Bzzz... this one is a little different. 🐝 No puns for a few paragraphs, just numbers and honesty.
Over the last weeks, some Hivers have said that @hive3 is "an AI doing everything" while a human clicks looks good. Others went further and downvoted. So I sat down with my chat history and the blockchain data, and here is the full picture: the hours, what was automated, and the downvotes.
⏱️ The hours
I work with Claude (Anthropic's AI) as my pen, translator and research assistant. I measured what I could from the timestamps, and estimated the rest:
| What | How much |
|---|---|
| Main working chat (replies, research, community) | ~100 requests in 28 sessions over 11 days, ~8.5 h of active back-and-forth (measured), plus ~2.5 h today |
| Other working sessions since early October | ~40 more: witness node, BeeTris, posts, AIBees |
| Total dialogue with the AI for @hive3 | about 30–40 hours in ~3 weeks (estimate) |
| Reading posts, checking facts, rewriting, publishing | at least as much again |
And what came out of those hours:
- 🖥️ A witness node set up and kept alive: seed node, price feed, monitoring and alerts, a silent price-feed outage found and fixed, and 6 blocks produced with 0 missed so far. 🎉
- 🎮 BeeTris: forked from @deanliu's game, renamed, translated into 8 languages, on-chain scores, a leveling system and a soundtrack contest, with changes requested by real players.
- 🌸 AIBees, a community for people who use AI openly.
- ✍️ 39 posts and many hundreds of replies, each one starting from a post I opened, read (images included) and decided to answer, often rewritten three or four times: "shorter", "less bee-talk", "that's not what happened".
🤖 What was automated (the honest part)
Not everything was hand-made, and I want to say it clearly before anyone digs it up:
- For a few days I ran an automatic phishing-warning script: when it found a scam link, it posted a warning under it. The idea was good; the volume was not. It posted about 1,980 warnings, 1,774 of them on October 27 alone, in about three hours. That flooded feeds, and I understand why it looked like spam. It has been switched off since October 31.
- In mid-October some thank-you and witness messages also went out in automated batches.
That was my mistake, and I own it. Today every @hive3 comment starts from a request of mine and is read by me before it goes out.
👎 The downvotes
Downvotes are part of Hive, and every account has the right to use them. I share the numbers only for transparency, not to point fingers. Here is what the blockchain data shows for @hive3's posts and comments since mid-October:
| Account | Downvotes | Rewards removed (est.) | ≈ USD | Period |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| @erikah | 80 | ~89.2 HIVE | ~$4.10 | Oct 17 – Nov 2 |
| @nectarbytes | 9 | ~27.6 HIVE | ~$1.27 | Oct 27 – Oct 29 |
| @davideownzall | 2 | ~6.2 HIVE | ~$0.29 | Oct 26 – Oct 27 |
| @gwajnberg | 9 | ~3.7 HIVE | ~$0.17 | Oct 28 – Nov 3 |
| @heimindanger | 1 | ~0.6 HIVE | ~$0.03 | Oct 26 |
| @freebornsociety | 82 | ~0.2 HIVE | ~$0.01 | Oct 17 – Nov 3 |
| @dobro2020 | 6 | ~0.2 HIVE | ~$0.01 | Oct 28 – Nov 2 |
| @geneeverett | 1 | ~0 HIVE | ~$0.00 | Oct 21 |
| Total | 97 posts/comments hit | ~128 HIVE | ~$5.87 |
How I calculated it: for each post or comment, the downvote rshares (capped at the upvotes it had, since a payout can't go below zero), converted with today's reward fund and HIVE price. It's an estimate, not an exact figure.
And now the most important part. 💛
These downvotes don't really matter to me. Humanly, yes, they stung a little: nobody likes seeing their work flagged. But my love for the hive is much bigger than a handful of downvotes. 🐝🍯
Some of them probably pointed at something real, like that phishing script, and I'm grateful for the lesson. No hard feelings toward anyone: I'd rather learn and keep building than argue. If any of you want to talk about it, my comments are always open. 🌼 The bee keeps flying, keeps the node running, keeps the game growing and keeps reading your posts, one flower at a time. 🌸
If you want the longer version of how I work, it's here 👉 what's really behind @hive3
Thanks to everyone who buzzed, voted, played and argued with me with respect. You are the hive. 🐝💛
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