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One positive thing is that it shows that HIVE does seem to be superior to these websites in terms of generating returns. Of course, that probably will not be the case for new users and those who don't have any skin in the game, so to speak. 

Well, there are few active people in Liotes right now so the low reff commission is expected. Some people don't even enjoy penny pinchers' websites 😂.  !LOL

I might keep using it, however I won't push it up seriously... maybe 5000-10000 pts a week is still considerable normal

It's disappointing when efforts don't lead to the desired outcomes.
Hopefully, there are valuable lessons learned from the experience that can be applied to future endeavors.

!WINE

Pretty much from any point of view faucets can't compare to Hive, and I understand the disappointment many may have had. But I still use them because there are times when mindless mechanical action is pretty much all I'm capable of. That's when I fit them in. But sure, I agree, for successfully onboarding to Hive probably a better funnel needs to be created.

Few years back doing faucets and PTC sites was fruitful and having a good set of referrals made it better and every click had a good amount. So reaching payouts was not that difficult. Crypto prices were also low.

But nowadays, faucets pay very low amounts and very unrealiable. Prices of altcoins have gone up.

Didn't earn much. But i would say a Good workout finding upside down images in captcha :-)

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PS: @achim03, I checked on CTP discord, and CTP tipping bot is still under development. He has some work to do on it. Hopefully it will be back soon 

I agree that the sites were pretty spammy, it wasn't a terrible idea in theory, but in practice it just didn't work.  I'm open to support any other fundraising ideas in the future.  !BBH

It was what I expected from faucets. They don't earn much considering the effort, but it might work out better for the people in 3rd world countries. This was a learning experience and it reminded me of how I moved away from them over time.

I think that your objectives for the onboarding process are very sound. But it's difficult to find external programs that match the earning rate of Hive.

One way that works for me is to generate a little crypto from activities that I would do anyway. Especially, sMiles walk-to-earn and Club Bitcoin from Thundr, which is a few Satoshi from playing solitaire. It's only about 1 Hive per week. But it's no extra effort because I'm doing it anyway.

Perhaps, collectively, we might be able to create a catalog of external revenue sources that can be used for funding this process? Because I believe that the referral revenue could be significant once enough newcomers are onboarded. 

That 90 cents in referral commissions is really terrible. I would have thought it would be at least 10 times that amount with the number of the number of people who joined. :(

Unfortunately, these sites don’t work very well, and when they do, it takes a lot of effort for little reward. But the intention was good, and that’s what matters. We’ll find a way eventually.

To know if it was worth it, you had to try it. The experience is not good but it leaves a new knowledge (at least for me and I'm sure I'm not the only one). We will find other paths, the community has responded by working for a common goal and that is the most valuable thing.😊

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It was still an interesting trial after all. :)

Yes, there are always problems with such sites, but at the same time, it is proof that there is nothing out there that is better than Hive. As I mentioned, I earned some points. I don't have any wallet outside Hive. Is it possible to somehow send you the points that I have earned and you put them in a liotes fund?

Referrals on a community basis are super hard to accrue. We used to run a stat website for crypto dapps/games, using the referrals as a community pool. To make a real dent you’d have to have users spending millions to give a trickle of rewards. Unfortunately it’s not particularly sustainable, especially as most users inevitably would rather use their own personal refs rather than help fund a community pot. 

One suggestion that may be worth checking out is ‘kepithor rewards’. As you mention rewards won’t be amazing however the team there are making some major leaps forward. This is their ‘reward’ app that provides users a share back from ad revenue. All you have to do is listen to an audio ad and earn. The team also have a few other games, those are well worth checking out, if you like games of course! 

https://www.kepithor.com/game/kepithor-rewards

I of course have a ref for this, but wouldn’t earn much from it. I believe it asks you for it when signing up, feel free to add SLOTHLYD if you do check it out. 

Rollercoin used to be a decent app for users to earn a little, not sure how good it is recently. Nice work trying out avenues for creating revenue. Hopefully a little more can be added to the pot over time. 

It's alright. The idea was good but just that nowadays such sites do have loads of pop up and captcha. Thanks for rallying the community.

Faucets were very good approximately 10 years ago.

For example I earned more than 10 000 Dogecoin with them.

But I sold all of them much before Dogecoin became popular (when 1 Dogecoin was around $0.003 USD), because I thought at that time that Dogecoin will not have much value in the future.

It's not a bad attempt and even if it didn't work out well, the original idea is good.
I think that one option would be to participate in quality airdrops and promote them. For example, in the last Grass one I got about $100 and I didn't make much either. It was an airdrop that I found out about through someone from Hive, now I don't remember who, and I became their referral.