Hi @Azircon,

As we are all Hive owners it should be undeniable that *every* Hive owner have the best interests of all new accounts in mind. 

We all have a stake in the outcomes found here on Hive and that directly translates into the outcomes outside of the Hive Blockchain too. Our success collectively depends on this.

So seeing something that just doesn’t feel right (to me anyways.) isn’t about medaling... it’s about acknowledging the facts... we can not move Hive forward with a passive, complacent, or apathetic mindset. 

We all need to take active roles. It’s all hands on deck if we are to survive the obscurity and make Hive into what it could be. That, in my opinion, is what it means to be an owner of Hive (and I’m sure that you know this well).

Speaking of which...

I have been a Hive owner for nearly 4 years and invested a great deal of my time and personal capital into this blockchain and it’s communities. 

As an owner I consider Hive my home and therefore it is my (and everyone’s) job to do our utmost to keep Hive a healthy, wholesome, and thriving social environment. A blockchain destination where we can all invite our friends, families, and famous.

This is something, I am certain, we all would like to be able to do... but it begins with an acknowledgment of the facts. 

How we treat people be they new, old, experienced, inexperienced, etc. (and yeah... even when they are in  the wrong or behave badly) does matter. How we treat our own does matter. 

The whole world is watching... and they are deciding if they want to be a part of this blockchain or not... 

Because the Hive Blockchain is a store of social capital our actions (be they positive or negative) do translate directly into the financial capital being asked for on the open markets.

Everything is connected... in fact, I would say that this is one of the significant things that we are innovating here on the Hive Blockchain.

We can communicate value to people with the click of a button or (as in this example) we can take it away. 

Often there is no definite right or wrong in doing so... only relative outcomes... However, that is not always the case as it is also possible to implicitly (or explicitly) communicating far more.

So it is on this point that I would like to understand why you have decided to zero out peoples (not just this authors) posts? 

Why have you taken it upon yourself to absolutely zero out a personal post where someone is giving an update on their life for their life an audience?

Would it not be better to adjust someone’s behaviour socially via the use of less turbulent social means (a simple explanation within the comments even) if the need seemed apparent? 

These softer methods produce less social friction for us all and help to mitigate a whole lot unnecessary and adverse outcomes for Hive’s overall well-being. 

But also, these less aggressive methods could be more conducive to creating an environment where everyone who puts effort in can build up their own audience of appreciators, build up this place making it a repository of people winning, thriving, and having fun together! THIS would make Hive an even easier blockchain destination to promote to those outside our direct influence... and we desperately need this signal in the market to move the price where we all want it to be!

We all coexist together here on Hive. It is a network that works because people want to create content and value it amongst their peers... with every person that comes and then leaves that’s one less person to actually turn the gears that make the blockchain work. And many hands (typing) make for light and easy work... for us all!

There are 2 other things that should be noted as well...

Certain actions tend to vibrate or cascaded through the system more than others. Zero outs are one of these sorts of social actions (made possible on this blockchain) and this is the sort of thing that spreads on and off the blockchain in quite predicable ways... all of which aren’t good for the blockchain as a whole.

>Do we need to DV sometimes? Certainly! There are times where this is more than appropriate. I do at times but of course that’s never my default response. I want to make that clear so as to not be misunderstood.

The other thing to note... 

For every new and inexperienced person that we have managed to bring to this blockchain... we have had to battle it out in the trenches on Twitter, YouTube, Fitbit, etc. (These are the current Social2.0’s that I promote Hive on and I’m quite regularly doing that because I really do believe in Hive.) we have had to have conversations with upwards of 100 people. 

That’s a conversion rate of about 1 in 100 and just to get a new person through the door. No small task to be sure... 

We have people giving their time day and night to promote and build this place up... and their doing it consistently and *for free!* 

That’s another reason why how we onboard, cultivate, and work with new people matters so so much!

If we spoil our opportunity to do that and set up a “Zero Out Culture” on Hive... that is what we are going to be known for within the wider crypto community. This directly effects our brand.

I don’t know about you... but I really think we have a chance to do things differently here with and on Hive. 

We are innovating new and better ways to human here on Hive everyday! 

That definitely means we all need to take some time to rethink how we are going about things on the blockchain... don’t you?

This could be a once in a lifetime opportunity... *to be* **better** *than all the social media platforms that have come before us.*

It’s really up to us... individually and collectively.

Sincerely,

@wil.metcalfe