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You have to cast a pretty wide net to categorize Hive SBI as a circle-jerk. In fact, it's an account-based curation model that is partially inspired by Patreon.

Account-based curation stabilizes rewards for smaller accounts, and results in substantial retention improvement. That's why many dedicated members continue to use Hive SBI in support of causes they care about, in spite of being aggressively downvoted by hostile former bid-bot owners.

Blah Blah. Users pay, they get a vote. Doesn't really matter if it's for themselves or someone they like, it's pay to play and merit has nothing to do with it.

You've just obfuscated it a bit to stay under the radar and you have strong PR and marketing. I'm a bit surprised you made it past HF21 because you really should have been cleaned out with the bid bots, but people are starting to catch on. For the sake of HIVE I hope you don't succeed here.