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RE: $200 Monthly Investing Plan Brought to You by Hive Blockchain
I have read the whole thread and you make a lot of valid points. I am fairly new at Hive as I have started first as a Splinterlands player before really discovering Hive less than a year ago. I think you were a big Splinterlands player and Twitch TV streamer? Here is my perspective with somewhat fresh eyes.
Why there are no viral Hive breakout stories you ask. My view on that is quite simple:
It is mostly a numbers game. Reddit has 108 Million daily users, we have about 8,000 total active users. It is not enough to have hard hitting genuine stories, you have to have enough of those and to have a loud user base that is impossible to ignore (millions of daily active users).
Just like the phenomenon that you mention of having people circle the whales, you are right there is some of that, but there is also the part where if you have a million staked Hive or even 100K+ that is not an accident and people are interested in what you have to say, because you must have done something right in your life to get there. Same thing applies in the case of Reddit, they have the big number they have a loud userbase and are impossible to always ignore even for the old guard media.
There is one more factor that plays against Hive - we are a blockchain based blogging site and there is a huge mainstream bias against anything Crypto. Bitcoin might be hitting the news and becoming a more legitimate mainstream asset, but altcoins and crypto in general is still viewed as a scam and at best Casino Coins.
We have good writers and besides those here and already mentioned we have people who are professional writers like @ericvancewalton who are quite good at writing, we just don't have enough of good posters or posters in general. So my purpose writing this post was to try to get something out there that would make case for Hive and why people should come here and be active. I am not good at writing, but I consider this post at least a partial success as it got some real engagement from what I can see 😀
And who knows, maybe this post will come up high in Google searches when people search for some of the subjects covered here...
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.
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I love to not care a out that fact that HIVE is "crypto". What draws me to it and compels me to continue making a return is the fact that everything said here is immutable.
We have a ledger of statements. A ledger of thought.
Not everyone realises that immediately, but seeing a full edit history of everything is a powerful tool in helping to understand human behaviour, and indeed the way in which we use language.
The fact that I'm having my remarks distributed across multiple nodes, servers and immutable, verifiable ledgers makes me somewhat drunk with the power of my word.
If hive was crypto but not immutable, I wouldn't be interested at all.
Thank you for paying such close attention to all the comments on your post.