I can vote for this response of yours to a comment I made over a half a decade ago, and get the same reward I'd receive voting for anything else, even if nobody else votes for it. The only way I'd see a higher reward is if someone came along and voted 24 hours after the time you presented these words.
They financially reward upvoting highly rewarded posts.
That isn't accurate. Some time, several years ago, everything changed. But just know I'm not dismissing your entire argument just because you got that part wrong. Use the knowledge to strengthen your mind. Within 24 hours, doesn't matter what you vote for, the curation reward is the same, regardless of how many other votes roll in within that same time period. You can vote for noobs and get the same reward. If you vote after 24 hours, you get a smaller curation reward. The situation you describe was eliminated, several years ago.
Other than that, I'm too tired for these debates. I've advocated for the genuine and organic approach for almost ten years. I still see potential there. A lot, actually. People worked hard on all this. Often when I look around I see plenty of tools, still in the box.
And the entire time I've observed what I consider to be a severe lack of readers/actual consumption happening. I only have words and those never change things. I didn't come back to start knocking things down or become frustrated.
I was away, purposefully ignoring everything about this place for well over a year. I came back. It's quieter than ever. I'm way too far out of the loop to know what happened and why. Not even going to ask. No plans of blaming anything or anyone. Trying to keep my cool and just wander the halls, reading a few posts maybe. I might still talk about where I see potential and room to grow that might possibly lead to a more productive environment for many, but after this many years dude, I often feel alone in that department. Don't want to bother people either.
Merry Christmas.
We are in agreement about a lot of things. Those things. It's because of those things I am looking back at how our (Hive) circumstances evolved, to see where we got locked into this apparent death spiral. Maybe there's a way out, a way to fix it.
You came back. There's a good reason. The sense of 'almost, but not quite' I get so frustrates me sometimes it's difficult to check my tongue. Hive doesn't have to fail, but it's hard to deny it appears to be. I've been here nearly a decade too, not nearly as bright, nor as influential or as good a writer as you are, but bright enough to note more concordance between our views than discordance. There aren't many folks that have stuck to their organic guns as both of us have. I see that demonstrates we both consider human society to be extraordinary. I have used the word sacred in reference to society.
I don't want the technical advance in social media Steem advented a decade ago to simply be subsumed by profiteers, kicked to the curb by grubby token miners. I have occasionally pointed out that Steem (prior to the flight of The Hair) and Hive (and even Blurt, too, to be fair) have the base technology to enable voluntarist government to be conducted using the platform. Because I think we need voluntarist government I consider that significant. I think Steem solved the online voting security problem. I am unaware that anyone has ever cracked the encryption and the blockchain makes votes auditable.
I'm not seeking to oppose your views on this or that. I'm trying to come up with an alternative to Hive dying. I'm not trying to recruit co-revolutionaries (yet), but I am trying to get criticised and availed better ideas than I can come up with without abandoning my commitment to organic human society, a commitment you seem no less dedicated to than I am. The factual criticism you undertook above, regarding curation, was exactly what I need to keep from barking up illusory trees. I'm not particularly bright, but I do want to be factually correct, at the forefront of innovation regarding decentralization, and if Hive is going to use it's great potential to enable voluntarist governance, organic society, and empower social media to be what free people need instead of end up a shriveled worthless husk, then a way forward needs to be found. Since I can't find one, because my misunderstandings get in the way, I reached out to you here, where obscurity eliminates concern about treading on toes and you can forthrightly respond.
It's the words we share that enable high quality society to be beneficial. From it's outset written language has enabled words to be shared by people separated by thousands of miles and millennia. The 'Epic of Gilgamesh' still informs the West today. I can't think of anything more powerful mere men can use.
I hope you have a very Merry Christmas.