No one who did not abuse left because of Hivewatchers. If any user left because of the plagiarism or other that they committed on Hive, it was their choice. No one forced them to leave. It was also their choice to abuse Hive.
In the end, they do abuse because they know that they will face no social consequences for their actions.
I’m not sure if that’s the most productive POV. Onboarding is no easy task. There is a large learning curve entering into Hive, for your average casual user, it takes a long time to fully wrap your head around the ins and outs. Putting
It is certainly not our responsibility to teach. Our role is to investigate abuse and minimise it.
It's not really that difficult for the onboarder to create a post which explains what type of activity is not welcome on Hive, even directing the user to the posts that we published in this matter. It would literally take a minute to send an onboarded user a link and ask to read it.
Many onboarders seem to have an attitude, that they will just invite someone and don't have to care. If any problems arrive, let Hivewatchers sort it out.
When you invite strangers to a friend's house, do you take responsibility for that guest or do you just let them get in and figure out for themselves how they should behave?
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