Let's just start with a simple statement: Hive needs curation to thrive and grow.
We need content consumers as much as we need content creators. It will be vitally important for us to create a reason for viewers of our content to create accounts and use those accounts to upvote and curate content.
Let me explain.
We start out looking at Blogging on Hive.
Some of us integrate and become both bloggers and content consumers mostly of people that we follow and who follow us allowing us to do reciprocal growth.
However, most of us here want to Blog on Hive. Experience and repetition has proven it time and again that merely blogging is not enough. Making friends and engaging with other people's content is just as important as actually writing blogs of your own.
Don't Waste your VP!
So many Redfish and Minnows do this and it seems that one the handful of the upper echelons, the Dolphins, Orca and Whales know this!
When you upvote a post, you are using your stake to allocate rewards to an eligible post. HALF that only goes to the author and the other half comes back to you!
This means that if you have XXHP and your vote is, Hypothetically $0.50 then $0.25 worth of rewards is awarded to the Author of the content that you upvoted. And $0.25 of that post reward is paid to you once that post pays out!
Thus, it is your job to keep your VP between 80% and 99% but never 100%
I am guilty of burning out my VP to lower than 80% but the smart people will tell you that this is not the best idea. You should rather make more 50% and 25% upvotes or limit the number of 100% upvotes that you send out.
Also, there is a minimum threshold and if the post you vote on does not meet criteria there is no payout. If you have low HP, but you vote on popular posts then you will get your full Curation payout, even if it is small.
It snowballs so it keeps going!
A new class of Hive user - The Reader/Watcher/Consumer
We need people to come use the platform and upvote and comment on posts. People who are not necessarily interested in the adventure and grind that is being a blogger on Hive, but those who want to use this platform and share and read content created by the Bloggers!
Bloggers need encouragement and feedback!
There is nothing more vital to a blogger than a comment on their posts! Even if the message that you leave on another person's post is short and simple, getting feedback and encouragement is vitally important.
If you can, ask questions of the writer or when people make comments on your posts, ask them questions instead of closing off the conversation with a conversation stopper/ender.
If we posted blog posts about a variety of different content, but nobody ever made a comment or engaged with you, you would feel like you are living in the void, a Ghost Town.
That is not what we want on Hive!
Busy Bees Unite!
I am looking for a team of 100 Active Bloggers. The Busy Bees are all about reciprocal growth.
After I establish the A Team 100 Bloggers, I want to focus on building a Busy Bees Reader group. People who just have accounts to use to upvote others and make comments on posts. This is also a category that would to well for people who only ever post casually once in a while.
By increasing the Curation and Encouragement by making upvotes and comments we KEEP Hive a busy place and a safe place for us to blog and grow!
Thank you for reading this post!
Cheers!
@zakludick
Having folks read and comment is huge. I think it's one of the things that keeps burnout away, and pushes you to keep posting. It's not like most of us make much off of the blogs we post, so we do it for the joy of creating and for the positive feedback. I try my best to comment when I can, but with 3 kids I admit to a lot more reading, upvoting, and not managing to comment than I would like.
Indeed. I have 3 yokles this side as well and I know exactly what you mean!
Time is a limited thing and I think that after all, THAT should be one of the things that should drive the price of Hive up. Hive is time. Time invested in posting, commenting, curating, engaging, investing, etc.
Yeah, where possible, leave a creator a comment a day to keep the blues away!
There was a time.... when frontends like PeakD actually showed post views on every post... and it didn't last very long because it became clear that some posts with really high rewards had very few, sometimes zero views.
I get super frustrated when people with regular autovotes post 2 or 3 times a day, and it's just the same content worded slightly differently each time... they do it to collect on the votes, but it does nothing to entice new content consumers to Hive. Hive does desperately need way more content consumers... it's something I worry about a lot because new Hive is minted each day, there is always new supply created and so you want to make sure there is a constant increasing demand as well - but if the content is dull, repetitive or full of misinformation then that'll affect demand. (Maybe... maybe Hive just gets traded on exchanges and no one cares about the activity on the blockchain, I don't know).
My opinion is that it is a bit of all of the above.
Yes there are reward farms. But there are also real content creators and consumers.
Yes some people will do things to mint and milk what they can, but then so do the people who are genuine... in a genuine way.
I feel that all we can do is work on and grow as much as possible the real, true and organic growth of Hive.
It is up to us, and will be one of the goals of Busy Bees to create a drive to onboard consumers and to de-populate Web2 in favour of Web3.
Will that stop web3 exploits from existing? Nope. But it shall change their percentage and influence.
Ah, you're right, that's definitely a more mature and definitely more optimistic viewpoint. Love it!
I am glad that you enjoyed my optimism! 😁🍻🐝
My weekly tracking of the Busy Bees, which is made up of real bloggers of course has probably done something to do this to me!
Great insights on the importance of curation and community engagement on Hive... every vote and comment truly makes a difference!
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Thank you so much! Your comment and support fills me with a lot of motivation!
The pleasure is mine, have a great day
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This is super helpful! Thanks
I am glad that you find it useful!