We're glad you asked. We understand your question and appreciate the opportunity to explain. We will try and do it quickly.
For the past couple of years as steemiteducation on steem, we were trying to build an educational community. We started this long before the official community feature existed. Basically a very small team donated their time to curate and reward quality education related posts. Unfortunately, as the value dropped, it became more and more difficult to provide enough rewards to encourage content creators. We decided to start using minnowbooster to rent SP that was then used to vote on education related content. In times when that became inefficient, we rented SP directly from individuals. We used 100% of the proceeds from a daily post to pay for this SP that was then spread to many content creators over the years. We found that supporters of the project preferred to vote on one main post that fueled the acquisition of SP rather than simply following our votes.
Since moving to Hive, we changed this main account to @education-hive since calling ourselves something related to steem seemed like a bad idea. We still vote for all the posts using the HP of @steemiteducation and we hope to continue to build @hive-education to support quality posts.
Since moving, we have found it difficult to rent HP. First, minnowbooster which utilized steemconnect , is gone. It seems the only way to access its replacement is by using the hive key-chain. We are not comfortable granting the permission required by the key-chain. We have not found any individuals who are willing to rent HP directly to us. If you know of any, or would like to rent some to us yourself, please let us know. We are willing to pay a competitive but reasonable rate.
As far as the daily post. Because we have a very small team of volunteers, it seemed wise to focus our energies on actually finding posts rather than spending time on new content ourselves. Even when value was much higher, not a single volunteer ever asked for any payment. We understand the concern about "spam". Heck we see it every day. However, we are hoping that people continue to see our one short daily post as a net positive for the platform. We don't churn out multiple low quality posts. We don't vote on our own comments. We simply use one relatively short daily post as a seed to help many others.
Actually, maybe that last sentence was the short version ;)
Again, thank you for willingness to have a conversation about this.
Thanks, understandable. I've been scanning the new section over the past two weeks to look for new groups or new users and each time I see one I haven't found before, I check their past posts to make sure they aren't a bot. Having the same posts each day was a flag from me but with the explanation, hopefully eventually you'll have the HP to reward the educators in the way that you wish, without renting delegation.
Keep on rewarding those educators!
I removed my downvote, thanks for getting back to me. I don't like giving them but they are necessary in some scenarios.
We're glad you asked. We understand your question and appreciate the opportunity to explain. We will try and do it quickly.
For the past couple of years as steemiteducation on steem, we were trying to build an educational community. We started this long before the official community feature existed. Basically a very small team donated their time to curate and reward quality education related posts. Unfortunately, as the value dropped, it became more and more difficult to provide enough rewards to encourage content creators. We decided to start using minnowbooster to rent SP that was then used to vote on education related content. In times when that became inefficient, we rented SP directly from individuals. We used 100% of the proceeds from a daily post to pay for this SP that was then spread to many content creators over the years. We found that supporters of the project preferred to vote on one main post that fueled the acquisition of SP rather than simply following our votes.
Since moving to Hive, we changed this main account to @education-hive since calling ourselves something related to steem seemed like a bad idea. We still vote for all the posts using the HP of @steemiteducation and we hope to continue to build @hive-education to support quality posts.
Since moving, we have found it difficult to rent HP. First, minnowbooster which utilized steemconnect , is gone. It seems the only way to access its replacement is by using the hive key-chain. We are not comfortable granting the permission required by the key-chain. We have not found any individuals who are willing to rent HP directly to us. If you know of any, or would like to rent some to us yourself, please let us know. We are willing to pay a competitive but reasonable rate.
As far as the daily post. Because we have a very small team of volunteers, it seemed wise to focus our energies on actually finding posts rather than spending time on new content ourselves. Even when value was much higher, not a single volunteer ever asked for any payment. We understand the concern about "spam". Heck we see it every day. However, we are hoping that people continue to see our one short daily post as a net positive for the platform. We don't churn out multiple low quality posts. We don't vote on our own comments. We simply use one relatively short daily post as a seed to help many others.
Actually, maybe that last sentence was the short version ;)
Again, thank you for willingness to have a conversation about this.
Thanks, understandable. I've been scanning the new section over the past two weeks to look for new groups or new users and each time I see one I haven't found before, I check their past posts to make sure they aren't a bot. Having the same posts each day was a flag from me but with the explanation, hopefully eventually you'll have the HP to reward the educators in the way that you wish, without renting delegation.
Keep on rewarding those educators!
I removed my downvote, thanks for getting back to me. I don't like giving them but they are necessary in some scenarios.