The Authors, the readers and the curators
Sometimes I hear complains from some of my friends, and some of the people I have introduced to hive that their posts are not been upvoted up to the standard of the post and the quality of the contents in it. I do have that same feelings sometimes, trust me so many people do too.
While I was checking through the community posts yesterday, I noticed that there are some set of people(whales) who are the main reason why authors really get rewarded for their contents. People like @calumam @trostparadox @leprechaun @onealfa @vempromundo @amr008 and few others. Then it looked like, if these people do not see a post, then the author should expect almost no rewards on the particular post.
These set of people(whales) certainly can't go through every single post in the community, they have their life to live and things to attend to outside proofofbrain community and in the real world. Even if they can go through all this posts, they can't upvote everything due to the everyday post traffic.
Authors
Most people fall under the author category here in the proofofbrain and hive as a whole this is the main reason why some times important posts doesn't get recognised especially when the topic doesn't look attractive enough.
The orientation most people especially newbies have is that, the fastest way to earn is through creating content and waiting for whales to come around and upvote. No one wants to go around reading other people's content, making comments and upvoting with their little upvote power, it feels like it is more time taking and stressful.
So when their contents are not been upvoted as expected, they create another post thereby causing more traffic. Some people make more than four posts a day with no comments or upvote. They only gives reply to people who comes around to comment on their post.
With these orientation, it would be difficult for the community to gain maximum interaction.
Readers
Although it might not look more of gain in the earning aspect, but it has more gains than one would ever think of in the learning aspect, communicating aspect, and the aspect of giving maximum recognition to a user.
Readers are people who create time to see the view of other people on different topics in which they have chosen to write on, readers also share their opinion on this contents in form of comments. They are the true people who make the community lively.
A lot of people wants to know how you feel about what they have posted. If you always drop valuable and relating comments, it keeps people curious and makes them want to know more about you and your posts.
Unlike social media where notifications are given when someone follows you, blog chains doesn't. So if you think by following people and creating posts, they will see you in their feeds, then you don't know yet. The only way to make more people follow you and see your post in their feeds is by engaging with them on their own posts. It's the best way to seek recognition.
Curators
Those whales I mentioned earlier should be a bonus factor to those who they upvote, not the only source of hope to better rewards. This has a lot to say to the rest of us, we should really try to up our games by staking more and spending less. What if these whales decide to have a week leave, those these mean no post for that week will have more than 10 to 20 pob upvote ?
BALANCE
For a community to grow and for people in it to grow as well, I think balance is a factor to be considered. If these will take people to post less and read more while creating more traffic in comments, it will increase engagement, enable whales to see most posts and reward more by upvoting. It also will make users of pob/hive know more about other users thereby making everyone to feel at home using the chain.
Who says comments can't bring you more rewards than creating posts? This is why I so much respect @amr008, he rewards quality comments. I have noticed that most times, he upvotes comments that are valid even when he did not upvote the mother post itself.
I hope I have been able to pass a message across, please feel free to reblog if you think this post is worth publishing for more people to see.
A better hive and it's community is what I hope for, stay safe and stay blessed.
This is so right, maybe we should take our minds of the rewards and keep doing our thing. Concentrating too much on the reward might be heartbreaking.
Exactly, the feelings should be like one being among a big family. There is no way the rewards won’t come along especially when the user is well recognized among many, and the only way to attain that level of recognition is to keep engaging with other people on their posts.
Whenever I can, I'm trying to see your and your friends' posts, the pobdaily proposed by @marvinix always brings me new things to learn about your community.
But sometimes that's what you said, it happens that we can't see the post for some reason, and it's not a problem with the post.
Ask them to continue producing and commenting on other people's posts, it's like you said, @amr008 rewards them with comments and that's very gratifying for those just starting out.
I'm starting to follow the pobdaily tag, I'll try to be more present in the posts, the vote will be a little smaller so that I can reach as many of you as possible
I feel honored to hear that you find it awesome to learn more about our community, the pobdaily has been a good opportunity to show how our daily lives looks like, what we get interesting in doing and how we go about doing them.
Thanks for the follow ups @vempromundo.pob
@amr008 has been doing a great and noticeable job on hive and hive’s community, via encouraging solid engagement.
Great article!
When i 1st joined the Hive community, my target is also to earn the reward. After sometime, I realize that the good content is much more than the reward.
With the great content, we can learn a lot from it.
With the great content, it keeps the community alive.
If the authors only target the reward, they will post several posts a day with poor content, and this is when the community starts collapsing.
Exactly, with more engagements in the community, one will always get necessary information, get to relate with people outside the country, now how they feel, and much more. One will even gain more ideas of that they can actually post that will be on interest to the people in the community.
Weak contents will keep the community values at a depreciating graph.
We should endeavor to keep a quality standard at the maximum
yeah you have the right spirit for this game and attitude :) bring your friends on, it's pretty global in POB and tons of topics to write on which is basically anything
cheers
axey
We need more engagers, people who are ready to communicate from their mind more than for the sake of their pockets.
