@malopie, hey!
There are many curators who reward content creation. And there is only one that rewards promotion - HivePosh. If you consider your content rewards low, you should address someone else, not HivePosh. If you want 100% HivePosh rewards, you are welcome to join this initiative.
I just don't see what justifies sharers getting 80%.
The fair amount would be 100% to sharers because HivePosh is an initiative that pays for promotion. When a company XYZ hires a marketing agency to share links to XYZ website pages, the company XYZ pays for this work to the marketing agency only, not to the content creators who wrote articles for the XYZ website.
HivePosh goes even further. We are saying loudly, saying weekly: guys, join us, anybody can be part of our marketing team.
I wrote many posts, "share your content and earn extra $HIVE", and @acidyo shared nearly half of them on his Hive blog - almost every active Hiver spotted these titles. But most people don't want.
Although it takes time and it's hard, but HivePosh finds active content creators, they join, regularly share, and earn 100% HivePosh rewards. 100% to the content creator sounds fair in this case.
I think the rewards need to be encouraging enough for authors to create more of what might interest people outside hive
Lol. Most Hive authors don't want to share a link to their content even when they are paid for that (by HivePosh). Do you think that something can encourage them to create more or create better?
All content creators on Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, Medium, etc, constantly share links to their content and constantly search for marketing opportunities - marketing is a part of content creation. Hive shouldn't be an exception.
I could spend 8 hours researching and writing an article on the wonders of space travel and nobody will give a shit
About your posts. Many curators pay attention to KE. I don't know the details of how it exactly works, but from what I saw, when you have big KE, some curators do stop upvoting your posts. This is your KE:
KE Ratio: 140.46 😱
It means very bad. Here: https://beebalanced.streamlit.app/
This is why you are ignored by curators. HivePosh doesn't look at KE. Join us and earn 100% HivePosh rewards. If you powerup part of these rewards, you can improve your KE and Hive curators might come back.
It’s a very good perspective in your response @x-rain. I agree that creators often resist promoting themselves. That’s because they’ve settled into their ways on Hive, staying in their comfort zone, and they don’t want the hassle of stepping outside the community. People on platforms like Reddit can be harsh, especially if the content creators aren’t confident in what they’re doing. I found it hard at first, and some people just don’t want to deal with that kind of pressure, especially if they’re already earning on Hive and are happy with it.
For me, as a content creator, I found the challenge to be a good way to see what else I can do. It's about exploring what level I can reach. But I understand that not everyone feels the same way about it. HivePosh gives people the choice to join or not. However, sharing creators' content doesn’t always require permission; once you put your content online, it's bound to be shared. So, in my opinion, I may as well share and learn from it, which I have learned a lot from. There are plenty of knowledgeable people, and also trolls, whom I just ignore. That’s something creators resist, but it’s part of being out there.
As for giving a higher reward ratio to the sharer, I think that’s okay too. Sharing isn’t easy. You have to deal with a lot out there, plus the time and effort it takes. It’s not just about clicking a share button. I know from experience that it can actually be harder than creating the content itself.
True! It's hard sometimes. I mostly don't read comments to be sure nobody would harm me. So many unstable people, angry. Like... I remember some person attacked me hard and I got mad and decided to see their profile... And then I saw multiple comments of this person about some difficult disease they were trying to cure - and I realized, yes, that explained a lot.
Sure. Some posts are created for sharing but some are tough. If you are too quick - you can get your share removed for the untidy title or wrong flair. If you are slow - someone can share first while you are choosing a better title. You need to learn each subreddit, you should engage here and there to keep your profile nice-looking. And so on and so on.
It doesn’t excuse the behaviour, but it helps make sense of it and makes it easier to be forgiving. Sharing takes a lot of courage, and we’re all just trying our best. Experience teaches us so much along the way.
I think enough has been said already, this escalated into something far more than what I initially wanted to discuss so I'll just focus on responding to one part of your comment:
None of this had anything to do with me or my content personally. That part of my initial comment was to highlight how the target audience influences what authors will focus on, not to complain about my personal rewards.
Complaining about personal rewards is just stupid and not something I've ever engaged in.
All the best.