Whatever personal issues are going on, I completely disagree with personal vendettas turning into a voting war where the community becomes collateral damage.
Here is my logic:
- Hive supporters want the chain to succeed
- More successful apps coming to Hive increases the chances of success
- Successful apps bring their users with them
- More users mean more successful chain for everyone
Using your witness and/or app accounts to engage in a voting war against individuals is not something I approve of at all. Have two separate accounts if you have to, one for business and one for personal. Then have a voting war between the personal accounts.
But when it comes to the witness account and the app account, the purpose of those accounts is to serve the community and that is the extent to which those accounts should be used.
Instead, it appears as though the accounts are being used to serve individual egos and thus abused.
I completely agree. After so much drama and a world pandemic, these vendettas seem so petty and pointless.Thank you for voicing this comment @marketingmonk
No DTube should not be added to a spammer blacklist unless there is a body of evidence that the account is spamming the Hive chain. I personally have not seen evidence of this from my personal limited point of view, but am open to changing my position when presented with data I wasn't previously aware of.
Regarding your point 2.
The purpose of an up or down vote is to help the chain to identify high quality content. Votes should not be used for the purposes of 'punishing' people for off-chain behavior such as spreading FUD. There are more appropriate ways of dealing with that (such as the legal route you are taking) which don't involve the Hive community becoming collateral damage.