Hive was an anarcho capitalist design by Dan & Ned - They stated it many times in public and it was part of how it was sold to the world. That's why it attracted anarcho people. 

Those people gradually left as other minded people came in and tried to mess with the design without an appreciation for actual freedom. What is rewarded is up to the community and always has been. As I have said before, the free downvotes are a reasonable idea up to a point, but they currently are way too open to abuse - basically they should be reduced in scale. Just as the valuation of upvotes on posts is subjective, so is downvoting - so what appears to be abusive downvoting to one person may not be to someone else. 

Since I built the downvote monitoring tool I can see very well who downvotes who and I am sure that most people never see that data. To me I am pretty clear that there is a wealth of abusive downvoting happening regularly.

As far as autovoting goes, I have no idea who autovotes me, I have never asked for it.. but none the less it was used as a phoney excuse to shut down discussion of serious scientific matters by people who's agenda seems extremely shady.

Of course I am uploading to 3speak for immutability, I know the people that run it and so have far more trust in it than any other video service. Everyone I know who has sought to share information that is counter to the gov position has been partially or totally cancelled from Web 2 sites - in fact I know people who fared far worse than that too and who barely survived physically. I am also sharing for reach and to propagate information.

Aside from possibly reposting some videos, which no-one has actually demonstrated but which may have happened - nothing I have done violates any rules (even the made up ones that the community never agreed to and that no contract exists for).

Far more concerning to me than any rewards is the mindset here to be honest. I mentioned my time in hospital because I am clear that the vast majority of people, having been through that, would not see life in the same way again and would be far more of my current mindset.

In the grand scheme of things, money is completely meaningless and 99% of what humans are doing on Earth is pointless - the only thing that is important is learning about ourselves to heal ourselves and to not get caught up in the trap of limiting thinking and in particular, other people's attempt to limit and control us... which leads only to our own demise every single time. People who don't understand this (which is most people it seems) are probably not people I should be around any more.