RE: A series of posts regarding Hive, Splinterlands, me, and you!

And just as a sidenote. Now that you know how to easily find all the content, where it says "trending" on the right, change that to "recent" and now you'll see several years worth of rewarded content, scrolling all the way down to day one. That all doubles as marketing SPL to "The Hive Community."

Do some calculations. Consider token values on the day of publishing as well. Notice how "The Hive Community" has been contributing to some rather alarming figures over the years?

Now factor in all the money "The Hive Community" dumped into SPL indirectly. For example someone with stake votes on a post about ducks and the author converts that payment into cards. Hundreds of thousands of posts and millions upon millions of votes, all from "The Hive Community", dumped directly into SPL.

One side-effect was several "Hive Community" members struggling to find support for their work and eventually leaving the chain for good.

The trail of breadcrumbs doesn't lead to a booming product? How?

"The Hive Community won't support SPL?" How?

"SPL is good for Hive." How?

"SPL brings people to Hive." Where are they?

"The Hive Community doesn't know what's good for business..." Clearly.

"because they don't support SPL." Huh?

It boils down to "The Hive Community," which includes SPL, mismanaging itself. Viewing this with outside perspective, it's similar to what families go through with gambling addiction. And now wants to gamble another 500k thinking that'll "fix it." "Just one more win. That's all I need."

Under that proposal post you can see me taking flak for thinking surely there's something to show for all this. Why?

#splinterlands

If you're using Peakd, you can click that. There's a little star you can select, making it a "favorite topic". Now all that content is one click away for you.

There you can see the massive amount of SPL content, and plenty of rewards. Every single one of those people is being given the opportunity to support something like the SPL proposal. They're all earning HP, nonstop. Now you're seeing hundreds if not thousands supporting the SPL proposal indirectly.

Now look closely. Notice how absent the community is? Potentially thousands of people, yet hardly any comments under majority of those posts.

Yet people will sit on Youtube, Reddit, Discord; talking about the same things, all day. Earning nothing and rewarding no one.

I always wondered why I didn't see a massive amount of people engaging on those posts. A Youtube comment section, there's comments with thousands of "likes" but here, hardly a peep and the community doesn't even have a chance to reward itself by creating legit interesting/entertaining comments and "liking" them.

If games bring value to this chain, having a solid community of people interested in games, active, engaged, and able to support the things they enjoy, that makes it so much easier for other games to find success. The attention always spills over onto other products. That ball needs to get rolling or all these games being developed locally will just sit on the shelves collecting dust.

Achieving that boils down to individuals and individual choices. The true potential of this entire system cannot be reached if people choose to not participate and instead rely on others and their votes to get them through the tough times.

If I step in to vote, all I'm doing is contributing to the illusion these products are popular here. Setting more people up to struggle down the road.

The pattern repeats. It's not hard to find other games or games in development setting themselves up to have an absent community or dealing with the consequences of said absence.

I can only hope at some point my thoughts were just as helpful or even more helpful than the act of me pushing that proposal button and walking away.