I very much agree with your statement here, that for a long time... a few of the old guard control the reins and dictate what brings value to the community. While I understand sometimes you don't want to shake the status quo, and sometimes you want to make sure people are taking advantage of things... If our communities wishes grow further we have to be ready to accept all types of people and that means all types of content. can't be peoples moms forever, gotta let the child go play.
Full disclosure : I do work with D.Buzz as their content author. The views expressed here in this comment are not that of the companies but mine on a personal level.
When we started out and released version 1.0 of D.Buzz, it was met with fanfare but then a lot of really big negative down votes and blacklisting right away, people didn't want to take time to fully understand, we moved rapidly and change things however when people lock their minds in on a positive or negative they stayed and people feared the reprise of higher power (not voting their content anymore, or kissing up to larger stake holders in hopes of a large upvote)... it took diligent work on the part of @chrisrice to talk and sort out what's going on truly. (* that guy worked so hard it's crazey, and has a heart of gold I tell you ... PURE GOLD)
With version 2.0 we have gotten better and with new version 3.0 again one step better, I do know that they are planning a lot of really big things, innovative things (A lot of big things there already moving behind-the-scenes) to try to address these issues outlined, and more... Makes me PUMPED to be part of D.Buzz. However it is not my place to release that information at this point until it is approved.
There will always be those who milk the reward pool, who post one line comments or articles, however there will be a lot more who post great content, who posed thoughtful short form as well as longform content. We cannot limit the enjoyment of the many for fear of what the few might do.
All is being said @ahmadmanga you bring up valid points, its freedom of speech, its about expressing yourself! There has to be some sort of line drawn in the sand right? I do thank you for bringing your concerns, I will send a link to Chris as well. :)
Happy new year, much love
I didn't hear about the history of DBuzz, but I did know it was hard to make it accepted by the larger Hive userbase.
It's sad but I also think there will be always users who milk the reward pool and the battle against them is a losing one.
Comments here made me realize that a lot of what I said was on wrong assumptions, but I'm glad I said them because I would never knew how wrong I was otherwise.