LOL! I've been here a while and seen all the arguments about what deserves rewards. Many of us 'old guard' may feel we are entitled to a good share, but I'll admit that I am a pure amateur at content creation. I see stuff on other platforms that I think should make a lot more than I do, but those people probably do okay anyway. That still leaves a lot of talent who struggle to earn anything on corporate platforms with all their rules about minimum subscribers etc.
If these people do join then we need to be careful not to scare them away. I really don't mind if me share of the pool goes down, but it's largely determined by auto-votes. If the $HIVE price goes up then we all benefit and the platform needs good content to grow. Let's not kid ourselves about the quality levels we currently have :)
Anyway, back to tending my crops.
Stagnation and fear impact the quality, playing the game cautious, because you want to be sure you aren't insulting anyone creates a flat base of little essay sounding posts. No depth, nothing interesting, no debates, and some of the most ridiculous made up rules for social media.
In the early days you were one of my favorites with a easy story telling ability, but like many of the "Old Guard", I got pretty turned off by all the posts and comments about policing the reward pool and making up rules that suit your specific style. (I went through the phase too, but it didn't last long)
In any case, I've always respected you and think you are a better content creator than you give yourself credit for!
Take care!
Cheers! I think writing on here for all this time has helped me develop and meeting lots of people has given me confidence.
Aren't all rules 'made up'? The thing is that those who enforce such rules are a tiny minority of the Hive community, but they do have some voting power. We do need some enforcement of agreed standards such as not plagiarising or self-voting of junk content, but a lot of it is subjective.
I've been part of the 'Hive police' when I thought it needing doing. Some people get serious abuse for doing that. I just saw someone on another platform talk about a 'Satanist cabal' on Hive. Yeah, right. I'm more a fan of Santa.
Stay well.
Yes, I think some policing is necessary also. And as we said in the early days it was all an experiment anyway.
I just don't think, many working middle class people will have the time or the patience to go through the process of understanding the rules, so we have old timers and people who are hungry enough to put up with it remaining.
I'm curious to see how well Hive rebounds in the Bull Season.