RE: $200 Monthly Investing Plan Brought to You by Hive Blockchain
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Thanks for the mention @seattlea and I'd like to chime in regarding this topic. So many talented writers have come and gone from the platform. In my opinion what would be considered "good" writing isn't always rewarded here, or isn't discovered quickly enough.
I think we should have more people with serious voting weight actively scouting for this kind of talent on Hive so engaging content is discovered more quickly and rewarded appropriately before the creators get frustrated and leave. Most writers I know value genuine engagement as much as they do getting paid.
The platform was very good to me in the early years (2016-2018), it changed my life actually. Back then there were a handful of content creators that rose to the top (@surfermarly, @heiditravels, even celebrities like bestselling author @neilstrauss) who were phenomenal and were handsomely rewarded by not only votes but attention. This created a buzz amongst the entire community. During the early days it seemed like the whales were more actively engaged in crafting a solid talent-base. If we could just rekindle some of that original spirit and excitement we'd be growing the platform a lot more quickly. During the past seven or so years the current philosophy has been to spread the rewards around to more people but I think really showing more love to the creators who make a real impact might encourage more people to step up their game and also attract new talent here.
What happened to those three authors? They have all been gone for over 6 years, did they stay on steam or just quit posting on blockchain?
Some whales are still encouraging new users with upvotes, I have seen it with others and have experienced myself. But some of our biggest whales seem to be more concerned with keeping HBD stable instead of encouraging top writers or new talent.
I am sure upvoting HBD stabilizer is very important, but perhaps some of that voting power could be used to really encourage the best talent on Hive with the hope of growing Hive user base.
There were many more like these three and they all left because of dwindling rewards/engagement. Some of these were real ambassadors of the platform too. There were a lot of philosophical skirmishes back then, people who had different visions of which directions the platform should grow. Can you imagine the traffic a person like Neil Strauss would bring here today?
That's good to hear some whales are encouraging new users! It sounds like there just needs to be more of a balance between concern over HBD stability and rewarding talent appropriately. In the beginning the model was more of a meritocracy where everyone with skill and imagination would aspire to reach the highest levels of engagement/rewards. This had an effect on everyone to become better as well.
Thank you for chiming in. I appreciate it. Your posts are stand-up. Having slept on all my comments, and waking up refreshed, I have a good view and another perspective of what makes "an excellent" piece of writing for a platform like HIVE.
My pleasure! I appreciate that. Hive has become such a big part of my life in the last, soon-to-be, nine years. My days of being a regularly trending author on here seem to be behind me now but Hive still really means a lot to me. I've seen it at its worst and at its best—how it can change lives for the better. A lot of us who've been around for a while can see Hive's untapped/underutilized potential and that can be frustrating sometimes. For all of the benefits that decentralization affords sometimes lack of an agreement of a cohesive vision of the future is its Achilles heel.
As a reader I share all four of those metrics with you. There are certain authors on Hive that I really enjoy reading and try to support as much as I can (@zirochka, @honeydue, @meesterboom, @bozz, @nancybriti1, @dbooster, and many more).
Thank you very much for your support, Eric. I really appreciate it. I think beyond the financial incentive we may have at Hive, it encourages us to do what we love here: writing, crafting, reviewing. Hive is a museum where you can exhibit what you do. Not to mention, there is the opportunity to meet people from other latitudes, talented, with whom you share interests and who become your friends and even family. I value those connections very much. A hug for you
I love the statement that "Hive is a museum". It is a museum of all of its authors. :) A museum where you can never tear down exhibitions of the past because they're now uncomfortable or no longer trendy.
It's a true record of what people elect to intentionally commit to their own exhibit - which no doubt sculpts their character.
And where there is room for everything and everyone. A museum where no one can tell us what art is: we ourselves invented the terms. Greetings and thank you for your answer.🌺
Thanks for the suggestions, I was following a large number of these names already, but a few, I was not :) I've added them to my list.
I don't even think that there's a cohesive vision at any real organisation, and it could be argued that the disorganisation is what inevitably leads to progress.
If everyone blindly followed the same goal, that is the only outcome that would be achieved. If numerous people have different goals, then well, perhaps one, or many of them would be achieved.
But the problem lies (in traditional places as well) - where multiple people are working toward the same goal in isolation of one another.
You're welcome! There are so many writers that I regularly try to keep up with and support...life sometimes gets in the way though.
Yeah, that is a good point about decentralization. If we had a centralized power structure there probably wouldn't be all of these front-ends and different projects being built on the Hive blockchain. Development might have been more focused but only in the ways in which the few in power wish. Government bureaucracy is a good example of this. On the flip-side, I've seen how many times the platform has devolved into periods of chaos and bickering and I feel like that's held the overall progress back but, I guess this is the price we pay for the freedoms of decentralization.