Another drama??
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I am so glad you wrote this!! I have seen your comments on posts about this subject here & there and like how you don't automatically think powering down, or using Hive for life's costs is a bad thing. And I totally agree with you. 

Honestly, I had never ever heard of KE score before I was tagged in a post (along with many others) for having a low KE score. 

I guess I see my value on Hive more so that I always have a couple thousand HP and try my best to keep the stuff I share here fun & optimistic. Other people have way, way, way more Hive, HBD, HP & now KE than I but, aren't exactly bringing the most positive vibes to this platform. And other people have consistently been posting on Hive and consistently withdrawing their funds to pay for their life. Whatever people do with the funds they earned is their business. 

Personally I use my Hive to buy the materials for arts, crafts, and homesteading activities that I end up making posts about to share on hive, so in a way, all roads lead back to hive even if my wallet is a bit light compared to others. So, more nuance needs to enter the KE convo and I am so glad you are sharing your perspective here. Thanks!!

I’m on both sides for the KE stuff. I like when I see someone with a decent KE and give them a stronger vote but when I get to know someone I ignore the KE a lot of times. I think the KE can be helpful when it comes to some things, like seeing someone who’s cashing every single thing out and not keeping any. That’s their prerogative and they can get support in some places but not a lot from me. 

I think constantly focusing on metrics isn’t a good thing though, because it indeed forgets there’s a human behind that. 

Autovote is only tool, we can not blame the tool. It is depend on how to use it well and properly.

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Honestly, it is nobody's business what anyone does with their earnings. 

That's worse than dictatorship. 

People spend money on Art, people spend money on drugs. Its the same money. Maybe for some, its the same euphoria. Perhaps some do both at the same time. 

But I know that as someone with a highly analytical background, being able to balance it with my heart is something I've only matured into being able to do in the last few months. I'll keep getting better at that. 

As I said in comments elsewhere, and as we can ceaselessly say: What is HIVE? What do you see it as? What is the goal? 

I answer these questions with: 

A place to be social. A place to make connections. A place to keep rambling, ranting passionate people like me from tugging on the sleeve of strangers on the street to tell them about my deep and passionate notions on the things I am interested and fascinated with. 

One day I'll leave HIVE, but I don't know when that will be. One day will be someone's last HIVE post. And someone's last hive post will be because of people judging another based on numbers that are in their wallet, and that is deplorable, reprehensible, and exclusionary. 

If you want to tell people what to do with their money, go become an Australian politician and limit people to a debit card for their welfare payments that can only be used at a certain selection of merchants for a certain selection of services. 

Australia isn't a totalitarian regime, but that is something that has happened in this country. Look for the stories of those poor people, and ask yourself, if you want to bestow votes who don't meet a magical metric, then don't complain when there's no content and there's a whole bunch of people who will have some very valid statements to make about the treatment of humanity on the HIVE blockchain. 

Although I *am* a metrics nerd and look at the heart as an organ that needs plumbing sometimes (cant take the scrub nurse out of the girl right?) but also looks at the hormon stress factor of the broken heart syndrome which can caused by reasons *we dont always know.*.the KE is also like this,

My KE sucks totally but indeed, it *doesnt* see my nearly daily posting for 7 years already, it doesn't see me buying tickets to hive fest from these funds, it doesn't me buying the license node validator for 1200 bucks in splinterlands, which is all community allocated.


Sure I sell funds as well on exchanges, I try to trade my way into better funds, who knows if that will work. But hey...doesn't being a cool human also count? ;)

On the other hand what someone else here also says: if you have 1 dollar and you can give it to someone that has a neat KE or a full on cash outer...Hey, I would also give it to the same

Luckily we can choose who we want to vote to!

I had to learn many ratios as a trainee accountant. Some of them I remember. And many, I've forgotten. But the bigger lesson I learnt was that no single ratio can measure the strength of a business. In fact, good auditors see very high scores as just as much of a warning as low scores. More importantly, anyone taking any type of action based on one ratio would be sacked immediately.

One analogy that sticks in my mind relates to the forensic scientist. Given a hair sample, they wouldn't simply compare the length. Instead, they would take lots of different measurements to arrive at conclusions. Rather than declaring someone a murderer because they have the same length of hair as was clutched in the victims hand. 

The KE ratio might be a strong signal to investigate further. But surely nobody is stupid enough to base their curation strategies on that single scale?

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The heart is *just* a spiral vortex.
I'm kidding! 

I nearly died of broken heart this year...
That's why I don't like to "heart invest" (in anything?) as you say

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Hola, me gusta su foto.

Some of your "legit" reasons to dump Hive are hilarious:

"*HIVE might be powered down to use in Splinterlands*": What this does it that the Hive go to the pockets of the Splinterlands-makers, they pay the devs (if there are some still) and those then cash out. Makes no difference if you directly cash out or via buying cards first.

I still find the KE useful. I more likely (and with my heart) upvote a post from a user with KE <1 than one with >10 if both are otherwise equal. It is that easy.

I have a good KE and I probably get good votes for my comments (I rarely write posts). But it's so funny when people take KE into account when voting. As if the price of HIVE will grow if several hundred people accumulate $100-200 per month, instead of withdrawing to HBD or an exchange. 

Hive's capitalization is over $100 million and daily trades are in the millions of dollars. HIVE sales of $1-2 thousand per day do not solve anything. The value of the HIVE token does not depend on this at all.