Fantastic job, Sir! I'd say you've accurately described how the system presently functions pretty damn well. The effort seems like an act of madness to me, but I think you're probably a genius instead.

Should be interesting, but even so, he'd have to censor all future talking about it.

Francis Boyle put them all on notice, so unless they have an affinity for international tribunals, convictions, and rope rash, they had better get back to the informed consent model. I mean, they're doing

Don't take it personally, man. I can get pretty torqued off when people play head games while trying to defend those who abuse the downvote mechanics for obvious political reasons. It's probably nothing

You know what; This is why I invited people like @haejin and @ranchorelaxo to go and support the comments at hbd.funder. If they're reward sniping over there, then we can sit back and see if smooth thinks

So basically, you admit the system is imperfect. But then, for whatever reason, when it comes to smooth's downvote behavior, you lean into the "might makes right" fallacy. And thus, stay calm,

"We get plenty of posts making good rewards that may not really deserve them," Hey, @steevc, "deserve" ain't got nothing to do with it. That's my point. If the up and downvotes do not

The nature of the economic system was supposed to entail a voting system that leverages the wisdom of the crowd. Please check the third paragraph of Steem's blue paper. They meant this key fundamental

Good deal. Most of this stuff is way over my head. There are so many different accounts, players, and socks on the platform. I'm not one of the ones who can readily figure these kinds of things out. I

Again, I'm not math smart per se, but I noticed that on your @teamsmooth-mm account, that you're steadily buying up HBD. HBD's current price is $1.61. That said, how does all that buy pressure help to

Fair enough, it wasn't my intention to imply that you are he. I know you are not Tim. I was just wondering if all the laudable efforts are making a dent in the stated goal? You do vibe with the project,

I think you're WAY overrewarding yourself in curation on Tim's hbd.funder's daily blockchain spam. I might not be the brightest bulb in the box of crayons, but I reckon that a majority of people on HIVE

Interesting post! This idea feels a bit out of my league, but I'll wager a guess. It seems to me that removing the rewards pool takes the carrot away from the witnesses leaving little to no incentive to

Keep on keeping on, brother! I got my ears to the tracks and me thinks..

"If you've ever powered down HP earned from posting rewards, please don't put the responsibility for distribution issues on anyone else." "If you want to see more crowd-wisdom on Hive, support

Wait, I got it! I am only entitled to work the HIVE chain gang, for free? Otherwise, I am not entitled?

"Yes indeed, I'm glad you find it refreshing, many who hear my optimism proceed to 'correct' me by insisting we are all doomed because end of world/NWO/Great Reset/Bill Gates gonna kill us all with

Well said, we're living in exciting times! Your optimism on the matter is rather refreshing!

This is an interesting sight to behold: Yet somehow, content creators who drive traffic here with the myriads of backlinks we spread all over the web, aren't meritorious enough to earn.

"Let's get Hive to be worth a lot and then we all do well." I bet you if you considered focusing less on downvoting the work of content creators, more people would feel comfortable telling their