During our Pre-Launch announcement of D.Buzz it came to our attention that there are members of the HIVE community who are concerned with short-form content being used to abuse the reward pool.
People like 
He reached out to 
Besides delaying our project launch by a couple weeks at minimum, 
By making all posts in D.Buzz comments on a post inside our community, we lose the neatness of having many posts from different users inside our community on other platforms such as Hive.Blog.
We also lose the Trending features that are built into the communities.
I am also concerned that opportunists would take advantage of the lack of posts in our community. To try to post garbage or other spammy, scammy types of posts in hopes that it would be seen by someone viewing our community on other platforms due to the lack of posts in the main feed.
We want people to use our Dapp on D.Buzz but also want people to be able to interact with it on other platforms such as
@peakd and Hive.Blog.
The mechanics of doing it through the comment route feels a bit like jerry-rigging our Dapp to adhere to some unwritten protocols instead of using the current protocols that are currently the standards for communities.
I think if the Hive community wants social media Dapps but is concerned about the reward pool abuse, a protocol change needs to be made at the Hive blockchain level where posts made to the chain would be given a type such as Blog, Video, Image, Short-form, etc. The rewards for short-form posts and other types of social media posts of the likes could have adjusted rewards.
My last concern is that if we decide to use comments for posts, people will build bots to upvote comments as the Dapp becomes more popular, defeating the entire purpose.
Our team is open to changing to use comments for the post made on our Dapp but do not feel that this is the best way to do this.
The community wants a social media platform such as D.Buzz.. the question is, how do we work at making social media Dapps on HIVE and prevent reward pool abuse?
In light of this, we are proposing that 
If you are in favor of this proposal please vote for it here.. the funds will be sent to
ABOUT OUR LAUNCH:
We will be launching D.Buzz this week w/Rewards set to Decline for all of our users. This temporary status (one week) of declined rewards is intended to promote public discourse so that we can eventually activate rewards without risking public backlash and heavy downvotes from curation groups and abuse fighters such as
We should extend the Decline Rewards for
We should activate rewards after the 1st week of Declining Rewards is over.
Give us feedback w/different ideas.
Again, be sure to vote on our proposal if you think policies should be written at the blockchain level and that
P.S. Contact chrisrice#2989 on our Discord if you want to discuss this with
