Hive is so often advertised, mostly inside our ecosystem, as being a blockchain hosting a plethora of social media apps designed and envisioned to fulfill the need for freedom of speech, noncensorship and ultimate ownership over one's content in the current internet era. We sometimes claim that "we're the real WEB3".
Hive is no longer what Steem used to be and I'm more than happy about that, Hive however, from certain angles, is still living in the shadows of Steem. It's over two years since we've forked and aimed at making Hive a better version than Steem and we're still dealing with some of Steem's flaws.
These being whales dictating, or at least trying to shape what quality posts should look like and what is "too much daily posting". I read a post of 
I'm not gonna name them, it's irrelevant. The idea is that in the past, probably a few months ago, one whale recommended him that he should not post more than once a day and the other was suggesting that he would forfeit some of the posts rewards when uploading short form content.
I don't know how long were these posts that that whale was pointing at, but what's wrong with short form content? And what's wrong with people curating it? If I remember correctly, when andrarchy confirmed that he's transitioning to Hive, he's done that with a less than one minute read post and that post got to the trending page with hundreds of dollars in posts rewards and no one complained about that.
Where was the quality there? If the post was just a few lines long, thus not falling into a good quality type of post, why did it get so damn curated?
I don't believe in long-form content being the only type of content that should be considered as being of good quality as I don't consider spamming the platform either. One reason, PROBABLY, that Hive is not yet mainstream is that it is mostly oriented towards blogging, but luckily project blank is on the way and this shall have a great impact on past time legacies that we have inherited regarding what content should look like on Hive.
If length=quality, then I should have hit the trending page multiple times by now, but in five years since I've been an active member in here, that has never happened. Hence the logic with long posts resembling quality in any way falls. Not saying that long posts should be disconsidered. 
But, I said it's a story of two whales, so let's jump to the next chapter of this post. Basically, the second whale was suggesting Daltono that he would not post more than once a day. Why? It makes no sense and it's not even healthy for the traffic we need and the exposure that we have to harness to become visible outside of our ecosystem.
If the blockchain allows it(posting multiple times a day), there shouldn't even be a discussion of limiting or trying to limit anyone from posting more than once a day. I agree that posting ten times a day or more is too much, your followers won't even pay any attention to that many posts and you might get unfollowed by becoming too spammy, but as long as your content is digestible and makes sense, I don't see any reason why anyone wouldn't post multiple times a day.
I usually have two of them a day, but I have managed for a while to score even four posts a day. I find it exhausting, though, to do that anymore. I don't even believe any of my followers would read four posts a day from me. At some point in the comments section of the post I mentioned about from Daltono, I remember him mentioning that he didn't want to enter a downvote war and I somehow get him.
What I don't get is why there should be any downvote in the fist place? If you don't like my content, just simply move away and curate others. It's probably over two years since I got an upvote from 
It's that easy. Even spammers move away when they don't get the attention they think they deserve and expect. Unfortunately "the downvote and whales pleasing syndrome" that was quite bold and narrow during the Steem era of our community has not died after the hardfork.
By no means I'm trying to say that Daltono made a bad move by changing his posting style, he has himself admitted that the two whales commenting on his posts have had a POSITIVE INFLUENCE on him. However, I also do not agree with their take regarding a limit of daily posts and what quality posts should look like as defined by certain entities.
I'm an advocate of common sense, freedom of speech, noncensorship, decentralization, and freedom of expression. My blog is my legacy in that regard. It's a hell of a shitty blog, though, if no whale has ever got to it and pushed any of my posts to the trending page, or trying to make some tweaks to my posting style. Anyway, this post is a hell of a long one from my usual ones... I hope, though, that its good quality will get validated ;) by curators.
Thanks for your attention,
Adrian