There is zero vote buying going on here. people need to buy HBD off the open market to get cash back. so they are putting more in than they get out. that is the antithesis of vote buying, total opposite.

Also, Hive is NOT a blogging platform. There are blogging platforms on Hive and that is fine, but it should be aparrent to most by now that after 9 years, blogging is only a small portion of what Hive is and so quality of content is not always the top priority. Knowing you recorded a moment in history with a time stamp, an action, a value exchange to a real business with a non KYC non banking asset backed stable coin, with no fees, a geo coordinate and two real accounts is an incredibly valuable moment to which we should be sending as much crypto as reasonably possible without extracting from the chain. It is far far more valuable than most (now clearly unsuccessful) distribution attempts of the token.

Hive is not only a blogging system, it is a way to reward actions.

now dont get me wrong, we are working on changing the formatting of the blogs and the way the content is produced. but this project is open source, one developer, and the price of hive is in the toilet, mostly due to rabid spending of community funds with almost zero accountability or reporting. at least this imitative has reports, so you can see how the spend hbd economy is doing or growing. might well be the only thing showing growth on hive at the moment tbf, apart from a couple other things.

We have made a video to respond in more detail to these concerns, and will release it soon.

We agree on most issues, but hovering the idea of downvotes over this project can quckly turn into a small group of people removing the spend hbd economy from hive, as most of the authors that bring traffic here have also been removed. Its not a good look, and Taraz has already been contacted several times on Discord with DMs with zero response. So lets see how this goes. We have no resources. Hive price in the toilet. So progress is slow. Lets support the tag and make this more successful