she told me that I can go ahead and do it. If she was upset, she did not let me know it or I would not have gone ahead. I thanked her and went on.

No one person has the right to trademark the word hug. Me least of all. You told me about the bot, hive account, and token and how they were already made. How you saw hugs on a comment and start using that with your bot to test things.

You also asked if it was going live anytime soon. I knew I wasn't.

you did a ton of work! For me to tell you to drop it all because I already had a token called Hugs, but it wasn't minted yet, would have been a horrible thing for me to do, and honestly, I would not have been able to look myself in the mirror.

So I told you as nicely as I could, go ahead with your project.

Now let's put the hug on the other foot....if you had just spent 4 months working on something but still was not close to a product you felt you wanted your name on and someone came along and told you the same thing as you told me...... would you be upset?

I think it's human to have that emotion when faced with the decision to do the right thing or say no and be an ass. But I am human and yes I was upset.

In that first screenshot, the type in capitals is taken out of context.....that I will say...what you are seeing and how upset it looks like I am was not directed to you. So let's clear that up.

I will also say I had no idea this post was going to be written and in the end it got written because I have been too ill to be able to talk on voice with my son and explain things...... and being the wonderful son that he is he, in turn, is upset that his fun gift he gave his mom has turned into this.

So there are many levels of things going on here. Do I think you should have looked closer into names before making yours? yes. because I am sure, you would have run into the 8 accounts I made with hugs in them if you had looked.

But what is done is done.

You did the work and I could not take that away from you so I didn't.

but it did hurt my heart but I am old and will get over it. You are making a bot to share for free. Something many can use and is good for all of Hive.

Okay I think I answered everyone's questions.