But how bad can he be if he has an actual community to abandon? I did watch your video and glazed over a few of the posts about it. One thing I don't recall is how much of the reward pool was being used for this. I do think that the vote amount matters. The question I try to ask though is whether it is authentic human interaction or not. If it is authentic human interaction, I'm starting to wonder if that isn't a better expenditure of the reward pool than quality content.

When people build bonds, they stick. They never really die (well...unless they die in real life). But many of us can lay dormant for years, but we never really leave, because the friendships we made will always pull us back in. If such a bond results in what people call a voting circle, is that so detrimental to Hive, especially if they mostly stake Hive?

Edit: change in wording.