So they have their financial and operational proposal, it is very broad in language. It's why I would create an alternative proposal with detailed protocol and jurisdictional scopes defined, this would obviously take time to create, but it creates an operational, procedural, and intellectual backbone to the objections made so that we can have reform. It seems @guiltyparties is open to such a proposed procedural document (which is great) and I think other witnesses and prominent members of the various communities that are powered by Hive would be open to re-thinking things, unless they are looking to maintain a cartel.

There are several in their sphere who give up the game (figuratively speaking) that it is about making sure HIVE doesn't get in the "wrong hands" and protecting their ownership stakes, which can turn into a very ugly situation. Actions that are against Hive overall ToS vs. the rules of a few looking to protect their own interests is one part of the issue.

Deeming the creation of multiple targeted accounts problematic is a scaling issue for Hive (what is considered valuable to those in a particular community may not be for a few). Let's consider the possibility of corporate media organizations who may wish to join and assign accounts to their individually owned affiliates/entities that they own and operate on the local level. Would they be considered "scammers"? Is Hivewatchers going to go off the rails calling Sinclair Media/Meredith Corporation/Tegna/Vox/Tribune a scammer? Is there a faster way to watch this all fall apart than that scenario? They can freely operate on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc., but they may want to come here and be a part of this and there is nothing that expressly prohibits them from operating here like they do on those other platforms, but there are interests here that would seemingly oppose this based on their established behavior and would go out of their way to defame and hide their content.

Another issue is potential for abuse of power given the centralization of it. It opens up the door for extortion, retaliation, heavy shorting, PR nightmares, and other issues that may come from this centralization of power. One person acts poorly, maybe they ask for a sexually compromising image of a female Hive user from a country that has far less opportunity in exchange for removal from a blacklist. That female Hive user needs the HIVE to survive and resorted to begging in appeals on Discord with this self-appointed authority and this is a possible penance. You don't think that something like this won't happen? You think someone won't whistleblow? Do you want to prevent something like this from happening? I know I do.

We need Standard Operating Procedures and operational requirements for tribes and apps so that they can manage themselves. We don't settle disputes on Discord, we handle it here because we should "eat our own dog food."

I am invested in the overall concept of the Hive blockchain, I aim to create my own dApp, token, and tribe. I want to convert traditional sports message board users to come here, it's in my development road map and now I see existential problems that can be damaging.

Tribes/communities/dApps could choose to be stricter on content quality without having to turn to OCD (which is a centralized effort even though 'Decentralized' is in the name). I know I would, but that's just a sample size of ONE. If I saw the type of content I see commonly in OCD in my tribe, it would get a downvote because I just have different expectations. I would have a full set of expectations published for my tribe. The beauty of decentralization is that we can all have different standards and approaches.

I would be honored to draft a new standard operating procedure, it will take time, but it matters. I appreciate feedback and discussing revisions to it.

On a side note to all reading this (Wil this entire message is not directed solely to you):

I am very transparent about the way I operate. I syndicate my content to Hive and I have presently 30 other accounts that ARE DEDICATED to covering individual MLB teams, I put in a lot of work to improving content and ensuring that readers get their daily digest of their favorite teams and I syndicate previews of highlighted sporting events. (We happen to be in a bit of a dead period because it is the MLB All-Star Break.) I am going to be expanding into College Sports, many in the DunkSocial community are very excited about this because they will get College Basketball coverage that they were not getting before.

I made the mistake of not testing a new piece of code a few days ago and my intentions of staggering out posts across all properties turn into one massive spray, which was definitely not my intent. I know very well that I am not going to get interactions if I send everything out in one shot. Staggering out posts makes more sense from an engagement perspective and I thought that the code I wrote was going to do that. I made an indentation error and my program did not do what I intended at all, this error was fixed and now it is operating as intended.