I think that particular behavioral pattern is common in life, in general. In the workplace, it's management's fault they can't get that raise or promotion. On Hive stakeholders are management in a sense, and guess who gets the blame. Or, "If not for that damn police officer, I wouldn't have this speeding ticket," instead of if not for my speeding, I wouldn't have this speeding ticket. And we're most likely all guilty of it at some point, if not on the outside it's on the inside in brainland, but of course when it's published, it stands out more. They used to call it committing steemicide and the rage quit posts were steemicide letters. So on their final day, they figured out how to get attention, but went about it the wrong way.
I'm impressed you 'stuck through it.'
'Trending' is supposed to mean content receiving high ratings organically. It was tough knowing in advance, no matter what you did, your work wouldn't be 'popular' by default. That's just superficial nonsense though. People were still interested in what I was doing regardless of ranking or post value. It's their fault I stuck through it. And the trending page wasn't a place you wanted to be, since nobody was looking there anymore. I mean, there was a dude who once purchased hundreds worth of votes just to say he'd be releasing a new post that day and everyone should stay tuned. Others were pretending they didn't buy votes and their content truly was 'popular' with the people. Often the comment sections were either quiet, full of advertisements that would come in automatically from the paid vote services used, or it was people arguing about the low quality and use of paid votes for crap like that. Yes, eventually downvotes were used, but they couldn't be used effectively until a hardfork change made them free.
And yes, consumers are important. I think if someone pulled up the data, of all the words I use, "consumers" is probably used way too much. Trying to get that message across is becoming a source of frustration for me. Almost want to put it down and walk away from it. My blog, the recent reblogged post about PeakD, there I am again yapping about consumers. LOL! Not a fun loop to be in.
Yes! Your workplace example and police-office example are great. I totally agree (though I do my best to make it 'less common', lol).
And yes, I used to do it allll the time when I was younger. (It's borderline embarrassing to look back on now.)
They had an actual term for it? 'Steemicide', haha.
Good point about it all being superficial in the end. People are people. They have eyes. They read/consume content. And I'm not surprised they were still interested in what you were doing regardless of rank.
It sounds like the trending page used to be a cesspool, yikes at that dude buying votes for an 'upcoming post' announcement...
We're of like-minds on the consumer issue, and I definitely understand the feeling of 'messaging til we're blue-in-the-face' on a topic. It's made me put certain things down and walk away before, and I wouldn't blame you for similar.
Technically that would break the loop and is an option.
But you just made a ton of solid points in a long comment thread on that 'reblogged PeakD post'... so maybe 'the message' is just 'in your blood'? (grin)
Either way, I personally am glad to benefit from it, and maybe it'll inspire me to make a post on it some day :) Hmmmm...
I was the same shithead growing up. These days I'm probably way too hard on myself.
As for this loop, well, yeah I could write a book on the topic, explain it several different ways that all lead to the same place. Could write another post, maybe update something like this for modern times:
https://peakd.com/steem/@nonameslefttouse/curators-hello-where-the-hell-are-you
or this:
https://peakd.com/steem/@nonameslefttouse/how-much-have-you-spent-on-entertainment-in-your-lifetime
Blah. I don't think I'm interested in creating more reading material that'll just become dated and useless.
At least the entertainment has a much longer shelf life, which is something I'm good at, but between us, working small venues can be fun, but I'd prefer a stadium at this point. I can go elsewhere, but this entity/brand/stylings I created for this platform and is to remain exclusive to Hive. It's a business for this city. I could create other ones elsewhere and you wouldn't even know it's me. Or continue along with the traditional approach as well but I've grown bored of that and the business model here is revolutionary and has the potential to be incredibly disruptive in the industry.
I hear that. :)
Your comments in that other 'PeakD' thread could be a post on their own. Great stuff, imho.
Amazing story from your 60-cent investment into becoming top-tier, lol. It's funny what rises to the top depending on each platform's userbase. Darwin awards, indeed.
And the other post you linked explains everything quite clearly. Spending on content is happening constantly. The only difference is on Hive, the spender can actually profit financially from spending they'd do anyway.
Whether you're doing your thing here, under your current brand, or elsewhere under another one entirely, I appreciate all I've read from you and it's given me a lot of value so far, thank you.
Yeah and those who spend the money anyway are exactly the ones I'm looking for. Perfect market for a crypto project, since they do not give a crap if they lose money.
Seconded. I wonder if they're the type of person who would 'consume' my post today, or a market who would avoid it. lol ;)
I see people throwing tips/money at streamers who's talent is sitting on a bed, holding a phone, and sometimes falling asleep. Provided the content offers a unique personality, regardless of subject matter, people are throwing money at it. When I observe folks grumbling about not earning on this platform, I don't need to look at the their content to know why. 9 times out of 10 they're offering generic brand information void of personality. It's possible I already shared this post with you. Guaranteed you'd stumble into folks willing to pay out of pocket to support what you're doing, the way you do it, especially when that consumer discovers there's not much risk in doing so. Technically, all they're doing is investing in you/your product.
P.S. That's a fancy way of spamming links without actually spamming links you got there.
I totally agree, on all counts.
This line from your post made me chuckle. Such a succinct description of many influencers' biz model.
I checked out the post you linked (and all the other posts you've linked me), so it appears your method of spamming links far surpasses mine. 🤣
(Though I really am curious, because the 'market' we were discussing seems like the type who'd avoid my latest.)