🤔 <sub>Have I mentioned lately that I like the way you think?</sub>

True words spoken...umm written. I suppose those who this is aimed at didn't make it to section 2 reading but if only one is thinking about it you have done well. :)

I just happen to click on some of those "blogs" that screamed at me " I don't give a fuck." just to leave them thinking there seem to be more of them popping up.

And I'm not a big player here but even in a small short post you can show some personality for gods sake lol.

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BOOM! Well said my friend, this is something that seriously needs to be addressed. I just read the comments and agree, trending should be based on engagement rather than income from a post. 

Great article and love that meme. haha 

hugs to you 💚🤗

I think that a post that contains only the phrase "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA", would work - if the post was the marvelous conclusion to a tale about how a crypto-currency or another rug-pulled. 

The value of the blockchain is not connected to the value of the content, at this stage. The value of this blockchain will increase when content that is not about the very blockchain upon which it is ensconced is that which is most rewarded. 

People do not use platforms like reddit, facebook, twitter, instagram, etc to exclusively comment and speak about its structure, governance, and other bits and pieces. They go there to look at what they like, engage in conversation, or some casual trolling. A lot of them are bots, just like here. 

Sure, there's a great deal of content on those other platforms that speak of the platform - but they're not what is getting the lion's share of the views and traffic. On HIVE the inverse is true - the lion's share of the view and audience's attention is devoted to the platform itself, not the content. 

Make content, not content about a platform. 

>I only just recently learned that you could choose which image is the cover image no matter what order it lands within the blog itself; I'm still learning, too!

Had me laughing hard. I am having flashbacks of all the cussing and headaches I suffered learning how to "Hive," which is still an ongoing process. Death to poopy posts!
https://media.giphy.com/media/aOPINgmqpVXNK/giphy.gif

Can you please stop writing great posts, my VP is getting hammered...

I'm running out of curation cards too.
Oh yes, I've got this one:
@tipu curate

I just got back into blogging after a long hiatus. You're talking about snail guy making 50 bones. Someone in the community told me about the hive power up days. I didn't have enough hive to qualify but I decided why not participate anyways. Made a post showcasing some photos of bees I took years back and someone voted it up to forty. Never made that much on a post before and it was pretty cool. Love these communities for their positivity.

I love the last graphic. 😂 Absolutely agree with the rest, as well. I always try to approach my blog as fun. If I'm not having fun writing a post, why the heck even do it? Though it probably helps that I still look at earnings on here like Monopoly money. I understand for some people it's a lot different because they may really need these earnings, but that still doesn't excuse plagiarism and the like.

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There's another side to this aswell. People try to make a quick buck by upvoting the accounts that always get high payouts, even if their quality really doesn't represent the amount they are getting. That means trending will be filled with bad content, which doesn't make Hive and interesting place to share your own, quality content. So we ourselves should also reconsider upvoting shit posts, just because they get the big bucks. Especially the people with the big votes, the ones with the biggest stake in this.

I feel like there are a lot of partial truths being explored here but also some logical fallacies. Hopefully we can respectfully disagree because I would like to operate on the good faith that this post was made to encourage others and not obfuscate the ugly truth of what is happening.

That being said, I think this is a bad take overall based on the conclusions it comes to and what it implies. I agree with the beginning of the premise that people adding more value to the blockchain instead of a quick buck extraction would help Hive and its price long term. But I think you're wagging your finger at the wrong people. 

First of all, quality of content is largely subjective. Some people may enjoy long posts and some may enjoy those with more memes and ecetra. Also, just because a post is more well written doesn't necessarily equate to it more accurate. This is further complicated when 3rd parties defend the incorrect premise because it's either well written or written by someone of high esteem. I'd even opine that this well written post that misguides people is inherently more dangerous to the well being and longevity of Hive than a short low effort meme. At the end of the day, quality of posts are always going to vary widely and expecting people on the lowest part or even the bottom half of the spectrum to bootstrap us to $5 Hive is quite silly. It completely ignores statistic principles like the 80/20 rule and is largely putting the onus on the least impactful  areas. To me, this would be like traveling to the United States and seeing all the bloat and corruption in the government and federal reserve and then hassling broke panhandlers like they're what's wrong with the system. I wouldn't encourage panhandling but I also wouldn't pretend like the US economy would be more stable if they didn't exist or just stopped panhandling and 'get a job'. This is actually a really common perspective that can be easily debunked but I won't get into that for the sake of brevity.

In my opinion, Hive largely needs better development and infrastructure if it wants to stay relevant and compete.  But unfortunately many developers don't get their proposals funded because most of the funding has been going into the HBD stabilizer experiment. Speaking of low effort posts/accounts look at face of the stabilizer Smooth. His posts are some of the least effort I've ever seen and get valued at over $200. The only lower effort I've seen is Tim Cliff's HBD funder posts. They're just literal copy paste comments 10 a day.  https://peakd.com/@hbd.funder/comments 
If you want to downvote/shame shitposting reward pool rape that would be more impactful than all the posts you've complained about combined. These comments are upvoted by some of the major witness accounts, signaling about the centralized cabal I've heard some speculation about. Smooth also makes this controversy worse by hypocritically targeting a number of posts that are well written but on subjects he disagrees with, stifling the core fundamental you're defending. It's entirely possible that Hive's upper echelons are actually worse than Steem's. It's entirely possible for us to flip this around and fix it but it requires integral changes that doesn't involve browbeating minnows and shifting the blame down. Punch up and you might find a path to $5 Hive.

really great post! It's definitely a learning curve here... I think it takes a while until one finds the posts one wants to write about. Of course one limitation is that it's all about blogging currently. I think in the future there will be other ways to earn - not that, as you said, should necessarily be the first thing that should come to mind. But it obviously plays a role. It's a good feeling to get rewarded by something you created (a text, a picture etc.). I still think this concept is new and revolutionary, it's just that not a lot of people know about this concept.

>In order for the price of Hive to go up, increasing your earnings, the value of what's on the blockchain has to go up.

While fundamentally correct, the market does not "care" about these fundamentals. Steem is a good example; looking at that blockchain, the lack of development and the spam and plagiarism on it, it is currently valued twice of that of Hive. Investors  and abusers don't care about fundamentals as long as they can make a quick buck :/ But I have faith that the tide will turn eventually with so many improvements going on around here :)

@tipu curate