What are your thoughts on ghostwriters? Imagine someone starting up a scheme where they pay people some fiat to generate them content then post that on their accounts without mentioning it in an attempt to profit off of this scheme.
What are your thoughts on ghostwriters? Imagine someone starting up a scheme where they pay people some fiat to generate them content then post that on their accounts without mentioning it in an attempt to profit off of this scheme.
It can never be good. It is all about morale vs profit.
I agree, it also encourages them to scale such activity up and profit more off of other people's work sort of like a middleman which I don't think Hive is meant for. Eventually they receive plagiarised content and get their accounts rekt
Businesses do that all the time and own the rights to the content, so should be fine. It's a boost that could benefit #hive's growth and a huge opportunity we are missing out on.
Also, essentially isn't that what your curators are?
People use ghost writers all the time in the business world. In fact you often hire employees as some point to create that content for you. Do you really think all these crypto news places write all of their own content?
Yeah but an account is personal and they mention who the author is, I'm specifically saying those forming schemes around it pretending their content is theirs but in reality it's not.
It's another thing if you hire an assistant to write content you'd wanna write I guess, it'd become a bit of a gray area there but wouldn't hurt to mention it. Point being not to purposely deceive curators I guess.
Good points and that comes down to peoples morals which many don't seem to have any more. Hives for sure unique like you said it's more of a personalized account over a business one.
There was such a case recently I stumbled upon, the "middleman" was only found out cause the ghostwriter handed him plagiarised content and I think hive's not the place for such schemes unless it's official accounts doing so transparently
That's a big no no for sure. If someone else is writing or producing the content and being transparent about it like cointelegraph did that's much more respectful and at least feels like something shady isn't going on.
like say if cointelegraph was on hive they'd mention who wrote the article they're profiting from, etc.
Out there, that's a business, big publications do it, and established writers do it. But I can't see that as beneficial to Hive. 1/🧵
And beyond entering into the discussion of whether it is abuse or not of the rewards. It would be better to onboard all those writers to publish their content directly and thus support the growth of Hive 2/🧵
Exactly, though I can see a benefit for those who aren't interested in joining/don't have the time but I think transparency would work in your favor there for whatever your intentions are.