There's a lot of bad publicity about HIVE, google and you will see. This puts off a lot of people, but if you behave nothing will happen. When I say 'behave', don't take the piss.

Plagiarism, re-hashing old content, not being authentic will put you in hot water quickly and it's up to the community to stamp out the crap.

The google moaners are these people, who think they can jump on here for a free ride. Many go to Blurt where there's no downvoting, and the token is valued at 100x less than HIVE.