First of all, this is a GREAT post! And your $72+ in HIVE rewards is totally deserved, I even threw in my 10 cents LOL.
Second, I agree on Azircon he is great. I believe his direct communication style is a cultural thing, but it never bothered me. His posts that you referenced is also the reason I have started stacking HP and while I didn't reach my 10k HP goal in 2024, I will reach it this year. Here is what happened to my HP after I read his posts 3-4 months ago:
It was him who woke me up (I never powered down I just took half of the author rewards and converted it into SPS), but it wasn't just him, once I read his posts, saw the data I became interested in HIVE and then I discovered many other great sources to learn from or very interesting to read such as Acidyo and Taraz and others.
I am still very much involved in Splinterlands and I hope it is successful long term as I am holding hundreds of thousands of SPS and a ton of card assets, but my new focus is HIVE and I hope other Splinterlands players will focus more on HIVE.
And don't let the graph on top full you, I am still very much stacking HP:
As far as Splinterlands Art contest I see both of your points yes there is clear extraction going on, the question is if the art that is being created for this contests is worth for Splinterlands to pay these artists from South America?
I love your comment, I think all the points you made are fantastic and I appreciate your upvote 2 cents, 10 cents, any amount it always appreciated!
I will only reply to the final part, with my thoughts on the matter:
"As far as Splinterlands Art contest I see both of your points yes there is clear extraction going on, the question is if the art that is being created for this contests is worth for Splinterlands to pay these artists from South America?"
Splinterlands Created a Contest with "Guidelines". People from all over can and should compete!
The second part of the question is tough to answer because it is very subjective:
"Is the art being created worth it for Splinterlands to 'pay' these artists"
Not sure... not sure why we have the Art Contests... I like them. I think the art generated by the artists is top tier!
But we don't really have a place that I know of to display said art... and I am not sure what we are doing with said art once it is generated...
Because I don't know the why and the what there... it is impossible for me to say if it is or isn't worth paying those artists... especially since they don't play the game or stake any Hive :(
Small correction. Splinterlands is not paying; all hive stakeholders cumulatively paying them from the common reward pool. That includes you, me and Splinterlands. As we are all hive stakeholders.
True :) I was thinking in terms of Splinterlands deciding to use their substantial stake to hold the contests and to curate posts that participate in these contests. But you are right, we all pay for it from the common reward pool.
Thank you. Just to be clear I didn't mean to single out people from South America, I just wrote that because based of your research it seemed like that is mostly the case. And yes, people all over can and should participate in these contests.
Everyone has a different but valid reasons for participating, some are trying to build their HIVE stake like you and I and some are trying to make their monthly bill payments. I don't have judgement, but it would be nice and healthy for the HIVE ecosystem if it wasn't just a pure extraction if they would leave at least some part of author rewards and build their stake, even 25% left from every post would have been better than pure extraction.
The contests are a good promotional idea, but they could be tweaked a bit to be more efficient. I think I will write a Splinterlands post on it with some constructive ideas :)
And I think your comment is very thoughtful @topcomment
The concept of social network is not hard. There are two words:
First part comes to me more naturally than the second part, but I am trying to work on the second part as well :)
And thank you for your big vote on my latest blog post.
Actifit posts, while very common, most oldtimer hive puritans consider them as 'shitpost's and they are 95% of the time:)
There are better ways to write an Actifit post with more content and direction, which is what you often do. You should continue that and lead that movement.
I like Actifit, because it keeps me accountable for my daily fitness activity and reminds me to write something on HIVE every day. As you have noticed I try to put some content in my posts, but sometimes it seems completely incompatible with the Actifit theme and makes me wonder if I should just write a crypto subject post under LeoFinace community using the computer. With Actifit to get the post to have content I have to jump via hoops or suffer through writing it on my phone.
I will try to continue making more substantive Actifit posts and try to increase the percentage of Actifit posts I do with more content.
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