If they have a lot of HP it's in their own interest for that HP to gain value, else they could just buy bitcoin or something else. Why would someone with a lot of stake purposely misuse curation or downvote random accounts for no reason if they want the ecosystem to grow in value. Even so, if that ever is the case, others can combat it. I guess you're thinking of azircon again because you are affected, but he's not wrong that close to no one was consuming your content. Go work on that and if there's legitimate attention flowing your way I'll personally attempt to counter his downvotes, if not, you, similar to many others, probably didn't deserve the rewards to begin with.
A lot of users are cuddled with a lot of rewards because "inflation must go somewhere", yet if they attempted the same thing anywhere else they would just be wasting their time talking into the void. Here you think that even talking into the void should entitle you to some rewards.
Miss me in my next posts, please.
There are many examples of whales misusing HP and driving users away with DVs. I received the DVs after discussions on discord (where I was never rude) not because of anything else. There was no one to combat it. Many people were consuming my content and just 1 was able to negate everything. It's funny that you say I didn't deserve my $1 rewards per post (which only half goes to me) and I've seen many whales get 40x or more from posts that take much less effort.
The truth is that quality is irrelevant on Hive. All that matters is your HP and connections. I find it funny that you say "A lot of users are cuddled with a lot of rewards" but these rewards are very low.
And what have I done for you to want me to miss your posts?
Rewards seem low because the price is close to 0, at all time high your $10 ($5) posts would've gotten you 120 ($60) respectively.
You've received more genuine replies complaining about downvotes than you did on many posts for many months, what does that tell you?
You also instantly stopped posting after receiving a few downvotes, what does that tell us?
The "high" paying posts are the Splinterlands contests. And we're never going back to all time highs.
What does it matter getting comments? Hive is not Reddit. People vote but rarely comment. That's just how it works. If you were to remove posts that have no comments from non bot accounts, you'd be left with less than 1% of the posts.
Of course I stopped posting. I saw that I was DVed for life, why would I work hard on my posts for no rewards? Even with the low rewards I was getting I was making less than minimum wage in most third world countries on most of my posts. But I was sharing with other people, it was something. But when a powerful user poops even on those low rewards, why should I keep posting?
A lot to digest here, wow.
You don't think we're going back to ATH but you're here nibbling for scraps.
Consumption of posts does not matter? What the fuck is the point of curation whatsoever then, may as well just not have posts and sit on discord talking shit waiting for staking rewards to come in.
For life does not equal 3 days, azircon has downvoted others before and stopped.
You do you but don't go around talking shit about curation or hive when there's literal hundreds of accounts doing good on a daily basis and tens of new ones being discovered daily that get more engagement than you ever will as newcomers.
I see how users like azircon drive away other users and there's also the thing about Hive being about blogging which people cared for like 15 years ago. No, I don't think Hive can ever go back to it's ATH. Maybe 50 cents, if everything goes well. The only reason I even know about Hive is because of Splinterlands.
I never said consumption of posts didn't matter. I said comments don't matter and aren't a good measure on Hive. Voting is faster than a comment and a vote also gives you rewards yourself while a comment doesn't give any rewards. I still tried to comment sometimes but I gave more votes than comments.
3 days? I got like 15 days of posts DVed in the last month that I posted. And azircon said I was done with Hive and was never getting out of his DVs. My posts took at least 20 minutes to write and do the images and formating. The contest posts at least one hour. That's about 4 hours per week, for which I received about $13. Do you think it's fair that one person can take it all away? Alexvan has been getting DVs from him for years. And even before this, I had already received DVs from him at least twice. The first time I heard from him was when he DVed me without an explanation, I didn't even know he was a Splinterlands whale.
100s of accounts "doing good" as in getting breadcrumbs until someone doesn't like them and nukes them. I was ok getting those breadcrumbs as long as they weren't taken away. I never powered down and only used the liquid rewards. I even powered up a few times. DVs should be reserved for actual abuse, scams, etc. not simply "I don't like you" or "I don't like cats and you wrote about cats so you get a DV".