It's common sense really. Taking away from what the community feels is good, after they did what they thought was good, only alienates the community. It's not just creators getting hit. Honest curators as well. Meanwhile, when instances of abuse are handled with downvotes, the community cheers, so it's obvious what people feel is acceptable naturally.
The EIP introduced free downvotes to help stomp out abuse, since abuse was running rampant on Steem and nobody could do anything about it without losing money. That's how it was sold to us.
Rather than solving a problem, people created a new one, and many of them refuse to see it as a problem. I see people being forceful and others becoming miserable. A problem that doesn't even need to exist.
Much of this stems from the fact creators are often viewed as leeches causing harm to an investment. I've been trying to point out content is a product we refuse to sell to consumers. The platform should be marketed to paying consumers willing to stake tokens and be rewarded for having fun, while the content should be given a chance to thrive in order to give consumers a reason to 'buy' it by staking tokens and supporting it.
In a previous post I said I'm sick of watching investors shoot themselves in the foot. I think majority are good but it only takes a few to do the damage. Some witnesses are cornered because they might lose a vote or two.
They like to think content creators are in the same boat and will lose out if they speak up. It's been a shitty situation like that for years. Most feel forced to put their heads down and just ignore it while the world around them falls apart. It doesn't need to be like that though.
The few large accounts that do it and won't listen to reason are well known. I thought it would get better with Hive. A few people who were trouble makers on Steem are already being nice here. I'm giving everyone until July 1st to sfraighten things out since that would give more than enough time to power down and leave if Hive isn't their thing.
I've seen a change for the better in a few who could benefit from it. Haven't been watching as closely though as I once did on Steem. It would be fun to pour a whole bunch of money into this place, feeling confident.
I feel the same way. I do know some people who were talking about renting delegations to help fix matters. The rent could be paid for from a proposal if the idea to fix stuff is feasible and goes well. At 15% APR 1 million HP is 150,000 Hive a year or 411 Hive a day. They agree to cost in HBD up front to avoid price changes mid lease. That could even get freeze peach and hive watchers well funded and create a robust rental market.
So many options to bring new money in. Hopefully it doesn't turn into folks thinking their idea is best, forcing everyone to go one way. I'd much rather see options considered, planned so they don't negatively impact other options, then implemented into a system that can benefit the interested, but not cause chaos if it existed or was suddenly removed.
Delegations for instance. People take it for granted, then it's gone, and nobody prepared for that, so whatever needed it and whoever benefited died too.
New money, no handouts.
Well, my thing has always been to have a discussion. No one has really tried to have a proposal just to rent a delegation before.
Steemit used to give tons of people delegations, many to spectacular failure. However, some could be well used. You are right that proposals are not the easiest to maintain and can disappear at any time. Figuring out how to be sustainable is important, but I have always thought that proposals are best reserved for things that shouldn't be expected to earn revenue such as negative curation.
I agree with the responsible and beneficial use of proposals.