But, that just isn't the case and won't be, because not only is it humans doing the voting, it is also largely impossible to tell what is truly valuable content and activity for Hive.

There are some apps doing the posting, like actifi, I don't see value in them. Like they get 20 dollar worth of post value for what how much steps you walked data? Meanwhile I write tutorials which barely cross 1 dollar. The way it works, people on hive, quickly climb the HP higher and become whale or orca then expect others to deal with it with whatever they post, like actifit stats. And then some come out to make hive to be reward free.

The day hive rewards are moved massive drop in users will follow. Nobody is here to play ubuntu and kumbaya. Remove money then even wife, parents and kids will leave you, and I have partially experienced that. And these holy top accounts think removing rewards is necessary and should be done? Good luck with that.