I disagree with most of that, except the psychology aspect, which ultimately led to this decision. With us gone, hivewatchers is the only one left preventing rampant abuse like in the old days. Everyone

We might take requests, but we won't scout for abuse actively any more.

10 witnesses signal 20%, 10 signal less. The APR is calculated each round anew, so currently it depends on the chosen backup witness if it's 19% or 20%

I do agree from the emotional standpoint. Not reacting to whale voting patterns can, and in reality does, lead to them dominating and deciding over what goes on trending, and makes people post in communities

If we can find a way to do it with more community involvement I'd be willing to work something out, but the way we did it so far led to me being seen as a censor or bully and consequently losing funding

Thanks for the supportive words. HW needs the blacklist to be effective against botnets. I do feel like it's a bit too easy to end up on it though.

If I were to vote as I actually want to vote, I would unvote a few people and you would probably go into the top 20 by default even without me voting for you. I may do that in the spirit of evolution,

Sure I did. You're not the best listener, but I explained the redistribution mechanism that downvotes are multiple times. I got annoyed and started to make fun of you because you kept talking about censorship.

The downvoted posts were fully in curangel's scope by receiving 3-digit votes by a single whale. The project has been created to improve reward distribution, and the content of the posts doesn't matter

based on your repeating tendency to use massive downvoting as a weapon to try to dominate people and get your own way lol. I never downvoted for personal reasons. And I never downvoted you. I do from now

Okay. Having a large stake means I should spend thousands a month from my own pocket, in addition to my labor, to provide a service. Or not provide it. But then you complain about services not being provided.

Does this help?

I haven't thought a lot about monetization yet, my interest comes from the technological side. Upvotes don't seem like an option without spamming the chain with new posts for each edit. Maybe a tipping

I'm not going to do deep analysis myself, but I might add the one or other post I see while browsing to the downvote script from now on. If you are interested in helping utilize the VP well, hit me up

Downvotes are still super important. It just doesn't make sense to pay $350 a day to have them downvote a few $0.10 posts.

I'm @pharesim on Discord too

Thank you for the kind words, appreciated!

Hope you're doing good!

Always around, mostly quiet :)