RE: Why is Engagement the Most Important Aspect of Blogging Platforms?
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Be careful what advice you give. I've seen a lot of posts over the last few weeks that could have been this mythical "Good Content" that very few Hive authors actually believe in and yet when I pointed out to one poster how they could have improved their work I was basically told to shove off and mind my own business because:
"I do not write for your pleasure"You are right. You build up relationships and allies by interacting with them but I have to agree with @adamada it all takes up a heck of a lot of time unless you're not in full-time employment I suppose?
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I could argue that most people that enter the platform aren't content creators or just testing out their hidden talents. There are more rewards to created a post than curating and commenting so people don't want to miss out such opportunities.
I can totally relate with you when it comes to receiving backlash for giving constructive feedback. Back when I was active (semi active now due to career reasons), this was frequently the dilemma of connecting to people, either you give them praise or face toxicity.
The remedy I found was just sticking to a circle of professional artists or artists that acknowledge they have more to learn (like I still do). It becomes an inside joke within the community to spot fake artists just forcing themselves for petty rewards (plagiarist posts, and spam art that was made in kindergarten)
In some respects, I really wish we could play down the financial incentives rather than using it as the main reason for joining. It seems to me, and I could be wrong here? That the vast majority are solely interested in the rewards which is why there are so many automated bots, contests and so-called giveaways.
Remove the financial rewards and we get a less appealing version of a social media on top of a blockchain. There are exceptional content here that occasionally gets posted but the bulk what can be seen here are usually content you can see for free on a regular social media newsfeed. This blockchain can reward you for just posting a picture of what you ate for dinner with only a few sentences. Having functions that automate the reaping of rewards sweetens the deal.
I'm just glad that the ecosystem right now rewards the people that do devote their time developing their content compared to what the old blockchain was. The old blockchain made it difficult to have visibility because less incentives were given for curation. Even if Hive has it flaws right now, it's still looks better than Steemit as there are now more incentives for content creators to post and be noticed than the environment 2-3 years ago.
You should talk with @fknmayhem who said:
https://twitter.com/fknmayhem/status/1308351904670384129
He seems to think, as I said, we should maybe do away with financial rewards or at least in the manner they are earned now.
Taken out of content, slightly. That was about the 75% curation removal headline.
But, I doubt that the "current social media" highlights the best this blockchain has to offer. And I also doubt, based on a background in online publishing management and internet startups funding, that there is potential to scale the value of HIVE to make it worthy. Making content transactional is a difficult game and will definitely not lead to a $2bn mcap.
I never said to do away with rewards. Why would I say that, democratized publishing is one of my main focuses since more than a decade and a half. And on Hive I consider myself a creator.
But I do support a gradual move of rewards to layer 2, in order to create more and new token utility and remove a lot of constant down pressure on the token.
Rewards for creation are a "Trojan horse" to speed up user acqui. Our true assets are "central userbase, fast and almost free tx, and censor-resilience.
"Social media" was an experiment and should be merely a vertical going forward. We have games, we can add DeFi (have it already sorta), we do a lot of time stamping, and the chain's speed and proven scalability allows us to even operate HIVE as a real life payment token at scale.
Inflation averaging around 13% isn't sustainable.
Moral of the story: max 280 chars barely ever tells the full story. Taking that limited number of characters elsewhere usually will tell even less and may damage the intent of those words, characters.
Bonus: I'm definitely not the only one who advocates layer2 rewards. But I don't think we're ready for that yet and are IMHO at least two years and a half away from a possible, complete switch. A switch which isn't hara-kiri.
Bonus 2: I will be more careful with my tweets going forward.
Na, My bad. I misunderstood.
People reap what they sow, I would guess after that they will get no votes from you and a lot of others that saw the comment will give no votes to them.
It does take time to comment, but sometimes that time just needs to be taken. It is a shame we can not type as fast as we think.
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Over 30 years I've used a keyboard and still cannot touch-type. LOL
ENGAGEtokens.It does take a lot of time upfront, but after you start to get noticed I find you don't have to put in as much time anymore.
It's an off and on a thing or you could just consistently put in a little time each week and grow it off the consistency rather than the quantity.
It's all about growing people you enjoy interacting with so you don't have to put in alot of effort all the time just put in a little effort commenting every day.