As you are unrepentant, this pronouncement shall be promulgated in a form like unto your own sinful behavior. Let it be known across the blockchain that the following accounts are excommunicated until absolution is made.

The Condemned

This family of interlinked accounts includes at least the seven following names, and the blessed congregation should be alert for others. Members of the community are advised to either shun these accounts by muting and blacklisting them via their preferred Hive frontend, or downvoting their comments and posts on sight, until they perform suitable absolution. Those who upvote these accounts risk being seen as willing accomplices of their sins.

• @bilpcoin

• @bilpcoinbpc

• @bpcvoter

• @bpcvoter1

• @bpcvoter2

• @bpcvoter3

• @bpcvoter4

The Crimes

The first charge is spam.

Lengthy comments have been copy/pasted or automatically posted on thousands of posts over the years by this user under several of these accounts. These are not for the purpose of engaging with content creators, building conversations, and interacting with users. Instead, they serve to advertise only the ambition of the commenter, and to disrupt the experience of content creators with false signals of interaction and obstruct navigation of the comment feed by other users.

This individual has been repeatedly admonished to reform his behavior and cease his harassment, yet maintains not only a façade of innocent victimhood, he continues to proclaim ignorance as to why his posts and comments continue to be downvoted.

The second charge is bearing false witness.

Upon receiving righteous admonishment for his actions, rather than repent, this user sought to accuse his accusers. All critics were deemed a conspiracy against him, not a network of users working for the betterment of the Blockchain. As a result, numerous posts and comments filled with baseless accusations and false assumptions and vague (yet undefined and unspecified) financial transactions have pointlessly flooded our blockchain.

The evidence of these crimes is laid bare for all to see. The condemned accuses himself when he says, "transactions don’t lie." He does lie by mistake, omission, restructuring, denial, exaggeration, and deliberate falsehood.

The third charge is abuse of Artificial Intelligence.

In addition to spamming comments, these accounts spam A.I.-generated images and "music videos" as a counterfeit of artistic creativity. This is performed both on its own and in association with the above charges.

Using multiple accounts to spread the spam does not lessen the impact of such spam on blockchain resources. Such behavior is a blatant act of vanity, not community engagement.

The Absolution

Excommunication is not meant as eternal condemnation. It is a final, ultimate warning to correct error. Such correction requires repentance and penitence.

To demonstrate repentance, the excommunicated must not merely apologize to those they have wronged, but also take material action to demonstrate reform. To make penitence, the excommunicated must show through their actions a willingness to engage with content creators and build real relationships instead of antagonizing others.

Spam must cease, and the proliferation of spam accounts must be permanently ended. This can be signaled on the blockchain by entirely powering down all numbered "bpcvoter" accounts, and using the remaining account to build a pattern of genuine relevant comments as an organic user willing to humbly help grow our blockchain by forging new links of real friendship.

There is no sin in revealing corruption on the network, but it is absolutely imperative that any accusations be backed by ironclad evidence showing an absolute link between specific transactions, specific accounts, and specific abusive acts against the blockchain. We would like to see your actions align with your stated intentions, but that will require a demonstration of humility on your part. Seek advice and instruction from the individuals and organizations you believe have persecuted you, accept their corrective admonitions, and prove to them also that you intend to help make Hive a better place to blog. Strings of hyperlinks are not evidence of anything. Showing a chain of transactions suggesting a user with multiple accounts is consolidating tokens means nothing in a vacuum. Links to comments where people are arguing against your behavior is not proof abuse has occurred.

Artificial Intelligence is a new technology with myriad possibilities and pitfalls, but plagiarizing a robot and thereby proclaiming yourself an artist remains dishonest. Quantity is not quality, and asking a computer to praise you or mock your adversaries is not courageous, it is merely a sad reflection on your own state of mind. Give credit to the A.I. engines used to make your images. Learn how to format an image macro into an impactful meme instead of just more A.I. slop. Stop embarrassing yourself with robotic diss tracks against your adversaries.

We believe there should always be room for people to reform and rejoin the community, so again, this is not eternal condemnation, this is a final warning to reform and repent. The forgiveness of others cannot be guaranteed, but the Hive Pope is not hard-hearted.