With all due respect, I didn't say have to. I'm not familiar with the delegation side of Ecency, I assume you're awarded ESTM the same you would be awarded Hive by delegating to OCD, Curangel, etc. We then power up, exchange, trade, those earned Hive. If I'm mistaken, let me know. Those earned Hive dividends on the delegation are then ours to do with as we wish the same as those ESTM which have multiple ways to earn.
Leaving your app on earns, each reblog or post earns, commenting, voting, etc, they all earn because it's your Blockchain activity. Once earned, they're yours to do with as you wish.
What Acidyo brought to our attention here, including that hive.curation screenshot he attached which looks pretty shady to me is questionable. What good-karma and ecency have going is not shady or questionable and I don't think considering them a scapegoat is cool when an account is in question.
You are reward ESTM points from Delegation + Hive. What I question is that you can use ESTM to exchange for Upvotes which is another way of paying for Upvotes.
So I struggle to see the difference in paying for upvoting with delegation or with points exchanged for me that 2 things are the same.
Now with ESTM, you are not on an automatic whitelist and you can't assume you will get an upvote with by using ESTM. You can try and if the Ecency team redeem your post good enough, they will allow it and this is the biggest difference I think
When you spell out the difference like that it's a fairly significant one, we're in full agreement.
Ecency is my choice front end, I've seen them mentioned one other time now when a vote sharing account is in question and I can't help but do this because I, personally, earn ESTM and think they're good for the Blockchain. Points allow me to increase vote value of content I appreciate by adding much as $1.60 (last time I checked) which is nearly double my vote strength.
Ye it is :D
Ecency also uses the RC for creating accounts for new users therefor helping with onboarding which has always been problem for Hive, that another way to add value here ^^ :D