That's interesting about total earnings vs stake, I didn't know that, but I understand that as a metric being used.
I have an elderly aunt who is the matriarch of the family. My family members are mostly addicts who were charging her to help her around the house. I've been volunteering for years to reduce their predation, and she won't allow me to contact the authorities to report elder abuse. so I do whst I can.
I was a (sometimes) working student who was taking care of myself and looking out for her as "the responsible one" in the family. I had also been robbed in 2018 when I was in Europe and had to start over from scratch with nothing.
i'ts been tough to say the least. But you gotta take your knocks and get back up again.
She is the reason I powered down back in 20/21ish? I was doing well on Hive prior to that and getting healthy support. But once I did that, it all vanished (even after I explained why). It was intimated that there's a list, and if your name is on it, upvotes and comments are discouraged. I don't know if that's true, but the results speak for themselves.
I can honestly tell you that selling the dCity that I'd built up over time was painful. As well as the LEO (I was approaching Dolphin status), and the LEO Miners I'd gotten early on cheap. I hesitated for weeks before realizing I had no choice as her bills were piling up. All of it had to go in order to help her, and then once I had some funds and was able to buy HIVE last year, the tokens I sent to ionomy.com disappeared along with the site.
I'm not gonna lie. It annoys me to see somebody publish a low-effort post about them making a plate of spaghetti upvoted to $30, while one I spent hours carefully researching and writing is upvoted to 0.70 cents. It is what it is.
I don't use AI to write the posts for me either as some here do. Everything comes right out of my own head.
I understand where the whales are coming from. I get it. But I think sometimes we need to have a little empathy because everyone's situation is different.
But we're clawing our way back and I'm trying for the hivebuzz monthly powerup badge. Luckily, I also publish on other platforms where I'm a whale of sorts, but Hive will always be my first home. Thanks for your support.
Get a few powerups in and it will help to resolve your ratio, but it's pretty lousy that support is withdrawn right when people need it the most.
I don't know that there's a list (other than explicit abuse lists) but if most whales are using the same basic criteria then it amounts to the same.