RE: My Splinterlands Daily Activity: Playing, Buying, Selling and Upgrading Cards (ENG/ITA)
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Hi @hivewatchers
I write about various Hive-based games, and before using a tag, I always try to find out if I can use it or if it is relevant.
Arcade Colony is a gaming platform created by Inveniumm Corp (a subsidiary of Splinterlands).
Splinterlands is officially listed among the games on the Arcade Colony platform and can be accessed from the Arcade Colony home page.
At the end of my post, I point out that Splinterlands is a game on the Arcade Colony platform, and I also included a link to access the Arcade Colony platform.
For this reason, I consider the tag #arcadecolony logical and relevant in a Splinterlands post.
In the same way that one uses #twitter when talking about a tweet or #hive when talking about a Hive tool.
When I write posts about Hive or dCrops or my cat, I don't put the arcade colony tag.
If I did, I would be tag spamming, but I don't.
Regarding honey-swap, I can only evaluate the votes I receive on my posts, and they don't seem automatic to me.
For example, if you look at the honey-swap votes I received on my latest posts:
- post about StakehouseDen with the arcadecolony tag: I received a 67% vote
- post about Splinterlands with the arcadecolony tag: I received a 63% vote
- post about dCrops without the arcadecolony tag: I did not receive a honey-swap vote
- post about Moon Kart with the arcadecolony tag: I received a 75% vote
- post about Scam on Discord without the arcadecolony tag: I did not receive a honey-swap vote
- post about 3 Arcade Colony games with the arcadecolony tag: I received a 100% vote
- post about Golem Overlord without the arcadecolony tag: I did not receive a vote from honey-swap
- post about Splinterlands with the arcadecolony tag: I received a 35% vote
- post about Hive without the arcadecolony tag: I received a 50% vote
I don't know how Honey-swap curation works because I'm just a player and I like to write content about games, but in my last 9 posts:
- I used the arcade colony tag 6 times
- I received 7 votes from honey-swap with varying percentages
- in a post without the arcade colony tag, I received 50% from honey-swap
So, regarding my posts:
- I don't see automatic votes for simply using the arcade colony tag
- I don't see the arcade colony tag as irrelevant in my Splinterlands posts
- I never self-vote (my self-vote rate is 0), and I also publish about other games where rewards are lower so my intent is clearly to share content, not to fish for automated votes.
I'm always open to discussion if there are other concerns.
Thanks for your time and for keeping Hive healthy and transparent.
Thanks for the breakdown.
I would disagree that Splinterlands has anything to do with Arcade Colony. I played SL, and these are 2 completely different games. Both games share some links to many different apps and games in the Hive ecosystem (and may have an association through shared developers), but that's where the relation ends.
There is no reason to tag Arcade Colony (or Genesis Sports) in the post about Splinterlands because they have developed an association.
It's the same if someone were posting in a certain Hive community like Photography Lovers and then tagging many others like World Mapping and Actifit, just because they all shared and are mentioned on different Hive frontends and within their community posts (and may have some of the same devs) :-)
https://hive.blog/hivewatchers/@hivewatchers/the-game-of-tags-updated-guide-2020
@hivewatchers thank you for taking the time to respond and for linking me to your guide.
I carefully read THE GAME OF TAGS [UPDATED GUIDE 2020] and honestly I think that my use of tags in my post follows the same logic that your guide describes. Let me explain my reasoning.
In your comment, you wrote:
I actively play not only Splinterlands but all Hive-based games, and with all due respect, what you wrote is not accurate.
Arcade Colony is not a game! It is a container of games connected to Hive.
Arcade Colony, being a container of games without the games inside it, including Splinterlands, is nothing.
Splinterlands is completely based on the Hive blockchain, while the other games on Arcade Colony have second-level Hive tokens at the core of their tokenomics and gameplay dynamics.
The fact that Arcade Colony includes Splinterlands increases the visibility of Splinterlands and, indirectly, that of Hive as well.
So it's not just about shared developers or external links, but about a functional connection within Arcade Colony, Splinterlands and the Hive environment.
That's why I think using the #arcadecolony tag in a Splinterlands post that mentions and links to the platform/container where Splinterlands is located is perfectly coherent with your own guidelines.
The comparison with someone posting in Photography Lovers and adding tags like Actifit or World Mapping is not appropriate, because those are completely separate and unrelated communities.
In this case, we are talking about a Hive-powered game and a platform that connects 4 Hive-based games.
It is more similar to using the #hive tag when writing about a Hive dApp. It simply serves to help readers find and understand content that belongs to the same Hive environment.
Your guidelines state that
and that
My post explicitly mentions Arcade Colony, includes the logo and link, and explains the connection to Splinterlands.
The tag helps readers find content related to Arcade Colony, which is a container that includes Hive-based games including Splinterlands. This is exactly what your guide defines as correct use of the tag.
If another author writes a post about Splinterlands without mentioning Arcade Colony and explaining the connection, then yes, the tag makes no sense.
But when the post clearly mentions it and provides the link, the tag automatically becomes relevant.
There is also a direct economic relationship between Splinterlands and Arcade Colony: staking SPS generates COLONY tokens through Arcade Colony's daily airdrop.
So the connection is not only about accessibility, but also about the internal tokenomics of the platform and Splinterlands, and even Hive, as SPS and COLONY are both second-level tokens of Hive.
In addition, Splinterlands is also available in the Arcade Colony marketplace.
I am also a Splinterlands curator, and no one on the Splinterlands team has ever told me that using the #arcadecolony tag is inappropriate or bad for the project.
In fact, mentioning a Hive-related platform that lists and promotes Splinterlands helps increase the visibility of both Splinterlands and Hive.
I completely agree that spamming or tag abuse should be discouraged, but this is not the case here.
I don't self-vote, I don't use tags randomly, and I write simply because I enjoy sharing content related to Hive and Hive-based games.
If Arcade Colony stated that it does not want its tag used in posts that mention and link to it, I would respect that without issue.
But at the moment, I believe my use of the tag is correct, transparent, and consistent with your own policy.
I am not an abuser, I am a Hive lover, and my history on this blockchain proves it.
If there are logical and objective reasons why using the #arcadecolony tag in this context harms Hive or violates your guidelines, I will remove it immediately.
Otherwise, I think keeping it is fair, consistent, and respectful of both Hive and your rules.
OK, thanks for the extensive explanation.
Thank you for taking the time to read and consider my explanation. I appreciate your work in keeping Hive clean and transparent.