RE: Hive Ecosystem | Data on Curation Groups & KE Ratios!
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I'm mostly going from the point of view on how to make Hive work and sustainable long term. Post Quality & number of words in that regard is more or less worthless in my view. That said, it is nice to have great posts on Hive, and there certainly is a problem also with low-quality auto-upvote posts.
All I'm saying is that there should be a balance, where exactly that is is up for discussion, but the KE Ratio in general is a good starting point. Just click a random post on one of the curation compilations and see if the person is a net positive or a net negative for Hive. That ratio is simply horrible at the moment, and there needs to be a clear reason why people should want to buy and stake Hive which right now simply isn't there. All of this isn't forcing anyone to actually invest, but just to keep a fair share of their earnings invested to give at least something back. Again, everyones sitiuation is different, and I do think that leasing Hive Power should fully count toward it.
I don't think you are bad for Hive by the way (not that I'm here to judge). If anything, I really appreciate those who are here for the long run and clearly put effort into every single post while are also willing to keep some Hive staked. I would pose the question, if you only kept 100HP just to do the needed activities on the chain, do you think that would fine?
I think people (who are not spamming) could probably get away with 20HP worth of RC to do the social thing of posting and engaging - but and this is a very big but, they may be missing the whole point on HIVE.
I know that we must all have some confidence in our own abilities as an author, creator, writer, curator, whatever label we wish to put upon ourselves; and I know that we have a lot of very smart people on the chain.
To me, the value proposition on HIVE is that there are few other places on the Internet where you can obtain immutable (in terms of being able to see the entire edit history of a text) - and that enable people to write longer form content.
Other front ends - eg Facebook, Reddit etc, are not optimised for multiple-images, rich text, video, sound, and all the things that HIVE has. The exception are places like Medium, Substack, or someone's personal word press blog, and all of these platforms are increasingly being over-run with AI generated trash.
Peakd (my preferred front end) is actually really beautiful for long form posts, and while it is only markdown and a bit of basic HTML, the readability of content (if you can discover it) is really good, whether I am on my desktop, laptop, phone, or some other device.
Sorry for that tangent - I just woke up, but to get back on topic - 100HP (One hundred!) in the "bank" for someone who has been here for years, would have me questioning their motivations. My motivations are to reward content that I deem, in my set of criteria to be quality - if it is interesting, engaging, shows me a new perspective, or exposes me to something I didn't know could be interesting - it would get a vote.
Unless that person has taken 100k HP and turned it into 100HP, I'm not likely to bat an eye. They have already gotten value. They will probably, inevitably, get value again - I mean, they had to do something right to get that 100k HP in the first place.
I will also not usually vote on something that already has a high reward, but I tend to value and engage comments with my votes, as it stretches the author's defence of what they have written, or may elicit more detail that they didn't include in the post. I'm probably that guy at the seminar that asks the annoying questions that creep the scope of the talk ;)
In regards to your other comment: I have to also disagree with your other response regarding the other metric - word count to reward ratio, because, while all things aren't an academic text - some authors are publishing long-form stories, or in depth analysis or reviews of literature, video games, and other things that I would have, in the past, required to have a magazine subscription to obtain the same level of quality.
Or perhaps, it is things that would not make the cut in the traditional publishing world but do get some eyeballs on HIVE.
HIVE has to be a place with content, first and foremost. People do not get onto reddit to understand its economics, to understand its database structure, or to forensically analyse a user's history prior to engaging with or enjoying the content. People go to somewhere like reddit to connect, to discuss, to have discourse, and to learn. That's what makes reddit valuable (along with its advertising revenue, no doubt!) - it is the social.
My belief is that Hive will only thrive if it is social growth that drives it. Sure, there are things fundamentally wrong with the tokenomics, but we haven't had a hard fork in a long time - (in terms of changing how rewards work) - since around HF11 on Steem, if I recall correctly.
Most users don't care about that, they care about the social. There are always going to be people who are in the game to extract value, but there will hopefully always be people like me, who see the value in what the platform represents, not what the token is worth.
We bring value by creating value.