RE: Are The Good Days Gone?

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RE: Are The Good Days Gone?

erikah in Rant, Complain, Talk • 11 months ago

I was annoyed by all the photos of flowers in the post interrupting the text. I mostly ignored them because I was much more interested in the content and context of what it was you were saying. Pictures to break up text is great, but sometimes, I just wanna absorb the brain bits, and that isn't always pictures.

Not that it matters or would make me change my posting habits, but your complaint is noted.

This is part of the reason why, on every opportunity I have, I have to say that this place must absolutely be about content. When you think about why people go to tiktok or reddit - it is because of the content. It is because of the trend, it is because of the community, it is because those places have vibrant comment sections that are at least a little bit like the old Internet.

Well, in a way, yes, content is what Hive should be, but not exclusively. Hive is much more than content as you have a bunch of other opportunities.

Unfortunately we have users from all over the world and a good part of them have no sense of responsibility or willingness to see the long term benefits whatsoever, they can only focus on their selfish goals and do whatever it takes for a few bucks. I'm afraid you won't change these people as a good part of that vision and sense of responsibility comes from education, something that they lack of.

We have to also realise, that content not on hive is worth a lot more than content on hive. For instance, the standard rate for a long-form editorial in traditional media would be about ~$800-1000 here in Australia, and if I publish the same thing on HIVE, I'd be lucky to get $30AUD or so on a good day.

Yeah, someone (I don't want to name them) once said that posting rewards are laughable on Hive and he was right, yet the highest earners (by Hive standards, of course) are often downvoted and called farmers. Let me not continue this topic as it's better.

Not entirely sure where I went with this rant, but I agree with you, people need to be more genuinely genuine on HIVE. It is too easy to see through people's bullshit. I hate it when people aren't genuine about what they want or what they bring to the platform.

We forked and that's how Hive was born. We could do that, because we had a strong community. The legacy chain is shite because the bunch of people they have can't be called a community. I bet if we'd have to fork again for some reason, we'd have a strong community again, but not the entire userbase. Those who have no integrity, would play both sides and would do all the shenanigans they have been doing on both chains.

And I haven't even mentioned those who are supporting certain users solely because they are coming from certain countries. It doesn't matter that they don't put any effort into their posts, they never comment/support others and no one is ever interested in reading their posts. It doesn't matter. The only thing that counts is the continent they are based one.

So yeah, there are a bunch of problems, including throwing hundreds of thousands out of the window every single year, just because those managing the funds don't what to understand that what they are doing is a waste of funds, nothing more ...

I should stop here I think.

11 months ago in Rant, Complain, Talk by erikah

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holoz0r 11 months ago

I don't drink beer, or coffee, but I think it would be fun to have either one of these with you, on the basis of you not wanting to say further things, but I can read between the lines. I can write between them, too, sometimes.

My complaint was more sarcasm than serious - I like words a lot, but too, I like photos, I'm sure you've seen mine around the place, haven't posted any for a while, as I've been busy focusing on words and planning two exhibitions that both happen within the next month!

The thing about hive is that for all of its shortcomings, and for all the things that we can improve, the desire to improve it (and to attract a higher quality of user) is one which is constant and strong in certain people.

The underlying issue is that people like myself (who I think is a smart person - even if I refer to myself here in the third person) - have delusions that hive can be better, faster, more robust, and filled with clones of people like me who understand that the value comes from content, and that I should be OVERJOYED to need to "compete" with others for the reward pool, because if curators are given a wide range of content, and critically assess that which they vote for, they will see a wider range of stuff on chain.

But I suppose the weakness is that curators get rewarded whether they upvote good content or not. :P

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erikah 11 months ago

The thing about hive is that for all of its shortcomings, and for all the things that we can improve, the desire to improve it (and to attract a higher quality of user) is one which is constant and strong in certain people.

We agree to disagree here, unfortunately. Those certain people are just a handful, because the vast majority of the onboarding attempt is made in countries where a dollar a day can give you a meal or two, not to mention those who are potentially interested, are coming to get the money for that meal, not to create high quality content. When the strongest argument to onboard new users is you can make money, then you know what the outcome is.

They also need spoon feeding when it comes to figuring out what Hive is or how it works and even so, it's difficult for them to understand due to limited literacy. The rest is for that conversation during a coffee or a beer (I also don't drink either of them btw).

But I suppose the weakness is that curators get rewarded whether they upvote good content or not. :P

That is correct 😎

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