Seeing how much people made on here for posting 400 words genuinely made me half my word count from around 1k to about 600 max for general posts.
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Seeing how much people made on here for posting 400 words genuinely made me half my word count from around 1k to about 600 max for general posts.
I also felt that way at times. When I'd spend quite a bit of time trying to put together a Post that I valued, about a topic I found important, only to have a handful of interest, both in views and upvotes.
Where I could write something on a Hive Hot Topic, put in less time & basic effort, and achieve many times more "reward" because know that Community has a massive force behind it.
Yeah there's definitely things that Hive just has no care for, because the community itself is so thin. Like you said there are ways for people to make a decent sum on here by just conforming to whatever is generally hot and liked by the wider demographic.
In my case I had that feeling that I had to write longer posts for it to be considered 'good' but these days that isn't how this place operates. You'll see people making bank by just posting pictures of other people's art. Posts with 300 words and two images. Some people that are untouchable and think they're on a moral high ground that get support purely because they have higher stake despite not being interesting.
I realised I was wasting my time trying to stretch out my posts because of how things used to be here, so I just cut them in half. If everyone else is posting like 300 - 600 words and making more than me, why am I beating myself up trying to reach 1k? Haha
What's your purpose for posting? Are you posting to "mine" hive, or are you posting to tell a story, share something, or create a discussion, or build a community?
Words are about intentionality - and you can definitely say the same thing in ten words or ten thousand. One is going to have more impact than the other.
A story about a cat watching birds in a window on a rainy day - for example.
It could be a photo, and two hundred cleverly written words.
or
It could be a philosophical treatise on how cats behaviour is conditioned by their predator mechanics, with some sort of cruel irony about them not liking water, and birds being fine with it (etc)
It is all about context.
yeah i went through a period of asking myself the point of it all, i realised that a lot of it was coming from the earlier days of hive where we considered "good" content to be a bit longer, but that's not so much the case anymore; i had a lot of bad practices that came from the earlier days that i was still doing more out of routine without realising
i actually enjoy writing less for the photography posts since i feel like i'm more concise with what i want to say and don't feel the need to spread out a ton of words when the post is generally just about the visuals
I've figured out a way to compare content within individual communities, so posts can be compared on metrics that matter to those communities.
I think Photography Lovers will be one of the first that I will look at, because there's a big variety in that community, words vs pictures, technical explanations, and image and shutter speed / iso / aperture.