Mate I know what you mean and it's definitely up there in advantages hive offers to both consumers and creators. I've seen you discuss this at length often, it's all valid. It's just that for this particular scenario in the parent comment the question was for people to try out hive that it doesn't matter what amount of stake they have, they can try it with whatever amount and that 13 week powerdown should remain because of that which I argued there is some difference in how much stake you power up and the reaction you'll get based of it in terms of attention. I.e. it doesn't change how much you earn percentage-wise, but if you have someone like another Dan powering up compared to someone just testing it with $200 you're definitely not going to get the same amount of attention with your voting on other people already here.
I do agree that having 1000 people with 1000 hp each is more effective than 1 whale with 1mil HP, the whale isn't going to contribute 100 reblogs, 200 comments, 200 replies, etc in the same post and many other factors.
Well sure. So I'll just add there's a strong chance a consumer in this scenario would be supporting someone for several years so I don't think the powerdown length would matter much, to that crowd.
And improv is 100% correct thinking the powerup in smaller increments could be wise, especially for the scenario I brought up, where the consumer would most likely add to their level of support gradually anyway.
Real world example: They'll drop 20 dollar tips on streams often for example, but not every day. Their first tip was probably just a dollar to test it.
As for large powerups. Personally, that doesn't excite me. It's great if someone wants to do that but maybe a little odd when people gather around to be extra welcoming. But that's just me. So yeah I probably missed your point and read something else. If it was me I wouldn't want to be celebrated.
On the other side of that, I was always really happy to see a new member show up under my posts. Gave a few the full upvote treatment as a welcoming gift.
Shit. I'm rambling.
On topic: I'm fine with the powerdown period going unchanged. It's not broken. And if the goal is to change things so we're like other investment opportunities, those little tweaks never bring people in, because they still have other investment opportunities and don't need to switch.
We create legit products meant for consumers and I strongly believe that's our target audience/market for the most part. That's where Hive can be a trendsetter. That money flowing in would be attractive to investors. Always said, "Easiest way to stay behind is to follow trends." Cub missed the boat. 20% HBD did nothing. NFT platforms didn't take off. And so on. Following that pattern I don't see tweaking the powerdown period as the key feature of Hive that'll attract the world's money. Just my opinion. Whatever happens, happens.