I've been here for four plus years, I've invested a ton of time and energy into this place. I'm not going anywhere. I am who I am, I've said fucked up shit to some of you, you've said fucked up shit to me. I know I'm not a people person and I don't try to be.
I'm here to provide a service that I think is valuable and necessary for the success of Hive, but at the end of the day a service is about providing something that people want and this post is my olive branch to ask, what is it that you want and to see if it's something we can agree on and hopefully find some middle ground or compromise.
I think if someone steals someone's artwork and claims it as their own, that's plagiarism. I think if someone steals someone's idea, even if they recreate it, that's plagiarism and I don't think plagiarism in any form, or any degree, should be allowed on Hive.
Whether you think these things are plagiarism, or you want to call them something else, either way, I don't think we should tolerate them on Hive.
While Hive might be social media, it's still a monetization platform, and I think it's unacceptable to monetize these things.
I know a lot of you don't seem to feel the same way about that and regardless of the semantics of it all, the big question is this: What do we want to allow and what do we want to prohibit?
Like, I show you a piece of meat, I don't care what you call it, if non suitable, rotten or glitter, what I care about is, if you would eat it.
In each of these cases, this artwork is presented as original creative content, when if fact, they are the product of someone searching out a creative work, copying it almost verbatim and presenting it as original.
Do any of you honestly think this will add value to Hive?
Do you honestly think this is the path to mass adoption?
In most cases the users participating in this sort of activity are immediately selling the Hive they earn and devaluing every Hive hodlers asset without adding any value in return.
Will talented artists take this place seriously if it's filled with this? When clear ripoffs, plagiarism, whatever you want to call it is rampant and unchecked?
I don't think they would.
Now, you all know that I'm no artist (I cant paint with these paws), I'm not what you'd call a "content creator" and truth be told, 
heavily helped me in writing this post you're reading right now, articulating these concepts in a congenial written manner.
But I think Hive needs more than just creators. We don't have a centralized abuse management system and I can tell you from my 4+ years of experience, abuse is rampant and NEEDS to be checked.
One thing you have to consider, I believe, is that the nature of the reports Jaguar Force publishes, given the nature of the work, is symbolic.
Most of the intelligence and investigation work, goes unpublished for strategic anti-fraud reasons, for example because it would showcase a very dangerous type of abuse that if copycatted could present serious problems, or investigations in which the evidence can not be published because the intelligence source can not be exposed.
A lot of curators and cleaners specifically ask me not to publish cases because of the aforementioned reasons, this is what they expect and I think that's a reasonable expectation.
So this is me putting out an olive branch.
What will we as a community tolerate?
Where is the line for you all?
I'm genuinely interested in starting a real conversation so we can work together to accomplish a balanced solution to the relevant issues.
Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments, but I've also created a room in the HiveKeepers Discord for private conversations that you can get access to if you DM me in Discord.
Let's talk. Let's walk together.
This is Jaguar Force,
Reporting Directly from the Jungle.
Onwards!