Promoted Posts Get Views
I had started developing promotions for the software underlying Proof of Brain.Blog about five weeks ago. And I am pleased to announce that promotions have been developed and are working live on the site now.
I conducted a poll about a month ago on how I should monetize Proof of Brain.Blog. I used the site dpoll.io for this purpose. I received 12 replies. Each reply can have more than one vote. Each user could vote for any of all of the options. I also received a whole lot of votes for it at the time as well.
I decided to promote my own poll. Two weeks had already passed so I wasn't going to get any more reward for this post, but I wanted to let everyone have a chance to answer the poll. So, after promoting my own post which directed people to the poll I was conducting on how to monetize, I got thirteen more replies for my poll. So there was double the engagement and activity than not having a promoted post. I also got ten more votes.
How Promotions Work
Somewhat subtly there is the word "Promoted" on the far right side of the post tile when looking at any list. Posts go into a kind of queue, and if you promote a post it will get there and stay there or advance in this queue as promotions expire.
In every list of posts, promoted posts get a spot of the 5th position, spot and then every fourth spot after that (9th, 13th, ...). Eventually the one at the 5th spot will expire its promotion. When this happens, if there is one in the 9th spot it moves to the 5th spot. The one in the 13th spot goes to the 9th spot and so on.
When you make a post, make sure your new content is for a specific community: the Proof of Brian community. Remember to put your tags that have to do with the subject matter and use images and write with the best quality. Once your post is posted, or once you see another user's post you want promoted, you can promote it with the following steps.
- I think you should reblog it if you want to promote it. You might as well, why not promote it for free first as well?
- After that, it may take some time before your post appears in created but when you find it, mouse over the three dots at the bottom of the post tile.
- A menu will appear and you can click on Promote. You will be given options to promote. You can promote for as long as two weeks and for as little as 30 minutes. You'll have to pay in Proof of Brain.
- Once promoted I promise to keep the post up within reason.
✗ I think eventually most of what I post will get me into trouble anyway but if you can see Yahweh turning you into salt for posting something, you probably shouldn't post it.. much less promote it and I would remove such a thing. So far zero posts have been removed from promotions.
The promotion option is greatly underused, not only does it get your posts more attention, but it also creates more scarcity for the token. PROMOTE!
Cool. Will be trying it out soon.
Cool. I didn't know that promotions had gone down.
Can you publish instantly on Blurt at the same time or do you have to physically post the article again?
Anyway the promoted option seems fun. It was on the old proofofbrain.io but I didn't see it on the new brain.io frontend.
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Hello forgive my ignorance, but I'm just trying to understand or the purpose of 2 proofofbrain front ends? Originally I thought .io wasn't working then someone told me I needed to make sure to add www. whereas I didn't have to before.
So I'm just trying to understand all of this as I'm still relatively new to this platform.
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The proofofbrainblog front end was to give people an improved user experience over the existing io front end. Choice is good. Some redundancy is good. If all of the sites is down for maintenance or under attack means you cannot access your posts or your tokens from the single web site. If peakd gets taken offline somehow, people would lose their favorite interface. If ecency were taken offline, people would lose their favorite interface. And finally, if the .blog site were taken down, it would be a loss of my favorite interface. Not just redundant forms of interacting with the Hive blockchain, these interfaces have also distinct characteristics.
In addition, you have access the POB at Hive-Engine.com, TribalDex, and LeoDex. ProofofBrian.IO, and now ProofofBrian.Blog. You can even download the software and run it yourself.
thanks ah so proofofbrain.io is not the official one either? Sorry I'm still relatively new to site so its quite a bit absorbing all of this information thanks for your time. I mean I understand all the front end stuff to a degree, just first time running into a tribe one with 2 front end that has same name.
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What makes a front end official? ProofofBrain.io was funded by the token founder. ProofofBrain.blog got some initial funding from the founder but then the funding stopped. So, I suppose the label works for the former, or both depending on how you qualify things.
Ah I'm not so sure as I'm still rather new on this platform so I'm just trying to absorb as much information as possible thanks anyways for all the information.
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I think I got this declined rewards working here on my local computer. Yes feel free to donate money to me. Can you contact me on Signal or WhatsApp? I have an idea, I think you can help me with.
It's in development here. It's working but not uploaded to ProofofBrain.blog.