After two and a half months of harassment on Hive.blog, it is now utterly useless for me to upload any further posts.

Every one of my posts get downvoted by a group of downvoters that apparently are sanctioned by the platform's watchdogs (Hive Watchers) and any rewards are instantly zeroed out.

The ring leader is @galenkp and his cronies include: @adamada, abh12345, @bestofph, @antisocial, @azircon and @spaminator (plus others that sporadically join in the downvote-fest or simply want to kiss @galenkp's ass.)

I tried a fresh start, created a new account and submitted a couple posts.

But the Mafia quickly found it and started downvoting that new account too.

Since the new account started at the beginner reputation of 25 and has now been downvoted to 4 (my old rep was 63), my posts have already been deemed as "too low a reputation to be displayed".

There seems to be nothing anyone can do when this group of high Hive Power members begin their downvoting campaigns.

Oh well, the five years on Hive.blog were good, but now I see how toxic the platform really is.

But hey, it is what it is.

Maybe I'll return after this Downvoting Mafia gets disbanded, if ever.

I can clearly see the Sword of Damocles hanging over Hive.blog.

If they don't do something about this situation soon, Hive.blog will inevitably follow in Uptrennd's footsteps and die from self-inflicted wounds.

So, since I'm being bullied out of Hive.blog by that despicable downvoting group, I decided to try blogging on whaleshares.io.

Unfortunately, I'm having a difficult time registering for whaleshares.io. via their arcane Whale Vault Chrome extension + Twitter account process.

The Whale Vault step gets done easily, but when I login to my Twitter account, I don't get the automatic text to tweet for verification.

Additionally, when I attempt to login to whaleshares.io with my Twitter account name and private social key, I always get "unrecognized account".

I was forced to try the alternative method of requesting a whaleshare account via a non-Twitter ID, email address and a couple social media accounts for review.

That process will take at least 24-48 hours.

Keeping my fingers crossed...

Submitted FYI.

May you and yours be well and loving life today.

In Lak'ech, JaiChai

(JaiChai 22 Aug 2022. Simultaneous multi-site submissions posted. All rights reserved.)