Thanks for the response and it's a free world - do as you please of course. Interesting to hear your views, which are a bit surprising and confusing, so since you commented:

• My sole focus on Hive is to promote environmental awareness and proactivity. I think that's quite admirable when most blog about nonsense to make their way here and claim their autovotes. I never wanted to kiss asses or play politics. I've been consistently proving my sole focus for many years and can't imagine how that'd be a negative unless you've come to a different conclusion that I'd suggest is incorrect. Google my name and recycling and you'll see endless pictures and ideas. That's what I'm proud of, and Hive has been an effective platform for me to spread my passion - which I never thought of as a negative goal before. I'm genuinely curious as what else you've interpreted since I know my side and can't grasp what you've said outside of what may be a picture you've formed. Outside of my goal of earning a Splinterlands plot with HBD rewards for the last 3 weeks, which is still investing in the Hive ecosystem by all means to me, I honestly don't get it. If your expectation is that someone has to do more for a community (or the planet) to be an asset, then we can disagree. I'll remain positive about my cause either way, so please feel free to elaborate openly.

• I never bought Steem or Hive, but I never ever powered Steem down until the fork. I then powered some Hive right after the fork. From memory, I think I went from 5K HP to 1,800 HP since I was uncomfortable with the chaos of the fork and lost faith in the community then. I feel that I was far from alone there with how things went down and shouldn't be faulted for that. Do I need more HP to resonate as a valuable or respectable community member on Hive? I'd disagree that a financial commitment is fair to judge someone on though. Since the fork, I've blogged in my lane (inspiring many if you dig into comments), and earned up to what you showed by grinding. I enjoy earning my way instead of buying it. I actually felt that was noble and not a negative. I don't game any systems or the reward pool, so I'm stumped. Either way, this staked earning sum is pittance compared to most that've been blogging for as long as I have. I've only sold off liquid earnings, which by $ weight recently were mainly put into Splinterlands (the Hive ecosystem). Since the fork times, haven't powered down a penny. If my handling of liquid earnings is at issue to you, I think it's fairly safe to say that a few hundred bucks isn't significant to judge someone by. Is this what you meant though?

• The concept of sharing and paying forward to me is in pumping out thousands of real-world by-hand examples of things I recycle and save so others can get ideas and motivation to help the environment. It's the time, energy, posts, effort, responding to and upvoting nearly every comment (almost 100% upvotes for most comments on my posts). I see positive and thankful comments all the time and have found this to be my niche on Hive for now. If further financial investment to deploy on upvoting others outside of the autovotes I've set and the posts that sort in my feed is the sharing/paying forward via voting, then that's ok. However, I've been very transparent in many posts over the years of being concerned with how the chain is managed to feel uncomfortable risking real amounts of money until I feel that it's where I want to invest. I should note that the exorbitant amount of time I have already put in is quite an asset and I've made some great positive relationships (and support people off chain), so I wouldn't see that as a fault. I've been here since mid-2017 and for the right reasons I felt. I welcome you to spell out what I'm missing.

• You don't need to vote for someone to support them, but unfollowing seems pretty strong of a move and message of disapproval, which is why I asked. While I don't need you to change your mind, your response above honestly makes me feel extremely misjudged.