a community that actually strategizes

Our community can hardly agree on a strategy.

when I say this I'm the bad guy

You have got the short end of the straw. Everyone making proposals are bad guys under current market conditions, no way around it regardless of how benefitial their projects are.

Even useful projects and contributors can hurt HIVE if they need to sell HBD into a dying market to survive, we are a dying blockchain. It is highly unlikely that we are just "one good proposal away from changing things", and that applies to any and every proposal right now.

As individuals, people will also look at the bottom line: over the past year, how much money made outside Hive did you use to buy HIVE versus how much Hive-funded money did you use as income? Or even to pay for operational costs if any.

I do not know your answer. I am not accusing you. But if people think Hive is your job, and if they think DHF funding becomes your living expenses, or even necessary operational expenses then at 5 cent HIVE it leaves a bad taste. Fair or not, that is the reality.

That is as valid for you as it is valid for PeakD, for Ecency, for Keychain, their temas for everyone getting a piece of the inflation or the DHF, we are going down and projects are adding to the sell pressure REGARDLESS IF THEY ARE ESSENTIAL OR BENEFITIAL. People will not vocalize, but they will look how much you bought versus how much you made.

That is why I opened my post saying I am buying HIVE with money made outside Hive. I was also afraid of being seen as the bad guy. The only shield I had was showing that my flow is from outside work into Hive, not from Hive into my life.

If you post the same argument but show data proving you bought more HIVE than you earned from Hive, people will look at you differently. Completely differently. And you even have more visibility and credibility than me as I know you are more popular, more influential, more well known, have better contacts, more influence and reputation etc...

During the bull markets or when liquidity was healthy this was not even worth discussing (and that was our mistake), but as we break all time low after all time lows how much you bought versus how much you made change people's view, it is the difference between being seen as the bad guy or a contributor. And you made quite a bit on previous proposals. If people they do not know they assume. No one will dig your chain history or try to give you the benefit of the doubt. We gotta earn it time and again. I felt I had to open preving my value by saying I am buying with outside money into Hive and I think that is why I was (at least not yet and not apparently) seen as the bad guy. I am a small user buying and powering up, exactly what people want right now.

You cut 2

Under current market conditions people are craving to cut all and fund none. If HIVE keeps going down and HBD keeps worsening its depeg that is direction we will go anyways we want it or not, no one will get funded because we will be broke. I am even considering unsupporting the proposals I supported and voting only the return proposal to raise the bar.

We are already going towards bankruptcy. Bankrupt projects don't have funds for a single proposal. Better to cut willingly than to cut because we've run out of liquidity completely.

540 HBD is not a lot at all

It is a lot because HBD is not magic money. I'd dare say it is not even money. Asking for 540HBD means, at the bottomline, asking to sell 540 HBD worth of HIVE.

all proposals are made the same

I agree with you. A proposal with a revenue plan is not the same as one with no revenue plan.

Under current market conditions, and I keep emphasizing it because this is vastly different from a bull market with enough liqudity to fund projects, nder current market conditions they all share one ugly common denominator: they add sell pressure period. Does not matter if they promise to generate demand or positive cashflow now, tomorrow, or 1 year later, what matters is sell pressure now.

Under current condition all proposals sum down to how much they will add in sell pressure. We can not afford 100k+ to have income 1 year later, even 1 week later, the situation is dire now. The proposal must have income now, it must have a business model that bring mony from outside of Hive into Hive and be net positive at that before proposing anything, to the point the DHF is contradictorily needless.

And inside a panic budget, even good projects become painful.

Paradoxically the only good proposals are the ones where the team has no reason to use the DHF because right now they are bringing value to Hive. We are in a dire situation and going bankrupt soon. Anything that involves spending is delusional right now and people will look down to. Well, not the big holders and whales, they will keep funding each other, but the masses of smaller contributors, the ones who do buy HIVE, they will not like it.