When the only tool you have is an hammer, you're gonna get nailed...and laughed at...oh, and unloading my shit...

I'm posting this in @deepdives, not because it's that deep a dive funnily enough - but because of the questions that it raises, which will, hopefully, go on to make for some very deepdives indeed.

I'm also tagging @leofinance - as while this isn't directly connected, the wider reaching potential fall out of the issue, could very well have a serious 'knock on effect' on that part of the platform also.

....And maybe this is an example of why @proofofbrain is the next step forwards in the blog-o-sphere.

I wrote a post yesterday....

I was discussing - asking - for 'the big boys of hive' who were not petulant little children in grown up bodies - to step up. (as if they do not - it may well be to the severe detriment of the Hive ecosystem as a whole).

AAAAAaaaaaaaaand what happens?

A petulant man child with a large stake, goes and down votes my post(s)
Smh.....
(not just that post, but another one to - and around ANOTHER $20 in down votes).

Why? Emotional immaturity/insecurity, expressing itself as petulance.
....A psychological pain that's unable to be reconciled , so must therefore rage at the what they see as causing the psychological pain - even though that pain is already residing firmly within their own psyche.

Apart from appearing to be a tyrannical manchild to the rest of the platform (seemingly incapable of mature action) , the child having the tantrum - who wants to be taken seriously more than anything else - becomes the object of ridicule.

A laughing stock. (The child in the middle of the said tantrum doesn't see it ).

*This was supposed to be humor, not an instruction manual..! ...lolol.

Man children have no place in such positions - of wielding such 'power', not without being actively opposed by the grown up's in the room with the same - or more - power.

The adults in the room really need to recognize this.

Seriously.

The outside world see's all of this going on as well, you know? (and will do even more so if this isn't addressed).

It makes travesty of the entire platform and the ethos that HIVE is supposed to promote..

It makes the account a laughing stock. It makes Hive a laughing stock.

Is that what the whales really want?

I can't imagine serious players like @blocktrades or @callmedan find this an appealing look for the platform, or remotely funny.. **(and congratulations to @theycallmedan btw, on your new addition to the family!... I'm well happy for ya, matey!)*.

And what is 'the look?'

'Account @lucylin writes logical and informative posts, with some humorous skits thrown in , and also makes fun videos, to'...

....and then gets down voted to oblivion by a child in an adult body, for no other reason than because it hurts their feelings. (not a case of plagiarism, spam , etc..)

Here's the thing, my little buttercups.

I have nothing to lose. This is my choice, not necessity. I'm semi retired, and have no interest in dopamine 'crypto addition', riches.. and have nothing but time on my hands.

'You' have lots to lose. Only a total moron would make that kind of bet - if you're the one with lots to lose.

What 'thought processes' were involved, that could possibly come to the conclusion, thinking that this action is a good idea?
Seriously?
..... creating a scenario , that , through their childish behaviors , makes a veteran of the ecosystem take it off hive and out into the wider world?

....And if that wasn't bad enough on it's own - to do it with someone who's not only a a veteran on the platform , but tenacious in expressing their logic, passionate about transparency, loves the debate, and enjoys the intellectual conflict ...as well as having a recognized ethical and moral code ?...

I fail to see any thought processes being engaged in potentially creating such a scenario.

The mind boggles, it really does...

My account is being attacked for no other reason than personal vindictiveness - or ideology.

Corrupt crony crapitalism in all it's glory - 'might is right '

The only way those that feel powerless can express themselves (to mitigate the feeling of their own impotence) is through the downvote ?!?!? Seriously, it's laughable..(pitiful)..

Oh, and here's another thing....

I made a post over 8 months ago....

It was about how I was going to try and support myself through blogging, using Hive (it was an experiment). I succeeded to some fair degree.

So, that being the case... How does this look to the rest of the world, when a petulant manchild can literally take the food of another persons plate, simply because 'their feels' were hurt ?

These are the actions of the ugly face of crony crapitalism - oligarchical tyranny - at it's very worst...

*Not good optics... for those concerned with 'building a community'.

'Come and speak you truth, but don't upset the snowflake tyrants - or you'll starve'

...I also a wrote a post a while back (after being attacked by the same account for no valid reason) which said words to the effect of: 'you leave me alone, and I'll leave you alone'... Oh well... ...It was a post describing how gravity comes into play when you're having shit piled on top of you.
Due to the properties of said gravity, it forever tries to roll down hill... And I have nowhere on Hive to pass that shit along. (It's not my style anyway - I'm an adult).

I do, however, have plenty of places off hive where I can unload it, if need be.
I don't hold other peoples shit for them.

If I was a whale, I'd sort this shit out before @lucylin has to go to all the trouble of unburdening the shit for myself.... Not all publicity is good publicity. And the facts are the facts.
And the blockchain is the blockchain.

So what am I supposed to do?...

*Let some petulant manchild keep fucking me up the arse? Yeah.... that ain't ever gonna happen, buttercups. (...Or maybe it's a case of some 'creative destruction' being needed at this point in the evolution of hive itself...?)

I appreciate **all the support shown - and given - to me, after this last unwarranted attack.

It means a lot to me, my friends, it really does - but the answer doesn't lie in people having to do that because the DPOS oligarchical system is king.

One manchild 'in an emotional strop', can negate the positive upvotes of over 300 hundred supportive accounts!!*

What kind of picture does this paint? (and just for the record - 'stake is all' is a worn out one liner. It doesn't wash.)

For the platform to have any credibility going forwards - the said oligarch's - *those who are the grown up's in the room - need to do something about it. ...(I would).

...And sharpish!

(...but what do I know ?..)