This is more of the thinking that I like to see. While some of the devs here do great work at a coding level they have for too long ignored the business and marketing side of the blockchain.
What do we have here?
People and content. Who values that? Advertisers.
It would be great to have ads in my community and receive a portion of those profits in crypto. Hive or otherwise. We are wasting a resource by not earning ad revenue from thousands of people creating content on a daily basis. It's money gone to waste.
Think of the marketing possibilities from telling people that they can create a community on hive. There will be some discreet advertising and they will receive a portion of the revenue depending on how active their community is. That is a much easier sell to non crypto people than what we have at the moment. That is something that they can understand and an incentive to bring in more users and grow the value of the community.
That could be pushed into a token or voting bot or whichever way you want to give back to those community members that are creating value for your community. It's the right way to grow a userbase and hive as well.
Brave browser makes a lot from giving BAT to its users and the ads they share are crypto ads...cause lets face it most companies won't want to creat ads on a blockchain based platform cause they don't understand what its all about.
We need to let these companies know about their potential market if they advertise on Hive.