I have been around this blockchain for a while now - over six years - and I have learned a lot in my time. In my opinion, it is the most compelling place to visit on the internet, and it isn't because of the rewards, although that plays a bit. The rewards themselves are an incentive for participation and those who earnestly participate, do tend to earn a little too, as long as they aren't incessantly complaining about what they are earning, or all of the other issues that are "wrong" (whatever they personally don't like) with the platform.
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That is my ratio of posts to comments. Which might not be that high in the grand scheme of things, but I have got 5786 5787 posts on the blockchain over the time I have been here, which is about 2.4 a day on average - which is high. Too high perhaps, as I used to post more frequently than I do today, but I haven't done so in ages, nor have I missed a day in almost six years. Still, this means that I have 58,840 comments on this blockchain and if you consider that my average post is over 1000 words and my comments are written in full and usually multiple sentences - I am among the most prolific authors on the blockchain, without there being any automation, and zero templates.
Nothing I do is by form - it is all free-form.
I have also been involved with various sides of the blockchain and in order to do that, I have had to dive into things that I had very little understanding of and perhaps, still don't. But, through experience, I have a pretty good understanding of the way things work at the blockchain, economic and more importantly, the social level.
As a people watcher, it is the latter that is the most compelling thing for me, as Hive is like a microcosm of the world and with so much of what goes on being transparent, it gives insight into people's behaviors. The way they act under different conditions, the way groups form, the way people are triggered and react to positive and negative situations, the way some feel attacked, while others feel empowered - the way people generally operate.
People are people.
And the fact is, most people aren't interested in the community here, they are interested in themselves, like most social media has conditioned. Most people have been taught over the last decade or two that they are the most important person in the world and what they have to say is valuable, regardless of what they say, because everyone is given a free platform to speak upon, to shout to the world. And, they shout, finding people of "like minds" who shout support at them, ramping each other up, polarizing conversations and making people feel relevant, important, because they have found their tribe.
However, the reality is, that the platforms themselves are the ones that are benefiting from this, as while everyone is shouting into the void and siloes, they are reaping and selling the data. The reason it is free, is because the platforms are making money from the people, which is why the "you are the product" statement rings true.
Hive is different in this regard though, because the value of the community "data flow" is held and distributed by the community itself, not some corporation that picks and chooses activity based on what improves the bottom line.
This is a MASSIVE difference.
Yet, how many people are actually going to take the time to understand firstly how it works from an economic perspective, the implications of the difference and the affects it has on the community involved? How many actually look at the ramifications down the track here and potentially on the greater world in terms of distributed communities, the possibilities of redefining what value means and the ramifications on larger communities, governments and business?
The answer = Not many.
Yet, people come onto Hive and believe that they know how it all works and have an expectation that what they have to say is valuable, because they have said it other places and got some support for it. However, it is easy to get support when no one has to open up their wallet and pay to give it, which makes Hive very different.
While I am not going to get into the mechanics of voting, suffice to say that wen people who have stake vote, they are providing value to what they vote on and, they only have a limited amount of value to give. This makes their vote, a scarce resource. And as such, people are generally discerning to some degree as to what they vote on - not all, but likely most. And, the general approach is that they look to what they feel adds value to the community.
However, this is where it again differentiates from centralized social media, because on there, the value of the community is held by the company and they decide who earns and who doesn't. Not only this, the value that people derive from the platform is through content only, whether that be reading other people's content, or adding their own. While people might follow and share, they don't actually have to transfer any of their own funds directly in support.
If you can imagine for a moment this was the case and people actually had to pay out of their own wallets, do you think that the stars of the world would be earning more, or less? But, the stars aren't getting paid by us directly, they are getting paid by corporations, advertisers, interest groups, based on the data we give and the products we are influenced into buying. People are far more careful when spending their own money.
But Hive is different, because in order to have a vote value, one has to have some skin in the game, one has to be an owner of the blockchain, meaning staked Hive. It doesn't really matter how much that stake is or how it was gained, holding it on Hive comes at an opportunity cost of what that stake can be sold for at any point in time. This again, makes people a fair bit more attentive, which is part of the reason that Hive is so compelling, because there is incentive to participate, and not just through creating content and sharing.
This also affects what the "definition of value" is, because while a content creator used to other platforms have been conditioned to belief that their content is valuable, the owners of that same platform know that is not the case at all, it is the network that is valuable. The data collected has value, but it is the ability to leverage it to spread influence through the network that has the real value, because that is what advertisers and political parties are paying for - reach.
