Sure, 20% as beneficiary, but here is the thing... these 20% have opened up way more support from @project.hope team and community than any other 'curation' project that exists around here for way more time.

Specially because a vote is only a part of the project, which includes looking for people that actually try to create quality content, and incentivizing the project member not to only vote for rewards, but actually engage with the authors (wow, what an amazing concept right? incentives to engage the community...)

I have been on this blockchain for around 5 years, and even after trying to engage on a lot of older projects, @project.hope was actually the only one that came after me, and asked if I wanted to join their project, explaining how everything worked.

Sure, some plagiarized posts go through one time or another, but instead of "punishing" the user for doing something wrong, the community works to make that user understand why what he did was wrong.

You know, to act as community.

What make things more interesting is that the same "logic" you are talking about doesn't apply to communities where these "white knights" that protect the blockchain are participants of.

Here is the problem with HIVE right now @enforcer48, (actually still the same problem from the old days):

If the big stakeholders of this platform see someone/some project that isn't doing exactly as they think things should be done (usually in a way that benefits them), the hostility grows, and instead of accepting that everyone should have the liberty of trying different stuff (some limits implied, of course, on clear abuse type of content, like spam), some try to take that thing down as fast as possible.

It's a huge problem of witness acting as if they 'owned' the blockchain, but the truth is, witnesses are supposed to be providing a service to the whole community, not the other way around.

So, it seems you are trying to put a label of scam on a project that is trying to do something that a place like HIVE was supposed to allow everyone to: create a community....