I've said it many times, "influencers" of all sizes and content are welcome and often showered in rewards by either random stakeholders or those who value their content and activity outside of Hive specifically. I'm also okay with that, the so called "honeymoon" period, but once months and years go by, the accounts continuously take and certain stakeholders give but there's no visible engagement and consumption occurring on top of no attempts by these influencers to bring in people or share links to attempt to bring in their following here where the platform incentivizes it in so many ways compared to web2 and they've been earning the stake to properly value their followers and engageful comments with upvotes, whether they do it personally or have help doing so. Then what is the point to continuously shower them with rewards, get mad if someone feels that value is better spent elsewhere, literally anywhere and get into these kind of games?
There's many accounts of these examples, at what point are we going to think it's justified they've earned anywhere from 10-100k hp over the years without giving close to anything back except for the few comments complaining how they're getting downvoted eventually? Are we still continuing to shower them with stake and rewards in hopes they'll eventually give a shit? Or are they just so used to adrevenue they think it's the same thing here?
I'm pretty sure I'm not in the wrong here and many in the community have been of the same mindset over the years, it's not like I just decide to randomly downvote posts that may bring value to the ecosystem, that'd be pretty counterproductive to all my other activities on this chain. I'm also pretty sure that I'm not just surrounded by yes-men who just go along and agree with all my opinions and actions and I'm not someone to ignore those who criticize them. I've even made posts asking the opinions of others using some of these accounts as examples and at the same time ignored some of them who do bother to at least be a little active even if they're rewards are still over the top imo.
At some point it just feels like these influencers have been brought in with the promise that they'll get rewards no matter what and the retaliation that occurs seems to ignore any attempts at understanding why some feel the rewards aren't warranted longterm. It's like they completely ignore reason but want to keep treating this platform as proof of stake rather than what it is, want to keep making it look like Steem or Blurt rather than let others weigh in.
I don't even have anything against the genre and I downvote other similar "placeholder" accounts as well from other niche's I don't think bring value to the ecosystem after they've been tried and left be without downvotes for a long time. If you just keep letting it be it'll quickly become a farmfest with more and more value, i.e. part of the rewardspool being wasted.
If these stakeholders believe some other type of content isn't worth it neither then be my guest to downvote and lower the rewards, but don't do it out of retaliation or vendetta, do it in terms of protecting your stake and valuing the inflation that's going out. Very few are using their downvotes like that because there's no incentives of doing so that directly benefit them but some of us are here for the long term and believe it'll help the ecosystem as a whole.
The most ridiculous part is that any of these influencers would do well here if they actually understood and valued the platform and stake they earned, not just take it for granted or think it's the same as the other shitty platforms they'll eventually get banned from. Most don't seem to understand though and are probably not made aware of the differences by whoever onboards them and promises stuff. Naturally, they're going to have a bad time eventually if they treat it just like any other platform or just as a cashcow as many do.