This is the same on Hive, but on a much smaller scale, because the networked community is smaller too and, the owner base is broader. This means that there can be more spread of value throughout the ecosystem, because owners (staked users) all have their own preferences and opinions on what provides value to the network they own. There is a very broad spectrum of what this might be and for some, they believe that it is maximizing their own short-term earnings on the platform. While others look long for the future, believing that slower personal growth can be offset with a large future value.
This ability to have a personal say in what is considered valuable, is a highly compelling reason for many people to stay here, once they are staked. However, for the unstaked, it is less compelling, because they don't have much influence over what has value, since they do not have a voiced stake. One way or another, all stake on the platform has been earned, whether on platform, or off - something a lot of people seem not to consider.
And of course, when it comes to the value of the distribution pool of Hive, the only reason it has value is because there is demand for Hive off-platform too, meaning that people are willing to pay for it, either to speculate on future price, or stake to earn curation return. This pool is a shared pool of resources directed by stake, which means that all stake has a relative amount of power to their stake to direct the flow. No HIVE is owned on the blockchain, unless it is in a private wallet, and in terms of content creators, that isn't until a post has paid out, precisely seven days after it was created.
Yet, most people don't think about any of this at all. Nor do they think about how their own behaviors interact with the rest of the ecosystem, or affect other participants. And, this makes it even more interesting, because that is representative of the world in which we live, where people have an expectation that they can act as they please, and someone else will take care of all the details. They see the inflation pool like free money from the government, without recognizing that the government has no money, it is all by way of the taxpayer, the staked community.
And this is one of the redefinitions of what is valuable on social networks, as while content does have value, there are many other points of value that get recognized too, including interaction with others, influence within the network, track-record and of course, stake itself. No one on Instagram gets paid for how many posts they scroll through, yet with stake on Hive, there is incentive to curate in some form, meaning people get paid to consume.
This means that not only does content have value, behavior has value too. And, while people can disagree, this is the normal state of affairs in a true tribal community, because everyone has to add value to the community, no one can be a freeloader. Of course, babies are assumed to add future value, and elders are carried as they added past value, but you should get the point. The behaviors of value are dictated by the needs of the community, not by the desire to increase profits for one member of the community, which is what the social platforms are doing, with the "one member" being the corporation, and the shareholders.
In a tribal community, everyone is a shareholder, but there is an expectation that everyone is going to add value to the community at some point, to either support it to survive, or help it thrive. When there are members of the tribe that are taking more than they are giving, they are shrinking the value of the community itself and the tribe will fail, unless behaviors are changed. If a lot of members are doing this, the decline can be rapid.
The value I speak of isn't just the value of Hive, the stake, the pool, or whatever votes they give or receive, it is far more complex than that, but it is on the financial value where most people focus their attention, because in this world, money matters. We need it in some form to survive and there will never be enough of it for everyone to get all they want, even if they have what they need.
Again, this has to be a scarce resource and desirable to have value, otherwise, people will not behave in ways to get more of it. But, this doesn't mean that all activities are created equal, in the same way that not all content is created equal. However, to understand the value of content even subjectively, a person has to understand enough about what makes some activity or content valuable over other versions.
Why is an original by Da Vinci priceless, but a print of a Da Vinci work valueless? Why is one author's work turned into movie franchises, whilst another can't even get published? Why is it that one footballer is paid 100M a year, whilst another who is almost as good, gets paid a million?
What dictates value?
This is different to what deserves value, because if it comes down to what is deserving, nurses and teachers might get paid more than Wall Street bankers. Everything has value. Everything. But, from a financial sense, this isn't true. I love my wife and that is valuable to both her and for me, but no one is going to pay us money for our love, are they?
Yet, most people don't fully understand the value of a community from an economic sense, because we have been largely removed from the mechanics of it. Instead, we are forced to proxy a government to make the decisions for us and forced to pay taxes to finance the decisions that they make, whether we want to or not. We are also influenced to consume based on our desires, not our needs, meaning that as a global community, there is a massive imbalance in the behaviors of the tribe. A few are making the decisions for the majority, many people are not adding value to the community, some people are taking far too much without giving enough back and things are a mess.
