RE: Your stake is your voice and your voice is worth something
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For me "stake is my voice" which can also apply to the way I use it in regards to the direction of the HIVE inflation pool, but more importantly, it is my voice in the governance of the future of the blockchain and this is likely to become more important the further we go. While not everyone will agree or believe there is value in this, that is a decision that each of us make, but at least make that decision from an informed position, rather than on assumptions of what you think is valuable.
The argument being floated to eliminate inflation of the base token for creators and what not is a troublesome one to me. It would only serve to cement a permanent ruling class on the blockchain, especially when many members of this class got the stake they have by gaming the content reward system. I hope people don't fall for it. If SMTs (assuming they ever come to hive) create a value proposition that is greater than the base token, let people pursue them by choice. If you want to stop people posting for hive tokens, make an SMT that people actually want when the time comes. The day that creators and curators get alienated from the governance of the blockchain, that would be a sad day.
It doesn't matter what I think of this, it is where it is probably headed - eventually. I think part of your argument about the abuse if the reward pool points to this as keeping it open to content will see an endless process of abuse, just at lower levels, which will create an endless process of abuse fighting at the general blockchain level, rather than pushing it to the communities who have incentive to keep their place clean. Weirdly, people don't see this as their place when it is everyone's responsibility - but they do want the communities they own and love to be free of abuse.