Hello Lucylin,

I stopped using Hive almost a year ago, disgusted by many of the things I've seen. I still follow some of the drama, witnessing the power schemes you reveal with your baited posts among many other places it is flexed here.

I congratulate you on your cleverness in pulling them in, even BlockTrades. Having said that, I do wonder why you wont just move on from their turf. Shake the dust of them from your feet, or at least move to a playground that isn't under their control if you feel the need to help karma find its way to them?

Many who are here have been indoctrinated into the cult-ure, and you are mostly pissing into the wind with your energy. As I mentioned, this is their playground and those who wish to succeed here (to the extent they are allowed to) will do so by adopting the Hive mind and fitting in to the desires of the owners here.

I make this effort to actually log in and have this gesture with you because while we do have different outlooks on many things, I find that despite the many decisions you've made in life I wouldn't, when it comes to character yours shouldn't be questioned in most things, especially by those who have been doing assassination attempts on yours. One of your most refreshing qualities has been your rigidness, refusing to be all things to all men. Which includes not succumbing to the hive think that one need adopt in most cases to thrive here.

I don't wish to turn this into an anti Hive comment, I do well enough with that elsewhere off their platform they control. I instead wish to urge you to do as I do. Don't give them the satisfaction of playing this game on their terms, on their battleground. I've never understood those who rant and belittle this place yet stay. The best revenge is ignoring, the second best is choosing a battleground of ones own choosing if one is of a mind to be most effective.

As soon as those of you who post counter to the mind think of the left (and pretend right) stop using the platforms that seek to silence and intimidate (or character assassinate) you, the sooner they will fall. So many bitch about Fakebook, Twitter, Reddit, Hive, Steem etc yet continue to use these platforms. They will never fail, nor will one gain the freedom to speak their perceived truth if one keeps going back to the abusive platforms like some Stockholm Syndrome victim.

If everyone they hold in disdain were to leave now, their mechanisms of extraction would be glaring to all outside of this cult-ure bubble.

Best of luck in whatever you decide.