RE: Introducing Hive Report Card: A Tool to Analyse Content Complexity, User History, and More!
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The easier content is to understand the broader of an audience can engage. I dont make any rules. I am just a single person. :)
I might still be delusional enough to believe that Hive will be a good place, but I am happy to stay firmly in the delusion that people can change and be better.
Data is just data. We are what we measure.
If we don't know where we are now, where we have been, we cannot influence at all where we are going.
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Life is a flow of people going in different directions. As much as you may wish, the minority, not majority, will flow into your intellectual stimuli. It's that attitude as to why Hive doesn't grow.
Thank you for pointing out my errors. I've edited the comment to correct them. I was typing on my phone while watching my dinner cook.
In response to your comment, I have a question: What is it that you think will make HIVE grow?
It's probably a done deal by now with the market so saturated and people earning incentives for blogging on more popular platforms. The no to low incentive platforms have gained popularity over the years that has given them a study flow of participants. Then there's that problem that even if Hive could grow to those standards, the system can't handle that. Something someone wrote about years ago. Hive, apparently, can't handle becoming an Instagram, FB, X type of platform. I don't know if that still holds true. At this point, you'd have to offer incentives large enough to entice people to sign up. Like blog on Hive for a year, write so many post, engage with posters, enter to win 5000 hive, or if you want intellectual participation, enter to win 5000 of hive to put toward college education writing about college experiences, what you are planning to major on, etc., because the field is loaded and it would take quite a bit to offer people to even take a look at Hive. I think Snapie was a good idea, but same applies to that, you got a loaded field of similar sites people can and have spent their time on. The system now where everyone gets ten upvotes, and to make it count it has to be 26 cents, isn't going to hit it really.
That is kind of how Medium tends to be currently, at least, from my incredibly limited experience with it.
But all the "Free" content (they are the product) people publish on reddit, game store fronts in the form of reviews, lengthy facebook ramblings, or beautifully produced videos that languish somewhere on vimeo or the back-alleys of YouTube...
Getting anything for your content is something that is always going to be welcomed by creators.
Engaging across their platforms, however, is the biggest key.
Yes, very true, but first you got to get their attention away from all your competition, offering them zero to penny upvotes isn't going to hit it. You throw in the lack of engagement to even generate those pennies, people rather engage on a free active blog than give two shits about the pennies. I live in an area surrounded by college kids, not only do you have to compete against your competition, you have to compete with their time, and since most come from good families, drive nice cars, what you have to offer to them is zilch to get them to focus on writing on Hive. You make the rules of engagement, have to post and be actively engaged on your blog page, they then get a few friends to sign up to engage with them. At the end of the year, if your lucky, despite not being the winner of the contest, a few may continue on.
Now, on the other side of the spectrum, not so intellectually strung, and what proves to work really well on here, offer a contest for the hottest college babes out there. Not only will they get all their guy friends to sign up to vote for them, you'll have everyone on here drooling and voting for them. Get Snapie to swing into action, sending out notifications on their blog they got noticed by Snapie, or some crazy creative thing like that, have Snapie give them an upvote, and mention they could earn more upvotes by using Snapie. Have Snapie create contest directly focused toward fun and easy things that don't take much time out of a busy college kids life, like mention Snapie's looking for the ugliest dog on the planet, earn XX amount of Hive if your dog comes out being voted the ugliest. Just easy, outlandish stuff like that. Hell, meno went for upvoting some girl who had shit falling out of her closet, so shit like that works, fun and entertaining shit. Get crazy with it, have snapie do a "do you have short shorts" contest to the song, flashy crazy stuff like that. For guys do a we're looking for the most souped up car contest. The more short interest you can expose Hive to will likely lead to growth from those who happen to notice that writers with a lot of intellectual stimuli, make good money posting, but first you have to get their attention, offering up penny upvotes isn't going to do it.
I do like my magic Internet money, but I don't think the chain would appreciate seeing me in my short shorts. There's only one person that does. My wife. She's a lunatic, and I tell her that every time she notices.
The attention economy is very different. I guess I have a different "pace of life" compared to those who can't have their attention held for more than three and a half seconds.
I like to meditate upon and explore things in more depth than what is probably reasonable.
No silly, girls, not guys. Man, people with those stiff upper lips, smh. From my understanding, and you can correct me if I am wrong, you have to sign up with hive to post on Snapie. This will lead to some exploring hive. Once you can get them looking, they'll see some people make good money writing on here, that's your goal, finding the needles in the haystack by using creative means to attract attention in this very different attention economy.
If you look anything like your avatar, even I don't want to see you in short shorts. (be rest assured, no one wants to see me either in short shorts.)
I am my avatar :P And that's a photo from years ago, I look much more disheveled and homeless now!