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you say notice...i say threat, lets dont play with words
when you say dont do this otherwise i'm gonna do that...it is considered a threat
when you say look, dont do this cause there is a reason i'm asking you to do this , then its a notice

but anyway this is not our point here
first of all how you know i dont trust earn.hive , and secondly why is it illegal to vote someone who actually is a witness and in order to get some more followers is on a promo of giving something back to them
why is this so bad for the community?.what can he possibly do wrong ( i really ask you that question, i'm not trying to be smart here)

and to come to the last and most hot issue....downvote or not my post is a decision of yours, you can do whatever you like
downvote a user though cause he gave his vote to a witness you dont like and threating-giving notices that you're gonna throw his reputation to garbage is not ethical
today is his/her vote to somebody you dont agree....tomorrow will be soemthing else you dont like and where we heading eventually??
every user would not act by free will but according to your(or some other whale's) opinion of what it is good or not, cause he /she will be intimidated and will not want to risk his/her reputation
believe me brother this is what will destroy the platform at the end and not an account like earn.hive
the power that a few people gather on their hands this is the most scary thing( i'm not talking about you right now but generally speaking)

i really hope to get my point and not misunderstanding my words
are you a witness yourself?



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Thanks for the questions, I chose to make comments because I think it's a better approach than making an account that automatically, without warning, downvotes any account that approves @earn.hive as a witness.

I don't know if you know the @earn.hive witness. They've made no posts which is not confidence-inspiring. The account's spam does not show the voting is some temporary, promotional thing. It is bribing for witness votes.

In normal circumstances a single corrupt witness account, even if it were in the top 20 producers, can't do too much to harm the network. But we've seen in the Justin Sun incident, and other extraordinary circumstances, that every block producer does count. However, if the corruption/bribery were tolerated, this would not be the only corrupt witness account.

Why is that bad for the community? Because the community needs reliable witnesses that are acting in the interests of the whole network. We as stakeholders need the network to be safe, secure, and decentralized. Otherwise, the value of our stake is compromised. Corrupt witnesses do not add value to the network if they exist to extract value from witness rewards and distribute them only to their voters.

A downvote wouldn't necessarily affect someone's reputation on Hive. There is a reputation score but I wouldn't mean for downvotes to negatively affect that if I were downvoting because of approving this corrupt witness. Any positive post payout can only add to an account's reputation score. And even if a post was brought to below zero, it takes very big downvotes to affect a reputation score that's 50 or greater.

I use my downvotes for fighting abuse. Discouraging voting for a corrupt witness falls within that scope. Making it cost a little more to vote for a bribing witness than the bribes return to the voter is the goal. Using downvotes for influence is where I draw the line. I recognize that going down that road would be bad not only for my own reputation but for Hive in general if that were tolerated.

I think I understand where you're coming from, and I hope I have explained where I am coming from on your points. I'm a Hive witness and have been for a while, although I have not asked for votes in a while either.

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you just gained my vote as a witness though i know it doesn't mean anything to you
thank you for the detailed answer and i'm happy to know you

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Thank you, and thank you for the discussion.

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