On Hive, this is different, as while things are messy, we as a community have responsibility over what we put on the blockchain, what we stake to the blockchain and how we use our stake to direct the value of the blockchain throughout the community. People can disagree with how this is done, but this is all through an opt-in process, with no one required to join, no one required to stake, no one required to post, no one required to do anything at all - unless they want to be part of the community and then, behavior matters.
If you have made it this far, well done!
This is already a lot of words, but my basic point is that understanding the mechanics of Hive and the value of those mechanics, goes a long way to understanding the behaviors on Hive and should affect personal behaviors too. Choosing to remain ignorant to the functions of the community is going to likely result in a poor experience, in the same way it does in the physical world, where people blame the government for their misfortune, but don't realize that they themselves are supporting that outcome, by not learning how the economy works and how behaviors are affected.
People spend countless hours on centralized social media complaining about the state of the world and feeling victimized, and all that time, what they are actually doing is supporting the current state of the world and continued economic victimization, by improving the profits of the decision makers who are incentivized to increase their profits, not grow the strength of the global tribe.
Hive isn't Facebook or TikTok. It isn't Patreon or the Apple Store. It is something completely different. It is investigating how a very large community can operate as if it is a small tribe, but no matter the size, one thing remains constant. The need for participants to add value. Not value in the eyes of the participant, but value in the eyes of the community itself.
We are working out what all this means.
Taraz
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Adding value to a community can have many meanings, some things can be points of view, others are objective things.
Regardless of this you make some value and it takes effort.
I deliberately leave out the discussion of the rewards which, yes, are important and give a boost, but they can also be what confuses the ideas of newcomers a little.
Returning to the subject of value, in my opinion, in order to be able to provide the right quantity and in the right way, it is essential to get informed and know the ecosystem, get to the bottom of its functioning and then participate at 360 degrees.
In any case, Hive is revolutionary, but whoever decides to delve into Hive really understands this, whoever doesn't, repeats the Hive revolution as a refrain but actually doesn't understand where this revolution is... which leads him to abandon the first difficulty.
Beautiful post... you didn't believe that I would have been put off by the length?
Sometimes longer is better🤪
Yes. People focus generally on where they are comfortable and where they feel safe. It is like choosing classes at school because they come easily, rather than what leads to the career one wants to go. Or skipping leg day.
One of the benefits of adding value, is occasionally, people are willing to read until the end ;)
They say knowledge is power and, in a way, I think that's true; moreover, in my opinion it is important to do what is necessary to achieve success and this certainly requires going out of one's comfort zone often; nothing is given by acquired right, everything must be sweated and earned in my opinion and rightly so.
Ah well, as far as I'm concerned and as far as your posts are concerned, I wouldn't say occasionally... as well as reading them to the end, I also reread them eh eh!
I think some of the time we have to think of the variety of the issues that happen in our life too. Like some circumstances beyond our control. Like parents, govt and people around manipulating our chances.This is one of those reasons I feel compounding even the small success is valuable. Now that crypto is going through winter, I feel Hive is a good place to build for the future. one hive at a time.
I suppose when Hive's goal is not mainstream competition, then under the radar would do a lot good for anyone in general. This year and the 2024, things would be hard for all of us on international market and the stability front. Let's hope Hive stays strong in these times.
I feel that eventually, it will get the right bit of attention that takes it to the next level. Then people will be kicking themselves they were inactive for so long.
It's great to read your thoughts on Hive after being a part of the blockchain for over six years. Your dedication to the platform is commendable, and your contribution is incredible. Your posts to comments ratio and your prolific writing are truly impressive. It's fascinating to read how you have learned about the blockchain and its economic and social aspects.
It's also encouraging to see how you appreciate the uniqueness of Hive and its community-driven approach. You rightly pointed out how Hive is different from centralized social media, where the platform holds all the value, and people don't have to transfer their own funds to support others. It's heartening to see how you recognize the value of the community data flow, which is held and distributed by the community itself.
Your insights on the behavioral aspects of people on Hive are valuable, and it's great to see how you observe and analyze the community dynamics. Your observations about how most people are not interested in the community but themselves are thought-provoking.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on Hive, and I hope you continue to be a part of this fantastic community for years to come. Your dedication and contributions are inspiring, and they set an excellent example for others to follow.
I don't know about setting an excellent example, because it isn't an easy path to follow here! :D
But, at the end of the day, if we want to build a better future, we have to use the tools we have now to do it. This platform is a tool and it is one that is evolving all the time to support an increasingly diverse community.
