The idea of Scholar and Scribe came to me when I was looking into the various creative writing content type tokens on hive engine.
It seemed to me that a lot of what we have to reward posts that are oriented to creative writing are things like CCC and perhaps a few other tokens that have been created at one time or another throughout Hives history. Other than these few tokens author's seem to be using specific communities to promote their content and/or tagging a variety of the "general use" tribes or frontends for more exposure.
That got me thinking- why isn't there a more creative writing focused frontend or a token specific to creative writing rather than the more general use tags and tokens I'm seeing author's use? I realize that the combination of general tags, CCC, and HIVE can be pretty lucrative to authors- especially when they manage to get their creative writing posts upvoted by some of the larger accounts. Still... Most niche's on Hive seem to get filled successfully by a tokenomics model to better reward that specific type of content... So why not Creative Writers?
This got me thinking about tokenomics models and how the curation features work on Hive as well.
Upon reflection I realized that authors have a lot of impetus to engage in both writing their own content and curating others content for the purpose of earning both curation returns and authors returns. The problem though is that they are stuck in somewhat of a catch 22.
An author wants to write because it is something they enjoy doing but they also want to monetize their content in order to be able to earn a living or supplemental income from the content they create right?
But on Hive they are put in a position where they either have to hope they can create engaging content every time in order earn a steady stream of smaller votes from the community or catch the attention of a whale account or curation initiative consistently. This is no easy task! As creative people we often shy away from creating specific kinds of content simply because we don't want to pigeonhole ourselves or tailor the kinds of content we create just to earn. This is creative writing issue number 1.
Creative writing issue number 2 is this- writers on Hive have tough decisions to make once they start creating here:
Do I cash out my earnings regularly in order to actually benefit from the monetization of my content? Do I build stake in HIVE and various other tokens in order to earn more rapidly over time? Both of these options offer their own conundrum to the writer!
If they choose to take profit regularly from the chain they are missing out on opportunities for compounding returns and to build out their account. Still this is a better option for some writers- 20 HIVE a week is a modest amount that most of us can achieve but can make a lot of difference in people's lives.
If they choose to build stake in order to compound and maximize their account they are able to grow their presence much more rapidly- but this option comes with another burden. As an account builds stake in various tribes and frontends it becomes more imperative that an author take time to engage in curation efforts and engage with other users on their posts in order to utilize their stake most effectively. Not only is a content creator choosing to forego potential income- they are adding to their workload simultaneously.
Hive being what it is and the onus is on curators to ensure their votes are focused on quality content. This leaves the author with additional work that needs to be done in order to maximize their earning potential. At the same time they are not actually able to cash their earnings out readily as it is all locked up in staking for the curation returns.
All of this added together presents a dilemma for creative content writers here on the chain. Do they focus on tokens and communities that have high reward potential? What do they do when one of those tokens becomes less valuable? Especially considering the unstaking period of the various tokens! Do they stake everything and dedicate time to curation- leaving less time to actually write? Do they not stake anything and focus just on creation of their own content?
Scholar and Scribe aims to resolve some of these issues for authors in several ways:
First Scholar and Scribe will utilize 2 tokens: SCHOLAR token and SCRIBE token. These tokens have already been created with the supplies shown below:
These two tokens do not yet have staking or curation rewards enabled but I wanted to announce that these tokens DO exist already! The intention with these two tokens is outlined below and is certainly open to be adjusted as necessary before the staking and curation returns go live.
SCRIBE- author focused- grants 80% author rewards 20% curation rewards. Paid entirely staked. 4 week unstake, 2 week payout window. No Delegations. Max supply of 1,000,000. Holding staked SCRIBE mines SCHOLAR over the long term. 5% of supply reserved.
SCHOLAR- curation focused- grants 30% author rewards, 70% curation rewards. Paid 50/50 staked. 2 week unstake, 1 week payout window. No Delegations. Max supply of 10,000,000. 5% of supply to be mined by SCRIBE stakers, 5% of supply reserved.
Scholar and Scribe will have a post beneficiary requirement of 1% within the community. In the short term this 1% beneficiary will be used to build the curation funds of the community account and fund the acquisition of BEE needed for unlocking staking and curation on the two tokens. Long term this will be used to continue to build the curation capabilities of the community account and fund buybacks of tokens on the market. The beneficiary requirement can be adjusted if necessary.
The two tokens will each prioritize a different purpose within the creative writing community:
- Author's will quickly be able to build each other up with their stake of SCRIBE- giving Author's the ability to reward each other well via their votes even if they have not built up a substantial stake yet! This will enable content creator's to reward each other and be less dependent on curation accounts for their earnings.
- Author's posts will also be able to earn SCRIBE over a longer period than the normal 1 week window- this will enable late voting for content that an author might otherwise have missed the opportunity to reward!
