I got up this morning grateful to find the power still on. The ice storm has stepped up its intensity after losing power for four hours yesterday, I’m plenty grateful to power, heat and coffee.

I’m settled in with a fresh cup of coffee scanning through the overnight Ginabot notices and come across three notices of flags from Hive account@madpuppy. You’ll recall that Hive account@madpuppy is the attack dog for Hive account@grumpycat who seems to take delight in bullying minnows.

The Grump loves attacking small fry while upvoting himself and his attack puppy with 100% upvotes. Hive account@the-resistance has documented the amount he’s attacked others and how much he upvotes himself here and here.

An argument can be put forward that if the Grump and his puppy are hitting spammy posts and reclaiming funds for the reward pool, that upvoting himself is a reasonable offset to compensate for what he’s not making through upvoting good content. And he does actually hit some spam. Unfortunately, it is a very small minority of his attacks.

So What Happened This Time?

In an effort to find that out, I visited the Resistance’s discord as I suspected the flags had to do with my membership there.

Sure enough. The first I encounter is an exchange going on in the General channel where the Grump has access. I see something about him claiming that his comment has been flagged thus censoring him. He also says that if the flag is removed he might not attack again tomorrow.

He calls his brutal attacks on some as ‘taste of censor’. I call them being a bully.

Looking further into this comment claim I discovered this comment by Hive account@r351574nc3 flagged by Hive account@madpuppy several hours ago. The flag on the comment rendered that comment invisible. The comment was totally non-offensive and hardly rated a flag.

It looks like about five hours after Hive account@madpuppy flagged the comment, he then placed a comment containing only a period and upvoted it. The action triggered Hive account@the-resistance to flag that comment. Here’s the breakdown of the automated votes that triggered:

Seems that triggered the Grump to go off on another of his attack tangents that included three of my posts. None of those posts used bid bot votes. Here’s the breakdown of those attacks:

What The Grump Claims To Do:

The Grump has variously declared his goals to be:

stopping bot abuse by forcing bot owners to not sell votes after 3.5 days
fighting spam by downvoting it

If he’d been able to actually explain how bid votes after 3.5 days are bad the community might have been able to see that as more than him being the bully he shows himself to be.

Fighting spam by downvoting it could actually be a good thing. If that was what he was actually doing. He does do some of that. Sadly, very little of it.

What The Grump Does:

attacks minnows who use bots non-compliant to his demands
attacks minnows who use compliant bots
attacks minnows who don’t use bots
attacks minnows who exercise their freedom to belong to community groups
whines that he’s being censored while censoring others (his words)
attacks minnows he claims censor him with a sledgehammer to match their teaspoon tap

Did you notice the common theme there? Attacks minnows?

What is it that bullies do? They attack people they believe are weaker than themself. They act as the cowards they are.

What Seems to Have Happened Here?

It appears to me that the Grump hit a member of Hive account@the-resistance with a comment flag. When that didn’t get a responding flag from Hive account@the-resistance he managed to trigger the response through another comment. And it was an automated response, thus the effort.

So, the automated response hit him for a total of $1.53495 of which .017 came from me. This morning we’ve had a discussion about that automated response in the discord. I’m not going to reveal the outcome of that but I will say, decisions are not made without there being thoughtful discussion about the benefits to the community.

The Grump, who appears to lack the ability to have thoughtful anything, responded with a rampage that hit people for a total of $177.21. Not exactly a proportional response to anything.

Now, to be fair, there is a name that appears on that list that he hit that I checked out as it was not familiar. The person uses bots heavily but is not involved with Hive account@the-resistance. So adjusting for that amount, his response amounted to $123.74, still not even close to proportional to anything. This is just more bullying on his part.

My Response

As I have stated before, I will not back off to a bully. While none of the posts he attacked had used bots, that may change. Clearly the whole use of bots is nothing but a ruse on this bully’s part.

He knocked a total of $30+ off my posts this time in response to $0.017 hit from me that was automated. His attacks were not, they were deliberate and calculated. He calls it ‘taste of censor’, I call it bullying. A repeat of a similar attack he made ten days ago.

I have once again increased my delegation to Hive account@the-resistance by a small amount. I encourage others to join me in making small delegations to Hive account@the-resistance.

I could say that bullies should never prosper. However, he is prospering and hurting others while he’s doing so. Can he be stopped? Who knows? If zero attempt is made to some how counter him, it’s guaranteed he can’t be declawed.

It takes a special kind of small when a whale like the Grump feels the need to trigger an automated response, go pound a group of minnows and then claim he’s being censored.

I really think you can comfort your poor puppy’s little hurt nose Hive account@grumpycat without swinging a hammer. I don’t know, maybe you swung that hammer so hard you hit yourself in the head.