Hostility From XRP Supporters Forces Platform to Remove Top Ripple Accounts Section

Hive.one, formerly known as CryptoInfluencers, a platform that lists influential figures in major cryptocurrency communities, was forced to eliminate its section on Ripple.

According to the Hive.one team, for an undisclosed reason, the platform was under heavy scrutiny whilst receiving feedback from the Ripple community.

Initially, Hive.one analyzes the engagement and reach of public figures and then moves onto the reach of accounts that engage with the accounts of public figures.

With the Twitter-focused algorithm utilized by Hive.one in mind, the researchers found that Joel Katz, the Chief Technical Officer of Ripple, is the most influential figure in the Ripple community.

Interestingly, while the majority of the community expected Tiffany Hayden to be the most influential figure that is not an employee of Ripple, the researchers found Hodor7777 to be the most influential non-employee of Ripple.

The report also revealed that Joel Katz has more influence over the Ripple community than Ethereum co-creator Vitalik Buterin has over Ethereum.

Joel Katz and Brad Garlinghouse being two of the most influential figures in the Ripple community was well expected.

The outrage towards Hive.one and its evaluation of the community probability originated from the listing of former Ripple CTO Stefan Thomas as the second most influential account in the community, considering his lack of involvement in Ripple in recent months.

The Ripple community has shown such a high level of hostility towards the platform that its team was forced to eliminate its section on Ripple.

While collective and constructive criticism can be beneficial in most cases, intense hostility towards a platform that merely provides information on one social media platform that is Twitter cannot be justified.