We are a bunch of "businesses" with a lack of "customers" besides other "businesses", some of whom are trying to market a very similar product. There's no way to gain a reward from a new "customer" as they must become a business first to do that.

Even if we were to get some mainstream content creators to move to HIVE, and even IF they could get their viewers to come too, all of their viewers have no way to reward the content creator they followed here once they arrive. Then they have to learn a whole new system, learn how to gain rewards so they can give them out, all while avoiding the Hive Police and downvotes. The content creator is stuck waiting for their viewers to be able to reward them.

People do need to take it more seriously if they expect to be a top content creator with top rewards... Top content creators on other platforms don't just treat it like a business, most of them are actual businesses running the show.

But the rest of us need to accept the mainstream garbage that comes along with an average consumer, as they are our meal ticket and chasing them away with downvotes and control will leave us with only producers, and a complete lack of consumers.

I get that we need downvotes to stop abuse, but downvoting someones content because they suck at creating content is along the same lines as kicking someone because they are disabled IMO. Some people are just not that good, don't need to kick em for it.

Save the downvotes for blatant plagiarism, post spam attacks and highly illegal or unacceptable content. Normal people can't take a thumbs down too many times for just being themselves before they decide they don't want to be around that anymore.