The DHF is a massive issue and there is more money being drained from the Bank of Hive than any Steem ninja mine
This.
I have talked a lot over the years about what I would do differently and I am back in a place where I am thinking the community at large might be a lost cause. There are individuals here who I value, but I am not sure about "Hive" as a whole because the wrong incentives have attracted and retained people who just want to work the system with as little contribution as possible.
We have people who are funded heavily to promote and market Hive who do not know how to do the most basic things required of the job and are unaccountable.
Engagement would be great as a factor for managing over-rewards, but with so many people already botting the comments (eg. "wahh wahh my spam gets downvoted, ask your friends to stop downvoting me otherwise I will keep spamming you for calling me a spammer!!1") and the farmers who post eleventy times per day across all of their accounts would think nothing about filling the chain with sock-puppet "thansks mr poster!" comments even manually if it maintained their work-free lifestyle.
The bad Hive price keeps some of the sketchier folks quiet but the next spike in price will get the "I deserve $1000 for my picture of an ASDA bag on grass" to come back.
Any other web platform would incentivise things that bring more activity to the platform, but when people from "out there" discover that I am a hive user I get embarrassed like they discovered I have a weird addiction or fetish. I would be less shamed if people thought I hung out on 4chan.
😂 and this my friend is why you are talking to a bee gee . On a serious note your points are excellent.
Heh I figured that was the case, but it is a shame because there are a few people I would miss if I left, so what I do is keep hanging out at the shitty bar and hope nobody sees me come and go while wearing a "MY NAME IS CHRIS" badge
😂😂😂😂