I'm going to reply just this once and then drop off the thread.
No one is "taking away" anything. The rewards are not calculated until the payout after 7 days. Everything before that is a voting process with an estimated payout. If one stakeholder upvotes a lot and then another stakeholder downvotes a lot, it is disingenuous to suggest that the upvote is legitimate and the downvote is not. It's all a voting process that arrives at consensus for the payout (if any) after 7 days. In this case, a payout that is still enormous relative to the platform.
That's my view and if you disagree, that's fine. Vote accordingly.
I appreciate your response and that you even voiced your opinion no matter how stale and unhuman of response that was. My vote and 99%+ of the blockchain 's doesnt matter if we have consolidated wealth that can drive content content creators away and stalling out any progress that we should be seeing with a alternative social media site application in Hive like LBRY is seeing. Arguably Hive should be seeing those people coming here not to lbry. How can development happen if year after year content creators with large audiences choose to go else where?
Thanks again for your time and I understand I have used up my allotted time with ya.
Honestly, I don't think there's any 'large audience' brought here by this channel. The audience is on YouTube, "Fedbook"(which they ironically refuse to leave), Twitter and Instagram. Basically the centralised platforms. Also, if you want any kind of engagement from the owner of this channel, you have to visit one of those centralised platforms to do so. I can't see any engagement at all.. it's a kind of post, promote your other channels and run. .. and of course log in once a week/month to cash out.
I'm willing to bet Hive pays the best of all their channels, maybe except YouTube, but if you visit any of their other channels, EVERYTHING else is promoted except for Hive.
Not sure they actually add anything at all to this platform.
You really came to make a baseless and factless remark?
Factless?
what part of what I said was factless or baseless?
point me to one video where Hive was mentioned, or one link on one of their other socials that point to Hive.
My point is that the don't drive any traffic here, so what you said about them bringing their 'audience' here isn't true.
You did nothing but act like a 10 year old kid stumbling into the middle of a story asking obvious questions that if he was paying attention would know the answers to.
Luke actually has been here for quite a long time. He has friends and organizations he is apart that is on hive. Maybe downvotes, ignorant comments and a lack of engagement has lead content creators like Luke to create their own website and use Hive as much as a tool as facebook to direct traffic to his own site.
You sound like a fan boy. Those people that go around throwing insults on behalf of their hero. Maybe one day he'll notice you.
Ultimately a plutocratic system where people with more stake than you that can determine how much money you make as a independent content creator based off political ideologies will stink too bad to attract hard working, high quality content creators who have invested 10s of thousands just to produce content for an audience of over 500k subscribers and 10k active viewers.
Stop whining. If you don't like it here, leave.
You are the one making aimless comments in a tacky way on a post about a member of the Hive community and an organization like We Are Change, who died a Hero.
Of all posts you make these comments here? Your comments are tone deaf to the post especially with your ad hominems and general lack of understanding to the post, author and the point of my conversation with smooth.