Don’t get me wrong, the gain is what keeps us around, but if we can pretend like it’s not and try to flow with the spirit, it’s going to be more fun than we expected.
At least there are reasons why people devote their time on social media with zero rewards, which is the FUN, the FLOW, and the VIBES
What you noticed earlier is true, I think this upvote motivate authors to do more research and post update that are relevant to the platform.
However the writers don't have to put so much attention on the whales becos they cannot attend to every post that pops up.
But us who are not yet among the whales can do well to recharge our HP and make our upvote resourceful.
This exactly is the point.
Focusing on whales alone will break your heart if none of them comes by, but if more people can do well to keep their stakes high, rewards would be more evenly distributed.
And again, Most people finds it difficult to read contents especially when it has high quantity
You have observed things well in this blockchain. but I don't really understand this statement...
I think you mean other social medias that they make use of add friends instead but talking about follow like in case of twitter, it works just like the chain works. People can't see your post in their feed unless they follow you back.
What I mean is, like Facebook there is a place you click to see people who just followed you and to see if you have followed them back so you can see them in your feeds, you can also see how many mutual friends you have to know how well you guys would relate, but here you gain recognition is by engaging in people’s post.
If you follow them, there is not place for people to see that you just followed them, the only things is that your account name would be added to their followers list which in most case might be more than a hundred or two, who has the time to start searching through his or her list ?.
This is why I said, you have to stand out of the crowd by engaging and making your presence felt
Perseverance and teaching yourself, every day through stress and hard work proves shit really does progress without you realizing. The time, the exertion, the devotion ... it pays off
It really does @maro1 no matter how long, it brings new ideas also
Great to have come across this post while reading vempromundo's post about PobDaily.
Focusing on whales visiting one's post can be really frustrating when you don't receive the expected upvotes at the end of the Day.
I believe the best way is to seek to have some fun here by engaging with people as much as possible, in the process you get noticed, get more followers and earn rewards.
Also the platform shouldn't be seen as a quick rich scheme but rather a place to express yourself, same way we do on Twitter, Facebook &Co.
These are the little things I have learned after I increased my level of engagement and interaction. It has helped me build my stake on some tribe tokens
Exactly when we take our mind off the rewards, it's easier to see the many other benefits the platform has to offer.
Yeah when focus on engagement and adding value the rewards comes just like chasing anything of value. This is a hidden principle many need to know
Great about the engagement part and relating with other people's post, like I came accross your post because @vempromundo talked about it in his post.
It is one who desires personal growth that would understand the importance of reading other people's contents. One person cannot know everything, it is easy to learn more when you see things from the eyes of others.
The reward is juicy but it shouldn't be the ultimate goal.
Great post!
Nobody is an island of knowledge, anyone who thinks he knows it all and doesn’t need to learn more from people, knows nothing and would soon fade off in his own knowledge.
It is impossible to say it more clearly.
I totally agree with everything you say here. If you take a walk through my profile you will see that I have more comments made than posts made, I like to read and comment more.
Orcas, whales, dolphins, minnows, whatever we are here: we all want upvotes, but also comments. This is like an employment relationship, where the worker gets paid a salary, but also wants to get a "you're doing well" pat, get suggestions, "support here or here", etc.
I have seen publications with good rewards, but few if any comments and that puzzles me. I like to know why the reader likes what I write: it made him/her laugh, he/she feels alluded to, it makes him/her angry, etc., as well as where I am failing or where I should improve.
In Hive there is a project called @elcomentador, which since it started (it has a short time) seemed excellent to me and I let them know so, since it encourages users to comment. They do comment cures. I wish it could be replicated in POB.
Mas claro de decir, imposible.
Estoy totalmente de acuerdo con todo lo que dices aquí. Si te das un paseo por mi perfil verás que tengo más comentarios realizados que publicaciones hechas, me gusta más leer y comentar.
Orcas, Ballenas, delfines, pececitos, lo que seamos aquí: todos queremos upvotes, pero también comentarios. Esto es como una relación laboral, en la que al trabajador le pagan un sueldo, pero tambien quiere recibir una palmadita "de lo estás haciendo bien", recibir sugerencias, "apóyate aquí o acá", etc.
He visto publicaciones con buenas recompensas, pero pocos comentarios por no decir ninguno y eso me desconcierta. A mi me gusta saber porque al lector le gusta lo que yo escribo: le causó gracia, se siente aludido, le dá rabia, etc., así como también en qué estoy fallando o qué debo mejorar.
En Hive existe un proyecto llamado @elcomentador, que desde que se inició (tiene poco tiempo) me pareció excelente y así se los hice saber ya que incentiva a que los usuarios comenten. Hacen curaciones de comentarios. Ojalá se pudiera replicar en POB.
I think @vempromundo.pob has a section for that called daily lottery talk
Everybody like to be upvoted? But if one really put his or her mind to, one will notice that there is a lot more to enjoy in the community