I have been here 2 months today.
I haven't voted because I dont want to vote for the 'wrong' project or person without knowing it's 'wrong' and get blacklisted by the autovote oligarchy and have my investment taken away.
I see discussions about what is quality content but what does that matter if most of it will never be read and its popularity is based on bots, likwid, appreciator, whale builder, not engagement.
Cant seem to find any experienced users or anyone else explaining those things.
I do see fake new user accts making $100 in their first week (doing tutorials on how to use Hive) while actual new users get ignored even when they use the tags they are told will attract support.
I didnt come here for the rewards, wouldn't use the bots if I knew how. I came here to do what I can to promote the grassroots adoption of decentralized society.
I believe in the potential of blockchain and especially Hive.
I gave up posting tho, why waste my time researching and writing quality content that no one is gonna read and has no chance of competing for engagement against bots and auto voting circlejerks.
So far to me it seems more like a pyramid scheme right now.
And if you aren't at the top you're just here to be fed on.
I dont upvote content that uses bots anymore.
I spend my resources supporting quality content that isn't part of the oligarchy and welcoming and supporting actual new users.
I appreciate and applaud your hard work and dedication in all you do here.
I would upvote you but whale builder got you.
My little .02 Hive wouldn't matter anyway, to You.
But it might motivate a new user to keep going and maybe spread the word.
Not blaming, JS
All the best
Peace
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Hi appreciate your comment here and what you said does make sense. When I started over two years ago when we were still on Steem, I observed the same thing. A blogging platform that financially reward its users for posting and curating will obviously attract not just content creator but also people who are not really interested in content but in the financial side of it. Without Steem or Hive, many of our users would rarely write any blog or make any decent comment on other blog posts.
Maybe by attracting more and more users we might have a better balance.
Thanks
I agree with that.
Nice deflection tho 👈👆👉👇🤷♂️
I dont have a problem with people making money especially crypto.
But how about some transparency.
Full dislosure.
Why can't everyone participate?
Why isn't it promoted?
Decentralization?
Wouldn't it be better for everyone on Hive?
If there were a way to integrate it intuitively and according to individual preference.
Perhaps if you follow someone you can set auto tip or something.
Or have upvotes and following/followers ratio to rank content as far as trending.
That would be a more relevant method for engagement and interaction.
Put creating a following on the content creator and the community.
Not on autovotes.
That might also be a method for stopping scammers as well as driving quality content.
I think the tipping idea like on Peakd is a good start.
You can bring all the users you want here, once they realize or feel the system is being rigged they will bail.
Thanks for the response.
Peace
The keyword here is decentralisation I think. Not being centralised by a big entity means the users have to provide the services themselves. Witnesses are providing the network and the database (the blockchain). Other users provide services such as auto-vote, wallet etc...
Now in order to implement more features, we need more volunteer developers.
Why would they have to be volunteers?
The community should decide what it wants and have access to knowledge and information to choose, and thus drive development.
Reward for operation and maintenance (witnesses) should be intrinsic and expand in relation to network expansion.
Equitable positive interaction and opportunity will drive adoption on all levels, content creators, curators, and consumers but more than that, we need the individual network, preference driven, instant response capability, and multimedia integration that a facebook provides with the advantages of decentralization.
I meant just more developers, volunteers or paid for.