I assume that I have understood the content of your statement.
So that we are talking about the same things and there are no misunderstandings, let me confirm and deny a few things.
Yes, the service exchanges votes for CCD tokens.
I agree with you that “effort, quality, consumption, networking, etc.” should be a requirement. The rules for using the service are designed accordingly - and I regularly reject votes (or requests for them) if the orders/postings do not meet these requirements. I have even reported accounts to HiveWatchers on several occasions if I suspect scam or abuse behind the vote-orderers, or I actively participate in detecting them by providing information or expressing suspicions, for example. So we are both pulling in the same direction.
I don't know if you have read the rules on the page https://cryptocompany.ceo/voter.php in the “Restrictions” tab. If not, that's okay, there's a lot of information on the page. Let me show you the rules again here as a screenshot.
I am reluctant to disagree strongly, but:
... affecting others who may be deserving of votes in different forms ...
The HP behind CryptoCompany are not only used for votes within the requested service. I generally vote for nice or supportable content. So I can certainly address your concerns and warn you: “Everything is in the green zone”.
Hive doesn't benefit from this activity
I see it differently. Quite the opposite, in fact, if we're talking about regulated services that act in good faith. Yes, there are projects that attribute value to every (own) secondary account - I don't want to name names right now so as not to discredit anyone.
So it seems to me, if we clear up any misunderstandings, that we have quite similar views; I'm glad about that!
Can I answer any further questions or help you in any way?
In every case enjoy your day & make the best out of it!
(Oh, I forgot at the last answer... Sorry about...:)
Why can't you just curate people without the token burn mechanism in between? Do you think other projects should actively do the same as well? Why do you feel the need to add this utility to the token when there's plenty of other reasons one would want to curate certain users involved in a community or a project?
If tokens were given out for free it'd be one thing, but if you have to delegate or buy the tokens to then burn them to be considered for a votes it's just selective vote buying in the end anyway that benefits your project extra compared to another project which also has tokens but doesn't encourage people to burn the tokens in order to receive hive upvotes.
This does feel like an evolved version of vote selling. As @acidyo pointed out having a token to buy just changes the scheme but it's still selling votes for tokens.. burned or not
buy the token to exchange them.[@PowerPaul:] Hey @solominer. You can win these tokens too, you don't need to buy them. If you like to invest the time you can read the answer I gave acidyo. But because can be what you pointed out: yes, some users
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Have we stopped to consider why vote selling is wrong?
I have yet to hear any good explanation that would not apply two-fold to self-voting in excess. I consider 'in excess' to be anything more than 5-10% of total deliverable vote value from the stake. Others may have their own threshold.
Rather than 'this mechanism is always wrong' we should judge each case by their overall impact on Hive.
In this case, burning tokens that were won from live-streaming to get a vote is no different than asking guests on the livestream to share their posts in the livestream chatting and dropping votes on them right then. Tokenized is in fact better, because it removes the time pressure and allows the user to evaluate post quality more effectively.
So there is an intermediate step of having the ability to trade the tokens and let somebody else get the vote. You could take the same value, buy HP, and self-vote. You could take that same value, pay for leased delegation, and then self-vote.
At the end of the day, some behaviors support small hivers, encourage them to grow their accounts and build their stake, and benefit Hive as a whole. Some behaviors enrich whales and allow them to bury their profiteering behind posts that nobody reads, in comments that nobody dares downvote. Which is better for Hive's growth and adoption?
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