If you want to lower your responsibility for having soooo much stake, delegate it to people you think will improve your investment.
Any responsibility for what they do can be dodged by revoking the delegation, but properly selecting people to enhance will strengthen hive.
IF you want to keep the curation rewards, simply follow them on a trail with a small vote that can also be revoked upon poor behavior.
Or, use an alt account to do it.
Hive still has all the potential that kept the earliest adopters here coming up on 10 years, but with the reputation we have in the market for being difficult and continued reinforcement of that reputation, any mass adoption will be impeded.
Success in the hive should be hard, but add in the reap of the pool by people operating on a zero cost basis and it is not compatible with folks that have to buy in at retail.
Who buys in to be diluted by people that care nothing about them and say as much in all that they do?
Do you remember the Stewards of Gondor? I do, and how that revealed the ability of such modest delegations to effectively market Hive and improve user retention.
I do remember, maybe we can get @hurtlocker to look through the project.
Do you have any links?
Since search is utterly non-functional on Hive, the record of my comments and discussions regarding that project are buried tens of thousands of comments back that would literally take me hours to slowly go back and look for in my catalog. I'm not going to do that.
The concept is easy enough to convey simply, and has zero risk to the capital involved in the delegations. Starting small enables vigilance for cheaters to be easy to do, and after a month or two there would be enough demonstrations of what to watch out for to enable scaling.
I wouldn't recommend increasing delegation size either, but increasing the number of modest delegations instead, as that reduces temptation to cheat, while increasing breadth of curative impact.
https://eroche.shinyapps.io/HiveEngagement/
If you can remember names, this will find the conversations.
The sponsor of the Stewards of Gondor was Blue something. After the spam war with the unnameable one, he basically quit posting, although he yet retains stake and votes it through many socks.
This is a good idea. I will keep this in mind. Delegating is one of the things I really like about HIVE. It is a really cool feature imo!