I dont see whats wrong, the trending articles are all from an organic community. Whats not working is attracting new people and making them stay/invest. Investing in this place is a multi pronged approach. You need people to want to stay and invest time, energy and money. Thats why the games are the backbone of our community. Gaming and talking about gaming, sharing gaming experiences is a real use case value proposition for Hive. The main problem is that money is only flowing away from Hive and too the exchanges. Changing the inflation rate will have absolutely no effect on the perception of Hive in the eyes of investors in general but it will absolutely kill the appeal which is already struggling. Investment in this place comes in many ways, writing, reading, developing, engaging and of course money. But without the money i think you will have nothing sadly, because where will the demand for Hive come from? it will just all end up on exchanges being traded in speculation instead of what you need which is supply and demand. Create demand. I appreciate your way more in the know about the ins and outs of Hive and more concerned about 'is it working' as it should so i'm only stating it from how i see it. Bots are a problem yes but im sure there is another answer somewhere.