That's what happened although it soon slows down when literally zero response happens.
For several years I also got a lot of DM's requesting money, all from Nigeria. One asked me for money to buy a bigger TV for her gaming console "business" as the competitor down the road had a better TV and she was losing "business." I recall my response being very long, scathing and rather brutal.
I don't get requests like that much these days but unless I've communicated on Hive with someone for a long time, favourably, I don't respond to DM's. I have a really nice (small) group of people I communicate with in Threema and Whatsapp (most know my address and I theirs as we swap stuff), and that's one of my biggest benefits from Hive - they're good people.
I have given interest free loans to people on HIVE and some of them never even paid me back. I don't do anything like that anymore because I just don't have the bandwidth to keep up with it. I only loaned to friendly aquiantensces anyways so I was always open to never getting paid back.
Lots of good people on HIVE. It's actually not that hard to find good people here. That being said, a lot of people on HIVE trust when there really doesn't need to be trust and that creates a lot of problems imo.
The reward pool is easy to access and a lot of people view it as free money. It makes sense so many scammers pop up here and it makes sense “good” people get greedy and start scamming.
I’m not going to do that though. I try to watch for greed when it starts impacting me because greed can become very consuming and is particularly good at changing people in a bad way without them even noticing.
I've done the same, for the right reason with no repayment also and I'm ok with that because it helped them and they were deserving.
On the reward pool, yep exactly, like the user from earlier today, once she got some autos the floodgates opened and now feel entitled to those rewards from an auto that doesn't even read or engage. It becomes a habit and that's ok, freedom for all right? Including the freedom for others to do as they please with their own stake, built the hard way.