100% its the beginning and building is exiting
No doubt that HIVE is completely different than the other social medias. It does not improve only our economic situation, but also our creativity and ability of expressing. And those, who satisfy their ego on the other social medias, let companies make money from their data such as searching something on a famous search engine then running into it on the home page of your social media.
Differentiation is valuable here, yet on other media, it is about the lowest common denominator that gets clicks.
Theoretically, any large community could do the same here too, which gets a delegation of mountains.
Thank you.)
This really needs to be preserved and repeated from post to post until it is understood by the majority.
!invest_vote
Yes, theoretically it is possible, but even with a large delegation, there is also a fair amount of differentiation from other stakeholders. The business models rarely align here :)
It is the man in the mirror problem - people don't want to be the one to change.
Hive is totally different. This platform lets us want to exert more effort in a very consistent manner if we want to make value of our existence here. Otherwise, we are nothing. Well, at least, that is how I understand it. ☺️
Pretty much. Consistency is key, but adding value is a must.
True that.!
I prefer Hive over all others. Simply because I feel I have a little bit of ownership of the sume of everything.. Not in the physical sense, of course, because we are decentralized. "We" are decentralized :) The value of my ownership is valued in my ability to reach others and to contribute according to my staked value.. Super cool. The junk gets skipped over and eventually the good stuff gets heard :)
We all get the same crack at being heard but the ones that do are usually the ones that "listen' :)
My 2 cents :)
Yes, I agree. THat is the most compelling part of Hive for me - ownership of experience.
I think I’m the long run hive is going to end up like a Monaco or some other small country that is pretty well off but doesn’t have billions of users on it. That’s my hope at least. I wouldn’t mind a few hundred thousand users but could we handle it? Hard to say. I am assured that the amount of people willing to learn and figure out the nuances aren’t in the billions that’s for sure so we will figure something out in between.
I’m glad I visited the post here, I’m not just shouting into my own echo chamber! Lol. I’ve been trying to get out and explore others more, as time allows and it’s been good. I’ve gotten a few new people to keep track of and their content is not the normal things but I think that’s what’s cool about hive. The echo chamber is only as big as you make it. If you vote on something here, it’s just a vote. There’s no algorithm to show you something similar to what you just voted on. You could vote on some porn, then a soccer post, a food post, music post and end on a mountain picture post. An algorithm wouldn’t know what the fuck to do with that on those bigger platforms but here, that’s Tuesday. Lol and no algorithm to exploit your attention!
Yes! People think it needs to rival the size of Facebook to thrive - but it is like the performing arts - not for mass consumption.
A few hundred thousand would be manageable I think. If there are simultaneously new products and services with external input like Splinterlands, it is very manageable.
Yes. But there is the social algorithms in play and they are constantly changing form. It is amazingly interesting to me! :)
I've been saying for a while I think Hive is really going to open up when we start getting more users and the communities start to grow and settle into themselves. Content creators are going to have an easier time when they have a thriving community to call home.
It seems a chick and egg problem, but I think the global economy is heading toward decentralized communities thriving.
Yeah, I can agree with that. We need the people to build things, but we need stuff to be built to bring the people in. Just like most things it will come with time.
Most of what I got is that you seem to be a little bit cranky lately (somewhat understandable, I've been particularly cranky for various reasons and occasionally no reason the past couple of weeks, maybe we are getting old in our old age) XD
I tried working out my ratio and completely and utterly failed (not enough coffee...and also brain glitching >_>), I think it would be a lot more skewed than yours though (I do many more comments than posts) XD
Changing the world by participating on this type of social media and learning how to deal with its differences from the other ones sounds like it might be great starting from the armchair activists but I guess it depends on how much their brains can tolerate change.
28144 comments/448 posts = 62.8 :)
Yes! Menopause, I presume.
That means pausing being a man, right?
You'd think the armchair activists would be here in droves, yet they seem far less active in change, than they are at supporting the status quo and corporations.
...yes. Yes that's exactly what it means.
Being here would require a change (already no good bad terrible must be absolutely avoided at any and all cost), and also transplanting a social network which as anyone who has ever tried to convince a critical mass of friends and family to try out Yet Another Bloody Socnet knows, is nigh on impossible.
As I'm pretty sure we've both mentioned at various points, I think some people just like being outraged.
