A and B: We're trying to be both, I agree we need to probably pick a lane to optimze either one, but that's probably also not going to happen, based on the design/intent that we would be both as a core premise of the whitepaper and chain overall.
C. Some are doing that already. Some aren't. I think that the incentive would have to be pretty high to motivate someone to spend time or money to make returns, when they can just sit in savings at 20% already.
D. We have that in the form of tokenized tipping and comment bots, you see them in every post's comment section. Am I a fan of how that is currently implemented? In spirit yes, in theory also yes, but in comment spam on my posts from bots? Nah, not so much.
And you've mentioned sponsored ads many times now in your comments, and ive avoided that till now, but what exactly do you even mean? Banners on dapp home pages? The dapps can already sell that real estate if they want to, but nobody has ever wanted us to look like myspace circa 2006 either. So I think that is mostly a non-starter.
We have promoted posts on peakd, and other dapps, thats a form of sponsored advertising for people who want to pay for exposure.
But if you mean hive paying for sponsored ads in the outside world, like a proverbial super bowl commercial, well, that might be a worthy discussion and exploration. Metrics needed, would a 150K spend on a cable tv commercial or youtube ad on popular channel niche videos on youtube bring us more positive attention and onboard new accounts compared to say, spending that 150K on a rally car nobody on Earth gives a rat's ass about or sees that accomplishes nothing and paying for a few elite dolphins to stay in fancy hotels and pitch slidedecks to people who just gom buy more bitcoin and arent the target audience anyway?
Thats up for debate and should be debated! Thats what the proposal system is for, making such pitches to our incumbant community and suggesting an idea like "project to buy a swath of youtube ad time and make a really compelling and polished video to invite new users to sign up and invest and whatever" and put it up and see what the people vote/say about it.
I'd just let it sit honestly, if the ROI was fairly predictable
I just want comments to trigger more views. It should be a thing.
it is fixed and predictable till a witness consensus changes it and that doesn't happen without a lot of public flogging of the idea first.
And yes, yes they should. That's how the real world works. Attention begets more attention.
It's a phenomenon but a predictive one that should be implemented for the sheer game theory of it. If someone likes it, that means other someones will like it. That means we can probably shill it and then generate more interest in it, and then pour some ads in that direction. The end.