@blocktrades I have alot more context on the matter having been on the inside for so long, and I can tell you the Hive governance leaves alot to be desired.

As you well know, the troll you mention in your response dictates greatly to how the rest of the governance behaves, and rallied all of you to unvote my witness in unison because I simply told a Steem user who was on the fence about moving to Hive that I hope Steem will come right in future but for now Hive is the best decentralised alternative, I was being diplomatic yet my words were twisted to mean something else and you all descended upon me to wipe out the position I had built within the community over something so petty.

You yourself at this time broke your promise to me to continue to support my governance position after I compromised on my beliefs that we should not have frozen the Steemit stake, but rather blocked their ability to witness vote only. I went along with the witness quorum, and did not try to broker any compromise deals with Justin as per your request, yet the first chance you got you cast me aside when I was no longer useful to you, even after seeing the way I was being censored and maltreated in the Slack by more than one actor, you did nothing and said nothing, as a leader I simply would not stand by and watch other community members be maltreated in our governance channels, but seems you do.

In the same Slack, Drakos received veiled death threats and even though a vote was taken the perpetrator was allowed to remain while others such as @cryptofinally were cast out very easily. I too was cast out when I simply decided to go ahead and be involved with the startup team of Blurt, who incidentally were cast out of Slack too previously (yet the perpetrator remains) at that point I wasn't even a founder.

I have enough experience and inside knowledge to know the Hive governance act in vengeful mafia-style unison and only appear to be decentralised, when certain people say jump, the rest do so.

I took the high road and put my energy into Blurt rather than making a fuss on Hive and expose what really goes on. The rabid dogs however immediately came after Blurt and "cockblocked" the launch, forcing us to take a step back and refactor with fees to mitigate the spam attack.

In the mean-time prominent Hive leaders were taking the piss out of Blurt in the Slack, selling each other scripts to milk Blurt at "maximum efficiency" for $2.

The sad part is, even given everything, it was my wish that Blurt would be a form of compensation to you and the 60+ others who had their Steem balances wiped, but instead, you all decided to attack it and suppress growth, not only for yourselves but for every other user with a balance in Blurt, so many people in places like Venezuela could have had better lives with even a slight increase in the price.

At every turn Hive leadership would try to undermine Blurt, here is an example of us appealing to Binance to list Blurt for the benefit of everyone and one of yours slides in this comment in the hopes of derailing the initiative and yet still remains supported in Hive governance after actively trying to destroy value on another project.

In addition to this, we suffered a hack of WBLURT and the same server had keys to other Hive projects worth several times more but only Blurt was targetted, a clear indication this was a Hive-sanctioned attack. Finally, the set witness properties attack was launched to attempt to bloat our chain to suppress Raspberry pi deployment.

So before insulting @jacobgadikian's brain I urge you to use your own and get your house in order at Hive and support and encourage good actors to governance and not toxic ones who seek to take down other chains.