I really don't want to be sucked into this but you've done that.
Both @themarkymark and @transisto often upvote my content and I believe you've both voted for my proposals. @no-agenda.art is a bot that reposts a vast amount of ORIGINAL content. If I had more time I would be pushing harder to get more of the No Agenda artists on to Hive and owning their own accounts, that's what the system is built to do and to showcase Hive as a place for communities.
I've bought Hive Punks and used Mark's services not because I think I'll get rich, but because I like to support innovation on Hive.
The No Agenda Mastodon instance is promoted to over 1m podcast listeners on every single show. It would be nice to get some mind share on the show for Hive, we already have a huge foothold in Adam Curry's head because he knows that @Podping, the global notification system for Podcasting 2.0 only works because of the unique characteristics of Hive. The earnings from @no-agenda.art are hypothecated to make donations to the No Agenda show, I have a pending donation of $333 I need to do soon but I've been too busy with @v4vapp. I probably have more than that but honestly this hasn't been a huge focus of mine.
Funnily enough I've known @transisto has been a listener to that show for a long time. Whatever your past curation and upvoting beefs you've had with him in the past, his support of this particular endeavour did not come at my bidding but I fully understood why they came.
The entire point of the DHF is to avoid voting automated (or any post) to raise funds for projects. In fact the project already has DHF funding. If it wasn’t for this we would have hundreds of people self voting 60-80 comments a day like hive watchers used to do before their proposal got funded.
Either way his response is super mature.
Nothing directly related to No Agenda or my art bot is funded by the DHF, this is totally a side project of mine. Podping had a one time DHF claim which I used to pay others to do some of the dev work that I hadn't learned at that time and most of that DHF payout is now powered up and acts as the HP necessary to keep the thing running.
I just want it known that I didn't set up that bot to milk the reward pool and I have no intention of doing that. If people like some of the art, they might want to upvote it and if they do, I'll pass that on to No Agenda and/or the original artists if they decide to open Hive accounts.