@asgarth I'm personally really disappointed to see a tech update change a key concept of curation ie evergreening old posts via crosspost. This SHOULD have been a community consult issue. I/we set up a special crossposting account @artemisshares and received generous delegation from @kennyskitchen @naturalmedicine @riverflows and @abundancetribe specifically to evergreen old content. The first we knew of the change in curation policy was last night when PeakD suddenly nixxed all the rewards. What was being used effective across 4 communities to celebrate community members by reviving and rewarding old but good content literally disappeared overnight. We now have a glorified share button and a new tool for people to spam their content across multiple communities (perhaps not always thoughtfully).
So do I return the delegations, empty that account and feel resentful that no one even bothered to at least warn the people actively and successfully using a feature to grow the content creating community ? Surely some tech nerd could, at the very least, have searched out all crossposts in last 7 days and sent a group memo? Or tagged us in a "this feature will self-destruct immediately" post?
Is the concept of evergreening old content dead? And decided by whom?
Sorry for the late reply. We discussed this change with our community (on our Discord server) and some users also had the option to test it before the final release.
But I'm aware that the change is not something everyone will be happy about, but it was a required change nevertheless. Unfortunately not everyone is using the old cross post format correctly and this lead to the possibility of 'abusing' the system to get more rewards.
Also after the introduction of Tips sending rewards to old posts is still possible also if not using the reward pool.
Appreciate the response, @asgarth. Thank you.
You can't tip from delegated HP tho, so you ARE saying our way of doing it is dead. Albeit not very directly. LOL The tip feature is a personal thing and does not enable communities to reward people collectively. Also no one sees it being done so it doesn't encourage other individuals to join you. Basically 90% of our effective evergreening has been made no longer possible. I think that is a step backwards for supporting the backbone of Hive - the content creators.
Hive and people who use PeakD product is a much larger group than the tiny % of people who engage with the PeakD discord around a piece of software, so I would observe that the attempt at communication was pretty limited. That, of itself, is disappointing. Decentralized community requires stellar communication, and that will need to go beyond a memo stuck on a wall in a broom cupboard a the end of a rarely used corridor - particularly as Hive grows.
@kennyskitchen and I will find a way to untangle our mess and explain it to the many other people who didn't get the memo.
Hoping for better communication, and not after the fact, next time.