I think KE is just one metric among many to consider when evaluating an account. My KE is low because I power up, and I swapped STEEM for HIVE as soon as I could after the fork and its fallout, giving me a big boost back then. It doesn't necessarily mean anything beyond that. I know some people who sold HIVE to pay bills, and that resulting KE score doesn't indicate they're just here to milk the token for a quick buck in general.
Compare it to reputation. I also have a high rep because I have been fairly consistent in publishing and commenting for a long time. Some people got a high rep from bidbots back in the day, or from vote farming schemes. I seem to have accumulated some auto-votes from zombie accounts myself. The rep number doesn't really prove anything.
If you were too look at my account based solely on reputation and KE, it still only suggests something about me as a HIVE member. You'd still need to decide whether my posts, comments, up-and down-votes, and even my witness votes affect that one way or another.
I think KE is just one metric among many to consider when evaluating an account. My KE is low because I power up, and I swapped STEEM for HIVE as soon as I could after the fork and its fallout, giving me a big boost back then. It doesn't necessarily mean anything beyond that. I know some people who sold HIVE to pay bills, and that resulting KE score doesn't indicate they're just here to milk the token for a quick buck in general.
Compare it to reputation. I also have a high rep because I have been fairly consistent in publishing and commenting for a long time. Some people got a high rep from bidbots back in the day, or from vote farming schemes. I seem to have accumulated some auto-votes from zombie accounts myself. The rep number doesn't really prove anything.
If you were too look at my account based solely on reputation and KE, it still only suggests something about me as a HIVE member. You'd still need to decide whether my posts, comments, up-and down-votes, and even my witness votes affect that one way or another.