I'm like you. And here I am too, a couple of hours a day, curating, manually, and very poorly, at that, upvoting comments I like because I think that is what this is all about, EVEN THOUGH I am penalized economically for doing that, curating poorly, that is. Poorly, of course, when viewed in the eyes of current rewards - comment upvoting just might be the worst ROI in the house! But I've already said enough about that in this thread ...

Not deluded, but very hopeful. The whole HIVE fork is a thing of wonder in my book. There's an extraordinary group of people at the core of this, and throughout as well. Lots of reasons to have high expectations for HIVE.