Recently, working on task platforms really gives me the same vibe as “clocking in to work”—check-ins, interactions, recruiting, writing feedback, and in the end, having to read the room by the ratings. I understand why the witch hunt is getting stricter, but once the rating system turns into a black box, it feels just like company attendance plus performance reviews, and everyone doing the work starts changing their mindset. They begin researching how to “look like a real person,” rather than how to actually use the protocol… To be blunt, it’s pretty exhausting.

What’s even more awkward is that on-chain data tools and tagging systems are still being criticized for being laggy or easy to mislead. You get tagged today, and only tomorrow do you realize you can’t change it back. The whole risk management setup gets discounted: no matter how stable the collateralization rate is, it can’t withstand the contagion effect of “a misjudgment leads to collective punishment.” These days I mine like it’s a side job—smaller limits, fewer links—so I don’t turn myself into a suspicious path. For now, that’s how it is.