RE: Downvotes aren't so bad

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RE: Downvotes aren't so bad

eddiespino in Synergy Builders • 8 months ago (edited)

I hope I can explain this objectively.

The anti-abuse work is important, and they do prevent and find a lot of serious abuse that happens on Hive. But it is also true that they mostly have a very bad attitude and toxic behaviour, they prefer to punish users rather than educate them, and they have indeed driven away a lot of people, maybe some of them deserved it, maybe some of them could have stayed and actually brought value to Hive. Still, too late to know now, they are long gone. Or maybe they are not gone, but still here using alt accounts.

And they do get a lot of funds from the DHF, and like other projects on Hive, it is simply not justified, at least in my view.

Sorry, I think that this was rather subjective.

8 months ago in Synergy Builders by eddiespino

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justmythoughts 8 months ago

This fund should have been used for marketing purposes, users' incentivization and other stuff.

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eddiespino 8 months ago

True.

The problem is that so far, nobody has found the right formula to promote Hive.

We have a rally car that has cost hundreds of thousands of HIVE and has no tangible results.

A documentary that very few people have watched.

We have a sports team in Venezuela doing very expensive events, which, yes, has onboarded some users, but it has not brought real value or results to Hive.

Events where we meet a lot of people, but it's hard to share the vision of Hive, as it is something very hard to understand and explain fully. A lot of new people can join, but not many are going to be truly interested and become active members.

I could continue.

And I know that it's not easy, many of the marketing efforts have been made during a very harsh bear market, which hasn't helped to see good results in terms of price or user activity.

On top of this, everyone has a different vision of Hive and different opinions, and as we don't have a central authority, we have yet to define a clear and unified message.

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justmythoughts 8 months ago (edited)

Well, I believe that money may have been spent on guest posts, airdrops and other online stuff for advertisement.

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eddiespino 8 months ago

Some of those things have been tested already.

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justmythoughts 8 months ago

But we should keep trying again and again.

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justmythoughts 8 months ago

Why is it that some new projects garner good attention through online campaigns? Can't we do this?

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eddiespino 8 months ago

Maybe we could, but it depends on a lot of factors. With some projects, we only see the tip of the iceberg and not everything that is below.

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justmythoughts 8 months ago

We can work on it, if someone is serious. But I believe the problem is, there is no central authority to own things.

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eddiespino 8 months ago

But I believe the problem is, there is no central authority to own things.

That has its advantages and disadvantages.

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justmythoughts 8 months ago

But think of the DHF funds, we could have used it for something better.

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alohaed 8 months ago

I often wonder if we are talking about things or features that matter to people.

Crypto has negative connotations with some audiences, and they may not make the distinction between tokens and blockchain.

Some of the abstract ideas that we may value, may not be immediately cognizable to potential users of Hive.

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eddiespino 8 months ago

That's true.

For us, it could be a no-brainer, because we already know the advantages firsthand, but for others, it could be either hard to understand or not attractive at all.

For example, the censorship-resistant feature might only attract a certain type of user, while many others might not care about it.

And the most attractive thing on Hive, which is the monetization, is really hard to promote because in certain countries it might even be illegal to make such claims. On top of that, if people join with that "promise" and see that it's not as easy as they thought, they will not stay active and will even call it a scam.

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justmythoughts 8 months ago

But unfortunately they look to be part of the status quo. If this sort of attitude continues maybe we may have a fork of Hive as well.

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eddiespino 8 months ago

The blockchain is an open-source technology. In theory, anyone with the right knowledge could make a fork.

The hard part is to earn the trust not only of users or the community, but of applications, exchanges, and more. As I mentioned in the post, a lot of factors have to be present for a project like this to be successful.

Look at blurt, they forked from Steem and removed the downvotes as well as other things, but they have not yet grown enough. They are only in one exchange, and the value of the coin is very low in comparison.

Maybe we would get to a point where the fork is inevitable, maybe we can fix most of the problems we have, or maybe we won't be able to do either of them. Time will tell.

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justmythoughts 8 months ago

I am not against the Downvotes but it should not be used to bully others.

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eddiespino 8 months ago

Agreed. The problem is that there isn't a system to prevent or discourage that.

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justmythoughts 8 months ago

Since there is no system we have to bring like minded people together to do something about it.

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