The Hive platform is one of the best Web 3.0 platforms, and there is no doubt about it. Even if it is one of the best platforms, it's not so easy to make a place here. The Hive platform is complex and wider, which makes it hard to understand within a short time. One needs to be consistent and dedicated if they intend to stay and make money. At the same time, they need a long-term vision. I strongly believe that the Hive platform is not for short-sighted individuals, as they may end up draining their energy without gaining anything. So, before onboarding anyone, it is necessary to check if the person is ready to go through with dedication.
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I have limited time and energy, and I have always tried to bring those people in Hive who are good at writing and suitable for here. Unfortunately, none of them were ready to stay here for the long term. There were a lot of people from my country who joined Hive, but not my references. As they were from my country, I used to help them whenever they faced issues and asked me. Instead of having a busy time, I tried my best to give them some guidelines. Even if I didn't on both of them, I tried my best, and I gave a lot of effort to each person. I just wanted more people from my country, and such a desire is very natural. Let me share an incident, which was the worst one.
I used to be active on other writing platforms also before joining here. There was a person who was good at writing. On Facebook, I told him to become active on Hive, as he had an account from earlier. Because of that, he became active here. I have given him all the instructions he needed to know and have restricted him from what not to do. Instructing him was very easy, as he could understand better than any newbie, since he had little experience from earlier. In the first few days, he published posts consistently, and I guess he was receiving a good response compared to any other newbie. I was very optimistic about him.
Unfortunately, after a few days, he started to be jealous of the earnings of others, and I suggested he not pay attention to such a thing. I don't know what made him demotivated, but he stopped writing on his own and started to publish AI-generated posts. Understanding that I restricted him from doing so. Rather than listening to my advice, he said an author (a popular one and still active here) is making AI-generated posts every day and earning a lot. He said nothing would happen if he also made AI-generated posts. He didn't stop there. He even insisted me to publish AI-generated posts and said I was doing a foolish thing by spending too much time writing posts. He started to behave as if he knew everything, and he was the owner here, and everything was under his control.
After trying several times to make him understand, I stopped wasting my time. I just reported his profile to the hive.watchers, saying something about the AI-generated post. Within a few days, he started to get downvotes, and later, he left the platform. You might be thinking it was not right to inform hive.watcher, but I think I have done the right thing, and I never regret it. He had the talent of writing, but chose to use AI rather than his writing skills. I had high hopes for him, and it was reasonable also, but he actually did the opposite and made me disappointed. I think I wasted my effort for nothing on such a person. I wish I hadn't told him to be active again. In that case, I would be able to save some of my time.
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The part where you reported him to hive.watchers felt spot on, your right to protect the commons when someone pushes AI post's as a shortcut. Envy skews incentives and turns a decent writer into a yield chaser, but that never compounds in the long run :) As someone who lives in numbers, I see this like market audit, you set guardrails so honest work isn't diluted by noise. Painful to spend time onboarding and hit this wall, but staying with real craft and dedciation is still the only play taht pays.
I think other authors would be discouraged if they saw a user making rewards without making any effort by using AI. I believe one doesn't deserve a reward if he is not ready to make efforts here (my opinion). I thought reporting was my responsibility, and so I went for it. But that person had good writing skills, and I believe he would be better than me here if he hadn't chosen the shortcut. Whatever, I wasn't in control.
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It's actually not easy and that's what discourage beginners mostly, your experience with your friend is so emotional and I could feel like your friend later carried on a different motive and atmosphere which wasn't healthy for him, well what you did was courageous and most people wouldn't do that if they were in your shoes, I commend you for that.