Curation rewards are one of the benefits of being a hive power holder.

Unles you're a Hive holder who supports content that folks like azircon/curangel don't like. Then your curation rewards are systematically erased, along with those creators' rewards.

It's already been pointed out several times to you that anyone voting for these posts could just as easily follow a curation trail and achieve the same curation rewards that you are whining about.

And my response every single time has been that the huge difference there is that the other 50% of the stake would be going directly to tons of different creators that way, thus decentralizing Hive more. This part never seems to have a response besides "the DHF is decentralized," which is pretty laughable.

If investors want to fund development, that is their right.

True, and there is a DHF for that, as well as devs who post updates which can be up-voted, and donations and such. To me, the biggest problem here is the lack of transparency ($30M in rewards last year huh - how much went to content?), and the hipocrisy of many of these systematic DVers saying it's because actual content is "over-rewarded," even though we're often talking about 20-40 minute videos and long-form text posts, which earn (before downvotes) only a fraction of one of these comments that are made 10x a day.

It's more than a bit self-serving to upvote these uninformed FUD posts of yours with James' stake, so I'm going to start downvoting to counter it.

The posts have had rewards declined, or in this case 100% burnt. I'm not getting anything out of this.

I'm losing myself curation rewards to upvote this for visibility. Now that you've zero'd this one out, I will be paying Hive to promote it, as I did with the others when they got zero'd out.