I'm not a fan of Discord but there's no better alternative for now. That may change and I hope it does, especially if Discord starts collecting user data in an invasive way like Whatsapp does. We're watching what they're doing carefully. It's not realistic to use comments. There can be a better way on Hive but it has to be built. I do have some ideas but I can't take it on right now, there is a pile of deliverables waiting.
Cheetah is not something I can speak for. It's not mine, I can't operate it even if I had the code, it's not worth discussing at this point.
Yeah, what people have suggested before is instead of downvotes to limit the visibility of accounts on frontends. We won't go that route. The other train of thought in suggestions was to turn Spaminator into a low-quality-content tracking bot but I refuse to do that. Both avenues are extremely immoral.
On Hive we're still dealing with the fallout from Steem years. There was a lot of toxicity built up. I have an old post somewhere about it. It's not going to get fixed in just a year. Completely agree on improvements, that's why I welcome all discussions. We're pretty much on the same page.
RE: Regarding Hivewatchers and Spaminator