My problem with Hive is you can't give honest criticism without people saying you're moaning. If you point out flaws, people say you don't add value.
Essentially unless you circle jerk and kiss ass, nobody pays a blind bit of attention to you. But hey, that's just my observation, which seems a little less valid because it's a negative one.
As far as adding value, I've been told I don't add it because I complain, even though I've written close to 1,000,000 words for this platform. Apparently content isn't valuable unless it's sucking up to whales.
Anyway, hope you're all good my man!
Cg
In my experience, this isn't the case at all and I have put out a fair bit of criticism in the past.
Again, this isn't the case at all. But, I think it depends on how it is approached, as well as all other behaviors in the cluster. No piece of content is standalone. Personality matters too - after all, it is a community and in any community, the person is also part of the experience.
Fair point man. I think I do often rub people up the wrong way, I don't mean to, I just don't think I come across very well over text 🤣
Cg
It's difficult to understand at first and we may lose some users because of that, especially the entitled ones, who come in with the well known "I know it all" attitude and whatever you tell them bounces back to you, due to them being intoxicated with web2 fake "success".
I think it takes time to understand what web3 really means, how Hive works but the most important thing is to want change.
Blaming others and praying the victim is always easier than to take responsibility and learn to be better.
I hope they turn around though and drop the attitude as that's the only way forward.
Yes. The average person these days seems to openly drive against change, by supporting the current situation through their behavior. Look at the left during the pandemic, where they socially and physically forced people to support big pharma and autocratic control. Sad times.
I'd say that the minority drop the attitude and actually get to understand the ecosystem, but that is more than zero :)
Let's see what she decides :)
Hive is an interesting ecosystem for sure. There is a lot to learn for someone just joining the community. Right now, I am just sitting back, posting, reading, commenting, voting, and soaking up what I can, when I can, at the pace I can. So far I have found a couple of communities that have been welcoming and fit into. It is just a matter of learning the community norms like every other community and then trying to help make it better.
This is the way to do it. Cast the net wide enough with quality people, and the knowledge build happens very fast.
And there are some people who come to Hive believing that they know how Hive works with the mindset that they want to make millions overnight but it is not that way.
This is why we sometimes see people who stop being active after a while here.
Many people stop because they don't get success fast enough - many think "fast enough" is counted in weeks or a couple months. THey haven't met reality in the real world obviously.
You do post quite often as I've taken note of recently, several times a day in fact. 😜
But since you mentioned it...
Now for some sensitive queries, given that you're a veteran on HIVE, and a rather big stakeholder too, what is your opinion of the Hivewatchers soundbite that they consider more than a post a day as spam?
Yes, I do understand that they're actually targeting multiple low quality one line posts that by any normal person's definition would be spam. And it is also UNlikely that almost any person who stays true to the spirit of posting will be targeted. However, I am still uncomfortable with the overly vague and far reaching rule.
Twice at the most these days :)
I don't think they say that, but it also comes down to perceived value. Very few people can produce something of value daily, let alone multiple times a day. Those that do, are likely plagiarizing or using an AI.
I know that over the years, my content has been investigated by people multiple times, but since everything I write is mine and it doesn't appear anywhere else online at all, it is above reproach.
There is also the question of engagement to be considered, where people are posting multiple times, but not getting comments on any, or commenting on other people. They aren't building a followership or looking to add value, they are just posting for hope of reward.
The rule itself (first I have heard of it) is not a bad rule of thumb. For a decent content creator, they should be able to produce something of quality daily and have the space to engage and build an audience. The farmers with automated posts, stolen content and using AI as if it is their own work, screw them :)
Building relationships here on Hive is creating a new direction for social networks, aiming to become decentralized and more meritocratic than traditional centralized and pay-per-reach social networks.
And for what matters your work here, well, I can tell that you are doing a great work, and your rank in the Hivebuzz rank is deserved!
Yes. And incentivizing ownership of the community framework through it. It is an amazing place.
:D
Hive is definitely a different beast and it takes quite a bit to learn before you can really understand things. I hope this process of onboarding people and getting them to stay would be easier but it's not. It's different from the existing options and that is also why I love it so much.
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Perhaps it is good that it is a little difficult for now - like a filter system to see who really wants to participate early and who is only in it to leech.
Hive as a social network is unique, since the social integration is large scale and the content of the creators, although it can be better or worse, is genuine of each participant and not influenced by lobbies, advertising corporations, etc.
