To be honest, it was a really bad way to handle things and it doesn’t help content creators at all. This kind of behaviour affects the entire Hive gaming community too especially when people randomly downvote streamers or content creators without any context before doing so. Yes, someone might have higher reputation, but that doesn’t make mass downvoting okay.

If there’s a problem, come talk to us first. Don’t just mass-downvote someone’s post simply because they’re promoting their stream. We have Hive Gaming, we have Splinterlands, and other gaming communities and people should respect posts that are not junk or spam, especially when they’re promoting their Twitch stream while actually being live.

Let me put this straight: when VIMM was around, we streamed there with OCD’s support a lot. There were zero downvotes because VIMM was a verified Hive DApp for livestreaming. VIMM originally started on Steem before the issues happened and everything merged over to Hive I know what actually happened from reliable sources.

Without VIMM, livestreaming directly on the Hive blockchain wasn’t easy for anyone, even after ddrfr33k and Chiren put in so much hard work for the platform long before I was brought onto staff (and later removed due to communication issues, plus Chiren focusing on his IRL job more than VIMM at the time).

Since VIMM is now open-source, anyone can technically use the code to build their own livestream platform tied to Hive accounts. Because of that, I feel the BuildAWhale team really needs to take a closer look before mass downvoting people’s posts without realizing that we do have gaming content and streaming content creators on Hive.

As for the downvote situation: my DApp, NekoLive, is built for streaming but it’s far more advanced since it integrates multiple platforms in one place. Plus, we use the HiveWatchers API, so if HiveWatchers flags dodgy accounts, NekoLive is already protected by their system.

So yeah, I fully agree they should look at people’s content before nuking posts with downvotes, especially when it’s not spam.

sorry if looks AI Text, I had to ask it fix my grammar coz I was annoyed too after this so respect I had to use GPT fix my grammar issue as well.