RE: but i love my bot, April 18th

It's simple, really. It's about sending a message. If I promote HIVE, the average person is 1) wary because of my 'selfless' promotion and 2) they may not give credit to things in which they're invited. Without any data, I can claim confidently people hardly pay attention to things they are welcome to: politics, traffic signals, and clearance sales. Conversely, if I dissuade participation especially on the basis that most are too lazy, not smart enough, otherwise busy, perhaps a small number are offended by the generalization, but I hold somethin else will happen. Given that I discourage new users on these points, the average person might 1) participate out of spite for my claims and 2) investigate based on the curiosity aroused and negativity bias, the effect of paying more attention to 'bad' news more than 'good'.

Briefly, it's reverse psychology. I'm not exactly being silent on HIVE, I'm being 'inversely vocal'. You could even call it deception at a certain level, but that has negative connotations. More accurately, I'm using wit, to be clever or tricky, in another word.