IDK for sure, and I try to just give my input, so keep that in mind with everything I say. It seems to me though that everything has its place. Discord's original use case was for workgroups, correct? I think that's the case, and it works really well for that. A traditional blog forum has another type of use, and even though private messages are possible, they are not an important part of users' interaction. Personally, I'm an open source radical, to the point that I would ban all private messaging! 🤯 Especially with a community dedicated to managing our collectively pooled money. There should be absolutely nothing secret here IMHO - everything should be out in the open.

I do agree with what you say about everyone (meaning the majority) looking up instead of down, but isn't that a reflection of human nature, of life in general? I'm not saying I agree with it though, just that it's more of a general social issue that needs to be dealt with on a wider scale and with lots of patience and understanding.

As far as rewards go, I too think it's imperative to find a way to make the smaller vote counts worth the same (at least the same) as the larger. A voting power of, let's say 50¢, should be worth the same 50¢ on a comment with only 50¢ of upvote as it's worth on a post with $50 of upvotes. Individual comments are penalized under the current reward system, and that goes contrary to what needs to happen, again, IMHO. Individual comments, like these, are the lifeblood of any social media. People need to have the same right to vote a friend's picture with the same weight as their vote would have on Super Poster's rant about centralized exchanges, that is if we really want HIVE to go mainstream.

I also think more equal vote weighting for the smaller vote counts would also go a long ways in getting people to start looking down, or at least across anyway ... at the person in front of them. 😉