While online recently and in person at the doctors waiting room, I was trying to show off hive blog website feed by payouts, and people just said it looked like a scam or spam, with some "spam" account getting paid. I had to explain those were burn posts but they didnt believe me. To annew user it looks very condusing. Anyway to not post those? Are they really needed? Cant they go into a muted communitynor sonething? Hiveblog condensor front end needs a lot of work. Its like, why is peakd so much better than the old condensor? Shoulent there be i dunno...a hive foundayion to work on the original condenser? Then why isnt peakd just made the official hive front end? Steemi radi5in

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See how it looks? I dunno just seems strange and hard to explain to new users

Kinda makes the sort by payouts page useless . I dont wanna have to block or put buildawhale on ny blacklist. Thatd just make things difficult lol i think you could just make a secondary account to post from maybe? Ir just stop those posts?

Isnt there a cleaner way to do this? I tried showing people on X how hive works and the top payouts and they just said it looks like its being spammed. This makes us look weird . Altho i said its jist an example of hive being free speech and lazyfair :)

How can i explain what buoldawhale is anymore? Bidbot markets made sense but how does it even work now? 
Who are the handful of users on hive who decide what can and cannot be purchased as an upvoted post on front page? What are their politics? Who are their names and where do they live what country? Whay is their ahenda? Is it all a dark net anonymous network? Thats kinda cool but is that the official marketing story? I wish...but it seems like hive is a little of everything. But at the end of the day its an oligarchy right?

I want to keep my mouth shut and get paid like everyone else but i see an absence of anyone on hive that wants to actually make it a more fair and attractive innovative social media system. With actual innocations in moderation of content via upvite downvotes. Current system is just a might makes right type deal with a lot of the might never being earned. Not even sure if they were ever able to take away ninja mined and other ill gitten steem durong the hive fork. @mughat would say theres no such thing as ninja mining and that all is fair in live and war etc. But to attract the mainstream people wouldnt we wanna get back to work on actual hive communities and smts on layer 1? We still dont even have hive tokens for our communities... just side chain nit even layer 2 steem engine toys that are super centralized and a joke. Not respected by anyone outside hive and barely respected by real hive holders who wouldnt touch them untill they are true layer 1 SMTs ...

Why did all that work stop? Without STINC steemit inc, i see a lack of goals. Maybe thats better to be more realistic about hive and not set unrealistic goals like @ned but a mobile app for steemit never even cane iut but plenty of 3rd oarty ones made by users did

Hive still has no oficial app. Hive keychain is still just the pet project of one witness/whale that we all adipted but its got too many problems. Its nothing like metamask. In fact hive should have made it to netamask by now with a telos style ethereum virtual network. But thatd require too much work. 

If hive ever blows up in populqrity like steemit did and we actually get back to 200k active use territory, how are we going to make sure people dont get disenchanted by the downvoting?

People are going to buy hivepower to upvote a friend and then get downvoted and get pissed. Instead we should teach them never to upvote and risk their money like just for the sake of someone elses idea of content moderation. Instead they should delegate all available hivepower to a dlease or tipu style service, get loquid hive daily, and then just TIP loquid hive. Its faster easier and makes more sense. No one cam ever take it awau ebcause they disagree with you liking something 

If we do that, hive can become as popular as ever. But we really need ro get our own SMTs tied to communities but we need a system thats more than just subreddit mods with less features. We need ro actually come ip with an INNOVATION in the moderation world... a way to earn your way to becoming a moderator and a systen to allow users ro vote a moderator out etc. And yet no one on hive has ever eveb talked about that ir have they? Please comment below if youve evern hearr anyone talking abiut a serious new way to do CM content moderation better.