I raise this on a public discord couple of days back. On oflyhigh.
This is a public forum. So this is the comment I got.
I am not making any judgement here, but I think we have turned into just a bunch of milkers. We punish the small stakeholders as scammers, but when the stake gets higher or the association gets ideal. It becomes legitimate.
It's a tough one for sure.
My opinion is that a post with value should come with some interested commentary. This surely sets a better example to newcomers?
That narrative will fall on mostly deaf ears.
This is why I have reservations about participating in antiabuse. There had been clearly a bias in the past towards the "untouchables" and don't suspect it will change anytime soon.
We have to dilute the whales, until they control less than 'the community' they rule the roost.
That may take a while when the sleeping whales prove to be the same folks just toying with us with their current level of stake.
Lol adm account is controlled by steemcleaners aways was for farming to cover some sort of claimed costs associated with API checks from Google was initial premise for their comment farming then they just said they deserved the pay and clearly so as do all the devs here hence the site having the top paid devs in the world running it with the most sophisticated code and apps, biggest user base and highest quality of content... Or not well still in beta I suppose give it 4 more years of farming might be ready then🤣🤣🤣🤣
I see you joined in 2018 so prob aren't aware of the magnitude of reward farming done by the controller's
Sorry forgot to give link earlier but here is about oflyhigh abit adm and pfunk connection back in the early mega farming days in 2017 now is pennies compared, at least they kept solid control 🤘
https://hive.blog/curation/@abit/abit-curation-team
The only way we get these whales up off of us is to wait out the inflation to dilute them.
It is inevitable, and when it does, hive is likely to die in one fell swoop.
When the sleeping whales wakes up, we could have problems.
Especially, if it is the very ones we are mad at now.
Who else could they be?
They certainly aren't new.
As for the best paid authors, the largest autovote recipients should set some beneficiaries on some of their posts, imo.
We get that they are the high score kings, and/or queens, but life has more than money as it's aim.
Give something back to the community that supports you, iyam.
If we could get them to start tracking the median payout and only voting posts near it, rather than giving hundreds to orcas, that would be great.