I know it's ironic saying this in a 'how to make money blogging' post, but it's important to remember that from a technical point of view, the reward pool mechanism is designed by the blockchain purely to spread Hive's governance tokens as far and wide as possible.
Going forward, I see it as the job of layer-2 tokens and the various private front-ends to ensure the cream rises to the top and spam is not even shown.
We can already see this in action on the LeoFinance front-end with their slightly different ways of prioritising content and ensuring that evergreen content is manually curated into a 'featured' section at the top.
Even more exciting, they're going to start paying ad revenue back to LEO token stakers - Thus encouraging authors with a stake to focus on quality evergreen content that Google will rank because it will ultimately mean their ad revenue payouts are increased.
There are so many different ways that front-ends can incentivise quality and we're barely scratching the surface.
I'm still extremely optimistic about the blogging aspect of Hive :)
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