We noticed that the amount of single image posts in the Black And White Community and for #monomad is rising.
A little hint:
Longer and multi image posts will give you a better chance to be selected as a #monomad winner and will definitely put your publications in the curation zone.
By better chance to be selected with a multi image post, and to avoid any potential misunderstandings, we are not saying we will choose quantity over quality, and whoever knows us a little bit also knows we don't work like that.
What we mean is that whoever posts few images will have a better chance to have a winning one among that specific batch. Compare it with buying one single raffle and buying a bunch of raffles if you want. Better chances right?
Besides that, it will make you and your posts look a lot better and way more appealing to any curator looking around for content to upvote.
This brings us to that curation zone remark.
The @monochromes team is lucky enough to be working for few of the top curation projects operating in Hive, so it's fair to say that we do know a thing or two about what projects like these want to curate and what they don't want to curate.
Single image posts are not part of their "menu" 🙂
Take it as you will. All we're trying here is to point our community in the right direction, but in the end of the day, the truth is that you're the ones choosing your own path.
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- Post your entries in the Black And White Community (ELIMINATORY FACTOR).
- Clearly mention the #monomad challenge in your post title or post body. For example: "This is my entry for the #monomad challenge" (ELIMINATORY FACTOR).
- At least 50% of the submitted post, including the first image, needs to be black and white (ELIMINATORY FACTOR).
- Use the #monomad tag (ELIMINATORY FACTOR).
- Every photograph must be yours. Plagiarism will be immediately reported (ELIMINATORY FACTOR).
- Reusing previously posted images will be treated as content recycling and it will be reported as well (ELIMINATORY FACTOR).
- We reserve the right to change the contest rules at any given time without further notice.
Whilst I understand your point and I love a good photo essay as much as the next guy I also believe that an important part of photography is editing yourself, looking at the photos your taken and choosing the best one, something that I think has been lost in the barrage of images in the digital age. You are essentially saying it's better to throw all of the images you shot at the internet than to cast a critical eye.
I think you misunderstood what we wrote.
What we said, and very clearly, was that we will not choose quantity over quality. We never did and that's something easily verifiable by anyone scrolling through our posts.
In the end of the day system, how it is built, is dictating the rules, incentives and motivation. And the truth is that creating content for the rewards is simply too time consuming and/or not rewarding, so people are behaving in patterns that give them the most returns in terms of satisfaction.
We can preach and teach as much as we want, but as long as community members do not feel the urge to create lengthy, in depth posts themselves it will not change.
On the other hand, like you said, more does not mean better. Look at redit, that Hive was aiming to become, there is huge variety of posts, from lengthy ones, to one sentence in length.
Do not get me wrong, i am for the good quality content that is educational or fun or entertaining. And i hate the the concept of few big curators deciding and encouraging "favors" enforcing guidelines of what the content should be. This is exactly the opposite of decentralized nature of occurrence and that is why reddit is driven by the community and Hive yet struggles in so many ways.
The bottom line here is, no matter what we know what good content is or should be, it is a no brainer nowadays. It's all about incentives (and i do not mean financial ones as people can be incentivised in soooo many more ways) and culture inside the platform.
Face it. There is no point in creating big educational posts, since the absolute majority would not engage with the content, and come here just to put their votes to get the curation rewards. In times of fast consumerism and short attention spans there is no way people would give their time to go through lengthy reads. And Hive is sadly receiving 0 to nothing of traffic from the outside of the community. And content discovery is still at such a poor state that it's not worth to me mentioned. A CONTENT BASED COMMUNITY THAT HAS NO WAYS OF DISCOVERING THE CONTENT BASED ON THE CONTENT AND NO WORKING CONTENT SEARCH. WHAT DO WE EXPECT?
And trust me, I've been here on the platform for 3-4 years already, almost daily, and I've seen people and good content creators come and go cause miniscule reward in not what content creators work for. They do it for original engagement, exposure with the potential of making serious money. Hive is just a game, an experiment that is failing in my opinion. And that what it was all about, an experiment to see if financial rewards would incentivise people to create and engage in quality content.
Nobody knew beforehand that human brain does not work like that. It's a much more complex occurrence and a few bucks on a post does not make any difference :)
We could almost subscribe 100% of what you wrote there. We disagree on the fact that Hive is failing though.
Hive is in its infancy, or in the best case scenario in some sort of irreverent teenage stage. There's still a huge margin for growth and improvement.
What we wrote was simply an attempt to guide people around, and to allow them to understand the echosystem they are in. We don't have to necessarily agree with it to try to help our black and white community members to achieve better results and visibility. Specially when we are in no position to change anything regarding that said echosystem.
I have probably went off track with my last comment. I have dedicated quite some time for this community only to see it shrink and quality of the content to drop. Any startup that fails to get big traction in 5 years is a sign of big concern. Infancy is wishful thinking but i certainly hope you are right.
And guide is OK, any post that has more of meaningful information theoretically is better. But... Hive posts are basically undiscoverable and non searchable. Which kind of kills the purpose of quality, content and educational information rich content. You do not believe that curators are going through all the lengthy articles, do you? They would simply have no time for that. And voting on sheer volume is even worse practice i am afraid.
thank you for the mention !
Thank you!
Congratulations to the winners! 🏆 Amazing photos!
That's why I always buy 3 raffles, one can be the winner!😂
Beautiful selection, congratulations to the winners, congratulations to
#monomadand the platform Black And White
yeah, that photo is beautiful - looks like an image of a dream
Hello and sorry for this super late reply @victorbz. We completely missed your comment here.
Any of those will work perfectly. Either a photo story or a serie 🙂