You cannot always account for the gravity of human stupidity. All these idiots that have participated in this might have gotten miniscule short term benefit but long terms lost all the opportunities that Hive offers.

Thats their punishment. Unfortunately, they also punished all the hundreds of others that didnt participate in this. Hopefully those find their home elsewhere on Hive.

Ultimately, Vibes was just a successful demonstration of a structured approach to the Hive reward systems.
It wasnt special in any way other than via the effort being put into upholding that structure. Its very easily emulated elsewhere.

Not by be though because I am done. I am so done trying to "help" people in this way. 2 years of effort I put in for this to be a success, that benefited so many, and the first opportunity to screw Vibes over was taken by so many of those that benefited the most. Well they wont benefit any more.

There is a penalty and its far more than just being added to a blacklist.