I consider your intro sentence irrelevant, afaik Hive has one contect creator with thousand adoring semi-paying fans. You do not need reputation score to find out who that is. My apologies if there are two or three of them.
I don't see how forcing people to pay for some superficial nonsense [...]
Please TLI5 to explain the forcing part. I thought we agreed noone should care for a checkmark. We seem to disagree on caring for the reputation score. Your signals are mixed - you called it decent and then observed you are not forced to follow it so I assume you chose to follow it. Good for you. Still, reputation score is a superficial nonsense to lot of people. Paid checkmark is relevant to lot of people as well. French bread and toast bread. Subjectively, you may like one, both or none, but you have to accept that both are bread.
Here's an example of Hive, without downvotes or the rep score [...]
No, thanks. Blurt is not my thing.
My thing is Hive with a symmetrical upvote/downvote structure. I do not see it happening on this chain but I enjoy patiently explaining the concept to anyone who does not understand the in-built difference within the current system.
My quick understanding of VYB is: Let's have Hive.blog that displays posts from negative reputation users and display rewards in our beloved yet worthless token. Well, that achieves nothing. That just pretends to run a marketplace by your rules but in fact it is just a filtered footage of the actual marketplace run by Hive rulebook and all parties pictured acting according to Hive standards.
If I am successful in explaining the superiority of the alternative downvote rulebook, the first conclusion to make is understanding no frontend to Hive delivers the solution. The UV/DV data there is irrelevant.
The essence is: Now that you have casted your upvote/downvote on Hive chain, you need to tell us whether you genuinely think the post was good or not.
Hive DAO that incentivises accounts to upvote/downvote certain way. You need a fund generating a relevant prizepool to both (1) make users cast a second ballot AND (2) incentivise content creators to keep posting even after their base layer rewards get crippled.
Even though I laughed at Blurt's rulebook, I honestly do not see alternative to forking out and compete with Hive if anyone wants to live by the alternative rulebook. All those Hive-Engine tokens addressing the issue are just the latter part of bread and games.
Hive experience just made me appreciate paywall models where noone pretends that free access to quality content is a human right.
You brought it up. I could have pointed out nobody brings paying fans with them, and can show you several articles I've written about the lack of consumers and the content we refuse to sell. I've grown bored of talking about it though.
https://peakd.com/life/@nonameslefttouse/one-of-those-hive-stories
https://alpha.leofinance.io/threads/view/nonameslefttouse/re-leothreads-gvrjyyxl
(And as I say that, for some messed up reason this old post from 2019 is getting reblogged like crazy...)
Could throw down another ten links. I'm talking to a goddamn wall...
And I don't mean you. Just in general. I'm so bored of talking about how I feel and what I think. Especially under some random posts. I don't mean to be rude...
Just tired. "Twist this knob, turn that dial, that should fix it!"
Creating content for an audience of none. Nobody points at the empty seats and says, "Those should have people in them." "Oh look. Consumers are throwing billions at content creators. This system offers them a far superior deal. Hmmmmm." Nah. Let's encourage the consumers to stake tokens, automate everything, and get paid to not look...
F-word. Yeah I said decent. Didn't say perfect. Rep score is just there, does whatever. Who cares what I think. I don't even want to think right now. Not interested in starting at the top and explaining every last detail with someone in a comment section. 30000 comments on this chain. Sick of repeating myself and it's pointless; goes nowhere.
Sorry.