Value in the Spend?

I took this image of a bee resting on a sunflower, in Tallinn yesterday. It was in the middle of a flower market, and there were several various bugs and bees on different flowers. I like this kind of bee though, as it reminds me of a bull. A bull-bee. It would be nice if Hive had a bit more bull on the price. > But, there is plenty of bull still. ---  --- > *Bullshit,* that is. The other day @acidyo wrote an article looking at the [ever-present "giveaway" posts](https://peakd.com/can/@acidyo/what-phenomenon-is-this) that are just farming operations that add no value to Hive in anyway. I have written about them before as well, and I just see them as low-effort scam. I asked about another thing that I have very little clarity on, SpendHBD, but @starkerz hasn't replied to it. Perhaps here the question I have will be answered. > What value does the initiative bring to the Hive ecosystem? I might be wrong, but it again just looks like low-value scam farming, where the same set of people (or a couple people with multiple accounts) are just farming value away from the ecosystem. Maybe I am wrong, but it would be good to know why I shouldn't flag those posts in the [Spend HBD](https://peakd.com/c/hive-106130/created) community page. They are cut and paste, low-effort, nothing posts, with no engagement. The posters don't even mention what they bought 95% of the time, but there seems to be a lot of alcohol. Nothing wrong with that, but does that mean that the initiative is just subsidizing a piss-up? Again, since I don't have any clarity on what is being done there, all I see there just makes me want to DV any value away from it. But if it is actually a value-adding initiative for Hive, I don't want to do that at all. And, I am definitely not the only one thinking this way. Scroll through and click into a few of the posts down the list, and tell me what you think of this community view: # SpendHBD community page https://peakd.com/c/hive-106130/created *I don't get it.* > # What the fuck am I missing? Can anyone shed some light on this for me please?? I am all for charity and I get that many people around the world are struggling to make ends meet, but I don't think that Hive is a mature enough ecosystem to encourage farming of charity. And that is often what ends up happening when people try to create something to help people. A few end up taking most of the value, and the distribution doesn't go wide at all. Unfortunately, "people are people" and they don't care if what they do is right or wrong for others, as long as they are okay themselves. Many of us have seen it many, many times before, in many, many different ways. Ultimately, Hive isn't like Facebook or TikTok, it isn't a volume game requiring billions of users. What it does require though is *enough users* who are willing to buy Hive and add value to the ecosystem through what they create, be it content, applications, or some other aspect that brings people to Hive, provides a service, entertains participants, and ultimately stores more value on the chain than is being taken off the chain. I have visited quite a few of the account blogs that are posting on SpendHBD and they create *nothing* else. Everything is the same format, some looking, >"I visited blah blah market, here is my review" *But there is no fucking review.* > # What the fuck am I missing? Does anyone know? @starkerz, Maybe there should be a pinned post in the SpendHBD community explaining what it is doing and *how it is doing* with some regular updates. It has been running for a while now, but I don't see much happening around it, other than the repetitive low-effort posts from people with an 80% beneficiary set to @distriator.bene. *Please...* what am I missing with this? Taraz [ Gen1: Hive ] --- **Be part of the Hive discussion.** - Comment on the topics of the article, and add your perspectives and experiences. - Read and discuss with others who comment and build your personal network - Engage well with me and others and put in effort **And you may be rewarded.** ---