An interesting read, your insights are always to me a bump up the learning curve, when I first entered the hive my guru on here advised me against doing certain things, one of which was self voting, something I understood and have stood by. I guess there are those on here like life in general who believe that they are entitled and can act as they want and see fit, outside the tent pissing in as they say.

I personally do not see the hive as a cash cow, I just enjoy being here and meeting people so remote from my own lifestyle that I would not know even existed on this great flat earth!

There may come a crisis one day where I need to cash in, who knows, if it doesn't happen then when I pop my clogs my kids can take over and do what needs to be done.

If the case that I were to overreward certain authors and the community rightfully points that out and adjust the rewards to the downside with downvotes I should not take it personally or become defensive about it as long as the reason for doing so is primarily the overrewarded point -

I occasionally get downvoted and it does piss me off LOl, again my guru winds my neck in and calms me down. What would pacify me and others perhaps, is that if to "downvote" someone then a mandatory comment must be made on the post explaining why, something like " I think you are a twat, or this is plagiarism or, you have been over rewarded"

I do prefer the simple things in life!!