Thanks @theycallmedan and @starkerz for the video, this explains a lot. Can you pin this to the top of the SpendHBD community please?
It answers many questions I have had, though I am still unsure how it is going to scale, but I am sure you guys are thinking ahead on it. My biggest concern prior was that this was just another project with good intentions getting leeched.
Going back years we (old timers) have talked about ways to use HBD more effectively, and this might be a good step in that direction, at least as an experiment and an awareness that it is possible.
I am interested in the proximity pay card thing too, as I reckon the might be a good way for the businesses to offer "loyalty programs" to customers, where for instance, the kickback is 5% if they spend above x, 10% if they spend y, and 15% for z amount in a month at the same store, or group of stores. This could also encourage the formation of local co-ops that prefer to trade in HBD. And, it could be accompanied with an app for the consumer that tracks all their purchase records and account info, similar to what the supermarket chains do.
As Dan said about grassroots, I get that this is going to also be a little trial and error. At the moment, the majority of transactions seem to be spread among developing nations - does it scale with bigger spends?
Gives me some things to think about on this and I will talk to some of the others I know with questions also, and link them the video. I will also recommend not to DV the SpendHBD posts, but as you know, each user does as they do with their stake.
What I think would help the cause a bit is if the "review" was more of an actual review, at least sometimes. I think I saw Starkerz using @worldmappin, so perhaps they could add a filter view for their map to find businesses that take HBD in a given area, and connect the business to the reviews of the store.
I really do appreciate you both taking the time to explain this in idiot terms, as that is what I need to understand!
Hi @tarazkp. We are already working on the filters for the map 👍😎
Perfect. I knew you guys would be on it :)
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The info is out there. I appreciate u not downvoting first before u got an explanation, however, a more inquisitive approach would have been far more appreciated without you mentioning downvotes in your post. It’s noted.
Maybe next time u come across a valuable initiative that has done things like onboarded hundreds of users, boosted the HBD economy to zero to hundreds of dollars per day and onboarded hundreds of real businesses u can just pop in their discords, respond to DMs on discord, not mention downvotes, ask questions, and then see what the consensus is first and figure out what’s going on. And then look at downvoting as a last resort.
IMO there is more than enough info out there about this, it does account for at least 40% of HBD transactions after all, so it’s not like it’s not know. Then you obviously got some very good responses from some prominent hiveans on your blog that was talking about down voting, so u can see that it’s not as straight cut and simple as u were initially thinking.
Once again I urge u to log into distriator.com and actually look at it. There is plenty of info there and live reports about how it is growing and its daily usage and throughout.
Additionally, there is a map there. The map is shown in the video above and on the site. Why are u asking for there to be a map when one already exists and it was shown To u in the video.
Thanks for ur attention. Let’s have a voice chat or at least a private DM before the next public “why the fuck shouldn’t I down vote this” post is posted
I honestly think his post brought more good attention to the project than bad ones, people asking questions without going so far as to downvote before asking is good. It's not like we can censor stuff here where his intentions were to paint it in a bad light, and you literally upvoted the positive comments on his post to the top so not sure why you'd prefer people to ask privately before driving attention to your projects - i think it's good to show outsiders why things on hive work well since things are so transparent.
I’m tired of ppl talking about downvoting legit projects and people before either properly clarifying privately or doing proper research.
The positive comments were very very well researched and at least three of them constituted complete blogs by themselves. Upvotes were very low considering the effort put in
xd it was one post in like 2 years, try downvoting a bit more and see how people start taking apart every little action you do.
Trust me, people trying to do legit things on this chain have to tip toe around known downvoters A LOT more than once in two years. It’s a huge issue on hive. Of u don’t think it’s an issue, ur account clearly isn’t affected, but this down voting and forcing of legit people off of this chain is a serious problem on hive.
Okay but I mean "good downvotes", like lowering rewards on posts you mentioned are overrewarded but clearly no one is consuming/not bringing/holding any value on hive. If we wanna normalize that and move away from the current stigma and endless drama/debates/hate/grudges/retaliation/threats/etc we gotta do it more and make people understand that's how the platform is supposed to work while also holding bad downvoters accountable and counter bad downvotes, downvotes placing posts to 0, etc, not tell people not to even mention downvotes like it's voldemort.
Because of this. All those posts aren't actually reviews. Perhaps having actual reviews on worldmappin would generate some business, or encourage people to spend HBD when they travel to new places, based on travel posts.
Where is the info?
you mention distriator.com but there are no links. There is also thedistriator, and distriator.bene and a host of other accounts and links that I am meant to guess at. None of these are pinned anywhere or mentioned in the community rules.
Do you really expect people to search and follow some kind of paper trail dating back over a year?
Everything is here. Always has been. There is no paper trail. In fact so much is pinned to the community that I probably need to remove things. Just do a little research https://hive.blog/trending/hive-106130, or reaoond to my DMs in discord
I don't know who you are messaging in discord, but it isn't me.