Note: If you don’t really care about whatever happens to this community, best save yourself some time and move along. Unfollow this account, mute it, and unsubscribe to the community. For those that are interested, proceed to read.
The recent publication before this post was a forerunner to what changes I planned out over the weeks. The previous post already detailed what the account has accomplished and the rant. This post is meant to expound some areas that are hardly ever discussed openly. Why? Because people just can’t be bothered.
A. Will be expanding the list of Authors Upvoted.
It’s been months since the last update on the list of accounts set to be upvoted by this account. There were a few names on the list when I reviewed Hive.Vote. This is to increase the efficiency of this accounts APR from curation and not keep the voting power stagnant. The problem was having this account’s power not be used as it’s limited to whoever has the time to use it. Even when it’s set to follow voting trails, there would still be occasions that it’s VP can sit at 100% for hours.
Expanding the list doesn’t remove the problem entirely as only a few names were added and it will still depend on their posting activity to trigger the vote. Who are the authors on the list? Not going to disclose that but you can piece together the names when you review the blockchain transactions.
Are we playing favorites here? Yes. Authors selected have a track record of having their post earn decent curation returns which is a benefit for this account when the upvote is timed. It all goes back to increasing this account rate of growth. Another criteria which is more important than having high returns is community contribution by the author. An author that is active engaging, upvotes this account, or contributes to the community is likely to get this privilege. The latter has more weight on the decision making than the former.
Because why should this account really owe anyone that exists upvotes? If we’re just going to support someone as a community, shouldn’t the resources be directed to the ones that give back the value to the community? Besides, getting on the list is a privilege and not a birth right. Deal with it. I’m on that list but my name was included prior to getting the lead spot. I could just remove my name there and have lesser incentives to bother with this shit show?
The changes being made at the background aren’t really felt by the end user base because a lot of the problems arise from having no clear direction where this community was supposed to be heading. Even the slogan “Supporting Filipinos worldwide” is misleading, I can’t get behind that slogan and I don’t expect any Filipino to get behind that idea through and through. We all got social circles to nurse and people to dislike in the platform. It should be “Supporting Filipinos worldwide but exceptions are made for user x, x, x, x, and when they also do shit stuff like x, x, x, and plagiarism, spam , and scamming.”
Too much vision but not enough concrete foundation for the road. Trace back the roots of this organization from the previous blockchain and there’s plenty of dirt to unravel, with politics, envy, incompetence, and apathy. I’m not going to ass myself to fix everything this community started but I will do what I can at my reasonable willingness to try make some changes. Also note that when I mentioned history, it encompasses stuff prior to 
The fork happened but it didn’t mean people suddenly woke up becoming role models for the community in the new blockchain. It’s still the same lip service and rot stemming and steeming on the old blockchain. Heh, see what I said there? Steeming, that’s funny. The fork also gave people to the opportunity to yield farm on both chains and as if they weren’t enough freeloaders.
You know my beef with people that still got that still ass themselves to bother with steem? It’s the amount of lip service and inconsistency. When on Hive, tell people you love Hive. When on Steem, pretend Justin Sun rains money down on you for quick cash grabs.
Hive was created because it’s a protest of what a community can bring themselves to do when someone tries to centralize a blockchain. Even more alarming is having that much power to seal a person’s funds off reach right from their wallets. That violates several levels of trust the blockchain was made for. Of course, for the little freeloaders with a smol smol smol amount of stake, they can’t be bothered. How could they? Their money wasn’t stolen from them, Heck it even doubled thanks to the fork. If you don’t see a problem with supporting a blockchain that can steal your money in broad daylight, you’re part of the problem leaked into Hive.
And when you have the mindset not to give a fuck and prefer to yield farm on Hive, it’s all fair game because that’s your freedom to do so. But also understand I have the freedom to disagree having you rewarded, for being a shit. Get what I’m saying? Because you weren’t affected by it all it’s all fine. Not my place to tell people how to run their blogs, it’s their freedom to do the hell they want, that’s the beauty of decentralization. For the most part, this life changing tech was reduced to a quick money printer everyone seems so entitled to get.
Not really fond of adding authors to the upvoted lists though or having it existing, but Efficiency > Underutilization is my thing. You condition people for upvotes regularly, you just end up building expectations of entitlement and when they aren’t getting those upvotes while others do, they go reeeeeeeeee. What exactly qualifies someone to have them get permanent upvotes? If you’re still at this stage of questioning, then we’re really not seeing each other eye to eye.
