Key management - This is actually what i'm trying trying to focus on to help users. I think it's never gonna be as easy as passwords on other sites... but I think there are a few things PeakD.com can do to make it seem easier and quickly educate. We'll be adding a couple small things soon.
INCENTIVE - Let me push back on this a bit. Why does a new user that doesn't get anyone to VIEW their content deserve any reward? I understand where you're coming from and perhaps it would be nice for them to get the dopamine of a reward for posting. However a creator's job is also to MARKET and bring people to their content not simply to make content and expect others to bring people to their content.
In fact why is it that we have very very few users on Hive that market their content and actively work to bring people to their content? Is the culture of the system a little off track perhaps? Granted there are a few people that actively work to get people to see their content by linking to places outside of hive... but it's the exception not the norm.
Maybe the reward should be for rewarding them for actions that benefit themselves. If you repost your content somewhere else we'll tip you (or vote you) if you share it on twitter or fb or reddit and you get 10 outside views we'll reward you... those are the types of actions I'd like to support and help reinforce. Because they're much healthier than simply creating content that no one will see because no one has done any actions to make them seen.
Somehow we need more influential creators here... by influence I mean a person who creates content that people are eager to read and even comment on. They don't just have people that click the follow button... but they have active readers that they can dependably expect to read and interact with. Those are the type of people that are successful elsewhere.
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I'll be shorter on my cross-post discussion for now. But i will say the hope for cross-posts was to bring conversation about a post to another community. It wasn't meant for votes it was meant for discussion and improving the experience of the community... not the experience of the creator of the post. The community.
I see it often on reddit in the baseball communities i'm in. Let's say a post is shared in the r/baseball community perhaps a big new rule change. There's a ton of discussion there... but the r/padres (team) community is active with tens of thousands of active users... We want to have a discussion about that same post as well and our conversation will be about how it applies to our community theme which is r/padres. One post two different conversations.
Sometimes it's as simple as hey did you see this post from r/baseball this information is a benefit to us over here in our community.
Really has not much to do with rewards. Though peakd did allow rewards for a while because it helped in the sorting that happens with the algorithms known as trending and hot. But decided that it wasn't worth the abuse just for the small benefits of sorting.... because they weren't really being sorted by those algorithms very well anyway.
Thank you @jarvie for your inputs. And thank you very much for your tip - it's the first I've got 🙂