I am not talking about delegating most of your stake, that is understandable.
If someone wants to grow their HIVE account as a content creator, even that isn't understandable...
For me it does, and I have seen people on discords complaining about how little rewards they earn now.
Seeing the same thing, was the reason for creating my last post... I still believe that HIVE can "survive", but to get there, we should "market" it differently... While HIVE is different than other social media, that doesn't mean that it's NOT one of them... Obviously, some people forget that it is a network of PEOPLE in the first place, and that's why they look at it as a "money-making machine"...
Back to the topic... At the Hive meetup in Hamburg, that was exactly the topic that we were discussing at the end of my presentation... Unfortunately, the audience didn't have a microphone, so that part wasn't recorded... But, the point was that even those who are struggling with money issues, can put on aside 5-10% and grow their HP... But, they do what you said, power down everything...
We need more education, more talk about the benefits of building healthy communities, on support, on helping each other... and HivePower is a perfect tool for doing that... That's why EVERYONE should grow their HP! To support fellow Hivians, friends, good content creators... To get there, we need to look at HIVE as a network of PEOPLE!
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Agreed.
Except this:
They know exactly what they are doing.
Authors who can barely write a coherent sentence can still figure this out in minutes.
I suppose you are talking about "old accounts" and I do agree that they KNOW exactly what they are doing... IMO, there is no chance to "educate" them, and there is no sense in doing that at all...
But, I know that many newcomers have no idea how HIVE works, and they think that the system is upvoting their posts and putting money in their pockets... We can't "force" them to power up or to do anything, but we can show them how it works, and the long-term benefits...
no no. I mean new accounts, mainly.
They might not get the intricacies of HIVE, but everybody knows how money works.
Even the dumbest cunt.
I can't and don't want to force anything.
But I can choose what and who to support.
Maybe they do know how money works, but I saw many newbies having 0 idea of curation rewards on HIVE, and from WHERE the value of upvotes are coming... That happened here in the comment section, Ecency Discord, and even in some of the HHHLive shows, too...
Agree with that... Maybe I'm too naive, but I like to give everyone a chance before giving up on them... To show them how it works, and when they know it, they can decide what they want to do... No forcing anything...
They fooled you.
They can figure out how to trade/swap the coins and cash them out. But they don't understand how social media likes work and that some display 1.00$ and other 0.10$ ?
Nah, bro.
I just unfollow and they immediately hop in my comments and ask what's up.
And then pretend they don't understand.
Yeah, right.
Makes me angry - I sometimes just mute them at that stage. Can't deal with those silly 'I am so stupid, lol' - games.
I hate that mindset. Just writing about it now annoys me.
Delegating you still keep your Hive on chain. But when you withdraw it is no longer there. So I feel like delegating even with all its shadiness is better than powering down. But please compare how far we have come since Steem with delegation for profit groups and all of those have been removed for the most part.
As I have said before I feel like marketing happens naturally as the price rises. And that happens during "alt-season" as we call it.
Yes we do need to educate, but as @felixxx mentioned many know and chose to do otherwise.
Thanks for that reminder... We did make a huge journey and I hope we will make more of it in the future too... Hive is far from being perfect, but it is better than it was before, and it will be even better in the future... To see that happening, we need more posts like this one, where we can have discussions about important things... I missed these things as recently, we barely had any talks about HIVE fundamentals...