all the time, I wasn't the worst affected at all, as I didn't get flagged to zero but it was a behaviour happening constantly to new ppl signing up for help and going to a place to get help and getting laughed at, picked on and threatened for fun just because people could, because they had power over them. These were people they were trusting to help them get started since they were mods in an official chat room linked from the steemit page. To see these people now take away money from smaller content creators probably brings back those memories.

I do understand this happens everywhere , but when those people become witnesses who are responsible for the direction of the platform it is worrying to me. If they were just random bloggers not so much. Of course we create our reality and we all have our own experience within the whole but I do personally think it's important to acknowledge when things and behaviours are not resonant to your values and morals and try and navigate a new experience.. I probably was hard hitting and triggered, I always own when I am triggered but even after the event I feel strongly it isn't a behaviour i would appreciate from people directing a platform and everytime I see an animal shelter or contibuter get re adjusted because someone who is responsible for how the platform evolves decided they didn't deserve it, it's going to take me out of a positive energy and feeling about the platform. It doesn't feel like somewhere we are free to grow and just as i distanced from fb recently i feel the same way about hive for now I I appreciate your balanced responses though, I love the eco train communiity amongst a few others and it was one of the main groups that kept me inspired here. I just got a bunch of my spiritual and creative friends to sign up but hearing my story they chose steemit for now, I don't influence just share my experience they have free will to come here at anypoint they have the details of both places. I also hope one day there is a new platform entirely, or that blurt rly takes off as it seems sucha wonderful and supportive place and the lack of downvotes evens out the playing field somehow. Maybe one day hive will get a new direction too and new witnesses and will go back to more how it was before when we were left alone to create, , exchange value and feedback with one another and create freely.