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I think we need to give people a reason to be here even WITHOUT the rewards. Then the reward is just icing on the cake, eh?

Yes, definitely but that is not the responsibility of users, its responsibility for the dapp developers. And I think, we have got quite excellent devs on hive, to come up with all those ideas. Personally, I think, about many ideas. Citing one of them : Develop something like https://www.mouthshut.com/ And back up the votes by the whales asking Providers to pay to get their consumer reviews on block chain. Its a perfect use case of hive blockchain.

Eventually I thing our brilliant dev would come up with such implementation. And even we can also do some fund raising to do such kind of app. The real use case of block chain is to tamper less proof of all conversations, and those kind of apps would take hive to the next level. Of course, there would be improvement needed for easy user sign up, but I hope they will get sorted out.

Agree ?

Whales have been voting content for years.. why aren't we mooned yet if that's the fix all?

Perhaps a bit of analysis of where that curation went would provide insight. Even @johalfiles eventually just funded the bots back in the day. $20/day is just too high a motivation to be surpassed by altruisism. I sought from time to time to point out that retaining users pushed price, but suspect the facts that cash is king and hearts are fickle generally promoted circle jerks and bot funding more than user retention.

We need focused content. Imagine, if we create a dapp to write reviews for amazon buys and reward them , what would happen ?

People will start writing reviews here instead of amazon and more traffic would come here, and even Jeff will think to outsource his reviews to hive ? 😁