We can further expand why it is failure, even whales are voting @buildawhale burn comments or @hbdstabilizer posts/comments. These votes are actively preventing spread of the stake because they know if they don't vote these post they will get diluted. They know if they don't vote, rewards for other posts which they don't want to get rewarded will increase. Correct me, if I am wrong. But I am going to call out, what I see. (For the record, there is nothing wrong with them doing this. This is their right as stakeholders. I am writing this to illustrate the failure of the reward pool.)
I vote burn posts as a direct counter to the insane DHF spending on projects that offer little to no value to Hive. There are other reasons as well but none of them are to "prevent the spread of stake".
Well, I would be happy if you elaborate on those other reasons as well and even if your reasoning for it is to counter DHF spending, it does prevent the spread of stake.
And for the record, it is not a callout to you individually.
For a couple of years everything I posted and everything I upvoted was downvoted by two large whales. This was why I stopped posting and part of why I stopped curating but a large part of the curation is because in some way I want to counter the massive sell pressure of bad proposals.
Appreciate it.