My last post was about cooking. But I also tagged it cryptocurrency. Figuring nobody would bust me on the fact that there was really no mention of digital currency at all. But @cardboard did bust me. Which shows someone's paying attention. Which I like. Full upvote.
Which brings me to the topic of this post:
Is HIVE a social TOOL or a GAME?
When I first came to this blockchain, long before the fork, many moons past (49 to be exact), I met an inspiring young lad by the name of @andrarchy. At that point I was obsessed with getting it right. Having waited nearly a full year from the day I got an account on the blockchain to the day I introduced myself and wrote my first post. Where my inclination told me to post high-quality content methodically and get it right @andrarchy's philosophy was "move fast and break things". I was particularly stumped on tagging. He told me tagging is irrelevant. Posts rise to the top, not because of tagging, but because the poster knows how to play the game.
Game theory is the study of the ways in which interacting choices of economic agents produce outcomes with respect to the preferences (or utilities) of those agents, where the outcomes in question might have been intended by none of the agents.
I still don't really know what that means... but I like the sound of it. And it was written by people at Stanford, so they're probably relatively smart.
@andrarchy, who at that point was the Community Liason for Stinc opened my eyes to gamification. To the fact that in essence, Steem and potentially now hive are just games. The winner gets the biggest payouts. It's not a meritocracy. It's about knowing how to game the system.
These days, I try to just make the kind of content I would want to consume. I don't worry too much about the game. Winning is for losers. Or winners. You tell me.
But in all seriousness...
Do you see HIVE as a social tool or a game? Or can it be both? And what should I tag this post 😛
With any new technology, there are so many questions to be asked. And since Hive is capable of so many new developments in how society can run, how money works, what should and shouldn't be rewarded, and ultimately how we flip the balance of power in the world, I think it's important that we ask these questions.
Winning and Losing in the Chain,
Doug
Slightly messed with Meme courtesy of whyareyoustupid.com which is also a great question.
In my opinion, i think its both. A tool for some of us in third world, I mean my small business suffered a heavy blow due to corona and I have been writing(even tho I'm not making much out of it). A game, cos only people who knows people(fat wallets owners) makes something tangible out of it irrespective if tags or numbers of days spent to write a topic.
Well, it's kinda like in real world - you need a lot of work or luck to "break through". Also blogging in general does not generate a lot if money. To make it happen we would need native ads support and some good streaming platform (in my opinion). Maybe we'll get there :)
So true @cardboard. Nothing is a meritocracy and overnight success = 10 (20? 30?) years...
I'd love to hear more about your ideas on native add support. I know Stinc tried that, but think the profits went right in their coffers. Wonder if there's a way to create a platform or augment an existing one where the profits are distributed to anyone who holds stake in the protocol? In terms of a good streaming platform, I wholeheartedly agree. Any that you feel have promise?
As for ads - I was thinking more about a platform that would send the profits to content creators. As for live streaming - sadly no.
Hey @oluwoleolaide thanks as usual for providing some great perspective here. Was reading today about revolution in terms of non-state, UBI and medical coverage created through decentralized digital currency means and it reminds me how important what we're beginning to do here is. So in that respect, it's not only a tool, a game, but also a promise of how things can and should be. That's something great to work towards. Maybe you can riff more on a post about that and what you said above and how #HIVE has the potential to change the world. Tag me on it and I'll get you some votes 😀
Many thanks Mr.Doug, I'll work on it.