They do but (hopefully) most of them worked hard to get known and to get their content appreciated.
I know it’s just pennies but I think the argument of the “Hive watchers” is that your system could be abused by farmers and wouldn’t be easy to detect and control.
That could get to significant bucks removed from the pool (and therefore other users).
My point of view is that as far as those short tweets are contained within a community it’s not spam.
Okay, I can see the role being valuable but it doesn't mean they are doing a good job at it.
Posted via D.Buzz@hivewatchers is similar IMO