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RE: The good, the bad, the sad, and the ugly of Hive

in #202521 days ago

I sadly didn't know @beeber, but I have now read many posts talking about here. It seems like she made quite an impression on people and everyone who met her liked her. May she rest in peace.

Ideally Hive would support and even encourage people to just extract value. After all, when you sign up to Medium or the like, you aren't expected to only withdraw a portion of your earnings and leave the rest there—no, you are encouraged to take it all and then blog about how much you made, attracting more people who want to do the same.

Not necessarily a fair comparison, I know, but at the same time when we attract people to Hive with the message "get paid for writing your blog" that is the implication there and that is what's in their minds, fair or not. At the same time, I know Hive is nowhere near the point we need to be to support this kind of structure. We all need to do our part for supporting Hive as we grow into its full potential. I think we need to consider other ways to gamify Hive and encourage people to stay invested in the system. Hivebuzz is a good start, but honestly, it's kind of lame. I say that as someone who has participated it in for at least a few years, even doing the HPUM for the past two years. We need more to give newbies to do. I guess that wouldn't prevent the abuse from people who just come here and try to farm rewards, but it might help prevent people who come here and get bored and just withdraw and leave because they aren't seeing any reason to stay.

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I think retention has always been a bit of a problem because the only hook newbies want is instant rewards. They can't see beyond that, and don't understand the value of networking.

You make a very good point about gamification to keep newbies hooked. I'm cooking something at the moment for newbies, but the gamification part is quite simple, I may look to beef it up in the next stage. Need to think about that after I launch it