Yeah it's all HP from "curation". I don't know why they call it that. I'm not curating a damn thing.

Comment upvotes are treated just like posts. Usually smaller votes but it does add up over the years.

And yeah that's where their "plan" runs into a wall. People will not save forever. All members are potential sellers. With more HP in more hands, the odds of rewards landing on sellers actually increase. They really won't accomplish much but those in on it will earn more tokens in the long run. Does nothing to increase the value of those tokens.

Everything is tied together here. Those votes I just gave you. Someone already dumped that value at the exact same moment, most likely.

"Turn off?" You can power down, it's still your money. If you don't want to earn from holding HP then you won't earn from holding HP.

If these people actually wanted to increase the value, while still doing all these things, they need to attract outside money. There's only a few thousand paying consumers here (curators whatever) and most don't even look at the content. It's a very small market. If content creators attracted paying consumers from the outside, all this would actually make money instead of just saving or selling, because there would also be buying.

But for some reason that's an unpopular opinion.

They're always debating what's "valuable", not realizing a mass of consumers wouldn't pay for crap, and gets it right every time.