Listen, the community account was made to give people light pats on the back for a job well done we recognize your work. Keep it up and be a model user. It wasn’t meant to be a hand out where everything people spew = money. This spoiled thinking makes me cringe a lot. How pathetic do you have to be financially to rely on upvotes as a lifeline? Listen, if you’re in dire straights with your financial life, the blockchain isn’t your money printer, sort out your financial health first because more money/quick cash grabs ain’t going to solve you incompetence of life predicament due to poor money handling.
B. Improving the reward distribution
This account has just been on a state of accumulating rewards without actually giving them back to the community. Since contests are place on hold until the user base activity rises, Hive just stacks without providing any use to anyone. I don’t like that. If it’s really a community account, then people should at least see proof that it’s for the community (at least those that are worth the support as they also support the community too).
I’m experimenting with multiple ways to spread the wealth to users that need a shoulder pat. Beneficiaries, upvotes, proxy tipping and direct tipping I usually do better when I’m on a role doing manual curation approximately. Yeah the upvotes that this account has been distributing lately, 9.5/10 times it was me manually curating without a word. The experience is self fulfilling, like after I go on a roll I ask myself, the fuck am I doing trading my time for this? I can only think of a few people I’m willing to invest my time in the community and 9.5/10 of the time they are the ones that got their shit together capable and less needy for validation through upvotes.
You know how effective people on Hive really use their time? Less time making content and more time socializing. Real talk, most of the time, nobody gives a shit about most content on hive because a lot aren’t from content creators that really put their heart and soul on the publications. Most are just content consumers trying their hand because there’s FOMO at not getting those gains. Most upvotes are motivated by liking the personality and not by sheer beauty of the content.
One of the flaws in the community system in place is the lack of incentives for giving a fuck about organizing. No wonder leaders from the old chain to now just want to quit. There’s a lack of self respect for assing yourself to be on this spot trying to get people to participate in the community post, event, or even regular chat for the sake of some activity going. So I’ll think of how to reward curators for their time (the ones the bother as it’s voluntary service) beyond just relying on beneficiary posts.
But wait? That’s really shady of me to think of rewarding the staff using the community account? Right, who should we reward it to? The ones that frequently comment on these posts? The ones chatting with us on discord? Yeah I got that covered well, no problem about that. Or are you referring to people that don’t give a fuck and just wait for the account to upvote them because they use the tag or something?
Right, as a temporary lead until Romeskie steps up, I’ll just use part of the resources to love my staff who can be bothered to drop links recommended for upvotes from the account and some small tipping just to say nice job. I don’t want to hear a lecture from someone that can’t be bothered trying to engage with other users for weeks to months, just posts daily drops and leave.
EDIT: New users and old user becoming active again pop up occasionally and as much as I want this account to give their posts a few pat on the back with a welcome greeting, it can take days or weeks before I notice, too busy irl.
C. Exclusions from curation.
This account has a small voting power so having it not upvote your post isn’t a big loss. But when Hive price pumps, those 0.0** hive can stack up quite a bit when converted to fiat. If I see the user just content dumping while having a barren comment section, no. Sorry not sorry, we’re looking to support community oriented users that go out of their way to invest in others. It may not be on this community but as a whole. I also look at the names that frequently pop up on the conversations, if it’s just the same people talking among themselves, enjoy your island.
I’m not saying this like being upvoted by this account is a big deal. But questions like “why I wasn’t upvoted?” can pop up at random times and I don’t have a post to link people on to answer that.
D. Ownership of the account.
Probably the most important detail I originally wanted to discuss, 
The possibility is unlikely but it exists. If 
But as long as the master key is only in possession of one person, it’s not a community account. It’s just a shared account as I’m are only functioning as caretaker. How does this impact the general Filipino community? It’s along the lines of having the privilege to receive the support. Because it boils down to the question, why should the account be used to support Filipino authors? Just cause it was made for that and has to be so?
Is it not allowed to make any discretion between users that aren’t interested in supporting it back? It’s the same energy as starting an organization that aims to support all but having no gatekeepers to ingrates, freeloaders, and entitled pricks. Receiving support from hiveph is a privilege and not a right. So curve that sense of entitlement just because your posts or your membership to the community exists.
Here’s a thought, keep building on others and I’ll be more receptive to help you out not because you’re a Filipino, but because you do the things that contribute to community growth. Go out of your circle, engagement, don’t focus on content creation alone. Because if you can’t give a fuck about the community, why should the community give a fuck about you?
P.S. I don’t really care if I lose this position. Just in case anyone didn’t get the hint.
