Quality content - what makes good content can be in the eye of the beholder. Some folks really dig a long, well-thought-out piece with lots of words, while others are happy with a couple of selfies and a few words.

In the past, we've put a lot of effort into driving more people to our site. But when the market dips and rewards aren't as shiny, many of those folks just don't stick around.

I admit I'm one of them in the past and now I'm back again making contents again but this time without any expectation. 

Very well presented post and I hope that the intended target audience are taking note, and that includes your comment section too. I’ve recently highlighted 2 authors who have been deemed to be unworthy of rewards, one of which has now left Hive. I imaging these authors potentially bring more traffic to hive than I ever could. I enjoy writing and make plenty of effort when creating content but it’s never bothered me to see someone get rewarded for a few lines of text and a picture. Plenty of enjoyment can be found with posts like those, and aren’t we supposed to be creating an enjoyable platform? It’s time the old guard submitted to the idea that not all quick posts are shit posts and not everyone who creates this shorthand content is necessarily farming rewards. More often than not I’d say these creators are replicating what they do on other more successful platforms and bringing that to Hive. It’s a shame to see these accounts earn rewards, begin to establish themselves, and then get noticed by an disapproving whale. 

One problem is, that everybody has a different idea of what quality means. Quality for user A is a sleeping pill for user B.
And the other problem is - rewards are by far not only depending on quality. As a long time user you will know what I'm talking about. All the time - also the time when it still was Steemit - we are struggling with nepotism or outright fraud and con artists.
I guess the biggest problem for Hive is what makes it unique (well almost unique) - the reward system. Without the financial aspect all that wouldn't even happen at all. And most people wouldn't be here, I guess, quality content or not.

I am new here, but I would want to know what exactly is your criteria for a quality as an OG of the platform please 

I think we can have a bracketing system for authors and the curation they are eligible for. Like a tier system. It could help in both quality and rerention.

There's a ton of what I would call "hobby" bloggers here on hive that write about travels and such and get voted out of the woodwork. Issue with these is they simply wont rank and drive traffic nor are these people sharing their blog post on hive with other social networks to drive that traffic and engagement it just sits all on hive. 

Many of these hobby bloggers also take their rewards and sell them out of hive which I mean is ok but it's just a constant drain on the hive price when that happens. There are many MANY more factors that should be considered with curation and curation trails but are either far too hard to track, too time consuming or any number of the above things.

Will we get there? I'm not so sure... However I will say I believe we have gotten better. But there's always room to learn, grow and improve and that's something we all should be open to.

I can dig it and that's a huge part of my hive growth initiative, we need to make our blogs for the world in mind not just hive and curation of onboarding posts are way better for the ecosystem 

I've mentioned quite a few times, some indirectly, that HIVE is too obsessed with wordcount. There really isn't any need for 1 photo to need to be followed by a 100 word paragraph. Instagram got big just from people sharing random photos. That's what the masses like. 

Missing the forest for the trees is indeed a very apt description of what some self professed guardians of the chain are guilty of, with the reason often being "protecting the reward pool". I'd rather grow the pie massively than try to keep more of the pie. Everyone gains far more eventually.

The worst part of Hive is that quality content posts don't get any rewards if you don't know people who have invested in Hive. People mostly vote for their friends or people from same communities.

For what it is worth, and just my simple observations. It seems this is a place of mostly content creators that also consume. Some maybe don't consume so much. Seems most is mostly auto voting and such. What we need is the pure content consumer. Now would the typical content consumer be interested in anything I write? Doubt it, but I am here for reasons other than just rewards and not selling or marketing anything, so...

Anyway, your idea has merit I beleive. But these frontends need to start making it much easier to share posts on other social media outlets and via other venues as well. For instance, on PeakD you have to scroll all the way to the bottom, click on three dots next to a reblog symbol to find the "share link" option. If you look at most content on Web2, social icons are front and center to share the content.

Eu posso agregar um pouco nesta conversa, mas se eu fizer isso você não vai me entender (suponho). 
E se eu mudar de língua através de um tradutor, é provável que algo da comunicação se perca. Vou tentar.

> I can add a little to this conversation, but if I do, you won't understand me (I suppose).
And if I change languages through a translator, it is likely that some of the communication will be lost. I am going to try.



As duas coisas são necessárias. 

Uma delas atrai novos usuários, mostra que aqui pode ser um lugar legal, divertido, sério, confuso e muitas outras coisas. A outra ajuda a segurar o usuário aqui no longo período de incubação que é o pós-ingresso na Hive e, ou seja, se manter na Hive. 

E talvez, somente estas duas não sejam suficientes, e serão necessárias novas formas de interação que irão complementar a dinâmica de relações entre o usuário interno, externo, as curadorias e as recompensas. Se em um jogo de futebol são 11 jogadores em campo, estamos apenas com 2 jogando a partida. Por quê estamos "perdendo" (se é que estamos)? 

Acredito que a resposta final é que novas formas de interação são necessárias e serão criadas em algum momento, fazendo com que consigamos furar a bolha, dar visibilidade à rede, atrair novos usuários, ***manter os novos usuários***, e assim fazer o que suponho seja a vontade de todos, que é o crescimento sustentável da rede Hive.

> Both things are necessary.
One of them attracts new users, shows that here can be a cool, fun, serious, confusing place and many other things. The other helps to keep the user here in the long incubation period that is post-joining Hive and, that is, the new user remaining in Hive.
And perhaps, only these two are not enough, and new forms of interaction will be needed that will complement the dynamics of relationships between the internal and external user, curations and rewards. If in a soccer game there are 11 players on the field, we are only playing with 2. Why are we "losing" (we really are)?
I believe that the final answer is that new forms of interaction are necessary and will be created at some point, making it possible for us to burst the bubble, give visibility to the network, attract new users, ***keep new users***, and so on to do what I believe is everyone's will, which is the sustainable growth of the Hive network.

my best regards