I would do the same thing using HP?

Who said it was?

Let's not even talk about how nathanmars got shat on after all the work he did

I love Nathan but posting tweets on twitter as a marketing strategy is nonsense. :)
Nathan can do great things for spreading word between Hivers on twitter and he is invaluable there: But tweeting to the Hive echochamber isnt anything close to effective marketing.