material for such content at some point and wanted to be a bit more "shitposty"
Besides that 'error' I made on the running post recently, I won't ever create any shitposts. I make a point of creating something entertaining, or educational. If what's in my mind does not fit either of those criteria, it gets posted by @chops.support which receives no self-votes and gains less than $5 in rewards (usually).
Or at least start out with no self-vote, etc? (don't know if you self-vote, just an example
I don't self-vote and can't remember the last time I did. Maybe 2 years ago?
This will hopefully be an option soon, there might be a proposal in the works to create an infrastructure for all front-ends to use.
I would support that proposal. Make it easy and they will use it. This is the essential key. The Facebook crowd don't like to make additional effort. They want a 'share and do all the hard work for me' button.
If they get little rewards, that little is more than the zero they get on Facebook.
'Connect via Facebook' is a big deal, and must be tough to integrate. It's been talked about for literally years but has not come to fruition.
I can create accounts, it costs me nothing. If this is implemented, I will step up my efforts.. you can count on me.
I wrote about the idea in a recent post of mine if you wanna check out some of the details called "how to prevent account creation abuse" and at the same time offer users instant access through temp accounts they can use hive and become active and earning until they earn their way to a real account or decide to buy one while then having their pending earnings transferred to it. Giving them another token has also come to mind sort of for their previous social activity. More in the works soon and hopefully it gets funded as it should benefit all frontends being opensource and of course all stakeholders.
This one? I for one would love @anidiotexplores to be able to post his stuff on HIVE.
He knows what I make, yet is not in the least interested in using HIVE. He's a typical Facebook user.., post your stuff and wait for the likes. He does respond to comments (on FB) and would be in the mindset of 'withdraw any earnings now'. His content is not exactly premium and would likely gain little.
The latter point is what we have to contend with. It is a 'magic money' but most will think this way without contributing anything. That would make it a 'scam'.
Your idea could work in the short-term. I will ask him what he thinks. We can't judge.., it needs to be the opinion of outsiders.
Not everyone needs to be an author, I'm sure we have plenty of those on Hive who force themselves to become authors cause of the rewards but I think it's improving over time, if stakeholders focused a bit more on being a bit more generous with their upvote mana on comments I think regular users could definitely make more here socializing and having fun than they would anywhere else. Maybe facebook isn't a great comparison there but the amount of time and effort people put on reddit comments just to be helpful or interesting or for some attention strangers on the internet may give them in the form of valueless internet points it really makes me curious to find out how this platform with that activity and range of people would evolve over time.
Imagine you open up a post and there's thousands of upvotes on the top comment with hundreds of $ in rewards and tens if not hundreds of replies and discussions, and hopefully also a fraction of downvotes that'd be normalized by then.
I was regularly rewarding quality comments in such a way when my vote was over 5 cents and will again. I just don't want to risk it being dust 😂
Most can't get above the dust level, unless we are in a bull market. If @lpff or @anidiotexplores commented on my crap then I would upvote their comment, probably at a greater weight than normal. It's not a bad idea, but as you say.., many other's ignore comment voting or can't justify it.
There are not enough Orca's.
Uhm yeah! now that would be a very interesting thing to analyze and definitely figure out why the hell it's not happening more often like it's supposed to be.
Why not have all of their earnings as the layer 2 token until they are official Bees? Then they can use that token to claim their account? Otherwise we might have a significant amount of Hive locked up in abandoned accounts should things really pick up?