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RE: Two Ways to Screw Your Hive Account .:. Walk & Talk Series
I wonder how many would still be posting on Hive without the rewards, high or low as they are. I probably would, since I have a pre-Hive blogging experience where rewards were a chimera most of the times. I liked to say what I had to say then as I do now, and engage with people as well.
That made me think too... And I got to the point that we would probably launch a Liotes tribe and move LEN into the curation thing... 😃 That would be a challenge... :)
And regarding the post's topic, it wasn't that much about engagement (this time), but more about the usual "get rich quick" scheme and what goes with it... plus, the "fake image" that whale upvotes create in people... Many times, newbies can't understand that most upvotes are coming from real people (they could be automatic, but someone did the work to set them up), and the mentioned whale is doing a randomize upvotes... Which doesn't help when it happens on low-effort posts... It's like encouraging shitposting...
Are you sure the said whale auto-votes? Maybe it's a combination of manual and automated.
I know for sure they also manually vote because I received one vote from them in recent history, but only one. That didn't repeat. 😀
You are right, I have noticed certain accounts that are regularly upvoted by them, and, given the vote size, if they lose such a vote after a while they'll probably wonder what happened, when in fact it may be nothing that has to do with their content or them personally...
Author rewards often drives the type of content the author creates. It's a type of feedback, but quite unreliable. More reliable feedback, as you also said in your video is the one from meaningful comments. But comments don't always add to the payout (unless they get voted on), and if that's what people are focused on, then they will give more importance to the unreliable feedback given by the fluctuating author rewards.
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