"strategic silence", more like you went on a vacation for a week! lol.
Don't be trying to tell me you were doing some 7D Chess in space, you were just getting blasted on vodka compliments of Putin!
You and 
Anyways, go hit the gym to lose that alcohol weight, delete facebook, lawyer up, start eating organic chicken and rice, and maybe just maybe buy the next xbox and pray the new Halo is as good as it looks(it looks good).
In regards to 
If it was me, I would have simply countered downvotes with upvotes. I have been manually curating for a little over 3.5 years. Getting into any kind of beef or battles with people in my experience is typically counter productive.
I don't like that ONE PERSON can control muting someone and make it so people are unable to upvote/downvote. There are supposed to be Hive Engine Witnesses coming soon, which means they would ultimately be in charge(as are the Hive Witnesses). If all Hive Witnesses colluded and made it so you have 0 coins then you have 0 coins. "at least it is decentralized, lmao!!!!" "we stole your funds in a decentralized way, so its good!!!!"
"that makes us clever"
;)
But seriously, the more decentralized the better and Idon't see that happening here on Hive. The big power people are getting more power and seem to have a lot of money and powering up.
It is concerning to see more centralization happening.
I think the only logical path forward is making our own community(which we are working on and sorry it got delayed because of some life events with me and v, it got pushed out by like a month).
So, soon(TM) and all that fun stuff for our thing.
RE: I never went away.....I was just waiting....Why?...Because I'm free, to do what I want , any old time...Including this post.