Hive has a content quality issue

in #blog3 years ago (edited)

I love the tech behind Hive, I love the fast block times and flexibility that this platform affords. I love the low fees, I love so much about this ecosystem, but we need to talk about the terrible content quality.

The trending page much like the trending page on Steem is always the same big players. All of the content seems to be the same, the optimistic "I believe in the future of Hive", through to people posting ideas that will never materialise posts. Or my favourite, posts like, "Why I believe in the value of Hive"

Much like the befallen Steem, there are certain users clearly posting content they did not write. It's evident that some users are farming tokens using content that paid someone else to write or spent 5 minutes writing.

And then these same users slap a big ol' heavy upvote on their content, use some paid bot and wait for the payout.

None of this is new. Users who allegedly love this platform will post the same wishy washy dreamer crap day in and day out. On the surface it looks like a post with effort put into it, but read beyond the first paragraph and 90% of it is just the same repeated rhetoric.

It got to the point where I just didn't bother posting anything here and on Steem. Why bother putting effort into writing something only for OptimisticCryptoGuy to come along and post another half-assed, "Why crypto will be mainstream in five years" post, the same thing that many others have already posted?

The issue is that rewarding good content is not incentivised. What incentive do I or the big whales have to upvote someone else's post? The curation rewards are so dysmal, up voting your own comments and posts is more lucrative.

I know many initiatives have existed since the Steem days such as @curie and other efforts which aim to discover and reward good content, but most of them don't exist any more. The sad reality, is they lack the required support needed to continue running. Once again, whales will happily run witness nodes and upvote their own posts (because they financially benefit) , but will rarely support the community and efforts such as these in a specific way.

The only logical solution is halving the rewards you can get from up voting your own content, and upping the curation incentives so people have a reason to vote for other content (and I mean proper votes, not 1% dust votes).

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Is there any standard criteria for “quality content”?
Plagiarism is really a NO-NO.
But quality is much a broader range to be specific.
Yes there are accts who are lucky enough to have patrons who give a generously high upvote(yes, some are bots).

If content posting makes a Hive user frown, he/she can focus on trading Hive, mining tokens on Hive tru staking and NFT’s.

Make Hive work for you.

Content posting is just 1 of the pillars of Hive. There are others like, mining, staking, trading and e-commerce.

So, i hope these opportunities brightens your horizon about Hive.

*I forget to mention about games, and video streaming, so again, name your niche and we gladly to support you.

-community.

Maybe leave some ideas at https://peakd.com/hive-167922/@imwatsi/hat-sidechain-ideas-for-token-types It's not Hive exactly, but an interesting side chain.

It's a subtle but incredibly effective form of narrative control and censorship...These folks are anything but stupid. But their intelligence is misspent, IMO...

I think hive would do better giving recents more leverage somehow. I always like to check out rrcents before trending any day. I see some posts who people give work towards and they get hardly any result in it. I will say too hive does deserve more popularity as well, hive does deserve that

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Hi, @beggars. Believe it or not there has been a lot of discussion about this. The potential solution is building a community with it's own token attached to the hive ecosystem, so new whales can emerge in these new communities, and whales will be those more active from the beginning. A good succesful community to look at is LeoFinance, at leofinance.io . The problem? building a succesful community takes time, and people. Right now we don't have a lot of users. Leofinance has been succesful because finance people are the main people in crypto right now. Hive is for the mainstream, it will take time until we see more communities grow like leofinance and hence have more quality content emerge.

Have a good day :)