If we invite everyone and their grandmas, they gonna get jelly at others earnings and it creates resentment and excessive shitposting and comment farming. Do we really want to appeal the masses to join by having them all shitposting here than whining about being flagged for shitposting not understanding how this place works (Humm...2017)? Also the average social media userbase tends to shit post or repost already prepared content. What if we attract content creators and amateurs alike by offering a way to monetize both in platform and off platform and leaving bandwidth and posting to those wanting to put effort into understanding the community and participating accordingly.

I agree. You build the community that is willing to be self-policed. The notion that HIVE from a blogging perspective could ever be the next mass-adopted social media platform is a bit unrealistic. Because we have rewards, clearly we have standards.