So do you think front-ends which show short form should make sure they aren't showing up on the main front-end feeds (eg hive.blog and peakd)? That would certainly avoid some of the confrontations on quality. I believe dlike stayed on Steem because it wasn't very well supported by much of the Hive community. 

I wonder if maybe the communities are just still too new for us as we've gotten used to Hive without them, so we're still in our old habits. They also need to be active enough to really work. The natural medicine one seems to be working well. You get the content you expect and the account and curating efforts being focused there are a draw for content creators. If no-one's checking the community, then it's probably just going to flop. 

Ah yes, community. The community dynamic on here is very different to that of Facebook, where we start with family and friends and work out, but never really connect much with them. Here the community is spread a across the world and we get to know their interests and passions more from their content and replies.

Yes, one would think that the voting system should sort out high effort from low effort and I think it works to a point. The autovotes still land on a particular author, but when they've produced something brief it's often less rewarded from the manual voting that comes later. However it can become a bone of contention when you compare it with a lesser known user who has yet to accrue any autovote following and might have something more in-depth which is less rewarded than the brief popular person's post. 

 The question also arises, at what level is something considered plagiarism? Is an account plagiarising if they're transcribing old documents for safe keeping on here? Is it plagiarism if someone working on their art skills uses inspiration from a photo to help them capture the human form? Is it plagiarism if they quote too much of other people's work in their post and how much is too much? 

Nothing is permanent, not even this earth. It should outlast us though, hopefully...

Hubby kept talking to me about how we should buy some of this bitcoin. I'd reply, "sure, go for it," but eventually realised what he was actually trying to say was "see if you can figure out buying this bitcoin." So when I find Steem/Hive I ended up having to figure out a bit about crypto anyway. Like you, there are always other things that money needs spending on before buying crypto, so I've still never gotten around to looking into buying bitcoin. 

<sub>Now what was that last question again...</sub>

There have been such a variety of answers. It's great that we can accommodate such a variety of experiences. 

Sounds like it's certainly a **social** media for you. 😊