I know you are a seasoned Hivian and I'm a nooby but man you do think deeply about this whole platform. I'm delighted to see you have increased your blog output lately because I am learning quite a lot from your posts and indeed the engagement on your posts. Yes I read a lot of the comments you receive but I'm not doing it in a creepy stalker type way! I am just trying to learn more about the whole Hive platform and its ecosystem.
Throughout my travels within the Hive community there are clearly arrangements in place and there are lots of people who are guaranteed to receive huge votes no matter what they post, because they are auto voted. This is the 'it's all about who you know' element of Hive.
I have no intention of naming names but when I see the blog output from some people who blog from different accounts and produce multiple posts a day knowing they are guaranteed votes, often from their own accounts, and then you look at the comment count and there's very little to no comments on these posts then you realise that the money aspect of Hive really is a huge pull.
These are just observations of mine but in the short time I have been a member of the Hive community what is emerging is that I can see the best and the worst of humanity on this platform.
How do you know they're blogging from different accounts?
It often seems like you aren't as new to Hive as you may give out to be, no offense.
How do I know? Well they are very open about the different accounts, that's how I know. I am new to Hive but had a period on Steemit many years ago.
Fair enough. If there's people out there posting from multiple accounts mainly to get more rewards from unknowing curators they should definitely be checked upon. It's one thing to post many times per day on your own account and give curators the decision how much they wanna reward it or how consistently they post that often, another to try and hide that fact that they're the same person profiteering from multiple accounts.
Actually many of the linked accounts I've found are totally open about the fact they are the same person. And some have set up multiple accounts to engage in different projects, so it's not totally deceptive.
Okay yeah that should be fine, I guess the issue then is if they're being overrewarded for what they do/don't do compared to others.
Yes, but it's also the fact that they use their different accounts to guarantee themselves votes so they know what level of rewards they'll receive each time they publish a post. I mean if I know I'm guaranteed $10 a post each time I post I may not care too much what effort goes into that post.
Yeah that's some of the issues autovotes/trails bring as I mentioned in the post, other than downvoting those posts which affect both the voters and author, we hope commentrewarder can attempt to send more rewards to both the author by casting bigger votes by the non-auto voters on the post and getting a share of the beneficiary rewards as a curator leaving a comment and getting upvoted by the author using the service.