I think this is the success of the great hive.
As always a great post mate.
!PIZZA
This is another good point. The lobbying is all internal here - not from outside influence, as there is little benefit unless there is stake involved.
Cheers :)
Your comment ratio is perfectly fine considering you read posts as well so for every comment you make away from your blog is a full read and how many actually read posts. I think the longer you are on Hive the more you understand and enjoy it far more as you know what is going on.
I agree. And there is an interesting thing that while it is opt-in, a lot of the people who complain, are still here. Seems they find some value in it.
Hello my friend! 😊
This is a great post full of things for people that are just joining (or thinking of joining) Hive will find helpful.
You're right about figuring out the inner workings of the different parts of Hive helping you along the way. I've tried to get a grasp on the currency purchase and selling, but it never took, so I just transfer my funds to those that know how to use it when they need it. To me, this isn't real money as I can't access it, due to a lack of comprehension on how to do it on my part, but I don't see any reason for others not to be helped by my funds. 😊
I know I'm not the brightest bulb in the box most days, as my mind is clouded in chronic pain and I find it hard to focus. (That's one of the reasons I went from posting daily to weekly, easier on my brain to remember to post once a week than daily as the days are flying by so quickly now, and I can't keep up.) Life is full of issues, even life on Hive, sometimes you have to go looking for them, others they come to your feed in the form of a comment/reply, and reading your post touched on a lot of them, some are easier to work through than others and we all just have to give ourselves the grace to make mistakes. In my opinion, as long as we're willing to keep trying (get ourselves back up again after failing,) than we are all successful at life. We may need a moment to catch our breath after each knock down, but getting up and trying again makes us better and stronger in the long run. Never give up trying to learn, that's my motto, too bad things don't get retained like they used to when I was a young lass. LOL! 😊
Okay, I seem to have wandered off somewhere, so I'll leave it at that. Thanks for the thoughts and the chance to respond, in my own, sometimes unclear, way. 😊
God bless you and your wonderful family. Have an awesome day my fabulous friend! 😊
Yes indeed, hive is so divers and like the world in a little jar. I really like my feed of tech (crypto) and then culture and lore. The fact that you can reward people for their ideas and views is indeed pretty rare, well in terms of like real rewards and not just likes
I hope you still will have a great time here and we meet again!
Cheers!
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True, Hive is inherently different to typical social media, and as you say "partakers" in the network distribute value. This turns the entire social media construct on its head and puts the power and direction of the platform back into the hands of the users, mostly, those who are invested and dedicated.
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To be honest, I'm still mostly in the dark with how Hive really works. I enjoy your thoughtful content and I try to comment because it is my way of processing the morals of your story. It is especially fun getting to interact with you if/when you respond to my comments.
I've been getting in the habit of writing more Splinterlands content more often to try to develop more of a following. I wish I had insightful comments to interact with, but 9 times out of 10 it's just some curation account with some weird milestone or a Hive token I've never heard of. Hopefully more readers will find me as I cross-post in the C/splinterlands community and tag myself in those social media challenges. I'm still a sucker for the quit hits of dopamine I get from posting and trolling on Twitter.
I got ~300 HP for resource credits between my main account and my three other hive accounts that I created to play and manage my Splinterlands assets. But besides that, I don't really know what else is going on. I haven't taken advantage of the 20% yield on the HBD, I typically just convert HBD to Hive to add more HP or swap for more Splinterlands assets. Mostly I'm just here to write, comment and play Splinterlands, so I'm certainly not a value extractor. It is probably well worth my time to learn Hive better so that I can maximize the return on all my HP which I'm sure is not being utilized to its full extent.
Witnesses, curation trails, it is all Greek to me... but I must learn sooner than later. Thank you for always inspiring me to do better!
I think having a clear definition of 'Community' as opposed to 'Feed' or 'Stream' would help give newcomers a better idea of what type of content is valued or appreciated on Hive. I am unenthused when I see 'Let's play game episode 49' or 'Recapped summary of this', It just seems like low effort content creation. I enjoy reading deep dives or personal thoughts about a subject related to the community and what it means to the subject as a whole. I am a fan of finding new methods to describe Hive as opposed to comparisons with facebook/twitter to help give newbies a better idea of the aspect of Hive but it also takes an active attempt from the individual to understand that difference.
Thanks for writing out this post! It was quite a read but well worth it.