I too see some users leaving. Why?
It seems to me that their biggest complaint was the downvotes removing their income. I've seen reeeeeally good posts with valuable information earn $10, but then see that entire $10 get removed at the last moment. It seems like some whales fight each other. The question is:
ie: Someone posts diagrams and instructions on how to extract free-electricity from the air around us. That post gets upvoted, and reblogged by individuals (the way it should be) because individual people have received value from that post. But wait, it got upvoted by userX and well, userY hates that guy so he downvotes that post at the last moment to remove the income. The Creator suffers and humanity suffers as well since that post will disappear from the Trending page.
Imagine all of the people that give their power to userX OR userY. They inadvertently involved themselves in, and contributed their power to war. Human freedoms and knowledge get buried once again.
I love Hive for the value that it can bring to others. When value gets destroyed by two parties that are at war with each other, we all lose.
RE: Retention of Brand New Users on Hive