The problem with these issues addressing the elephant in the room is walking on egg shells. People aren't going to be saying what's on their mind especially if they take the contrarian position because there will be monetary consequences when social relationships here turn sour. I think genuine social bonds formed go beyond just being wary about what the other party thinks of you based on your wallet transactions.
I do include wallet transactions in my curation, checking whether the user cashes out often and not, but there are redeeming acts a user can engage in that makes them worth supporting long term. But these discussions are the type that will never get more people involved because of fear of being singled out and made an example. I cash out and I buy Hive. I lost more money than the upvotes I get but I've never blame the fault to anyone's spending behavior. I'll still spend on Hive if I got more disposable income for kicks but I don't right now so there's that.
isn't this what social media supposed to do? and if we claim to be different than other social media out there, that's where it differs, where social bonds formed by genuine connection. The making money part isn't so much different anywhere these days.
At the same time, I've discussed a lot with namiks about curation problems mainly those who only take but never curate others. As you can see some members over Movies on hive received this kind of badge. Maybe it's too extreme but it's a way to also help bring awareness to also give and not constantly take. There are also users who don't engage despite a lot of warnings.
So, idk but it's nice to see things are being discussed except maybe they'll remain as discussion as any other matters around here 😃
I want to steal this idea but I'll let it sizzle for a while and figure out how to implement it, this is actually witty. About the bonds and money part, I don't want to go hard on the curation and just check the engagements more than the wallet now, the list of people to curate gets smaller with this criteria in mind.