RE: February Reward Report

Thank you very much for your suggestion and especially for taking the time to think about what might increase the token holders' revenue.
Unfortunately, creating such a fan base would be the complete opposite of the purpose of this account and the whole experiment. Let us explain why.

As we announced in our initial post our main goal is, "first and foremost" ... "to help new Hive members/bloggers and those with smaller accounts (in terms of Hive Power - staked Hive), regardless of whether they hold the token or not."
And we intend to keep it that way.

It also doesn't mean that we didn't, don't, or will not, from time to time, support a post from some more prominent blogger (who wouldn't fit in any of the above categories) if we find their article quality, interesting, or informative enough.
In the same way, from time to time, we have upvoted, we upvote, and we will upvote the posts or comments of VOCUP token holders, but solely as an occasional not-announced or even less promised bonus.

Apart from that, it's true, as you said, that some of our members post daily, but it's also true that some of them post only about one or two topics and (or) in a very stenciled style with just a couple of sentences difference from their previous or next post. And something like that is certainly not the type of content we would like to dedicate this account and the whole project to.

Furthermore, as we curate devotedly every day with maximal possible power (trying not to lower our voting power below 80% to keep the VP regeneration process within 24 hours), the only influencing factors affecting the shared revenue are the number of days in each month, our account's active HP, HIVE price fluctuation and eventual downvotes (of the articles that we upvote - what didn't happen so far.)

However, trying to observe the Hive blockchain in a broader and more distant future, we chose to dedicate this project to the search and support of new or newer, and "smaller" Hive members for the following reasons.

• For new arrivals, it's extremely hard to get noticed at the beginning, especially if they are not brought in by some stronger (bigger) and more established members. Without such support, new members are often disappointed and discouraged, which contributes to a large outflow.
• Helping smaller accounts to grow and to empower them to help others, as is not so rare case that behind such small accounts stands more or less self-deprecating, very high-quality old bloggers who are not part of some mutually supporting group or community.

From our point of view, these are the two main factors that may help onboard more new members and, at the same time, help Hive to become truly decentralized. (This means the bigger amount of a bit bigger accounts (more or less equally sized) can provide a better and different spread of witness votes, proposals, etc., which directly may impact future development and the overall course of the whole blockchain by the will of the majority and not just by the will of several huge-power accounts that may easily outvote thousands and thousands very small ones.)

And in this regard, creating a fan base would be just creating another closed group, and it wouldn't help onboarding new members and even less creating solid and stabilized decentralization of the blockchain.

Anyway, we thank you for your interest, goodwill, and intention, and we hope that we managed to clarify a bit more the main purpose of this project!?!
!ALIVE