Folks that aren't intent on the financial rewards for curating don't upvote for the wrong reasons, and for us curation rewards don't degrade our recommendations of content and authors.

But we don't have millions of Hive to manage productively, and aren't losing tens or hundreds of dollars a day by failing to maximize our ROI. I don't even know what my curation rewards are. I do not let them impact my voting.

For some folks not paying attention to their curation rewards would be imprudent, and Hive limits their ability to earn a return on their stake mostly to curation rewards. There are some investors willing to undertake the learning curve to attain the potential return curation offers, but to do that they have to be willing to sacrifice their commitment to the integrity of speech.

Maximizing curation rewards requires them to do that, and not maximizing their curation rewards is mismanaging their assets. @edicted has proposed savings accounts that offer investors a far more ethically sound and prudential mechanism to manage their stake, and I've strongly recommended it since I managed to grasp what he patiently explained.

But, yeah, screw Twatter. I'm not gonna pretend to believe crap that's not true, nor fail to speak what I believe to be true, and I can't speak forthrightly on that, or other centralized social media platforms. Folks that use them but not uncensored media are doing themselves great harm I think, because I learn stuff on Hive daily that helps me prepare to thrive during the coming disruption.

Free speech alone can enable me to learn such facts, and folks focused on the pretense that everything is ok are going to be very surprised when everything isn't ok, and neither are they. I appreciate folks trying to alert them to Hive, but they're either coming here or they're not. They've had years to seek uncensored alternatives to Twatter, and if they've not found Hive they're not looking.