Hi @crosheille and @ybanezkim26!
It's unfortunate that you felt personally targeted by our message. We might have to re-word it in order to make absolutely clear it's not meant to be taken personally at all. We respect those heart-pouring, sleepless, selfless nights more than you can know. We also don't want them to be in vain.
@curangel does take a few controversial stances it believes are in the best interest of Hive, and we do provide courtesy notices about them where directly applicable (when there is a rejection of curation the post would otherwise have received). These messages aren't meant to insult, judge, or embarrass anyone. They are a blanket effort to discourage the use of these services and raise awareness of why they're bad. Individual posters like yourselves aren't the real target because you're not the real problem. The real problem is that these services exist, and without disincentives to their use, they will continue to grow. Just because you may see your own use of them as responsible doesn't mean everyone will exercise the same restraint. Consider it a case of "the tragedy of the commons."
Liquidation services may provide a benefit to you, and of course you're as free to use them as we are to oppose their use. But the fact is that receiving 100% liquid rewards for posting activity was never the way the economy was designed, and we see their operation as an economic attack against the reward pool and the chain in general. They centralise powered-up stake, remove economic incentives for good behaviour, and if that weren't enough, they take a chunk out of your hard-earned rewards and redistribute them to the large stakeholders bankrolling these operations, who should really know better by now. If you've been around since 2016, this general business pattern may sound familiar to you. It keeps resurfacing under new disguises.
Please note that we use an extremely light touch with this stance already. We have never targeted liquidated posts specifically for downvotes, and we don't incessantly spam this sort of message under every liquidated post by every user. The message you're replying to was an automated message that you'll only ever see once per account; after that, we stand back and allow you to make an informed choice on a per-post basis whether to use liquidation services or not, which will determine their eligibility for @curangel accordingly. We'll never bother you about your use of these services again either way.
Take care and thanks for being an important part of the Hive community!
Thank you for taking the time to respond to my reply.
I am pleased to hear you are considering re-wording your automated comment. If it's not going to be done manually I think that would be a good solution.
I took the comment personally (and felt targeted) because it was a response on my blog post. That is the risk when leaving your generalized comment on someone's post, they will take it as you are putting them in that category of not being a committed or supportive Hiver.
I appreciate you explaining in more detail why you are against these types of services. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and you are entitled to run your initiative the way you see fit.
I agree that there will always be users that are not responsible when using these services but I don’t feel it’s right to try to rid them when the responsible users see them as a benefit.
I do see some of your points but I think any creator of a service has every right to be rewarded for what they have created. Also reward.app upvotes every post that uses the service which gives back to the users.
Thanks again for your reply and in-depth explanations. I really do appreciate that.
Take care ~