We've had this conversation for literal hours upon hours on discord audio. We've brought heavy hitters here before. Some of us brought "influencers" when they were small enough to be reachable, less than 400k subs.
However, they got chased away. They either "made too much money" or, their political opinions were "wrong", etc.
I think about this often bro, I really do. I don't think we are ready to onboard just yet. Why? Because we don't have the culture for massification just yet.
Very soon, possibly monday or tuesday next week, we are going to be hosting a pop up podcast about Reputation on chain. @moeknows has come up with what I think can shift the tides here. Make people care about behaving correctly, feeling pride, creating connections with other people.
Anyways. I hope that as a community of hardheaded passionate idiots, that we are, we take it into consideration and push for this change.
What good would it be that, let's say, you onboard Pompliano for example. And then, people who are angry about tariffs (we all are) decide to downvote him, because he's advocating for them. To him it would be "these Hive high rep accounts attacked me, they hate free speech" and the outward projection of hive goes to shit, yet again.
It needs to matter how kind you are. How tolerant of other people's opinions. How embracing of different cultures.
I should say, in case I'm giving the wrong impression here. I'm not saying we need to declaw people. Downvotes have to exist. What I'm saying it can be the first attack, if you will, to dissuade people from bad behaviors.
Anyways, I rambled for too long.
I was about to write this very thing. You beat me to it. We've had influencers. The powers that be here always chase them away. Every time.
I agree with all that too. I'm not sure how we achieve this though when if you have a million hive it's like a warrant to act as you please. If you can put up with hundreds of people angry at you, then it's never going to matter.
There's a lot of psychology at play here too.
I'll say this much. Nobody wants to be "the bad guy" - Even Magneto thinks he's saving the world.
That's a good point. But remember though, no-one could convince Magneto that he wasn't saving the world haha.
touche! hahahah