The Technicals Behind The Flame

A lot of you may be wondering (especially in my community) -- why this idea? It doesn't make sense to the wider ethos of what we're trying to do?

But yes. It actually does. It matters a whole lot to the future and success of hive.

Many readers, curators and authors like myself have long since complained how much work it is to curate on here. Takes a good hour or two to completely expend your voting power down to a good 70% and earn your worth for the day.

If not longer.

And that's because we spend hours muddling through the dross and the clickbait to find the decent stuff. My standards are high, some are lower, but you get what I mean.

Artists just aren't valued on Hive. We really aren't. I know this because of the way I and many others are treated here; it matters not what we write, or video, or sing but how much Hive Power we have in our wallets.

This tips the scales to the people with stake, and high stake worth doesn't necessarily equate to value.

I know it,
You know it,
We all know it.

That's not their fault mind you -- there is no competition or forward momentum of change to force anyone to "up their game"

I have been known to throw something out there that looks like a dog's dinner just for the votes.

This is all well and good but it doesn't look good to anyone that wants to park serious investment in here. It really doesn't.

Most of what we promote wouldn't last a day on any other platform and that's not the way it should be.

That's not to say that we haven't good art here, or that we don't promote real art; it's just there's no focus, no co-ordination, no organization, and ultimately no leadership -- so artists just go posting random posts on different places on different days with no real focus.

You go to any other blog or platform on the internet and you find serious curation and organization, algorithms that send you to what you want immediately.

Here? It's a mess. People come here and they don't know where to look or what to look for.

Call The Flame a seed.

I'm going to tip the scales.

I'm going to create a need for artists on this chain, where we're more than a commodity to expend votes -- we're actually needed, wanted, and will eventually start getting headhunted -- and community owners and high stake wielders will fight over artists.

The failing of Hive is that we saw the money and not the art. That's our true failing.

But I'm going to change that.

We'll start off small at first. People will probably laugh. People will probably joke -- but the Flame is already collecting subscribers -- and people that read tend to have good work themselves.

I've already been sending out invites.

Don't ask to be invited, you can only be asked.

We'll be Hive's very first (sort of) publication -- where I only allow authors that can stand the flame in.

@brofi takes a 10% cut of all authors on the flame's work. An offering so to speak. In return brofi will vote that good work back.

A synonomous growth partnership of sorts.

Authors get high status and reverence in our discord and access to future (and secret) stuff.

As The Flame grows (and it will) people will look at it and go, you know? That's a cracking good idea -- and copy it, maybe part of it, maybe all of it -- and start their own community like ours.

Eventually?

Hive will have several high end personally curated communities with great authors on various topics.

And the best part? People will actually finally come from outside and start reading us. Not just the flame but everyone else that had the burning desire to build something bigger than themselves.

And when that happens Authors shift from something we give an upvote to -- to revered, protected, wanted, needed, headed hunted.

And the rubbish posts that no-one reads? Admit it, we don't really.

Well, they'll be forced to level up their game -- instead of writing some terrible post about the food they ate last night -- they may be changed into writing about how their love of food transformed their need to cook good food.

Something with focus, with purpose.

Many ways you can slice that one of course through many topics.

But, I have a healthy progression roadmap for any of my scribes that want to become teachers for the people that want to learn, who burn with the need to be seen!

And the beauty of all this? It begins with just a seed.

People may laugh at this, joke at this, ignore it, say it will never happen.

But you can't stop the marching progress of change, and it's coming.

I said I'd change hive, I wasn't joking when I said that!

Peace.