Yea based on my post I am guessing you know my position on people who want to be serious being surrounded by unserious people. It is confusing and can seem cruel but really it is "just the internet" and people are going to say crazy stuff on Discord. I think people really need that muscle if they want to try to make money on L2 tokens that are not asset based and require a high level of trust. A lot of people get consumed by greed and some people never come back from it.

But this behavior is very common in other zero sum transaction environments.

Zero sum meaning 1 winner and 1 loser (a good example is an american call option or just gambling at a casino).

I prefer mutually beneficial transactions because they make me feel better as a person. (a good example is buying HIVE and seeing where I can do my best to add value with my stake in a way that doesn't just benefit me but benefits other people that have skin in the game through HIVE stake. L2 tokens do not count towards HIVE stake, which I am guessing you know but not everyone is privy too).

I say this because I have seen many instances where people dump their entire HIVE stake and mess up their KE for L2 tokens and stop getting curated and they don't know why. They no longer are a HIVE stakeholder like they were. They have shown they want to exit the ecosystem. If you love HIVE and are bullish for the future, seeing people dump just sucks and it is hard to curate like a robot with no emotion. Well really it is impossible to curate without any emotion.

Good manual curation should be highly variable which helps decentralize curation in my opinion. Manual curation with multiple curators reduces risk to a curation project when it comes to curating for max rewards and quality at the same time. The average person does not do it well and many people just default to vote trading cause that is easier for them. Or voting on people based on if they hold that person's L2 tokens.