I think about to power up another 500k Hive power only to make a downvoter for new users.
This way i can show you all how retarded downvotes are. 30k usd to fuck all marketing efforts, onboarding efforts is the cheapest attack ever.
I would call it Hivewatcher 2, stronger and better to bully of new users.
So pretty much the free downvotes make it possible to attack the holdings of everyone, remember all the crypto Influencers we had? All bullied off of some users ( lmao the damage is in Millions of USD in reputation).
Or all the other personalities that was on Steem or Hive at one point ( from TV stations to book authors to political figues), some of them got bullied of for no reason " duplicate content", well if they have a website too, thats normal.
I mean best thing is, with vibe coding a auto downvoter could be coded in less then 20 min, so everyone can do it now.
Now to a solution,
Make downvotes cost money again, No more free downvotes, if it cost money,it will less likely be weaponized ( for political reasons or whatever).
Edit: Thats a joke btw. But some changes are needed to make Hive something Users value + a tool of freedom.
Hive power should be like " mind your own business " what you vote, post or reward with it. A bigger authority beyond a frontend display content should not be in code.
Or remove all rewards from Content, so people can post what they want and 0 political drama about upvotes or value ( since value is 0 with no users and holders anyway)