When people "spread the word" here, all they do is try to attract more content creators. Building a stadium, filling the stage with acts, then refusing to sell tickets and put butts in the seats. The role of the viewer/consumer/paying supporter is ignored 100% of the time.
And I've heard this story about there being no incentives to attract views. Then the "solution" offered is something like ad revenue. So they'll maybe place ads everywhere, not realizing that does nothing to attract viewers and acts more like a deterrent. "Good news consumers! We have ads now! So please come to our site and enjoy the content!" said nobody, ever.
Millions of people spend billions supporting content online each year. Millions can support content here with votes and watch their billions grow. Yet not one content creator here can see the value or feel incentivized to attract even one of those millions of people to their work? Generating buy pressure to outpace the sell pressure they create isn't appealing?
I'm a stakeholder. Will what I just said spread and click with people? Probably not. I've been pointing out the same problem and offering the same solution for nearly a decade, and now I give up.
When people "spread the word" here, all they do is try to attract more content creators. Building a stadium, filling the stage with acts, then refusing to sell tickets and put butts in the seats. The role of the viewer/consumer/paying supporter is ignored 100% of the time.
And I've heard this story about there being no incentives to attract views. Then the "solution" offered is something like ad revenue. So they'll maybe place ads everywhere, not realizing that does nothing to attract viewers and acts more like a deterrent. "Good news consumers! We have ads now! So please come to our site and enjoy the content!" said nobody, ever.
Millions of people spend billions supporting content online each year. Millions can support content here with votes and watch their billions grow. Yet not one content creator here can see the value or feel incentivized to attract even one of those millions of people to their work? Generating buy pressure to outpace the sell pressure they create isn't appealing?
I'm a stakeholder. Will what I just said spread and click with people? Probably not. I've been pointing out the same problem and offering the same solution for nearly a decade, and now I give up.