Thanks a lot mate! Yeah, I've been trying to load up on HP since I've been powering down on that other site, put a few more crap tokens in to BTC and now making the HP get to work! I did have a couple of crypto goals this year and getting to 1 BTC was one of them, the other is getting to Orca so I'm bang up for it! No ass kissing or brown nosing needed haha!
Oooo nice one on the new initiative too.
I have to admit, I'm a little uncertain about HBI - I did have about 600+ shares at one point, then the downvotes came once the HF22 came along last year. I read all the debates and there's something I'm a little uneasy about buying upvotes for others which then turns into buying them for myself... I sold all my SBI shares off but if the general consensus is that HBI is OK then I might get back in to it again.
I remember the debate, that SBI/HBI was in essence vote buying and there were a few people with shitloads of stake that were being a bit of a dick about it but I think they lost the wind in their sails and have largely left people alone.
I think it also helps that the SBI account, to my knowledge, hasn't posted the daily SBI reports that people then upvoted and got bigger upvotes on their end but I haven't checked the account in a while, might do that to check.
At my meager 70 shares, I guess I don't have a lot to lose but 600 is a pretty hefty number so I get the hesitancy.
Oh I sold my SBI shares as a few people did at the time back to the owner or someone in the sbi discord who was looking to buy them so I have 0 shares.
I've generally stayed away from it since and as you said in your post I just commented on with curation efficiency, I'd rather give a comment on what I read but I follow a couple of curation trails that upvote a lot of new accounts with manual voting so try to help people get above the threshold in any case.
If the HBI model is generally accepted on HIVE then I might look at it again but I had been advised by a few large stakeholders not to use them for various reasons back in August/September last year