"Which comment was the observations?"

Probably the longest and most tedious. LOL

"I appreciated the gesture of letting me know you read it with an upvote but you usually comment back anyways."

I just have always had the courtesy to upvote folks I engage with. I have never blown out my VP like this since I changed my upvote to 25% when a HF cut the number of 100% votes we could cast a day to 10 from 40. Now HF28 has made that even not enough, and the low price of Hive forced me to increase the value of my upvote to 80% to exceed the dust limit. Hive keeps making it less rewarding for new users (or users with limited stake, like me, although I was stunned to learn I am one of the top 1500 accounts. I consider that a good demonstration that Hive has too few users) and more rewarding for whales. This trend is killing Hive, IMHO. It needs to be reversed, but the extant oligarchy is fixed on their cash is king course, I fear.

If they do kill the goose laying golden eggs, at least we might be able to fork up a new platform out of the ashes and try to rectify some of the inbuilt flaws that so misaligned incentives.

"If supporting people I am downvoting is one way you do that I am all for it."

It is always my practice to try to encourage users not to ragequit, because we need users more than we need low KE's, IMHO. I deeply appreciate you have demonstrated an extraordinary dedication to reason, and to your deeply held principles. We may never agree on DV's. That's actually good in a way, because both of us will always have an opportunity to learn something we don't know from the other.

I'd really like to test some different ways to manage downvotes, curation rewards, evergreen content, and other aspects of Hive I think have misaligned incentives that are causing Hive to lose users and the token to lose value. I bend nails for a living, so forking off some new platforms isn't something I can undertake (also, I can't code my way out of a wet sack). I had really hoped for the communities Ned proposed, because that would enable Hive to adopt the most successful metrics for managing these incentives, which I guess is obvious because I keep lamenting it LOL.