That is why today ~36 whales take ~99% of rewards, and ~1964 of us split the other ~1%.

Show me the actual numbers rather than making up made up numbers :)

As to autovotes, I can understand why people automate voting for certain accounts they have found to always post quality content, but sometimes are short of time to manually curate. I don't think people should automate social interactions, so I do not automate any social interactions on Hive. Human society is uniquely valuable, and I think we need to keep it a fundamentally human thing, which automating our interactions does not. We accord bots that same value when we allow automating votes, posts, or anything else. A battery operated boyfriend is not a husband, and does not raise sex toys to the level of humanity, just as allowing automating votes does not raise bots to the level of humanity. What they do instead is degrade humanity to the level of toasters.

Because of this I vehemently disagree we should allow AI posts. The dead internet theory posits that the majority of posts and content on the internet is today bots. Allowing bots to post on Hive will kill Hive. Bots will be able to curate and post using advanced algorithms that will out compete human beings for rewards, and because Hive has been gradually better configured for the whales to extract more rewards, bots will be even better able to do that. But people are running bots on Hive today, and I have been saying this since I realized there were bots here in 2017. No one is going to listen to me, and bots will take over Hive. That's the Dead Hive theory, and I am confident it's factually correct.

PoSV argues against bots getting rewards. You are not going to stop bots from being able to post. That is just not how the chain works. Anyone can post anything. But we can make it a norm that AI agents shouldn't get votes, and humans that post templated actifit reports and do not interact with anyone should be treated the same.

PoSV and POB are essentially the same thing. I agree we should be focusing our attention on people interacting socially, and that's also what POB was created to do. That's what social media is supposed to be for. The fact is that until we have some different governance mechanism than pure plutocracy, the ~36 whales that have the majority of stake and capture ~99% of rewards on Hive will continue to have the only voice that matters regarding governance, and to the degree they can automate their rake they will do so, because that decreases the amount of work they have to do to get paid. If they can completely automate everything they do, they will, and then Hive will become nothing but bots competing for tokens. Because Hive will no longer have any utility to people, no one will have any use for the tokens, their value will drop to zero, and everyone will quit playing and move on to something they can make a profit from.

1. PoSV and PoB is not the same thing, PoB does not care about the value an account generates, it only cares about votes going somewhere. Hence all the autovoting that is the death of PoB.

2. Post actual numbers, rather than made up numbers. Then I'll take you seriously until then it is just ramblings with no actual meaning.