Thank you @jarvie for your inputs. And thank you very much for your tip - it's the first I've got 🙂
- Keys: Nice to read... I'm sure that will be a help for new users in general. Many already have problems with one decent password ;)
- Incentive: Yes, in fact I consider it to be a dopamine. Just to keep many new users active a longer time and to support their learning curve more in an idealistic way. Of course they have to market their posts - and if they are successful no pool upvote is necessary. All users with a professional attitude know that before but maybe the challenge is in both ways. The authors have to bring their post to the market and the platform has to provide a market and fulfil expectations. Would be interesting to know how many users Hive left after just a couple posts - so if maybe 10% of them would be still here and discovered that it can be worth and fun to be here. Then they would tell their friends on other social platforms to join too and so they would built their own market/community on Hive. Of course, your thoughts are completely right but it implies a really sophisticated thinking from users who just drop by, think it could be fun and already took the hassle to understand the basic concept.
- Cross-posts: It's for bringing content to other communities, you are right. Communities might overlap and are building subsets of each other. So if a post - even if it is written a longer time before - reaches a different community, me as a member of the community would expect to be treat that post like a new post. I don't want to consider it as an advertisement to join another specific community where this cross-post was posted first or to follow the author with the need to look through all his posts just to upvote the relevant one before it might be shared with my community later. Usually, I guess, it will be not a second upvote a post would get, it's the first upvote from different user. If I would consider doing a cross-post I want to contribute to a community, I don't want to convince the group members to join the community where the post was published first or to follow me. Both would be nice but at first I want to contribute to a specific community without any strategic thinking. And as a potential curator of a cross-post I would expect to get a share of the reward for reading and curating. If a cross-post signals at first 'spend your time reading another post because even if you like it, the Hive-inherent upvoting/reward system don't work here' it's somehow a break in the users experience and that's not optimal in my eyes. Even if tips work here. I still think communities have the potential to attract users much faster and more sustainable - like on reddit but with a potential payout and without the horrible censorship they play out to suppress any opinion even a single so called moderator doesn't like. Well, sorting... I can't say anything with regard to the challenges of the trending- and hot-algorithms on Hive. I've never used this ranking lists to select a post to read so far :/