This place tends to be High School 2.0 at times. Hope they come to a resolution with you even it it involves some folks taking a dose of humbling.

Been around long enough to see the fun and games but sometimes it's just games. Good luck

Our user adoption is fine. Thank you for your concern.

Look... I just wasted 10 mins of my life listening to your rant on twitter. You approach this the wrong way, and you give the troll what he wants. Attention and drama.

Steem/Hive was taken to market with the 'Earn rewards for your content' slogan. EVERYONE in here is acting purely for the rewards, and we all know that everyone thinks the same. This created a very toxic atmosphere. The problem is sadly not limited to bernie, as most other whales will act the same (maybe in less obvious ways).

People are scared of those whales downvoting them, so they will never go against them. If bernie starts calling you a XXX, you instantly become a XXX in everyone's brain because that's how the 'hive-mind effect' works. Nobody will say the opposite, nobody will defend you, in fact even some people will start repeating the bad words used by the whale, in the hopes of a fat upvote, re-inforcing the fact that you are indeed a XXX.

You have a medium-sized followership, you look good, you speak good english. What the fuck are you still doing on Hive? Hive needs you more than you need them, don't worry about the fact that bernie is wasting daddy's money to have fun on this shit network. If it wasn't him, I promise you it'd be another whale finding another reason to downvote you.

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I'm confused. Is this the first time you've met Bernie?

you are not the mass, you are the void

user adoption my fucking ass, what top user have you onboarded? none.
you dont know who you are dealing with, we will eat you alive, cut it off, now

Issue? It looks like you didn't hear yet about curation curves and penalties for low post payouts. Inner Circles are the real issue

I have been thinking about your situation as many others have experienced it too. Creating your own community with your fans I think is the answer, and you must be the owner of it. When you create a Hive Community, you can decide who can post to it. Also, if you mute someone in your community, their comments are by default collapsed. I just tested this out, and the posts from muted accounts don't show up in the Community. As far as downvotes, I am not sure how this works, but since you already have an existing fan base, I highly recommend that you create your own Hive community, with you as the owner. In this way you will have more control over who you want to join it. Communities exist to solve these sorts of problems, and as we know, not everyone is going to get along, anywhere. I think you're valuable, and I'd like to see you try out this option. I believe your fans would appreciate you having your own Hive Community (if you don't already)....I didn't check into this...but I think you could definitely have more control over your experience this way. 
That was one of the core reasons that Hive Communities were created, because it's better to have like-minded people who voluntarily decide who they want to interact with. 
Here's how the comments from muted accounts appear:
![muted.jpeg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/stellabelle/5CIVkpl6-muted.jpeg)

And the posts from muted accounts never appear in a Community.