RE: Share Your Thoughts to Give HIVE α Against Other Blogging Platforms

We have to improve the user experience of being a content creator on HIVE.

And this would start by bringing real content consumers.

The current ratio is somewhere around 90% content creators, and 10% content consumers. Ideally there should be more content consumers than content creators.

The opposite ratio is leading to what we see nowadays on Hive.

Most people are focusing on posting, and the most of the blog posts are ignored/overlooked.

The argument that centralized social media doesn't pay its users does not mean a lot to most users.

And its even false too. Because Blogger (Google) pay many of its users. YouTube (also Google) too.

And the Hive blockchain is also centralised in its own way.

We have extremely high censorship resistance.

Honestly speaking, not really.

It takes only one person with higher amount of Hive power to downvote someone's posts to zero, and the reputation of a user below zero, and after that (or maybe even sooner), their posts will even become automatically hidden due to low ratings.

And there are downvote trails too, where people blindly (automatically) downvote posts/comments without even actually seeing them (and they do the opposite too by doing the same with upvoting). This can quickly and easily boost the above mentioned process.

Of course they cannot delete the posts on the blockchain level, but if they reduce its visibility on the front ends, then the chances to reach actual readers and real audience is very low.

And this often reduce someone's mood to write anything.

And another thing.

I read this from someone else in the recent past. That the people are afraid to comment, because they fear that they say something wrong.

Not necessarily technically, but if the users are actually afraid to comment, then the censorship actually works. The people censor themselves in this case by their own fears, but still.

There are many things to talk about in this aspect. We could write an entire book about this.

Thank you a great deal for this reply. Learning what other community members want to see was one of the reasons I wrote this article.

The current ratio is somewhere around 90% content creators, and 10% content consumers.

This is one of the best pieces of feedback HIVE can receive at the moment. We need to have more people who are visit our front ends the way blogs are usually visited. We need some plans to bring in readers which can then be converted to users or be monetized with decentralized ads.

Because Blogger (Google) pay many of its users. YouTube (also Google) too.

That is true. The difference on blockchain is that everyone is monetized from the very first day and the minimum payout is a fraction of a cent.

It takes only one person with higher amount of Hive power to downvote someone's posts to zero, and the reputation of a user below zero

This is similar to shadowbanning than outright censorship. Abusing downvotes is a serious issue and I have seen many good people get discouraged by it and leave HIVE. Downvote trails are still a better alternative than a centralized system of content moderation. We are going to need some system to moderate content and these tools get abused by bad people. We have to choose the less bad option and try to find ways to minimize the problems caused by downvotes.

I read this from someone else in the recent past. That the people are afraid to comment, because they fear that they say something wrong.

This is the most disheartening thing to read in your reply. These people should at the very least create an alt account to voice their opinions. I have received large downvotes for saying certain things. It's not good to see hundreds of dollars worth potential earnings disappear. I want people to be able to express their opinions freely. I do think we are light years ahead of traditional social media. We simply have a long way left to go.