You clearly have very little understanding of copyright law, or you’re deliberately ignoring it. So I don’t know if there’s any point in explaining anything on this topic.
My objection stems from my view that certain principles should apply among creators: create your own work, don’t use someone else’s.
Just because someone might steal my photo (watermarks don’t protect anything with today’s graphics software) doesn’t mean you should encourage and reward people for doing so with your system. I base my posts mainly on photography, and I know there are better places to promote them than Hive or Reddit.
New users start out with low rewards for their posts, which is why many have either stopped posting or left Hive. If newcomers see that they can get more by using other people’s posts, what motivation will they have to create their own, better posts? What kind of new users will you attract here, and how is the community supposed to grow in such a case? Isn’t it better for the community to reward creators so they want to stay here and create instead of copying others?
Some posts are shared multiple times by different people just to earn Hive from recycling content.
People who share posts almost never vote on them, even though they’re often new, active posts. Their only goal is to use other people’s work to earn Hive. If they got, say, 10% instead of 60% of the reward, do you think they’d be so eager to share posts?
HivePosh isn’t for promotion; it’s for earning Hive.
I’ve been here for 4 years and I see more interesting creators leaving than new ones appearing.