It took me a little time to properly attend to your post here. Writer's block: Interesting. As long as I'm writing publicly (which started with Steemit), I never experienced such a block. Every single day I come across multiple topics that I can write a post about.
However, I must admit, last year or two am much less active in writing posts. I feel the community is falling apart, and the money-grabbing thing is increasing. Somehow that puts me off. That said, am daily curating mostly the music corners, but also outside music, since also the music corners start to become more of a post-drop and money-grabbing thing. So few peeps engage, and when they do, many without something 'meaningful', whatever that means. It doesn't have to be in-depth comments, can also be something funny or whatever. The number of users that only respond with "thank you" and variations thereof is staggering. And the amount of post-droppers is increasing b the day, so it seems to me.
I think we shall try an experiment. Stop giving out monetary rewards for a quarter and see who stays active on HIVE. Those who stay active, make the value for the HIVE token in my opinion. The rest are leeching so to speak, taking advantage of those giving value to the token. For sure, the HIVE token gets its value also from a lot of other projects that have nothing to do with social networking. Maybe most of HIVE's value comes from non-blogging services, who knows. Well, when we experiment with a 100% halt in monetary rewards for blog posts, maybe we start to learn how important blogging services are for the value to HIVE :)
I agree with allot of that. People do come in and just post drop, that has always been an issue. Engage is also a bit of a problem, but I will say that I still get WAY more engagement on Hive than I do any other social media network.
I said this in a previous interview that Hive is a small circle, but that’s not always a bad thing. I think that people that are just here for the money will end up filtering themselves out.
And no, I disagree with the monetization idea because I am living on this right now. Lol. For those that you don’t feel need monetization, that’s where downvotes come into play. Or just ignore them and after a long enough time they will go away.
At least that is why I have seen, and those that don’t, yeah well there are turds everywhere. Lol. Thanks for the well thought out comment.
As far as writers block… it may not happen to everyone, but for some, it does. There may be allot to write about, but is it what I want to write about, that is the question.
Oops, just living from HIVE reward isn't what I would advise. For sure not for mid to longer-term, since crypto/reward-based blogging maybe proven itself not working.
When I came onboard like 5 years ago, I had the thought: Maybe this can be my income, but then released quickly this could never be my choice. The rewards that needs to be shared was too little for me to be able to sustain a basic living, basic to what I feel comfortable with. Then I thought trading in crypto could gve me that, but either I suck at it, or one need a longer view, I dont know. Turns out I'm much more comfortable with long(er) term investing which in the end is monetisation long(er) term :) So I decided crypto at all aspects will not be my prime source of income :) You are bold, for sure!
It’s not the only source but it’s been a decent one so far. I want to prove it can be done. Hive is also not the only platform I earn on as well. So it’s a balance. My biggest fault is havjng so much locked up so I am moving things into more liquid investments like LP that earns a high yield but is still there if I need it.
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