how can you cut those? I am open ears.
1st step get everyone to stop using them if they are run by a project that supports the whales.
basically if you are doing long form posts to get upvotes from one of the auto-trails or you delegate to one or subscribe to one you are holding back the entire blockchain.
I have no idea. Educate people about the dangers of auto-trails?
But all in all those are pretty negative and give a toxic first impression of Hive to newbies. For example, some OG whale bastard writes a few words about his penis and earns $80 while a newbie gets peanuts when really putting in effort. Doesn't look good.
agreed. I am more talking about the existing Hive people. To stop using them. Plenty of people on threads still in them.
As far as newbies. I want them to focus on threads and shorts.
Since it is a shared reward pool if we grow here with new users we can reduce what those reward trails are earning by growing our community
Good point. I've been focusing more and more on Inleo these days BUT sometimes I get a little tempted to write a SPL post cos they are so damn rewarding!
As a reference, here are my three latest long-form posts. If you compare the upcoming rewards, you'll see why many still write long-form and especially SPL posts.
exactly that is my point. by trying to get short term rewards you are keeping the chain from moving forward.
So we need to look at that SPL post that got 29.18 in rewards.
If a whale based voting trail voted on it and people saw that and said "if I vote on it also, I can get more rewards"
If this happens the whale accounts get more by everyone voting on it.
This is how they stay on top and try to censor others.
I get the point. That SPL post amount comes from SPL-based trails and from leo.voter. Creating these kind of post can be a good thing to keep the flywheel in motion. One could use the earned HBD to buy LEO, stake and curate on Inleo. If it's 50/50, the HIVE part would also help Inleo users to earn. All in all we need more voting activity on Inleo to keep things in motion.