Greetings Felines and Hoomans of Greater Hivelandia! Hope this day has treated you well!
As you may remember from previous posts, this cat is big on communities and community building.
For me, one of the beautiful things about our very diverse Hive ecosystem and all its communities is precisely that there are so many options for our creativity and content.
Still life with cat and water bottle
For someone like me — who has a myriad different interests — it’s perfect. Because I might write about cats, or finance, or cryptos, or community building, or contests, or homesteading, or spirituality, or pets, and a host of other subjects that interest me.
Lately, I have run into a few posts and comment discussions on the topic of "community loyalty." Specifically, these had to do with loyalty in the context of not selling any of the Hive-Engine tribe tokens of the communities to which we post. It would just be seen as disloyal.
Are you telling me what to do?
Loyalty... to WHAT?
That line of thinking can soon get into some sticky territory.
Seems to me that every time you make a choice to "do option B but not option A" you're creating a loyalty conundrum.
If I sell Hive to buy LEO, am I being disloyal to Hive? And loyal to LEO?
I like to occasionally write about finance, saving and cryptos... so I post to LeoFinance.
So how about this: If I sell my earned LEO tokens and use them to buy CUB tokens — which are a development of LeoFinance — am I being DISloyal to anyone?
"Loyalty" is a word that perhaps bears being used sparingly, because as long as the tokens — whatever tokens — are staying within the overall ecosystem, aren't I still being loyal to the ecosystem?"
And thus — technically speaking — everyone still benefits.
Of Benefit To All...
Interestingly enough, that’s how most blogs were, back when I started blogging… it was mostly general ”Lifestyle” content. It wasn’t really until the advent of MySpace and Facebook that ”niche blogging” became much of a thing.
And I am definitely not going to try to ”shoehorn” all content I create to fit into solely one narrowly defined area. So thank goodness for our communities!
But participating in the efforts of a community — and helping to build that community — can take many forms. It more than just joining "The Cult Of Staking Every Fraction Of A Token." Surely, you also have to consider each individual's monetary and investment objectives... some of our members live in economically unstable parts of the world and depend on their writing rewards to buy simple things like medicine and dinner. Are they "disloyal?"
As a different example, one of my "alt" accounts stakes all WHOLE units of a particular token, and sells the FRACTIONAL bits to slowly build a balance in one of Hive-Engine's "Investment" tokens. Is that "disloyal?" I'd like to think NOT!
Tags, Tags, Tags...
Before I leave this, I wanted to touch on the related topic of ”appropriate tagging.”
For me the whole purpose of tagging is to help categorize content. And yes, I’m sure there are those who’ll pipe up and declare that I am just ”deluding myself” because the ONLY thing anyone actually cares about is ”the rewards.”
Speak for yourself. I love getting rewarded but don't post recipes to a financial tribe, or investing statistics to a homesteading tribe... just because you might make a few cents.
Sometimes, tagging appropriately can be the most challenging part of a post. Tagging THIS post is challenging! Using "ProofOfBrain" because that's one of the places the "loyalty" issue has come up repeatedly. Using "LeoFinance" because it's perhaps the community with the most loyal followers. Tagging "CreativeCoin" because a CAT writing about Community Issues IS pretty creative. NOT tagging Sports, CineTV or Foodies because this post has nothing to do with those.
It's not rocket science! So simple, even a CAT can figure it out!
Anyway, thanks for reading, and have a great week!
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Love Cats? Get Involved in Hive's Cat Communties!
If you're a cat lover and often/sometimes post pictures or other content that includes your feline friends, why not become an active part of Hive's growing Cat Communities?
These are some of the more active Cat Communities — why not join them ALL? Remember, you can also "cross-post" your cat posts to them!
HiveCats by @curatorcat is a central "gathering place" for cat content on Hive; promoting the use of the #hivecats tag for feline content!
Cat Snaps by @manorvillemike is a place to post pictures of your cats when you don't have a whole lot to say beyond just sharing your cute photos!
Caturday Community by @saboin is a community where we get to celebrate posts relating to Saturday — aka "Caturday" — our own special day!
Cat Photos by @andrarchy is a "mixed use" cat content community; posts can be just photos or longer, as long as the subject is CATS! It has a lot of subscribers but is not very active.
Cats by @captainklaus (and Sissi!) is another "general" cat content community; it's there, but not very active.
Last, but certainly not least, a special shoutout to the recently formed Hive Pets Community which has become quite active and has quite a bit of cat content!
There are a number of other feline communities listed on Hive, but I am not sharing them for now as they have not had any activity (by their Admins OR users) since the Steem/Hive fork. Updates as they become available!
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I'm glad I haven't run into these "loyalty" arguments. As you say, you don't know what everyone's situation is, and frankly it isn't anyone's business. As long as they aren't abusing the platform in some way - tag abuse, plagarism, and whatnot - you're not exactly attracting people to the tribe if you say "ok but you can only use your money how we say."
I think it can get a bit dictatorial, sometimes... or zealous, maybe. What I don't like about it is that there are many people using this community who aren't just investors with loose cash sitting around... these are folks who need even a few dollars to help pay for the basics of life.
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I'm one of them. I've cashed out to buy groceries or pay rent or whatever multiple times. I'm still building my account, but it isn't "fun money" or "money I can do risky things with" for me.
I think along similar lines, I try to post in the relevant communities and tag those others that may be interested. I prob don't always get it right, but I avoid putting Artwork in Leo as an example.
Agree too the chain or ecosystem loyalty is of greater value. Falling into tribalism rarely has a good outcome. (woke policies and CRT, terrible ideologies)
For fun below is an artwork made of my kitty.
Cool art effects!
Sometimes people just get a little too zealous about building various communities... and they forget that we are not all here specifically to make "Community X" a monster success... and frankly, if the market for your token can't handle people selling a few, now and then, then maybe the community ISN'T that amazing!
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He's so cool
Thank you.
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Great write up.pls keep ot coming.
Thank you.
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