Stop voting for filler content (even if it is superficially "good" in some vague sense) and downvote when you see other people voting for it. Vote for content and communities that actually attract and retain users.
We have an incredibly powerful mechanism for growth but as long as stakeholders don't use it, we might as well not have it.
Agree.
I think for an alternative to not depend 100% on growth on stakeholders, a cheap way would be very supportive of it.
Voting is a powerful tool but it is very subjective. What's good or what's bad is really difficult.
Is some photo without any written content bad content?
What if it some fashion thing or trend thing I don't understand and it receives 10k likes on other platforms?
What about a guide with 10k words about a game nobody plays?
For this, I think Reward tokens are always the better options, because "experts" in that particular topic can decide.
And because of this, onboarding would need an alternative way, that should be affordable.
It depends, does it attract users, investment, attention to Hive? The content is a means to an end, not an end. Stakeholders being a charity that pays for content without a return to stakeholders is a losing proposition.
If stakeholders want to lose money, it may be partially because they are dumb or economically suicidal, and partially because the economic foundations of Hive has not been explained to them. We can work on the latter, but meanwhile those of us who don't want to lose money can also immediately push back by voting differently, including downvoting.