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RE: Reducing the mass extraction of Hive!
I object to the framing. Since Steem made the decision to market itself as a place where people could create and earn and do whatever they wanted, and since Hive did not choose to deal with that legacy but accepted it, of course it has a great number of people who came to work and earn and do as they wished with their earnings. No mass teaching on why to hold onto Hive ever happened, and there is no agreement coming that anyone has agreed to make. Punitive measures have driven the user base down from over a million down to a handful of thousands. KE means Krampus Coefficient ... meaning we are using the myth of a half-demon creature who beats and eats CHILDREN as a frame for determining what we shall do with members of the Hive community, each of which has the right to do what they were promised they could do. Meanwhile, the DHF has passed out MILLIONS OF DOLLARS in HBD equivalents to bigwigs who have given us a rally car in tangible results.
I do not say that there are not users who may be abusing the platform ... I think we should make sure we are not passing out rewards to AI-only creators, and also plagiarists. I think we should also encourage a certain amount of quality to receive a vote -- even though there has never been a handbook telling people what is expected, I think we can tell effort from no effort. I'm not against good curation. I'm against dehumanizing Hive's relatively few remaining users as mere "extractors." We're supposed to be a community, and "othering" PEOPLE is going to continue to kill that community.
I agree with a lot of things you say. I don't know why Krampus is chosen as a name for this metric, but it really is a negative name. I do find it good that we have such a figure.
I also agree that we could use could do way better in 'educating' new Hivers. The problem is that a lot of them are actually onboarded by people that tell them to extract. So we either have to find a way to change their thoughts or stop their earnings and let them leave.
I'd rather have less active users that do interact and 'invest' a part of their rewards to support Hive than more users that only extract. Apart from the fact that they are taught to do so.
I'm trying to create awareness of this happening. Not only for those who curate, but also for those who extract.
I know whose idea it was to pick Krampus, and why it was chosen ... and what also they created to bully people. I put in quite a lot of exposure work pushing back the worst of what Azircon and Slobberchops and Meesterboom and crew intended, including an entire account designed to bully people called Plonkety Piano. A lot of this dehumanizing language is hidden behind the cloak of Splinterlands, but people are not digital playing cards. Nor, in fairness, did this whole trend start there ... we had "milkers" before that, and it goes on and on while no real education is done so that users know what is expected of them. Hive has a sorry reputation in the real world because of this -- people with a bigger influencing reputation who would have been of help have left here using that reputation talking about how they were treated. There's a LOT of them, too.
There's also real crypto investing math. Hive is an altcoin. It is not in the top 100. It is not in the top 500. It is in the long, long tail of coins that are neither connected firmly to Bitcoin, Ethereum, nor Solana, and their burgeoning ecosystems. I am a real crypto investor. Leaving aside my knowing the story of Hive since before it became that -- I've been here seven years -- if I were to look at it as an investor, this would be my outside looking in experience:
Of those six things, we on the community level have just about as much daily control as we do of, say, the United States of America, except that AT LEAST the U.S. has a printed Constitution and some fealty left to it. We don't have that, so there is nothing to enforce justly, and this is how we have gotten to where Hive is often referred to with a sneer when discussed at all in broader sections of the crypto economy. We can still influence No. 1, however. We can re-humanize fellow Hive community members. They are not here to protect your investment in Hive, or mine. They are here for reasons of their own. They can be encouraged to understand how we can all profit together. They can be encouraged to contribute more, and checked when they plagiarize, AI-everything, and put forth low effort. But nobody signed on to an agreement on how to do this, and nobody therefore understood that they were supposed to be loyal to everyone's best interest. No one outside is coming to save Hive -- not in a down market period, on an altcoin ranked 660 on Coin Gecko. So: we had better not dehumanize and drive away the people we still have. Hive cannot die in the sense that as long as anyone is still interested in running a node, it will run. We are nearing the point, numbers-wise, in which not enough people will be left to care enough to ever grow it.