Anyone who cares can look into habits and interactions of anyone they discover and use that to make different decisions based upon their perspective (to different effect based on that stake).
Yes. And there are a massive amount of behaviors to observe. Not all are acceptable for a community.
I do find veterans who sell chunks of their stake at times behave differently before and after.
I hope to sell a chunk one day, then buy back a larger chunk after. I would like there to be a continual growth of people who want to be here, who want to support others and want to take the risk, and try for a different result. Too many are using it as a tap into fiat, rather than a hedge against it.
I also see people like back in 2018 replying to every post they can find with quantity as the primary objective to get those reply author rewards.
I was talking to a couple friends the other day about these. You will see this behavior on my account too, as I reward comments. However, I don't mind as long as they are engaging well enough and what they add is relevant. Many won't earn from posting, but they can still earn from engaging well. Most days, I give people two posts to engage with and they can earn a bit that they wouldn't otherwise from having a read and taking 5 minutes to comment.
You obviously took more than five minutes with this one!
The truth is I want to be friends with and support those who have a large stake
Of course you do and so you should. Most of the people with large stake that are active, are also ones who care about Hive, because they haven't sold out. If you are interested in learning physics, you don't hang out with bakers. If you are interested in fitness, you don't hang out with meth addicts.
When veterans become stewards but take it too far and become prison guards by auto downvoting someone into quitting for an apparent infraction (even if it is corrected.)
Yes. This can be annoying too. At the same time, someone like this person (who I didn't downvote) has treated the community very badly, including the stakeholders that have supported them for years.
Power always corrupts, because of our genetic coding. But, our coding can also create new code, at least at the blockchain level :)