The reason I bring up the example above is because there's some top earning authors that have way less engagement than literal newcomers
I'm under no illusions that some post on my content because I'm known as a comment rewarder. Some author's don't reward comments which is their prerogative but I don't understand it.
I have to figure out who's genuine and who's after my vote. It's not that hard. I have been told there's and 'underground list' of authors like me... give out comment rewards. @tarazkp is also likely to be on it.
I hope some of my comments are due to what I write and not just for easy gains.
I think that "issue" is a much smaller one than some of the things I've seen lately, it's probably mostly voters at fault and authors getting used to it thinking this is the norm forever now and they can just sell everything cause no one's gonna stop it + since it's auto what's the point of spending more time here than just posting twice per day.. ugh.
The autovoter 'thing' is not going away. Some of us will keep a big stake here (though I intend to take advantage of the impending bull if it happens). I am not going anywhere or exiting HIVE.
I mean the general issue of "is this user commenting on my post cause they consumed and liked it or just to get a vote", it's almost a non-issue in my opinion as long as the authors/other curators do their due diligence to vote "fake" engagement much lower or not at all. Being able to drive attention to your posts with stake you hold is a good way to give more value to hive power as well, if you use it well.
I've seen whales with millions of vote strength not use it or use it badly and the comment sections where often garbage, or the posts themselves were so bad that people didn't even bother to comment even if a vote was waiting. Then I've seen smaller users barely able to get past the dust threshold have a great comment section that added a lot of value to the post. It's all what you make of it I suppose.
You will probably find this funny.. but just recently I stalked your account to see who you followed recently. Knowing your habits, I figure those you did could be alright. I would rather have the BOT I run be filled with 500+ users.
I know it's not interaction, and targeted votes by the likes of @hr1 (2018 days) kept me going and infused in my earlier days with these votes.
I've been a bit semi-afk lately (travel + focus on holozing) so haven't followed too many new ones. Another great place to look at and which could use more curators would be @lovesniper/feed or accounts it decides to trust and follow and then later unfollow once they're doing well enough on their own or pass a certain threshold.
Its following also represents all the accounts it deemed genuine/real but who stopped posting so there could always be some gems that return.
I don't comment on some of your most interesting content, the urban exploration stuff often, because most of the comments I would leave feel pithy or trite. The house with the penises was bizarre! Someone really took some time to graffiti those penises in. The tawny house made me think, we don't have nettles like that here in my area of North Carolina, but we do have blackberry brambles that will tear you up. I do enjoy reading the posts though! The stache of romance novels juxtaposed with the decay made me chuckle a bit too - it almost seemed like a dystopian setting from a video game.
There are at least two sides to HIVE, the mechanical reward and curation side, and the social-content side. If I had to pick between big rewards and regular readers - I'd choose the readers. The monetary aspect of HIVE isn't going to change my life, I don't have the intention of selling whatever stake I build in HIVE. I purchase some HIVE every month because I want to support the ecosystem, and it can certainly change other peoples' lives (financially). The important thing to me is that HIVE gets perpetuated way out into the future.
Ironically my content on Twitter and other platforms often gets more engagement than my content on Hive, but I think some of that comes down to cultivating the audience here that enjoys my content. Some of that is also shifting- I enjoy writing short stories.
Wrapping back around I think we each have a different model for HIVE and value different aspects of it, some of which align with the reward structure more optimally.
I think you commented here more than anywhere about my writings!
There's no need to explain anything like this, each to their own. Never tell a man what to do with his stake. Some have tried this with me in the deep past. They were unfollowed, muted, and rewards removed in one case.
It's your choice what you do here, that's the no censorship we enjoy.
I agree, and the great part about HIVE. It was more to illustrate the different approaches or models people have of this network.
As long as the system is at least in equilibrium I think we are in good shape - where the value coming in or being created exceeds the value that is being extracted. That we are sustainable.
I like the idea that 20 years from now someone might stumble across one of my stories here and enjoy it. Assuming anyone can still read and everyone isn't jacked into some neurally inducted dystopian fantasy world...
I want HIVE to persist.