I think this was tried on Threads at first and some downvotes followed for the Hive rewards. Threads has the advantage it has its own token, and with it, holders who have enough LEO staked can use whatever weight they want, without a risk of being downvoted. That's especially true if they don't have much HP in their accounts.
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and some downvotes followed for the Hive rewards
I'm not surprised by that and I believe that it's not too bad that some people think about protecting the reward pool because it could really lead to abuse, like 50$ for a blurred image lol. However, we shouldn't consider all short content as garbage. I see some nice snaps or threads that generate a lot of interaction and I think it should be acceptable that such posts generate some income.
I agree things should be more nuanced. We should avoid black & white categorizations (as in valuable or garbage), there's a lot of room in between.