What's Happening With Hive Witnesses

Well said Khal. Keep up all the great work and energy.

The Hive ecosystem has so much lore and history now, that much of it will be inpenetrable to newer users. The people who have done the heavy lifting creating an iterating the various front-ends to Hive are understandbly going to have emotional investment in their work and projects.

Because Hive is still a relatively small and passionate community - narratives can become insular. Ingroup narratives can create a form of tunnel vision. Witnesses and frontends will compete for users, and to an extent control of available resource.

In a larger context 99.999...% of humanity is not Hive. Hive has not even scratched a tiny fraction of its possible adoption. In a competitive environment people will make comments that may provoke offense in the listener or reader. We are responsible for the quality of our communications, but generally not the emotional response of the recipient.

A managable level of conflict is healthy for a community or network, it is an indicator that the people comprising the community are passionate and invested. There is some threshold where productive conflict can become destructive. Take the larger view, sublimate frustration into creative energy. Don't get angry, get useful.

This analysis is offered without substantial or granular knowledge of the particulars. This is a fundamental part of the human condition, and these particular patterns manifest in every domain or endeavor and are not particular to the Hive community.

Coming back to Hive after a prolonged absence, the innovation across the chain and in the various projects and frotends is remarkable. While a hackneyed expression a rising tide can certainly lift all boats. While I have a particular affection for the Inleo team, I make use and enjoy many of the applications and frontends here for various purposes. It remains an entirely remarkable endeavour.

My article is very interesting and best wishes to all of us.

Want drama? Look at all the downvotes I get from shit people on here . Eat shit everyone

Down here in my town there are a pair of old and famous sayings that goes like this:

1. "The one who gets itchy and feels their mouth burning it is because he eats chili"
   and
2. "Those who have been bitten by a snake, when they see lianas and vines, they jump and tremble"

In spanish:

1. “El que se pica es porque ají come”
2. “Los que han sido picados de culebra, cuando ven una liana o bejuco brincan y tiemblan”

What more or less means that when someone is talking about something in general (to everyone) and suddenly you feel like they are talking about you indirectly. Maybe what they are saying hurts you or offend you, only because you somehow know it's true and it's a fault you have or had.

Therefore don't be surprised that all those who in some way felt alluded to, outraged and offended by what you said in your video without specifically naming anyone. They reacted the way they did because they undoubtedly eat chili or have been bitten by snakes some time.

And now, let the discussion continue!

I think you guys are taking the right approach and I agree with you. In my opinion the Witnesses need to do more than just witness blocks because there are a lot of community members that could also just do that.

I think a lot of us want to see HIVE take its rightful place back on the first page of CoinGecko. It's legitimately the most well formed Web3 ecosystem.

Sometimes I feel like some people locked in there don't really care too much about it growing as long as they are getting a passive drip from it that is a lot compared to their efforts.

Grow the Pie is my thoughts too.

You're doing great work to build on Hive and continue to do the same, and avoid all this that distracts you because its non-productive.

We all know who needs to go but most witnesses are not doing their job right

I've been getting downvoted for a while now just because I helped out a friend year's ago who is now exposing the truth about Hive 😂

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This really isn't about drama, it's about keeping our blockchain secure and sending the right message. For example, this is the third time you have implied someone attacked your witness and took it down due to your opinion.

Your post was 11 days ago, yet your witness has been down for 12.

To even think or imply someone could take down your witness, would take down your witness because of this post, is both irresponsible and ignorant.

Before you say you didn't, here are two statements from your two posts and in this video as well you imply it.

"If someone makes a video like what I did, you get attacked in more ways than one (including having our witness go down shortly thereafter)."
Source

"Let them do it. They may even have some valid points. The LF witness - coincidentally? ironically? - went down right after this video was posted. "
(This post)

Also suggested in the video twice in this same post.

For me, I could care less what you said, as I said before, I don't disagree with the fact a many witnesses aren't even here anymore, but to say LeoFinance should be a top 20 when it quite literally one of the most unreliable witnesses on our chain is disappointing then hinting it was hacked as a result. Many people just follow your word blindly this is not a healthy mindset. Neither is this sort of bullshit.

This all instead turned into drama and is instead an attack on Leo instead of a teaching moment. I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed. I even went out of the way to provide you with solutions to prevent this.

In this video you say you think witnessing should be discussed more openly and publicly, yet your response to it has been taken as an attack.

Each account can vote for 30 witnesses. Isn't that too much? Wouldn't it be fairer to reduce it to 10? Someone with 90 million HP of voting power can choose the witnesses they want. If we want decentralization to decrease, a change must be made here. But since being able to vote for 30 is in favor of the first 20 witnesses, I don't think they will want to change this.

LF witness can develop new strategies to enter the top 20. You earn tokens when you vote for witnesses on other blockchains. LF witness can also distribute LEO tokens.

I saw some of the 'drama' and it is not always productive. The witnesses ought to support each other rather than fight. If one goes down and is still getting votes then we need to do what is necessary to make it more robust.

Hivers do have a say in who gets the most blocks, but we know that the big players really decide. If more people actually used their votes (or proxies) then that might change. The data is all public, so they can make up their minds on who deserves a vote.

There's nothing wrong with healthy debate, but lets make it civilised. Yeah, I know it's a bunch of individuals with strong opinions. I'm here to get away from corporate social media and accept that it's the wild west. A little chaos can be good.

Peace and love!

...that a witness is about more than just witnessing blocks.

That may or may not be true. Irrelevant. Witnessing blocks is the single most important thing witnesses do.. it's literally what you're being paid to do.. you sound like the janitor, who's upset he has to clean the shit stains out of the toilet..

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On Hive Buildawhalescam the notion that one can prevail by standing against the truth is a misguided one

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Yeah. Everyone is sick and tired of all the Drama (downvote wars) here on Hive.
I just try to ignore and mute all the Drama queens. And there are lots of them.