While it's admirable that you're spending all of adrevenue on burning Hive I don't think that's something that's going to encourage people to attempt to bring in traffic to their posts from within or outside of the ecosystem (i.e. posh). Most aren't going to care that a certain amount of Hive gets burned because most authors don't have significant stake.
I think partially rewarding those who attain traffic with adrevenue, much like any other platform does, would improve things like author engagement in their posts and outside of them to attempt to have others check out their posts. More snap social activity and another layer that not many think of: promotion of posts by burning hive themselves. Other things it could improve and give more value to could also be good reblogs from other users.
I think you should reconsider on rewarding your users with adrevenue, even if it's just cents it's going to be better IMO. Not to mention the effects this may have on making users choose peakd over other front-ends even though that's not as important.
Well, that was part of the original idea. But creating such system will take time and we want to be sure it's worth the effort.
The main problem we noticed during our first test is that ads revenue was simply not worth it. With this second test we are trying to make it more consistent to better evaluate how to move forward.
Yeah making it opt-out is a good first step because I'm pretty sure 90%+ of peakd users never even became aware of ads existing, that's just how it is in slower times like these.
But yeah, good if it's something that can become reality later!
yeah gotta check to see what the revenue is like make sure it would be enough that it would be valued more than the value of the time to create the product which would be probably pretty involved to do correctly. So thus working on the collecting data. Let's just say that if we went with the data from test 1 there's no way it would happen... fingers crossed for test 2.
+1 to this. I really like this idea. If we could track posts that generate ad impressions and reward the author with a percentage of those earnings, it would create a form of "passive" income beyond the 7-day reward period on Hive. This could encourage users to create more SEO-friendly content, which could drive more traffic to the platform.
The two together could potentially also encourage people not to sell as much HP as they'd be more inclined to just dump the ad revenue instead and/or hbd from posts.