You make it sound like Hivewatchers are actually multiple persons. It's not. The operation is mostly run by Hive account@logic. It's a one-man shop.

@Guiltyparties is your peripheral "head" in charge of an operation he has no business or time to attend to. After all, he spends more time dealing with other projects on Hive.

The third and mysterious Hive account@nuttin is just someone collecting all the payments and interests off of HBD. Who knows if that's an actual active member in the community or some red herring used to pay Logic some more.

I bet if anyone ran a cost-benefit analysis, the so-called "abuse" they curb is much less than the money the community is paying. Unfortunately, large stakeholders such as Hive account@blocktrades, Hive account@theycallmedan, and Hive account@smooth don't think there are any viable alternatives. I argue HW isn't needed at all.

That sort of organization doesn't scale. It's much better to develop tools and allow individual communities and their mods/curators to collaborate and figure out ways to mitigate things within their own boundaries and in their own terms. It's insanity to expect Hivewatchers to be judge, jury, and executioner for every community across the chain.

The accounts Hivewatchers now operate can and will eventually be decommissioned and used by Logic as personal accounts, as seen by the activities of Hive account@steemcleaners, courtesy of GuiltyParties, which he uses against opinions differ from his narrow world view. In fact, it's not unusual Hive account@adm is abused in such manner as well.

If you feel so bad for Logic, just donate money to him. Stop this charade of giving him undeserved authority to dictate what others can do on this chain.

I have voiced my discontent about them in the past only to be booted out of the chat channels by GuiltyConscious himself. He even tried to brand me as some anti-Hive element, but couldn't muster the so-called "evidence".

To echo Hive account@pfunk's sentiments about HW, it's time to consider firing them.

Everyone should unvote Hive account@abit and Hive account@guiltyparties as witnesses as well as the Hivewatchers proposal.

The keys to Hive account@adm needs to be changed to make sure HW operators no longer possess them. They don't deserve to operate like this on the community's dimes.