I have put a lot of work and thought into why that is. Seems like the more monetized a system is the self censoring ramps up to not offend anyone especially those thinking about setting up an account on an auto voter. They were picking to see if they could trust you with votes for the next several months to years. Then they don't want to have everyone else seeing them voting for some loose cannon who might write something offensive to all their supporte tors.
I think partially the game theory kept changing and broke down
RE: There is no Attention Economy on Hive