I won't lie, the idea of Hive was flattering at first because of the money, for the posts.
In fact I think I mentioned it in my intro post, although due to an error on my part of the tags I didn't get much from there.
I had to write a lot of shit and a lot of thinking and plotting to get a reputation over 50, you big men at 70 are really the ones making the dough, just 4 likes and you have 2$, one thing I've noticed is that every man at 70 has at least 4 friends at 70 and above😂😂.
This autovote feature is rather new to me, although I can't use it since my vote is worth nil at the moment. Voting for others really just lifts their spirit, y'know
I got in my head space the inconvenient truth where most of the content I've come across on Hive aren't worth my time but I like the person that shared them anyway. I say most because there will be times when someone posts something novel and I just give it a few more minutes of thought. Those autovotes or any vote are social rewards of for accumulating some favors over the length of tenure that's why it's more like a badge than an actual gauge that one's content is that great.
Most votes are nil if you factor in other social media where likes barely contribute to a creator's monetization on the short term but they snowball in the long term. On Hive, it's difficult to pull this off as content after 7 days being reposted generally don't fly.
Actually, that's one good and bad feature of hive, since it encourages the content creator to create more.
You can make one great iconic work, gain a lot of votes and it's still being reposted. After 7 days, all the votes gained are deposited and one can't vote again. Hence said content creator knowing nothing is going to come from that post, would be encouraged to make again and see how far it'll go