The more encouragement that can be given to people to curtate and comment the better.
Part of the problem of a monitised system is that those that get it, the notion that you get paid for curating and possibly if you comment your comment will also get upvioted, is that a lot of people give one liners, which although are an engagement of sorts are not really an engagement.
I mentioned in my latest Russells Chatter that, content crators are creating to engage in discussion, why else would they be putting their opinions, ideas and information out there, so as curators of that content we should also be engaging in the discussion.
If we upvote a post, then engage with the post.
One of the pitfalls of curation trails is that people join them because they will increase their curation rewards without actually having to engage.
As you have seen I offer extra incentive reqwards for engagement, not just upvotes, trying to encourage people to actually go into a post and comment on the post, even if some of them are just answer this question. at least it gets people engaged.
I average aroumd 20 engagements a post these days which is quite good when you look at others, having said that I can average around 75 upvotes a post, this does show the inequity in curation and engagement.
I also think that those that create for creation sake and do not actually have anything of great value, eg , posts that just say, Hi It is me etc, will not get the engagement that other posts of quality content will get.
Again I see groups , who's sole purpose is to curate each others posts.
eg a curation trail is set up amongst a large group of people, every person in the group becomes a member of the trail. then no matter whatthey post, the whole group upvotes, as the groups curation rewards increase their voting power increases and thus some posts with absolutely no engagement but a swag of upvotes gets a good reward.
This to me seems outside of the ethos of what the Blockchain platforms are about, but in a decentralised world actaully gains momentum
But back to your point, Curators will curate what they believe, subjectively, is worth curating, and content creators will create what they believe, subjectively is worrth creating.
Because these contents and contexts are subjective, the horse will not necessarily drink from the trough it is led to :)
Having an expectation of your content being liked by others is developing an expectation that most likely will not be met, because if the content is created for the expectations of others then it is not coming from the self and will most likely refolect that
Thank you for reading and for your feedback.
Yes. Instead of giving so much power to expectations, we should just simply focus on engagement so we have better chances of meeting our expectations.
You know. We have been watched and heard hehe. Kidding. Actually the project if El Comentador have been promoted. I just learned about the Hive Comment Initiative by @theycallmedan on precisely what we have been discussing.
I think it will be interesting if you participate because the work you have done is an example of how we can contribute to engagement.
Thank you, and see you around 😉