a bigger influencer has joined our platform so we may shower them with rewards early on and for a while, but how long should that go on, though?
For me it's about a few things. The quality of the content they are posting, are they replying to comments on their posts and what are they doing with the rewards they earn? The big one is what are they doing with the rewards they earn. If they are simply cashing out everything that to me is a clear sign that they don't care about hive and just look at it as a ATM machine which in my opinion is a huge negative for hive.
Auto voting
This is a hot one for me. I don't use auto voters but I do use some delegations to earn rewards in other areas with my hive. For the most part though I keep ALL of my hive power it up and keep it to curate content which I do manually every day. It legit takes HOURS and I spend a good 3 hours a day on hive on a bad day and often times a full working day of 8 hours just commenting, curating, writing content that gets spread across socials to bring traffic and rank in search engines. The amount of time involved is huge but I love it and I believe in it. However auto votes to me are lazy and often abused. I honestly wish everyone was forced to manually curate.
Revenue
What floors me is more don't use ad revs to support their tokens especially if hive is suppose to be a web3 alternative. I get it people don't like ads and they find them intrusive etc. But there are legitimate good ways of limiting that tracking and earning profits which can be used for development of new applications which brings more value to hive and also fuels the value of the token. ALL Web2 applications run ads and it's their primary bread and butter in terms of revenues generated. It's what gives them value in their stock price, pays their employees etc. There is no reason web3 shouldn't be the same thing from these VERY successful examples but instead of all those funds going to the business only a small fraction does 5% or so and everything goes back to the people using the platform. (Of course things like spam, abuse and just nasty stuff needs to be dealt with.)
I love hive, I believe in it but there are some things I don't agree with in terms of the business part of me. It feels wasteful, lack of development and passing the buck. What gives me hope is I've seen some small changes in the right direction in the last year and I hope to continue to see that rolling forward.