RE: Retention and Entitlement

Spot on! I find it super sad to see when users post rewards increasing and receive some or similar rewards on each post they publish, their efforts decrease. Some complain, others don't. But in general, I see reducing of effort in posts by those that have constant high rewards (talking 20/30$ upwards). Even sad to see many of those users take a significant step back in engagement. Maybe they are still responding to comments to their own post, but rarely go out to visit and interact with other users' posts. That said, we even see users constantly being at the top of reward lists who don't even take the effort to respond to comments to their own posts. Or just drop a 'thank you', the lowest of lowest effort responses IMHO, since one doesn't even have to read the comment itself, just drop the 'thank you's. Sad to see. But the net effect of having a monetary system as we have here at HIVE with to little we can do about it. Sure, when running a community, some tools are available. The MUTE post is one I use when a post isn't on par with the minimum required for the community I'm co-running. Fortunately, I have never seen users feel entitled to the rewards. I hope this is because we (moderators) try to explain why we use the MUTE button, or do something else that lowers the exposure of the post or reduces the rewards on the post (or not add additional rewards).