I've noticed people complaining that some short content posts (Snaps, Waves, Threads) generate too high rewards in relation to the effort and/or quality. Especially newbies struggle with low long posts rewards. Would capping the short content rewards help?
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Greetings @godfish ,
A short-form comment/post has the potential to exceed in quality any number of long form-posts.
No Cap necessary.
Cheers, Bleujay
Well, I am quite sure that my long posts are way better than my short posts ;) But that is, indeed, individual :)
No cap pls :)
Engaging short-form content is not easy to create, IMHO.
Engaging content of any kind is not easy to create, is it?
On the other hand, this poll took me a minute or two ;)
There are some data and stats to support this view? Like a chart of rewards distributed to short form content compared to other things?
I don't think anybody has dug deep in the data yet. Feelings are often unrelated to hard data, though :)
No cap because it's not easy creating a short form content that's engaging but I can see why there's talk around that. I suppose, different demographic age, different preference. I might be writing about it soon though my pool of age demographic just got less than 20 votes😅
The cap can be easily "substituted" by downvotes - if somebody decides a short form content of two sentences and a link should't get that much, they can easily downvote it. Regardless the demographic :)
I guess that you've already built up your audience, less than 20 votes would be weird for a long post ;)
Yep, downvote is more appropriate.
I was talking about the poll I created the other day and was wondering if Hive's age demographic has correlation to their preference between short vs long form content. I mean, younger people liking short form more than long form kinda thing.
https://peakd.com/@macchiata/re-peaksnaps-smrzw1
I'm young, and I prefer quality ;) However, I have patience to go over more than two sentences ;)
The curation of long-form posts seems to have disappeared. And yes a cap here is necessary.
Well, we all are responsible for our personal curation. Perhaps we don't care enough, then :)
Shortform content that's engaging is hard to write. Plus, it's the same thing with long form that gets arguably unreasonable rewards. The cap is interesting, but let's make it at least 5 imo or it's not worth writing Snaps.
Whenever my post gets over say $80, it recieves some "equalizing" downvotes. And I don't complain, getting the author half of $70 is still cool ;)
The caps in the poll are just for illustration.
On the other hand, downvotes are basically just another way to cap the rewards. If your Snap is worth $5 and I downvote it with 100%, you lose $1 of total reward and 50 cents of your author's payout.
I agree - although you do see some people who consistantly get that and DON'T get those equalising dvs...
Hadn't occured to me to dv a snap. I guess it'd have to get an extreme reward for extremely shit snapping! I mean, 'gm friends'? It's rather subjective, isn't it?
Well, I do get downvotes of some of the best paid post, recently on this one:
I don't really complain about those.
I have never been downvoted on Snaps, but I'v just posted like two dozens of them, and none of them got over $1 I guess. I can imagine someone might feel an urge to downvote a snap of mine it the reward was say $5.