They vanished because we basically fixed HBD with the stabilizer combined with Hive >> HBD conversions.
I like that premise... And, I would implement the same premise with the "downvote issue"... Looking at people talking about downvotes like a thing that is "set in stone" hurts a lot... Why it is impossible to find a different approach to things that downvotes are served for? Are downvotes really so perfect solution and we can't do better?
For me, it looks like we have moved the discussion in the wrong direction... If AI and downvotes are the problem, we know that we can't change the first, but the second... We implemented it! We can also change it and create a better solution for plagiarism, abuse, etc...
And another thing regarding the rewards pool... Everyone talks about authors "milking" the pool, while that's a mission impossible if there are no CURATORS who UPVOTE them... Again, we shifted the problem from irresponsible curation to authors... Why? Is it an easier solution to implement it, that's why?
I don't want to go into the layer-2 tokens at all as that makes no sense at all... HIVE doesn't have a layer-2 infrastructure that can do that at the moment... IMO, all H-E tokens are heavily centralized and that's an even bigger WildWest than a whole crypto...
Thanks for sharing your views! It's important that we can share them!