I hear you! And it’s as well sad to see the Pinmaple concept retire I do understand it though. It’s a lot of work that’s for sure and with the chat bots, people are able to generate a lot of shit easily. It’s unfortunate but a testament to having a great and successful community when people try to invade and game it!
It’s on a far smaller scale and more personal.. but I myself got sick of posting LPUD and HPUD posts - I just wasn’t feeling it anymore. I had a good streak going for 3 years or so and forgot one, then just said screw it. It feels a little liberating being able to take a step back from something we’ve done for so long. We move onto the next chapters, wherever those may lie!
Thanks for choosing to drop this in my little corner of hive :D when I saw it I thought it was another failed tradesman at your place haha
Luckily no more bad tradesman!!! The last one, a gardener, I employed after he stuck a promo leaflet through my post box. He did a great honest job, am getting him to come back and do more work for me.
I felt a bit like that for HPUD. I been running my HPUD Guessing Contest for years and had some great engagement and found a lot of good authors through that. But I noticed there were a lot of milkers who only dropped by with their two word entry coz I upvoted the comments and that was worth more than the 0.00001c they got from posting. Then some of them occasionally were lucky enough to win but all they did was to transfer all the funds out, which defeats the whole point of HPUD. There're just too many bad eggs around that add zero value to Hive. That's part of the reason I paused it recently