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 SF HF 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 :)
That's why it hurts when some people you've invested in quite a lot just up and leave,
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!