I hope you too will learn the system and succeed.
Don't you think that it's a bit too naive/stubborn to try to force human behavior around a system, instead of adopting/improving the system based on human behavior? How many people are still here vs. how many people have left Steem/Hive over the years?
Just because "hardcore Hivers" are still here, doesn't mean that the system in this state is suitable for the general masses. Some people might have a high enough threshold to accept whales systematically downvoting their content, but I don't think the average joe will want to deal with that "negativity". There's a reason why most social media haven't implemented "dislikes", and if they implemented it, they were just "empty" reactions, not filled with negative monetary value.
IMHO the idea of people "bidding" for how much of a global reward pool should be given to a contribution is brilliant, but I don't think it's suitable for the average population social media content. I think it's better suited for closed entities - such as companies; not global & anonymous social networks without any accountabilities.
It is a very interesting question you pose.
You are saying that whale downvoting and the "negativity" that goes with it is a consequence of the Hive system.
But in my view the Hive system IS adapted to human group behaviour. That includes both positive and negative feedback, inequalities of power and the fact that new entrants to a community have to learn the (often unwritten) rules of acceptable behaviour.
These are key features of ALL human communities. This is true across cultures and since the dawn of time. It is even true of primate communities.
Part of the reason that centralised social media is so toxic and uncivil is that there are no community consequences for bad behaviour, only the massive sledgehammer of centralised banning. There is nothing at stake. Having only positive feedback mechanisms is extremely problematic as it goes against human nature.
It is centralised social media that has got human behaviour terribly wrong with devastating consequences for the world.
I'm sure blart and zapata will be happy to have you.
Take your bid botted stake and go.
chump
As salty as ever @freebornangel, eh? Some people never change 😉
I changed my name, if not my persona.
If by salty you mean unforgiving of your coming here and profiting from harming the chain, then yeah, I will take that.
Have you done something I can be proud of?