Not speaking for @tarazkp but we have enough "random" upvotes on hive, don't you think?
The word booster has a bad reputation on here after the bid bot era as well.
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Not speaking for @tarazkp but we have enough "random" upvotes on hive, don't you think?
The word booster has a bad reputation on here after the bid bot era as well.
I didn't know that, I simply wanted to make something that generates a little bit of buy pressure for HIVE. Just being a bit puzzled about something that I created with positive intentions that just gets down voted with no explanation, that's why I'm asking. The upvotes are obviously pretty useless as of now and they're fully funded by myself so I wouldn't see the harm in that, even if one doesn't see any positive value in this to exist.
I didn't even read the initial post until now, as I said the name, way it was promoted and general history and exp with those things is going to automatically turn people off. I see now it didn't have the usual intentions but the idea is to generate upvotes based on ad revenue. There should still be some thought towards who receives the votes however cause there's already a lot of "bad curation" happening on here.
Thanks a lot for reading up on it and your feedback. Maybe I rushed things a little, but I wanted to get something out quickly to generate experience and gather feedback. There's of course a lot of aspects of the service that will need adjusting over time, but for now I thought just being able to request and upvote could be incentive to visit the website. I'm aware there will have to be captchas and whatnot to prevent bots from spamming, but otoh the network will prevent the service from spamming due to lack of RC / voting power if used too heavily.
I've been thinking about how to use the service to better curate content, but decided to keep it incredibly simple at the beginning and not overcomplicate things.
I know there's a lot of history on this blockchain with a lot of exploitative behavior (like anywhere where there's "free" money) so everybody is super skeptical about things, but there should also be room for people who are new to experiment with things without being shot down without further explanation (it's very demotivating, to say the least).
Anyway, thanks for your insights, I'll be iterating.
Yeah, I guess using the word "free upvote" did trigger a few people, myself included - along with all the other things.
How does this work anyway? Are you instantly able to generate some value from people viewing the ads or is it all based on clicks only?
Maybe there's something to this if you'd be open to pairing it up with an actual curation service, where all the posts wouldn't be guaranteed to be curated but at least considered. Then again the next question is what happens with the HP you'd power up from ad revenue, is it just yours? etc.
I could be interested in this depending on how it works in the backend and how it's operated if you'd be up for sharing more info and maybe applying it to an existing website such as POSH or something of that nature.