I ran into your interaction with Hurt just today, and was touched by your plight. I can't do much about your circumstances, and I can't stop others from doing what they do. But I can tip your posts and completely counter the DV's you got on this one. There are others you can reach out to about countering Hurt's flags too. My measly stake isn't a match for his.

You've been here for a long time. Longer than me. You clearly have folks here, a voice here, that's meaningful to you. Don't let little boys taunting you drive you away from meaning. There's not enough of it in the world, and where you find it you should latch onto it with both hands. Something you might be able to do to end the flags forever is to decline rewards on your posts, because then DV's have no point, and flaggots usually quit when you do that. To maintain your income from your blog, you can request your readers tip you, as I just did, and explain that tips can't be flagged away so until the DV's stop you are going to decline rewards and will then be dependent on their tips to carry you through.

I hope you can do this and keep posting on Hive, and that the support you have in the community grows even more as a result of your spine and refusal to be driven away from the people you have come to know here.

I hope your holidays were wonderful, and you didn't catch the flu like I did.

Thanks!