I felt like it was an unnecessary power struggle and I hear what you are saying about them running people off the platform. It's sort of a catch 22 because the whole thing was to be a crypto social media platform but then they get mad if they don't like the amount of posts someone is putting up and I always say they clinch up with the money. The Proposal system could really be a huge Win but they actually don't fully utilize the system. For a long time it has been this select grouping of witnesses that would rather just sit there and get a good drip and not build HIVE but just stay in position and get the funds dumped on them.

I try to not get in the drama with it but I was even on X and a Hive Keychain account posted that they would repost people's stuff who are on HIVE. Well I liked the post and said I was on HIVE and then they basically proceeded to get in an argument with me because I had a Steemit.com link in my profile. I basically said I was on everything and Steemit has actually paid out more in the past 6 months than HIVE and it is the original chain. But again it was a needless argument.

YOu are right about Justin Sun and I had said it back while it was happening. Justin had more money and they tried to make a big problem before anything had actually changed and once they tried to fork and essentially nullify his stake on the new chain it was a war and then the HIVE crew was trying to cry foul and act like they were the victims or something. It was ridiculous. We would have been better off being on the same chain instead of fracturing up the community.
That being said I have never left and have never been full blown downvoted to 0 continually like we have seen with some people so i keep the flow.

If it wasn't for the way they act I'm certain HIVE would be on the first page of CoinGecko and all that..