Looking at my feed it seems many do get voted on quite consistently which is nice to see. Looking at the community feed may be a bit of a different story. I still find people who just know about their own feed, often forget to use the follow function and don't spend much time other than their feed and trending. I wish people would bother looking further now and then as there's definitely more to find even if as you say the quality of content isn't that high at times like these.
Another thing I'd like to mention which was a point I wanted to make way back, if you feel certain posts are overrewarded it should be perfectly fine to downvote them for that. Even if it's from a user that constantly sells it's okay imo to "bother to downvote" those overrewarded posts while ignoring some overrewarded ones of users who stay staked. What I don't like seeing personally is if the main reason becomes what they do with the rewards instead of how they've earned them. That's a slippery slope cause we can't know what they're doing with the rewards and those staying staked does not mean they're "better people" necessarily or providing more value to the chain. We've seen in the past how one downvote can cause some folks to lose it and ruin years of progress in one sitting.
I have a few communities I follow, and I know others do the same. It isn't always easy to find decent stuff, and then spend the time researching to see if it is indeed "real" content.
I get the not focusing on what they do with their rewards, but if they are earning them through content, but aren't commenting well, aren't supporting others, are just financing whatever else they do with the rewards, they probably aren't going to stick around past the post rewards anyway.
I think it is similar for witnesses - at least the top 20 should be putting in the effort to make it clear what is happening and what is being developed. I miss the time when there was talk about development and hardforks on the chain that included the community. It is hard to know what is going on at all these days it seems, and that makes it hard for people to get excited about being on Hive and being part of a movement in a community.
Yeah, I know I'm really bad at this, although I'm trying to increase my posting frequency and include some content to lure normies ;-)
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