Hive Central Management are getting together today after the recent spate of scamming activity that has been going on the Hive Blockchain. It seems that whenever there is free money or crypto to be had then the scammers flock to the free money like flies to ( you know the rest). Who would have thunk it that the likes of these competitions where you need no KYC, no entry fee to enter to win vasts amounts of money. And when little Sangrid in the slums of Calcutta finds out he could live like a king for a year if he wins one of Hive's competitions , he will kill his own granny to make sure he pulls out all the stops even if it might ruffle some feathers.
Hive Central control have admitted enough is enough after some Vibes Community judge had been compromised when an eager competitor crossed the judges palm with silver (in this case HBD) to sway the judges vote. Those musicians that entered the contest whole heartedly were a little confused when the contestant in first place didn't have a note in her head. Some musician remarked "She put the crows out of business in her locality."
One whale who had some egg on their face decided enough was enough. They had been giving €50 upvotes to these lackies, hussies and fleusies and now there was egg on their face after it was revealed that there was a scam going on.
"I've had it said @lockshades. I can't believe some people."
"Gather the troops. We meet tonight at sunset to take action."
"Where sir?"
" On Discord of course. Summon the token Discord host with the radio voice. A Hive version of @pensif and let's nail it down!!!"
"Right away sir."
Some hours later
I gathered you all tonight so we can come up with a plan to keep the bums out of Hive. But there will always be a few bums. Granted but we should know who they are. They are our own bums. The annoying bums who leave a big long message about their downvoted posts. At least our bums don't come in , drain the pool and disappear. We are talking about @bpcvoter and @kgakakillerg. We know they are annoying but they would never bribe a judge in a music contest. These are the worst of the worst. We need to get them to face justice somehow. Any suggestions?
I have one.
Go ahead @theshittyboy.
"Why don't we get the scammers to read some of the old timers that posts 3 times a day for 1 month to get themselves off the blacklist we put them on?"
"We are not animals @theshittyboy. That is hard labour in the Gulag's. Nobody has read one of their posts in years. Who knows what would happen to them. These scammers didn't murder anyone. Cool your jets."
Anybody else?
"I have an idea."
Go ahead @goodbastard
"Let's propose we hire Dog the Bounty hunter to hunt these guys down and get our money back."
Not bad @goodbastard not bad. But I think Dog is 72 and couldn't bate a cat. We really need this scammers to face the full force of the law.
I have an idea.
Go ahead @partyanimal
"I saw in the Simpson's once where the police ran a free yacht giveaway where they gave out coupons to criminals with a warrant to come and collect their free yachts. The unsuspecting criminals went to collect their great prize and when they turned up they all got arrested."
Wow what a great idea @partyanimal.
"I could vote for that one."
"But we are a global blockchain."
Where are we gonna do this spite scam?
"That's a bit of a stupid question".
Fair point!
"Ok so we run the Hive post. Do the free yacht giveaway. Set up a date and time at a marina in Puerto Cabello. Slowly slowly catchy monkey. We have the police waiting for these guys in the yacht we buy!"
Wow yeah great idea. Correct me if I am wrong but did you just say , buy a yacht?
Well yes, it is a free yacht giveaway then it would look fairly stupid if there was no yacht birthed in the marina with the Hive logo."
Hmmmm I would have thought we could get away with it without having to purchase and maintain a yacht?
It will be good for the brand. We own a yacht and all that jazz. Bring it to conferences. A big fuck off boat, WE ARE MASSIVE.
The Hive price is just over 12 cent. We can't splash out on a yacht. We would need to dump one of the other marketing initiatives in order to make the purchase.
That's a stupid question
"So let me get this straight. We are going to buy a 2 million dollar yacht to catch a few scammers who cost the blockchain around 500 quid?"
That would be correct.
Well that's decided then.
Ammmm one second, the Hive Community are gonna go apeshit if we tell them that we are buying a yacht now.
Ah they will fine when they see who it has replaced.
And what will we tell the rally driver?
Surely navigating a yacht is easier than negotiating the treacherous Monaco WRC."
Buy him a nice uniform.
"Wow every angle covered"
One last thing? Who is gonna tell the scam story to the police? to set up the sting that the a blockchain set up a free talent contest which was taken advantage of? Aren't the police the most corrupt in these countries? They were probably in the contest.
Let's give them a few pound under the table, keep them sweet.
well blow me down me mateys, we are now in the yacht business and any of them buccaneers who want to scam us again will have to walk the plank.