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I think both your thoughts are legitimate. I have said multiple times in my post that I am not judging but I am showing the reality that often lay hidden in plain sight simply ignored. I simply given people a measure of their behavior. I am glad people found value in it. I am at home recovering from a major surgery and had some time at my disposal so I used it this way. My intent was not to point fingers at people.

You say what needs saying...I wonder who will listen. All that remains is to cease voting on those accounts that extract all those funds and see if that causes them to adjust.

Funny though huh? You support them with chunky votes, they extract it all, and return you a pathetic 0.02 vote...and you keep supporting them.

Time for a change huh?

It has two faces always if you ask me. Yeah I do appreciate it a LOT more if someone is doing more towards the system and keeping it all circular (for instance...love the buy a hivefest ticket with hive kind of thing) and that is then again also the cool part about the power of manual votes. We can choose who can give them to. Not liking the vibe on someone? Then they aint getting the vote.

But then again, if one makes an awesome post post with a cool story and awesome shots, puts a lot of work in there and cashes that out. Who am I to judge on it. It was also again about the quality of the post where it all started with blogging and we also shouldn't forget that entirely. (the politics)

For me it is still about human interaction, people you can relate to and the fun of reading others stuff and seeing cool pics. Ofcourse it shouldn't be about milking the system totally, don't get me wrong. But when one decides to use the funds otherwise....I cant always judge

Just my 2 cents (literally ;)))))) )

It's definitely a hard issue and there are always two sides to the story. I tend to agree with many of the posts here, but then you have to consider the people who are literally trying to live of Hive because their situation or location demands it. I'm definitely going to be looking more closely at the accounts my votes have been going to. Additionally, there are several who have pointed out that some practices done by the larger accounts while not directly powering down is just as detrimental and they see this current "movement" as hypocritical. Whether it is true or not, I think in all fairness it deserves consideration. I also think a lot of people are misinterpreting the situation all together.

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First off, thank you! Reading through your post made me realize you're a supporter of Worldmappin, a community I’m always posting in and where I’ve been getting some nice upvotes too.

About your post, it's a hot topic on the platform right now. I’ve already read most of them and checked out many of the comments. It made me realize how urgent this issue is. I don’t usually look at other accounts' wallet activities, so I wasn’t fully aware of this until I saw Azircon’s chart.

Hmm... since joining Ecency’s Guest Curator team, I’ve been focusing about 30% of my upvotes on content, regardless of the user’s wallet activity. The other 70% goes to users who I think are actively building their HP. Personally, I like rewarding users who are growing their accounts... it’s a great way to support the platform and the community overall. A community that cares about Hive and has strong HP holdings makes the blockchain more secure. If a big investor ever tries to dominate, high HP users can push back. That’s why I’m all about supporting users who are building their HP.

As much as I want to vote purely based on content, I prefer to give more attention to users who are also focused on growing their HP because, in the long run, they’ll be supporting a broader part of the community.

Even though my HP is just above the young Dolphin level, my effective HP is at the Orca level thanks to the delegations I receive. So, it’s in my delegators' best interest that I’m careful about where my upvotes go.

Thanks for your insightful post; it really helped me solidify my thoughts on my voting style moving forward.

Sometimes I feel that Hive is so depressing because of all the crap and milkers around, and it gets very frustrating that there is little that we can do about it. These posts this week certainly have drummed up a lot of discussions about the health of Hive, and no doubt made some genuine manual curators like yourself more aware of who they're supporting. I'm not sure if and how much impact and lasting effect all this will have, but Hive wasn't built in a day. We've come a long way since 2020 and as long as there are people with enough stake who can create awareness and make noises, we have hope.

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This is really an interesting and funny paradigm shift. Anti socialist introduced me to this concept like 6 weeks ago and I’ve been noodling on it ever since. I just last week started to implement it and it does feel good to put the most rewards and effort to those people who are going to keep the stake in the account instead of just treating it like a piggy bank. It’s funny because I just scheduled a post on this and I didn’t realize a few others had made this change besides Taraz. I’m glad people are doing it though honestly. There’s lots of people mooching off the ecosystem and we need to send them a message that shit doesn’t fly.

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It can definitely be annoying to see that those you curate don't even try to build and just cash it out. Trying to look from their perspective some of them may really need it urgently, I know I take from my liquids from time to time for emergencies and even to invest in other places both in and out of Hive, not sure I've ever powered down for that though. As I'm trying to build my stake to something meaningful. Anyways, like you said everyone has their freedom. It's up to you to vote, and it's up to them to do what they want with it.

My vote is worth 13 cents.. you're welcome to it

I have mixed feelings. I think the best thing for Hive (other than more apps) is good quality content. If you choose to withdraw your earnings then that's your decision. Hive's biggest selling point, at least the social media aspect, is that you get paid to post. Kind of worthless if you can't do anything with it. If good authors are "punished" just because of they choose to do something else with what they earn here, then that will just push more people away. Now how many quality authors routinely power down is a question I can't answer.

On the other hand, I appreciate those who support the ecosystem by keeping most of their hive powered up or otherwise invested in the ecosystem and think this is important for the value of hive.

I take sort of a middle road. My strategy has been to upvote the content that I like to encourage more of the same. However, I will typically give lower value votes to those that power down.

I'm one who enjoys supporting others, wants to help the community grow and thrive, and I feel like the takers are just one step above the spammers.

I think, all these discussions are indicating the fact that, the middle class like us is getting more organized to support others who wants to grow and does not want to just take away. This is definitely a good sign for the chain.

It's your stake, so it's completely up to you how you use it, and I see no issues with your reasoning, they're valid points. I understand some people rely on Hive for a living in less fortunate areas, but it would be nice to see them power up at least a small portion for a couple of reasons:

1. They could earn more curation rewards in the long run, which would also allow them to support others in similar situations who are contributing quality content.

2. In general, I think some people are taking advantage of the situation. They're happy to receive support and cash out, but they're not really contributing to help others on the platform. Morally, that bother me.

3. I believe the platform would benefit overall if people weren't just cashing everything out. Thankfully, it seems like most people aren't doing this.