There was a suggestion floating by @demotruk of nullifying stake, I think for the sake of gamifying it we should make it so that for every amount over the limit, all such delegations should penalize bad actors with a sizeable burn, make it inverse and possible to delete all stake by first full powerdown, let the games begin, whale experiments, hopefully the peg holds, and I think to make it even more interesting, pay to post, like blurt, no more spam, and of course keep the downvote for the downsvoters and self voting, and do away with RC all together. O wait, 95% of traffic is for a card game that functions off RC. Content is dead. Long live content!
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I wouldn't favor any proposals that weren't the whales exercising self control.
They should recognize the damage they do, and behave accordingly.
This is why it is important for the crowd to speak up.
That way the greedy among them can be publicly recognized and given the respect they deserve.
It's much better than when we joined?
They have played according to the rules in place at the time, forcing our will onto them would make us no better than them.
They took advantage, we would be taking advantage.
Better, imo, to shame them.
Then, they may have money, but they get no love.
How will they feel when their rep goes negative?
Less omnipotent, I'm sure.
Greedy people gonna greed, it's just in their nature.
We don't have to surrender the high ground by forcing them.
They know their greed harms the tribe, and by extension, themselves.
Being efficiently greedy is a lot of work.
I am not sure that the theory is true that punishment is the only thing a punisher understands. Since "being punished" seems to be something that every human being deeply abhors. While punishment may be effective in getting someone to shut up or back down, it probably does not achieve an understanding of one's shortcomings. The reactions I recognise to punishment are stubbornness, obstinacy, helplessness, victim mentality.
The question of where a punished person turns to and on whom they take out their punishment, which they perceive as unjust, is rarely asked. A punished person may be chased off the field, but that does not mean he is out of the game of life.
Humility, which is supposed to be a consequence of punishment, is this something that can be observed? The punishers who receive much praise and prize fall for flattery, that is true, they may think it is love.
But because it is not love, and everyone knows that too, the gloating is only a very short-lived moment that glosses over the fact that everyone loses.
Beneath the righteous surface there is another field that knows about the loss.
True.
I don't think that this place is a community as a whole. But that there are a number of interest groups here who enjoy a certain topic and exchange ideas about it. The garden people, for example, or other subject-specific groups who want to give each other tips for their hobbies or show their latest results. Nothing earth-shattering, but useful, depending on the perspective. Whereas I think that the quality of the contributions overall does not provide enough meat to really be a fund of valuable knowledge transfers. But if you lower your standards, you might find some things, I have received good book tips from some of the users here or sources that I could follow up with interest, but I have to say that the search function on the hive frontend is very poor. What I find most problematic is the seven-day window, as it affects users' habit of not looking at older posts, and monetisation of past publications remains forever impossible, unlike on yt, for example.
I had once suggested re-posting your own posts that you think are of high quality and received too little attention, but there were divided views on this and generally there is too much fear that you would be downvoted because of it.
The whole place suffers from too much superficiality if you ask me. But there's no cure for that anyway, so it's pointless to complain about it.
Anyway, I for one would be bummed if the place would close down. I have published many articles which I consider to be valuable. I often thought of saving them somewhere but never did as they are so many now.
Would you like to see this place shut down?