Some nice points indeed Acid. Well written too.
So as an ending note, try to bring "something more" to the ecosystem, don't take things for granted and you'll do fine.
I have held to the belief that it is best to like what one does here; my passion and personality ethos that I've spoken so much about in posts and comments. Add some effort and a person is on the way. That's my thought anyway. Having fun is important also, and that can be easier to find if the content creator does what he/she does for the enjoyment of it before anything else.
Just a few things I've held to for the slightly over five years I've been around.
Yeah effort and passion is important as well and posting about things you have experience of or are interested in. A few days ago I saw someone posting from their phone which is unusual from him as his content is of great quality in general but along with the low effort post and selfvote it really just gives out that the intention there is to just not miss out on your daily rewards which looks as a form of farming. It's not the end of the world if you miss a post now and then, and while I doubt his intention was to farm it still comes off as that to me as a curator. I'm sure you and many others know who I'm talking about as it stirred some drama. Intention is often taken into consideration for curators and lately also general activity on chain if you're a user who doesn't really bring much else to Hive than the content within. It just feels a bit unnecessary to me when some authors knowingly post lower effort without forfeiting part of their rewards to the many projects we have on Hive that could use it but not directly benefitting them and being aware of the amount of votes they usually get that are on auto.
If we start thinking more in terms of a collective where we try to support one another not just with votes but by other means as well I think we're going to go a lot further, so far that no one's going to think back later on and be all "ugh why didn't I post twice per day that one period" as money won't be an issue any longer. But of course there's also those who can never get enough so what do I know.
I wonder if people think it isn't noticed? I also wonder what their care-factor is in respect of their own post-feed when they're happy to post rubbish just to gain that set of autos for the day.
Indeed.
I wrote a post on entitlement a couple days ago, to address one chap in particular and send a message to others...The feeling of entitlement is at the core of behaviour as you mention above.
Correct, I couldn't agree more. There's many concepts out there trying to do so and I don't believe users have any recourse to say there's not enough options, but the more the merrier, provided they're there for the right reasons.
As I said earlier, this was a well-written post and it would do everyone good to read it.
Damn! I hate it when I missed out on the drama 🤣
Curangel as usual rustling some feathers cause their downvotes don't have a slider. 🤣
Thanks, started writing this a few days ago but finished it now so might be a bit here and there. :p
Just edited my comment...Had more to say. Lol.
You always have more to say. :D
Indeed, there is no doubt.
Will vote this one a bit more then for the edit. :p
Too kind sir, I'll pay it forward with some votes of my own on some of the comments in this post.
I often feel a bit self conscious replying to posts like this one of yours, I'm a bit clueless with the blockchain and all...so I tend to be very brief. I found the courage though. 🤔😉