I'm sure many of you have heard the abbreviation KE lately and like many other things it's a great tool to evaluate a hive account in different ways, however - and I've made a post or comments in the past mentioning this - it shouldn't be taken at face value every time.
Another one to add to it could be comment to post ratio, at face value this also may not mean much and even if it looks "healthy" an account could still just be commenting "nice post" or "!turdtoken" 10 times per day or just saying "thanks" to comments they receive while not giving a shit to consume and engage with other authors.
Another tool could be to show how many votes they send off and how many unique accounts they touch, I checked and hivetasks has this indicator actually:
Voting CSI 50.5 ( 1.31 % self, 485 upvotes, 251 accounts, last 7d )
(I've self-voted twice this week at face value, but if you checked which comments/posts you'd notice I don't accept any rewards)
All of these tools would be great if the front-end could bundle up and easily showcase for each account you're looking at at any given time as it'd help you out to determine how valuable and contributing accounts are to Hive but as I said even just looking at these numbers it won't always tell the full story so you may still have to do a little bit more looking to determine how things really stand.
Just because a user is powering down everything does not make them a "parasite".
Hive is about rewarding people for their activity and contributions, things we deem to bring value to the chain in different forms as they affect others and may keep people here based on their actions in different ways.
Hive is supposed to make things easy for regular users who aren't traders, investors or generally well off in their day to day, it's no surprise that majority of users on hive come from developing countries because the rewards they can earn here affects their day to day in a big way. That's not a weakness of Hive, even if that sell pressure may cause wilder swings and crazier dips during market downtrends, it's one of its strengths.
The important thing is what these users are contributing, are the rewards they are earning, whether they sell everything or not, comparable to their contributions. I know many users I'd say yes on, but also many I'd say no and that's not always the users fault either, often times it could be the voters overdoing it or not judging them on certain criteria before curating if they're curating to begin with.
Lastly, we don't know what people are going through in their personal life, that's one of the few things that isn't always transparently public on the chain and that's fine that way. Thus judging people based on selling stake at low prices or for long durations isn't the right thing to do in my opinion if they also contribute in many ways many would deem valuable. If certain posts are overrewarded then downvote them for that, don't make it about what they've done with the rewards. Many of us here are bullish hive and even the sellers may be so they'll be the ones losing out the most and in regret when things eventually turn around.
That said there may also be users who barely contribute much and then on top of it earn a lot and constantly sell, for that I have no excuses - I just think it'd be important to tread lightly to not judge everyone based on a couple metrics alone cause that then becomes a bad user experience for many involved.