-These features combined with the slow mining of SCHOLAR should incentivize continued staking of SCRIBE. - The SCHOLAR token will more heavily reward curation efforts and will be more liquid, with a very short unstaking window as well as a small portion of the supply being mineable by SCRIBE stakers. I expect that this token will see more action on the market. This is because it will be more liquid, because it more heavily rewards curators and so more likely to be bought on the market, and because it has a larger supply.
- Both tokens will reward based on the same tag(s). This will allow users of these tokens to adjust their stake and returns by balancing the staked amount of each token however they wish.
I will be accumulating BEE and other tokens on the community account to fund the next phase for these tokens and to continue to build out the community here. I hope to see more people start posting here over time! Please use #scholarandscribe as the tag when posting in the community and then any other tags you might normally use for your creative writing content! Delegations in general frontend tokens will be sent to the community account from my main @dibblers.dabs account to start the ball rolling for the community account and any other delegations or help getting this kicked off will be appreciated! Stay tuned for updates about the status of the two tokens- and any feedback on this project or the tokenomics ideas I have laid out here are greatly appreciated!
Lets write some awesome creative posts together!😆
(edit to add the much nicer artwork! I am leaving the old ones in though to show where it all started haha)
Thanks man- making some good progress already on things and hoping to see folks start posting here and participating in the lets write together events etc!
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Nice it is gonna be awesome!
As a new creative writer in Hive i really like what you say! Ill be following you.
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I'm glad to hear it! Stay tuned as the community continues to grow and develop! I hope we will see some posts from you popping up as well! !PIZZA
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This is lovely to me and I'm ready to give my best creativity to the community.
I love the posts you've already written! Keep up the great work and stay tuned for more updates going forward! !PIZZA
I like the idea. Recently the WIT token came out targeting the same niche, although it seems to be having problems. Is it currently possible to earn the token using the tag? Is it in the plans to create a frontend focused on creative writing? !PIZZA
It will be possible to earn the tokens with the appropriate tag yes! However I have not enabled staking and curation for these tokens yet. I wanted to test the waters and get the new community started as I prepare to enable those features!
It is possible that a creative writing frontend will be something that is explored for these tokens and as an evolution of the community but the tokens will come first! I have already created the tokens and I am continuing to accumulate BEE to enable the other features I discussed in the post!
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Great! I'll keep an eye out for updates.
This is fantastic news @dibblers.dabs! Congratulations!
I can't wait to see everything that will be created in this community.😃
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It's only just getting started up! I hope we will see more creative content posted here and will be pushing for the tokens in the coming weeks! !PIZZA
I love the concept...incentivizing writing is an amazing concept...would like to see how this rolls out even further !1UP
With this initial plan in place for the tokenomics we will have a solid starting point! As more folks post in the community and the functions of the tokens are enabled there will be lots of incentive to get involved here. Over the long term I want to look at additional uses for the token and ways to drive more value back to the community and holders. Writers put a lot of effort into their creative works and those same writers are often the most discerning curators as well! The tokenomics will enable them to participate in curation and valuable content creation from an early stage in their HIVE journey and provide long term benefits as well! !PIZZA
Good！
Thanks for commenting and I hope you will use the community for your creative posts! we are just getting started! !PIZZA
As a heavy writer, I love the idea of this! I'm just curious if you have any plans for additional utility? You don't need to share it now, but it would be cool to see this have a secondary value.
There might be ideas in the works that could drive extra value to holders but I want to start with step one! If we can build the community up there are various options for how we can manage the tokens that would bring more value to holders. As an example, including a mining feature in SCRIBE should already give an added incentive to holders and I would be very interested in continuing to build in additional value accruals to holders like this! But that isn't the only way...
Baby steps though! Lets get people posting to the community and initial tokenomics locked in first! !LOL
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Totally get it! I just wanted to know if there was a "next step" pending. I can be patient for details ;P
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I might have an idea, will catch you on Discord some time - I love this idea, thanks so much for creating it 🙌!!!
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Cool. I made about what all I am planning on blogging about and someone reccomended I come here... since I writing Fiction is "my jam" lol.
So I should use that tag and set a 1% beneficiary right?
Hi there @zakludick all creative works are welcome in Scholar and Scribe! If you post it into the community the 1% beneficiary is automatically applied and it will recommend the #scholarandscribe tag to you when you fill out the tags. If you just use the tag the 1% beneficiary isn't applied automatically and it wont appear properly in the community! This is one of the reasons I am considering a frontend for Scholar and Scribe. More to come on that in the future! For now just make sure to post it into the community and it will all happen automatically!
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Great. Thank you.
I need to try that out then. 👍🏻
I should have probably tagged @dibblers.dabs in that question. lol Hello there!