I have given interest free loans to people on HIVE and some of them never even paid me back. I don't do anything like that anymore because I just don't have the bandwidth to keep up with it. I only loaned to friendly aquiantensces anyways so I was always open to never getting paid back.

Lots of good people on HIVE. It's actually not that hard to find good people here. That being said, a lot of people on HIVE trust when there really doesn't need to be trust and that creates a lot of problems imo.

The reward pool is easy to access and a lot of people view it as free money. It makes sense so many scammers pop up here and it makes sense “good” people get greedy and start scamming.

I’m not going to do that though. I try to watch for greed when it starts impacting me because greed can become very consuming and is particularly good at changing people in a bad way without them even noticing.