RE: Can we Lose the HIVE Voting Window?

"If I could explain to him, your stake size determines your return based on your vote weight (which is still confusing as fuck to non-HIVE people), it would make things a little easier.

"The auto-voters? I use them, and I don't intend to be hypocritical about their use. They promote laziness but you have to understand I can't spend 6 hours a day manually reading and curating other’s work."

I don't think you view forthright speech as merely an investment vehicle. It's far more important than my financial assets IMHO, and I see that you generally speak your mind rather than pander, so reckon you also more highly value facts upon which your freedom and prosperity depend than on curation rewards.

Indeed, war profiteers reveal that propaganda and censorship are literally a matter of life and death.

This is why I have ever and always regarded curation rewards as both unnecessary and disruptive. Perhaps they are less obviously so than the blithe lies of Raytheon or Lockheed executives, but they are not less dangerous to society for being more cryptic in how they derange our speech.

I consider you a pragmatist, and were you availed a means of ROI for your investments that did not depend on how much time you devoted to consuming posts I am confident you would not undertake to blindly promote content with autovotes. @edicted has discussed how savings accounts could provide ROI without deranging Hive content, and allowing curation to become actual curation, rather than a vector for profiteering mislabeled as curation.

Curation rewards derange curation intolerably IMHO, and while they have rarely resulted in folks being functionally banned in a way comparable to what Twitter and their ilk have undertaken of late, it has happened, and almost worse, execrable content has risen to the top of trending for all the world to see, and avoid.

Hive is several things. A society, a token, and a blockchain. It is the first that the latter depend on for their value and existence, and one of the most important features of a society is the quality of communications it's members undertake. Curation rewards have degraded Hive as a society heretofore, and as long as curation rewards exist I expect that will continue. This puts negative pressure on price, which you care about.

I do not mention this because I seek to impel you to action. I would be best gratified if you were inspired to understand @edicted's explanation of savings accounts as a replacement for curation rewards, because I expect that if you did, you would strongly advocate for them, and when enough rational and pragmatic folks do, Hive will change for the better.

Thanks!