I followed some of that drama and the "why i self-vote" post, but yeah, it's difficult to talk sense with some users.
It does get you down, you feel like the villain and sometimes I feel like just selling up and leaving
I guess that's what makes it difficult, people think the difficult part is getting that price up but the markets do their thing, it will take quite a lot for Hive to stand out and peg off from the rest but at the same time it will require very little once things are in motion and there is a clear bull run, even dead coins will pump. We're fighting an inner battle with ourselves but things are getting better, there isn't as much drama now or disconnect between bigger communities and shareholders as it was in the past on the other chain. The hivemind is in agreement more than ever and everyone working harder to grow it.
One thing we know is that no one else is facing these same issues that we face here because almost no one else is as far as we are in the evolution of this technology and it's parameters that we're attempting to finetune fork after fork. Once we've mastered it, and I believe we're close, there will be no stopping us. Of course don't be like me and try and diversify more. :)
I keep trying to entice people on to HIVE and have realized that they will only come when they see big $$$ numbers. That means the token price needs to raise, and frankly, it's falling down little by little against the other crypto's.
Why is it so unpopular and unappealing to investors? The return is fantastic compared to the stock-market for little work.
Our inflation is so different from other cryptos, those either have large pre-mines or everything has had to been bought. Where as here we have so many providing content, etc, and living off of it or have found ways to earn it easily and are not valuing it the same way as others but trading it for something else. Also new name, etc. Dunno, but wouldn't be surprised if Hive lagged behind a bit during the next bull run but that's not the most important thing. What's important is that when and if the next bull run starts we're ready to accept the masses and stand out for our scalability whereas others who may have jumpstarted their pumps and attention won't be able to keep up with it.
Hive, where you gotta work to get the best returns and most of that work is social. Doesn't look like a good deal to many tbh.
I was meaning for curation, it may be unethical to use an auto-voter and wait for the rewards to come in but one can't deny it's a great passive earner.