IMPORTANT: introduction to Plan B for our Project.hope community [DO NOT RESTEEM]

The contents of this post shall be considered as an "Introduction to Plan B".
A plan we would have to follow in case if it would be deemed necessary for Project.Hope to SHUT IT'S DOORS on HIVE and be fully focused on Steemit. A plan we hope will never need to implement.

This plan would absolutely need to be thought through and discussed well. Our team needs to be prepared for a possible upcoming scenario, in which there is no future for our PH community on HIVE blockchain.
I surely would value your feedback.

INTRODUCTION

It has already been over 3 weeks since the aggression came from a few hostile large HIVE stakeholders against our Project.Hope community has started.
Those were 3 very long weeks.

That was a very challenging time for all of us, and I would like to thank all of those who continue to publish their content (our way of fighting) within PH community.

In times of crisis is when we all learn about ourselves. We learn if we can handle our emotions and control our anger. Are we patient or not? Can take hits without feeling the urge to punch back? Do we break under pressure? Or perhaps we are able to stay strong and loyal beside the person standing next to us?

This is the time when we learn what we are made of.

Few words to start up discussion

I've been receiving different ideas from many of you on how to handle the current situation. As much as I appreciate your feedback, it seems that some of the suggested solutions were not deeply thought through. The majority of the time I have the impression that those ideas came up in the "spur of the moment". Often bases on another wave of emotions: anger or fear.

Ideas varied all the way from: going for a full on flag war ... to completely abandoning our beneficiary system and fully complying with those that bully us.

Let me just say it: We will NOT go to war.

At the same time, I honestly do not believe that reducing our beneficiary to lower levels (20-30%) would change the current situation. Attacks most likely would continue as long as we do not manage to be "accepted" by those whales.

After all, we've been attacked in the past because of my mass memos. I’ve stopped that over a year ago. A few months later - they have found a different reason to attack PH. We were accused of being a community that supports plagiarism. Since then, we’ve educated our members and created an "anti-plagiarism department". Downvotes eventually stopped a few months later, but unfortunately until now.

Those few users will always find a new reason to be hostile. And now we got hit much harder than ever before. This time, the reason behind is baseless claims that we sell votes. It hardly seems to matter anymore that many of our members deny it and they often share their amazing experiences since they joined our community.

It hardly seems to matter that GuiltyParties conducted an investigation and has confirmed and recognizes PH as a legitimate community. Though he shared his view on hive anti-abuse discord, it helped only a little bit.

Our strategy so far...

has been quite simple and straightforward. Avoid conflict escalation at all costs. Avoid going into war, which we would clearly only lose. And to make it happen - I've been spending hours every single day contacting our members. Chatting, skyping, zooming. Trying to bring more courage to those who fear and doing my best to calm down the angry ones.

And let me tell you something. It's emotionally wrecking. I'm an introvert and taking so many emotions, such strong emotions is very taxing on me.
Well ... a man’s gotta do what a man's gotta do.

Our strategy aimed to calm things down and to find people who are close to acidyo and other guys (mutual friends) and allow them to mitigate and talk on our behalf. And this is what we did.

I would like to mention and thank @tfame3865, who achieved this huge success. On 25th of April, he managed to talk to Acidyo and even received some positive feedback as well. One that suggested he (together with pfunk) started to change their minds about me.

Since then for one week we did not experience many downvotes. It all slowed down greatly. Until a few days ago, when one of our members (I won't bring up his name) exchanged few unfortunate insults with Acidyo.
From that very moment, things got so much worse.
And I do not expect it to slow down again.

(Important note: my intention here is not to put blame on anyone in particular).

We're back to square one.

We've initially have been receiving 15-20mln HP downvotes daily. It went all the way down to 2,8mln (I'm receiving automated and detailed reports every morning) and now we're back to initial downvotes volume.

I'm not sure if we will be capable of calming things down again. This time around (based on my knowledge) acidyo is taking it very personally and he won't let it go. Themarkymark (together with managed by him buildawhale) also became way more aggressive.

Those few so called "whales" do not seem to care about reasoning any more. It's quite obvious to me by now.

Difficult PH financial situation right now

If those hostile downvotes will continue, then moving away from HIVE and shutting down PH on hive (and moving funds to steemit) will be the only solution.
Currently, we're collecting approximately 4k hive in form of beneficiaries to ph-fund budget.

At the same time to renew all dleases (600k HP) ... I would need almost 9k
So, I expect that this month will bring 4-5k Hive loss. I surely can use our budget reserves, but it's hard to tell how long we can take such losses.....

My personal timeline

It is also crucial to bring up my personal timeline. So we would all be on the same page.

As some of you already know, I'm planning to take an opportunity of the fact that lockdowns in Europe are slowly being lifted. Together with my Malaysian wife and our little "Happy" puppy-dog, are planning to move our entire life from the EU back to South-East Asia this summer (July).

Such a process (in times of pandemic) will require my time and full attention. We also need to prepare ourselves for a 2 week quarantine once we land. On top of that, the amount of immigration paperwork we have to follow is insane.

I simply cannot risk a failure. As my life depends greatly on it.

For that particular reason, I need to ensure that starting from June I will be able to focus on those things. Which means that I cannot afford to wake up every single day worried and stressed not knowing how difficult the day will be.

By June, I would need to decide what to do next. And I surely as hell would not like to be forced to shut down PH on Hive and transfer all resources to our community on Steemit.

FINAL WORD

For next month, we will all continue posting the way we did so far. In the meantime, I will use my time to try calming things down again. However, I do not believe that at the current stage it is possible anymore.

It is absolutely breaking my heart to see our work slowly and steadily being destroyed. To know, that I invested so much time into building something that may end soon.

Such is life sometimes ...

Yours, @crypto.Piotr
@project.hope founder

Please, let me know if you've read this post fully. And if you did, then write to me "coconut" through discord and you will get 1 steem from me - it shall be enough to buy some beer or ice cream.

Let's reward patient readers :)
I will then also share with you a .pdf file explaining in more detail my vision for "Plan B": how I would like to re-organize Project.hope if closing our doors on HIVE is a must.