As i said earlier, If I could learn something new from the long form content, I would have spent hours before realising it. I read a lot of interesting stuffs from Quora, everyday.
But sometimes I feel that some people here write 2000 word post just for the sake of making it lengthy. At the end you will realize that all you read so far was a garbage.
One problem with the Hive is increasing automation. Big stake holders have written codes to choose contents. These bots consider 500 words + content as quality ones and automatically push them up.
As far as SEO is concerned, as you mentioned, having over 1500 words is perfect. But not everyone is made for it.
However, when it comes to a social media concept such as Hive, it can have any form of content. People may want to share a story from their lives. Maybe a photo and a short story behind it.
Again quality is subjective. One can attain influence even with a short content if he/she is really bringing in quality.
True. Great points about the Hive issues as well. I don't write long-form all the time because the results are not close to the effort yet.