Do we removed the others and take only the believers? IMHO no we need all the groups of people to build a community in that way the community supports the Hive Blockchain as a whole.

And in my opinion, casting out dead weights makes everything efficient on record or prove a point that removing them is inconsequential. If one wants to be rewarded by the community, it has to be by their merits, this is what I believe anyway.

I don't want to invest my resources in people that siphon off value for personal gain in excess when there is a system in place where you can share the resources and be a team player where everyone wins. We're here for the money but there's at least some balance with greed vs altruism at play. Between someone that does something for the community vs someone that just passively exist as a community member, I'd be more than willing to invest my time on the former than the latter because that builds them up to do more for others.

There's no problem if you setup a community where everyone is welcome and gets a piece of the pie for doing absolutely nothing to earn their keep. Just don't complain about it when value doesn't get reciprocated. Seeing the Filipino community from steemit blockchain days up to now just enforces my beliefs that my efforts should be directed more to specific few that have an interest in building the community better than when they found it than those that just exist by name as a community member.

EDIT: That's partly the reason why the initiation channel on discord exists, so we let community members vouch for one another whether they earned their roles. I believe everyone deserves the type of community they have eventually. This means everyone had played a role in commission or omission in shaping the community.