RE: Why is Hive so not luring as Facebook, Insta, Twitter
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I don't begrudge you rewards, but the fact that some whales are giving you a big vote on every post may be part of the problem, even if you have no say in that. They need to spread their votes wider. The problem is in finding good newbies to upvote. I know some of the curation projects work on that with people seeking out good content to send votes to.
I have my own little project that supports a set of small accounts.
New users do have to put in some work. They should be commenting, joining communities and doing challenges/contests to get noticed. That is what I did from the start. We do need tutorials that are easy to find. A new user should be sent straight to a tutorial with tips to get them started.
Retaining users is a major issue for Hive and we need the community to work on improving it.
You are right and I do agree with you and that's the problem of the whole system, when you reach to a certain level you start getting more support. In a way even that is not wrong, because the person has put in consistent effort to reach to that level and no matter what not given up. But still with that said the problem of the new joiner does not get resolved. The FAQs are there but still the hand holding needs to be done in terms of reward system because that is something that will retain the start up accounts.
I am aware @appreciator does support to an extent on this but this needs to come up from more to make it robust.
I also get a lot of auto votes. I would not mind if some went to new users instead.
The Hive.blog FAQ and Welcome page are good, but people may not notice them. Peakd also has a FAQ, but it is more hidden away. I think there is value in a site popping up tips until you tell it to stop as a lot of things will not be obvious. We can write posts with tips, but only a few people will see them.
I just want more people to get the benefits of Hive, but I can only help so many myself. I have been on Twitter helping some new users just this week. They do struggle.
I agree with this. Few newbies actually post quality content
There are some quality newbies, but they may give up when they don't get much attention. They may be people who do well elsewhere. We need to be proactive on welcoming them. I often share around good stuff I find or mention it in posts.
Of course there are plenty of people who just post pictures of their cat, but some of the bigger Hive users do that too and earn from it. It can be more about who you know than what you do.
Oh true! Connections do matter. And personality as well. I think it is a very interesting mix of many factors involved in becoming a successful user on Hive.