I don't really see why posts like these should get this much stake rewarded when there is no proof of you in any way shape or form attempting to bring traffic to Hive. No backlinks on your website that I could see and your twitter just spams the website.
Just being able to read the same post here rather than your website doesn't really mean you are producing value for the ecosystem here. I'd gladly welcome anyone proving me wrong that you do attempt to drive traffic to Hive or get your followers to engage with you here considering you could curate and filter the comment section yourself by rewarding them with upvotes. Sadly barely anyone on Hive even seems that interested to engage neither even though your posts often trend.
Why would putting up content here that people like to read not be promotional to Hive? I haven't been on Hive that long but in the time that I have been here I am glad to follow users here that can put up something worth reading. That is why the author is frequently gaining upvotes and rewards.
This in itself is promoting Hive because if people are spending time reading these posts as apposed to some other social media platform then that is drawing traffic to Hive. Promotion doesn't have to be an advertisement which are for the most part ignored anyway.
It's not completely worthless but in my opinion not deserving of this much rewards, if they even attempted at driving traffic and onboarding their followers to hive so they would engage with their posts more and learn the benefits of hive curation on posts and comments, feeless donation txs, etc I may even join in and reward such activity.
Other than that if they fail to even garner much attention from users here then they should be fine with a little lower rewards until they do better, same goes for most "influencrs" or what you want to call them who have a following outside ans only thing they do is crosspost or leave a comment here and there.
You would think that driving more traffic to Hive would be beneficial to the author's own self interest which would lead to more rewards so there is some point to what you are saying and I think the author will likely take note of this.
Try not to go negative though. Compared to a lot of other content you could find many other posts to take issue with before this.
I do look at other posts too so it's not like I have a personal issue with this one or it being about the content.
Well they're not new here looking at their reputation and stake, if they don't want to assist the ecosystem to grow for everyone's and their on stake then maybe they shouldn't be getting that much of it.
How is this hounding? a 7$ downvote on something that was at 80 and still trending. I downvote other posts I find overrewarded too, doesn't help that this one gets consistently the same whale support, if you are that bothered by it and feel this deserves that much more rewards feel free to counter it with more stake or feeless tips.
A lot of other average users attempt to promote Hive, there's literally a L2 token incentivizing them as well cause as you say most content here is worth nothing if it doesn't get views from either inside or outside.
There are literal newbies with no stake getting more engagement on their posts than this account. Maybe cause 99% of other social media isn't about this topic and Hive is moving towards that after the initial anarchist/consdpiracy flood by dollarvigilante, and he is at least bringing in new users now through his new platform that uses Hive.
You should stop looking at trending and subscribe to communities or check your following feed, much better ux, something reddit taught me early and most people are aware of by now before they judge a platform based on whatever is trending.
Do you know anyone who browses youtube based on what's trending? Go take a look.
Yeah sorry I'll save my upvotes and avoid downvoting people actually trying to grow the place that's rewarding them heavily with exponential potential. It's crazy I know but I think we've been giving out enough easy participant rewards for the last 6 years. I don't think it's a lot to ask them to promote Hive now and then after so much time has passed that they've been here and seen that it works.
Cause they don't invite their followers over? Or would it be the worst if their readers would be curated and rewarded by them?
Clearly close to no one here seems to care enough about it so inviting people over, something that would actually bring some value not to just Hive but any social media would probably make up for the rewards and trending time they keep getting constantly.
I've done enough asking, you have a weird sense of how you view pending rewards on Hive.
Next time lead with this comment so I don't waste my time trying to discuss my downvote with you.
There's a lot of effort that goes behind finding such users, looking out for abuse and making sure stake is distributed fair and wide for a better Hive. Same can't be said for copypasting a post and getting shit ton of autovotes from people who probably don't even consume it if they can't be bothered leaving a comment now and then.
Sorry I care about where the inflation goes that I take time out of my day to bother replying to random socks after trying to adjust the rewards on something I find overrewarded, feel free to do the same on the curation reports if you think they should get less rewards.
I don't really understand what it is that's being milked there, we have over 60 different curators involved in all communities in our incubation along with other various curators, the amount each curator gets per nominated, abuse checked post among various other actitities is really not a lot, I'd guess less than 2 hbd for the high effort ones and closer to 1 for the regular curation.
We adjust the rewards they get constantly so not only do we not spend a lot of voting power on them compared to what we curate but also differ between the activity and effort behind each initiative along with price changes, if the price of hive goes up a lot we lower the votes to keep them realistic.
Bundling them all together is hard when there is a max 8 recipient limit on beneficiaries that go to curators.