We could almost subscribe 100% of what you wrote there. We disagree on the fact that Hive is failing though.
Hive is in its infancy, or in the best case scenario in some sort of irreverent teenage stage. There's still a huge margin for growth and improvement.
What we wrote was simply an attempt to guide people around, and to allow them to understand the echosystem they are in. We don't have to necessarily agree with it to try to help our black and white community members to achieve better results and visibility. Specially when we are in no position to change anything regarding that said echosystem.
I have probably went off track with my last comment. I have dedicated quite some time for this community only to see it shrink and quality of the content to drop. Any startup that fails to get big traction in 5 years is a sign of big concern. Infancy is wishful thinking but i certainly hope you are right.
And guide is OK, any post that has more of meaningful information theoretically is better. But... Hive posts are basically undiscoverable and non searchable. Which kind of kills the purpose of quality, content and educational information rich content. You do not believe that curators are going through all the lengthy articles, do you? They would simply have no time for that. And voting on sheer volume is even worse practice i am afraid.