This old and good. You did a hell of a job, I must say of writing this up. I have to congratulate you.
Although it is probably already out of date because of ever changing rules of the blockchain. I could imagine you would write a similar post which is relevant to the new rules.
I would also add nuance to this statement:
“Right. But what if a social platform rewarded you for every like, comment, & share?
You should say: "what if social platform occasionally rewarded you for every likes, and comments, and shares?"
You don't get any reward whatsoever for "shares". I will probably not get any reward for this comment and for most people posts are not rewarded at the beginning of their use. Unless they gain followers with stake or self vote everything, they'll get nothing at the beginning. It sets an unrealistic expectation to tell them you get paid for every post and comment. They feel like they wasted their time and there are no rewards at all, at least for them.
They come, they post, they see no rewards on the first day of use and they leave. It takes time to attract followers and votes.
If they come from another social media site and get nothing, and get this nuanced message that you may occasionally get rewarded with crypto then they don't get the disappointment in the first day that drives them away.
I on-boarded @johnmacmahon ten days ago. I hope he reads your post. He initially couldn't do anything. He seemed very active. I don't think he'll get anything for his shares.
Thanks for the kind words, and it's still fairly relevant since Hive's blockchain and onboarding hasn't changed too much in the last 8 months or so, as far as I know, but if it's out-of-date, so be it. :)
You're correct about the nuance but this piece already broke Hive's character-limit by covering a tremendous amount of nuances, so I've left some others to comments like yours. On top of that, it's meant to encourage people to try Hive, so certain points are exaggerated intentionally. What it loses in nuance it gains in moving people to action, like I did in my massively upvoted Hive Marketing Video.
As well, scaring some people away because they're expecting instant rewards isn't a bad thing, it's called churn-rate and every project has it, it is something to be embraced. I've addressed this issue in-depth in the 100s of comments on my Hive Marketing Post. Anyone with a business or marketing background usually understands churn-rate, conversion-rate, and user-retention well, anyone without that background usually does not.
Wishing lots of success to John McMahon and anyone else who onboards to Hive, and wishing you a great day! 🙏