That is just your opinion. There was never any claim when the DHF was created that posts could no longer be used to fund develop. In fact, some stakeholders like transisto believe that ONLY posts should be used to develop software and for makreting efforts. Personally, I think both have their uses.

Yes, that's why I said should though, I am not saying it "has to". From a design and system perspective that is what it is for.

I can see a problem with this type of thing in that people with lots of money coming into Hive, or people who have lots of money currently, just upvoting it for easy APR. There is always the downvote as a check/balance to keep someone like Haejin or Rancho Relaxo doing that(though they seem to upvote random things on Trending to get around being downvoted in return).

I can see both sides to this, so I am not one way or the other in particular on that issue. I've said that we need to have more funding for Hive/marketing so that is always good, building the ecosystem is good. I don't particularly see the need for a stablecoin made in the way HBD is made, as I am mainly in the Ethereum camp and am pro DAI and other stablecoins. As things progress forward with Dexes and cheaper fees I can see Ethereum/Polygon/BSC having options that are more useful for Hive than HBD. I've separately written a different comment before on how Hive could be distributed for DHF proposals and sold at market prices in other stable coins that are locked in contracts(someone has to write this obviously) instead of having HBD as the funding curency for the DHF. This would have the added benefit of more Hive getting into the hands of minnows/new people joining as the price point would be pushed down with the consistent downward pressue.

For consistency I would like to see everyone trying to encourage all funding stuff to go to the DHF, instead of upvoting comments. The large upvotes on the comments doesn't exactly go against POB, because POB is a very general and encompassing term. I would say it WOULD go against POB if the comments were purely spam and didn't help the ecosystem in any way, but the HBD Funder does help the ecosystem. It's in a sort of weird grey area in my mind, but I wouldn't downvote the HBD Funder comments myself, that's just my view.