Yeah I have nothing against "old-timers" being rewarded for their longevity and knowing they'll be around to help spread out more stake. That's part of what I was talking about above in "investing" in accounts, I wonder if at some point when we grow big enough someone will bother to check out a "voting tree" sort of like, if @tarazkp voted account @galenkp for 2000$ over the first few years, then @galenkp voted account @xxx for $1000 over the next few years it basically means @tarazkp was partially to thank for that @xxx grew to the account he has today and the distribution he's doing with his stake to all the newcomers now since even a dolphin level account is giving out thousands of $ weekly. Would be interesting to see who has had a major impact on distribution and the levels distributed to long term. That's why it hurts when some people you've invested in quite a lot just up and leave, though I understand everyone has a real life and things happen now and then and not everyone can afford to stay powered up even if they really, really wanted to but it is what it is.
Constantly voting up people who show no signs of not just remaining here for the long term with some stake to use for distribution but also barely bother putting in any effort for the stake they ear is close to insanity; doing the same thing over and over expecting different results. Unless of course they just couldn't care less.
That voting tree would be interesting for sure. I think that while some percentage stays spreading round close contacts, the majority ends up spreading further. I remember how some people who were in
SFHF in Poland were little fish, looking at my "massive" 20K stake as if it was a lot. Some of those people are orcas here now, still engaging, still spreading out further. @slobberchops was one of them :)And I think through these kinds of experiences, larger voters have largely become more selective with who they vote for, as they have been hurt often in the past. Look at the KC and jrcornel types - there are many. millions of dollars worth of Hive on what are effectively scammers. Then there are the social climbers, who got voted in the hope they would become a gluing force, but nearly all ended up creating dramas - the stellas and justines etc.
It is an interesting problem though, because while it is important to support newbies, long term, they have to become oldies. It is an investment with a very bad hit rate and low return so far, which makes me think that before the support really comes, they have to indicate their intentions with more than words. Staking and buying stake is an okay indicator, the quality of a single post or even a month of good posts isn't.
I remember the first time I came across you, the post was something like 'middle-class' and it opened my eyes. Then at Krakow, you were some kind of godly being.., and I spoke to you for around 2 mins before you vanished somewhere with @crimsonclad heh...
@hashcash muscled me into doing a video interview at Krakow, thankfully it never hit the chain.
Yeah, we were talking at the convention center place!
And now, like my wife, you know better.
Hashcash seems to have unfortunately disappeared. Pity. A group of us did a stream drunk from our AirBNB on the first night :D
Fortunate for me he's vanished. I don't quite know how he convinced me to do that.
OCD is definitely looking more and more into sweat equity of people we curate and at the same time also checking if they're wasting time and weakening hive's SEO by bothering to crosspost to "competitors" like steem and blurt for cents before we curate their content. It may not be much but I think long term it will definitely have an effect on those who understand the value in decentralization, distribution and of course why good downvotes are important.
This must take ages for individual cases.
I think it will make an impact down the road, especially for those users who build up from it.
Discord has actually remained really great at organising and creating bot help to make curation as efficient as possible. Now if only some people spent more time socialising on chain than there, we'd grow in social txs by a ton!
An interesting thought, the voting tree-concept; sort of like a family tree scenario. It would be cool to see that I think. Selfishly, now I want to see mine!
For sure, I've been disappointed a few times, will again I guess.
I see this happen a lot...Maybe people forgetting they have autos set (or not caring) sometimes, and other times wilful support of those accounts as part of a farm circle-jerk. It's destructive. It's the same with those that post 20 times a day and vote their own posts...It's destructive, sets a bad example and the wheel turns; the bad behaviour self-perpetuates.
It can be no other reason Acid. In my opinion anyway.