it;s never been about purely money. As much as I love receiving upvotes because not only is it great but it helps support art. Sometimes it can pay for the materials used in a piece even if you don;t sell it so you can worry less and do things for purely creating. But at the same time I value freedom more than money and always have. My friends already want nothing to do with hive now I told them about people taking away votes like that its really put them off, as it will many ppl. Someone fairly compensated posts and the fact a tiny group of people heavily invested dictate what is acceptable and not acceptable to get rewarded /post is going to put ppl off eventually as it is doing with fb and twitter, the very ppl these ppl supposedly hate.. they are doing the same thing exactly. I have made great connections here iI especially love the guys over at eco train but I will definitely put more focus elsewhere now . It's different when its someone random, but this is someone who is supposed to be an 'example' as to how the platform should work.