How do you attract anyone to create and curate content?
First Impressions
The trending page is a SNOOZEFEST and very deeply entrenched in hive, fin or blockchain topics. Most personal content is not a good indicator of potential earnings.
Say your friend sends you a link - you login and you see the content, half of the content would go over your head and if you still keep perusing you'll come across content with disproportionate rewards. You think to yourself, I can do this.
You make a couple of great posts with 0 payout and giveup.
If you're lucky, good curators find you and encourage you to continue.
The buddy system
Like when you onboard a person to an organization, they get a buddy to ask questions that makes the process smoother. The blockchain is not complex but there are tons of uncertainities for layman that need to be addressed.
Remove auto-votes and trails
Every blog should be voted according to individual merit, as I said disproptionate rewards present a wrong picture of what kind of content is awarded on HIVE.
What are your thoughts on attracting users?
I understand your concerns. In the almost 4 years of being on steem/hive, I think that currently this is the greatest time for low hp users and their content being recognized and upvoted.
If you look at Steem vs Hive, the content is 1000x better as well as engagement on hive.
The biggest problem with Steem was that Ned wanted to sell it off like he did and Dan wanted to further develop the social media aspect as well as other important aspects like smts that are being developed. Steem's social media development stopped once Dan left.
With Hive though, the social media aspect is still being overshadowed by development. Which is fine. Ultimately, we are a transaction blockchain.
I do wish the beta social media aspect was further developed so as to not make us prop pieces/pets to make a stagnate blockchain look hyper active so as to sell more coin.
In my opinion not enough is being done to onboard content creators with 500,000+ subscribers and 10k+ plus views on content on sites like youtube, bitchute, lbry, gab, medium and kind of twitter considering there is a witness proposal to increase hive activity there; like it did for bitchute and lbry.
Having large quality content creators telling their audience to subscribe to their Hive channel would blow up hive big time.
But then again its like the witnesses don't want that attention on hive. It seems like they are like artists who will never think it is time to say, "Let's present this to the world".
Absolutely agree that content on hive is better than steem and yes I think hive has a very confused identity, if it is a social media platform, the need to attract quality content creators should be paramount.
Or at least get rid of this blanket term called 'shit posting' since we are more concerned with development outside of the beta social media concept and outsourcing hive to content creators to be used as a utility token on their own independent sites. Which is cool a la pewdie pie. Not a fan but cool stuff considering he is investing really heavy.
All I am saying is bring back the decentmemes @acidyo...
I have invited many users here but no have done anything good, all of them want to be rich in a day.
most of them get a good payout of their introduction post and if they did get good upvotes in their next posts they get disappointed and compare themselves with the other users who have spent years to be at the position where they are. The community is indeed a great thing here.
I think we can attract new users from other social media by sharing our posts and promote hive there as much as we all can.
that would be great but the things all the time how all the users can be managed.
if we got say 1 million users how to see the content quality, spammer, and pushing posts/links.
we need more investors and more curators that is how we manage to get new users.
there are many many good quality posts in the hive and they didn't get any upvotes but some posts which don't have anything else than a photograph earns a lot that is not fair in my opinion
these are my thoughts
Yes, that's the case with new users, they compare themselves to existing users and see it like a get rich quick scheme.
A buddy program can help keep things realistic.
I will try to make videos about hive on weekends I have an account that has all most 300 subscribers. may that will bring more audience
That's not really how it works. Think about a Youtuber for instance. What they did before their most recent video means a lot. They're not starting from scratch each time a new piece of content comes out. The latest offering might not be as good as that super hilarious thing they did last year, yet they're still in a position to get a lot of views and make money, often regardless of what that specific instance of content demonstrates.
Where things go awry here is when a content creator manages to attract a solid support foundation (often fully automated and you'll see very little engagement) but they start slacking and collecting. At that point they're not playing for an audience. They're playing for tokens. That behavior, putting tokens before consumers, plagues many of these crypto content platforms nowadays.
I agree about content creators who are consistent and have created a persona for themselves much you have but it is the latter that worries me because with lacklustre blogs about mundane things they make it to trending.
That part bugs me as well. It's not all bad, all the time, and I have seen signs of improvement. That stuff really needs to pop though, and consistently. It needs to be setting the bar. People need to feel excited to sign on and see what's popular, not do what many do and completely ignore what's there due to what's there having a reputation of not being interesting. And I'll tell you this. There's no worse feeling in the world when your content finally ranks high consistently after years of trying, you're out browsing around, and there's someone complaining about the trending page, where your work currently sits... LOL! I cringe every time. And I noticed almost right away the high ranking doesn't seem to be bringing in many new faces, which in theory, it should. BUT, I have also pointed out on several occasions, including a bit in my most recent post, when it comes to onboarding, the focus seems to be filling the stage, instead of the seats.
It's been years and I haven't officially introduced myself.
This brings up a good point, a lot of existing users should get a chance to introduce and re-introduce themselves.
It would help re-engage existing users.
Who are you @operahoser?
The Devil's Advocate for the Flat Earth.
I try to entice them by offering them a shag and I just can't fathom why we haven't went mainstream yet??
no wonder content creators run away😛
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Yes, the Hive Trending Page is always the same 5-10 people .... day after day .... They earn $ 100 on their posts and someone new signs up to Hive, does incredible work and earns nothing. So they leave. Too much $$ is going to the same 5 people on Hive. It is really weird. ProofofBrains looks like a much better distribution of wealth.
Yes, with good contests and the engagement initiative, proof of brain has been better at distribution.
In hive the rich will become richer and poor will leave eventually. Most on hive richlist have convinient upvotes and trails, dont bother with manual curation or upvote the same few ppl. It's like ppl didn't learn anything from steemit.
It seems to me that many of Best Brains are moving over to ProofofBrain.
Attracting new Hivers isn't as easy as playing Uno or Yahtzee, but it's easy enough. The difficulty comes in their retention. If they built up their expectations of the Hive experience and realize the reality fallsshort of it by a lot, they will quit Hive. If they compared it to the Web 2.0 services from Big Tech, then it's even worse.
A posting buddy is a good idea, and I think it's been suggested elsewhere. It's good to have someone who can answer at least basic questions, and if the questions can't be answered then at least the posting buddy can point you to a source of information which can.
Even those of us who have been Hivers for at least 2 months have enough knowledge that we can share it with minnows, and there are things which even the whales among us weren't aware of regarding what Hive has to offer. If it's a hassle locating FAQs and other references, maybe we can kill two birds with one stone and post reference content which also gets earnings and engaggement.
If we make the learning experience fun for new Hivers and have them add to the legacy of knowledge about Hive, I think that would also go a long way to increasing retention rates.
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