I believe it is all according to perspective. If there was no financial benefit, I can almost guarantee I would have built up a stake, network or any track record here. I am half ashamed and half proud that I use no automated at all and over 30,000 upvotes were individual and manual. That is definitely not for everyone but works from my perspective.
Everyone has a different amount of time to read and network and curate but I believe there is a place for everyone there. 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).
I do find veterans who sell chunks of their stake at times behave differently before and after. Some have their big stakes, vote with small percentages and engage sparingly because they are the ones who have the attention worth chasing. Then, they cash in and suddenly are curating, engaging and are suddenly keen to earn the exposure and rewards now that they have a stake to make up.
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.
The truth is I want to be friends with and support those who have a large stake (not exclusively though as my organically earned stake is a result of veterans supporting me while I was getting my feet set.
Things that bug me is when people say Hive is shit because their perspective is based on frustration for an outcome that impacts them. 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.)
Truth is Hive is pretty damn good and the strength and weakness is that it is dictated by people. People gonna peep and a benevolent dictator never stays benevolent in my experience.
Anyhow, the Jeets will always leave. They can learn their lessons and change and come back to be quality content creators, Engagers and networkers. Their decision and I will simply look to support the builders no matter how many jeets flash in the pan.
Yes. And there are a massive amount of behaviors to observe. Not all are acceptable for a community.
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 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!
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.
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.