I don't think everything should be about the price, many people can come here for the something else.
Indeed! Some content that we have here is pure gold... But as we take the rules for granted, we don't "expect" rewards over 7 days, or to attract readers from outside as we don't have "incentives" to do it... If we would have monetary value (when I say we, I think frontends and HIVE in general), we would try to attract and "sell" our content to the world... That's why all social network platforms are doing this...
I agree it's not all about the money, but the money moves the world... and it moves people to create content, invent new stuff, etc.
I agree with it. I've come across specialized SEO creators on Hive. I think there should be some special incentives or some programs that SEO creators can apply for that earns that evergreen reward. I don't know how it'll work, but perhaps it's the ad route, unfortunately we're not even talking ad revenue yet.
There are many ways how it could be monetized... (external) ads are just one of them... Some great stuff is built on the chain lately, and except for the standard blogging/posting about it, there is no place for those to advertise... Or if you do a good job with SEO, others will come to publish their posts on HIVE, to get part of that... or to buy links from our frontends... THere are possibilities, but we need to make the first steps toward them... Peakd did that with ad experimenting... will see what will they do with results of that "experiment"
There are lots of things that can be experimented on. The question is, do we have the people who are willing to try these things? There are loads of money spent on DHF stuffs that aren't even yielding stuff. I hope we can have a breathe of fresh air and we can start trying different things
I 100% agree with you... Unreasonable spending of DHF funds is killing motivation for people "outside" the circle to start doing something profitable and sustainable...