I was whitelisted by this community at one time then all of a sudden I am not anymore. I asked about it and I was told it does not matter anymore, so now it matters. Funny how things change so quickly!
I have found that delegating to @qurator brings me more profits by delegating to them than @ocd. Many talk on Hive about community but I have seen that it is just to get a witness vote or to get them delegations and they never even really care what your channel name is just you voted or delegated to them.
I have grown my channel by just posting as I do not have the funds available to "Buy In!" as many have so I am just a small fish and it seems we help support the whales here and just get the scraps that those whales drop, which is not much at all.
I hold no animosity against anyone here, I think that it is the small channels that make the whales even bigger and receive really nothing in return. I really believe Hive could be much more than a blogging platform but it seems no one is really interested in the bigger picture, just make Hive and HBD and turn it into fiat.
I do not think my opinion matters much but at least I can voice it!
I think your opinion matters... I too think that small fishes like us only make whales bigger, but I believe we get more than "nothing" in return, so yeah.
I would consider it "Nothing" compared to what the whales benefit from the smaller fish on the platform! That will never change because small fish are content with the "Scraps" and are never looking to work to make a change in how it works at all.
I have to say this and it will make many mad but I will say it anyway. If all the small fish would pull all delegations to the whales and move more to help the other small fish out it and make the bigger witnesses do more to help the small fish for their witness vote would bring about some change.
Some of the bigger account witnesses do make a difference but not all of them do. If the small fish on this platform would wake up and realize that there are more of us and make the witnesses depend on us instead of the other way around it would make it far better everyone and not just make the big whale account's money.
The whale accounts will have the power until the small fish on this platform wake up and realize we are the ones with the power and make the whale accounts work for us for the witnesses votes and the delegations. Just my two cents and again just my opinion.
I get where you're coming from but I honestly think you're directing this at the wrong project. :)
We mainly encourage passive stakeholders to delegate to us and @ocdb shares it's votes wide to as many posts we can curate as possible and then some (ocd curators + community leaders we trust and don't always have the time to double check curate). We also encourage smaller accounts not to delegate but to use their voting power to interact and connect with other stakeholders so they can build connections and grow.
Anyway, yes this place would suck if people wouldn't use it but it would also suck if there were no whales holding the token cause the coin would have no value. You gotta think of both ways.
The whitelist only existed back when we were offering curated users to buy profitable votes, after the EIP hardfork we stopped selling votes, followed the majority of the whitelist who were active with @ocdb and curated them manually. Since then we've moved on to focusing our curation on diverse communities. Delegating to @ocd won't get you any returns, delegating to @ocdb will and it's okay to us if other projects give you higher ROI, we don't focus on maximizing it.
This seems to come out of nowhere, what makes you think that?
Yeah.. the rest of your comment seems similar, well, I'm not gonna try change your mind but feel free to ask around what others think about ocd.
I will tell you what makes me think that!
When the top witnesses wanted to fork from Steem, they were all about it is a community, they got people to vote their witness to help do this. Do not get me wrong I do get the whole picture here, need big accounts to help the coin have value but When I needed some help to get a proposal up for promoting Hive on my journey around the U.S. it seems no one knew a thing.
I sent DM's asking why the proposal page was not doing what it was meant to do for me and all I got was silence. They would tell me they do not know but some of them had a proposal up themselves, so it seems some "speak with a forked tongue" as it has been said.
I guess I am frustrated at this point and I took it out here on this post. I really was not talking about @ocd or @ocdb but it was more of a generalized comment and this just happened to be the post I made this comment on.
I think Hive has become more about making money for the whales instead of trying to get the coin and the platform to reach its full potential as more than just a blogging platform. I wish I had the knowledge to make it happen but I do not all I can do is try my best to promote Hive and bring more people to the platform.
I am looking for all the YouTubers to start posting their videos on 3speak and become part of the platform. That was the second purpose of me traveling the U.S. Imagine what it would do for this platform and then use the coin to buy and sell throughout the nomad and the homesteading community. That is just two groups of people, it could be many more. It seems those ideas are lost on this platform at the moment!