It's amazing to me how people will spend more effort in finding ways of gaming a system than to add value to the system and get handsomely rewarded in the process. This is the problem with spending so much time and effort promoting...
come, blog, earn
It confuses people. Votes for content on HIVE are not linear, guaranteed or deserved.
I keep saying there's a middle class getting larger and stronger on HIVE. A middle class made up of stakeholders who truly believe in freedom and decentralization and who are more and more willing to educate newcomers to this new paradigm.