Thank you for your supportive words. Definitely we need more quality on the platform.
What would you think would be a good slogan for this?
Great photographers are sometimes discouraged to continue to contribute on the platform as they see how sometimes posts with less quality get financially supported with huge upvotes while their photos, made with a lot of efforts, persistence and big investments remain undervalued. Been there, seen that. 📷👍
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I am trying to do my part by only upvoting quality photographs, but I am also very new on this platform so I dont have much voting power. Somehow I am amazed how many bad photos get upvoted the shit out of them while really great shots seem invisible for the voters...
Our voting power also isn't great, that's why we try to use some external help by delegating, but this doesn't work as expected so far.
We agree that in many occasions it is not the quality being rewarded here. One of our goals is to create an "island" of quality visuals, in a way. Hive is generally considered as a blogging platform and some of the big curators care more about the length of the posts, asking for word count, multiple photographs, etc. while we know that sometimes one "click" could cost us days, even weeks and huge investment in gear and props. Not to mention sometimes upvotes come from investments and have nothing to do with what has been posted. That has no positive or negative sentiment, it is just the nature of Hive at the moment.
Thank you for supporting our cause, @solymi!
exactly what i wrote in - investments is the "feature" of this platform that will finally kill it and it will become another steemit. I would like to delegate some HP to your idea so. let me know how I can do this, please.
Hopefully what we all do and try to achieve will brighten our future here!
Thank you for your offer to delegate, perhaps for the moment it is better if you give slightly bigger upvotes to the selections you like, instead of delegating (and loosing your Power a bit) as we'll have to self-vote then, which isn't our goal. Hopefully we find soon a bigger curation service on Hive that is willing to support us. If not, we'll think more then and figure it out with your help!
There is always the option to ask (again) for delegations and give more and proper upvotes, but that is too trivial and probably those that are here on Hive mainly for the profit won't invest much as there isn't going to be any delegation curation profits for them. We curated this way for way too long to know it won't work very well, unfortunately.
I see. Hope that this bigger curation service will find your initiative interesting and will help you with the idea.
Good luck and thank you
Thanks! 📷👍
"Somehow I am amazed how many bad photos get upvoted the shit out of them while really great shots seem invisible for the voters..."
Agree with every word @solymi - One of the bigger problems of this platform that some people post very poorly in terms of quality and interest content, but this option to pay for the high votes to the bots makes them popular and more visible... We can do nothing about it, but the projects and ideas like @monochromes everyday challenge and now the @photocuration idea can bring some light to the real Original photography.