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RE: Ask a photographer #AAP
My two cents.
HIVE is not the best platform for photographers. Here the rewards of the posts are similar to the likes on the web2 social nets.
As photographers speak with their visuals and here, unless your post is tens of photos and thousands of words, you won't get proper rewards. Not to mention the circle-circling as for some it doesn't matter what is posted at all.
Then, posts with low rewards are not shown in the trending lists.
Then comes another issue. As many here just follow the money trail and post where the big whales spread votes, there is one huge photographic community and the others are almost invisible. Now see, the two curators of that community has nothing or let's say very little to do with Photography. Check out their posts if you don't believe me. Additionally, they don't just curate "good" content, of course to their own taste, but they follow a set of unwritten rules. "you have to post here, you don't have to post there, you have to make n number of comments, you have to engage, you have to be friends with ... you have to be always positive, etc.". Content matters, but probably somewhere between 10 and 20% ;)))
As a summary of that I would say there are hundreds of whales and curators here but only one team is objective enough to really add some extra rewards and attention to good photographic content - that's the team of Curangel. In some extent the other teams don't go /usually/ outside their circles of accounts.
I still create exclusive content for HIVE but I am losing my motivation and inspiration with each passing month and I understand all those photographers who either stopped sharing their best stuff or just quit.
I wasn't going to comment at all but I saw the comment by @victorbz whose works I follow. I fully agree with his comment.
I am not expecting any miracles to happen here, as I generally don't kiss ass and I more or less speak what's on my heart.
I still ride this train as there are a handful of people whose works I like and would like to follow forward but to be honest, the financial part of the equation, personally for me is quite disappointing and on HIVE it is, in my opinion, an estimate of how valuable and original your content is. Then, as I said, I couldn't be more wrong about that :))))
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
I'm not a professional photographer, so every earning I get from my photography posts is nice for me. I won't earn more when I'm going to post them on other platforms I think. But that might be different for other photographers.
And it can be annoying when low quality posts of users that get autovotes (or manual votes) from people with large stakes get many more rewards than my posts I worked hard for, but I choose not to worry too much about it since I cannot change this.
What I can change, and this is what I'm trying with this initiative is improve the amount and the quality of the feedback on photography blogs.
It is great that you're bringing this topic!
Well, I believe everything could change, if we point that as a problem. And it is actually a problem as those large votes on, as you say "low quality posts" drive good content creators away from the platform.
This could only happen if there are more people who post about and are genuinely interested in photography. This in terms will happen only when "ordinary" people see that rewards are relatively fair and more photo-enthusiasts are attracted here.
I onboarded several photographers on HIVE but I didn't trump loudly about it (contrary to what many do just to get prizes to doing that). Unfortunately their posts were cents to a couple of dollars and they gave up after different but short periods of time. Most of them are now gone. Not because they were expecting bug bucks but because they also thought rewards are reflection on how the community valuates their content.
Cheers! :)
thanks for your frankness my friend.
some people here are trying to shut our mouths, but truth is truth and the smart heads know exactly who do you mean.
Unfortunately nothing good will come out from that. I just wasted my time sharing my sincere thoughts :)))
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