This is getting circular, but the key foundation is that people get rewarded for posts based on voting, which includes both upvoting and downvoting (or you can opt out of if you like, and treat it like a low-censorship platform without rewards).
We're five years in here and that has never changed. If someone is marketing on the basis that this is something like Facebook except you get paid for likes, they aren't doing a very good job.
I haven't seen any evidence regarding the brief that ignite are working to and all my comments of any kind in this direction have been ignored by the person handling the situation - so i can't say for sure what they are doing in this regard. I am highlighting a mismatch between your psychology and the psychology of many other people - including the default perception of most people who are not familiar with hive's mechanics, when it comes to 'how such a system should work'. It's fine to say 'the blockchain works this way' (accoarding to how those with the most stake have decided it would run via support for witnesses who share their views), but to also deny that there IS scope for free will choice within the way the blockchain runs that could result in either success or failure for the blockchain is disingenuous. If a police force uses 'laws' in a way that causes friction in the community, it doesn't make much difference if they say 'well, the rules allow for us to do this' - the result will be the same, minimal tourism and low morale in the community.