RE: «Meet Hive's Plutocracy»
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Just kidding. On a more serious note, Hive has become a community with its own culture and mannerisms, sometimes it is quirky but I learned to like it and I do realize outsiders may not understand us at first, and some never at all. I agree that the amount of bots and automation is frustrating, it is unstoppable so can only be fought by better (and more powerful) organic content curation.
Our witnesses have indeed been focusing a lot on code and infrastructure, it is a blockchain made by programmers and led by programmers so it makes sense that their hyper focus is on tech. I agree with your point that more focus should be given to quality organic-like content rather than just technology, but honestly I have no idea how that can be done because I probably tend to think more like a programmer myself (because I am one). Maybe we need a product development/improvement team or something like that? Makes no sense to me but I am open to support new ideas as I am a user that wants to see more diverse content to find new friends and communities.
So you raise a lot of agreeable points, but I still struggle to find solutions or paths for improvements that (specially) the top witness should implement, that is the kind of discussion I would like to read about, what in practice they could do. To me some curation trails may help bring into the spotlight newer and better creators and some top witnesses have a lot of power to upvote them, but other than that I am clueless about what would bring more organic quality content. We, as a community, need to both bring more people to both consume and create better content, but the path to achieve the goal right now is not exactly laid down by the devs because they focus on tech mostly (although Hive does have good products, I use them myself and I like them)
It is simple in my opinion. If you have certain expectations from witnesses, just unvote the ones that don't reach that expectation and vote the ones that do. IMHO active governance voting (including DHF) is what brings change or encourages growth if any.
This. The bar is so low it should be easy.
Simply downvoting in my opinion doesn’t help the community to improve as much as discussing what you consider to be issues worth discussing about. Unvoting is always an option but talking is better than simply voting or unvoting
Not sure what downvoting has to do with it as you can't downvote witnesses.
Wrong word, I meant unvoting, English is not my first language and even though I am fluent I slip sometimes, my bad
Yes, unvoting is possible, but democracies need dialogue and discussion so discussing about it is even more helpful than downvoting because you can either convince or be convinced or reinforce your ideas that made you either vote or unvote