The Important Question
So a while back I asked you if you usually ready what people write here on liketu posts and many of you were amazing and reply with your preference.
Right now it is the Important question for a photography based community!
Do you prefer multiple photos or single photos?
I personally don't mind and it depends. If you are going to do a multiple photos post, in my opinion you better bring quality and diversity! I have seen many posts on social media that have 40 photos but all of them are "the same" literally taken from slight different zooms or views. And in that case I would personally prefer to see only a good photo instead of 40 bad ones.
But I want to know what do you prefer?
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I've seen a lot of people post bugs and flowers, like 10 pictures of exactly the same thing with tiny differences in composition. That's a bit .. repetitive.
I think really about 10 pictures is a succinct and eloquent number. But I don't really have issues with single images if the image does a lot of the talking. Funny how subjective things can be right? The context of who posts it and how it relates to whatever else they're doing as well..
I totally agree with what you say. And specially here where are some rewards I see so many things happening. For example, posts like the one example you gave receiving way more rewards than posts that have 1 super high quality image and got way more work than all those 10 photos.
And I asked because I want to know what people are whiling to upbote in liketu. Because I sometimes prefer to upload just one good image, but sometimes I feel like I am obligated to post multiple ones so people feel that my post is worth it to get their vote.
I think that kind of culture needs to change. The idea that a single picture is low effort or low quality is ridiculous.
Suppose you take one picture for a modelling shoot.. and it's the cover of a magazine. How much work goes into it that isn't accounted for face value?
The dieting, the training, the acquired knowledge of how to pose, not to mention the selection process from hundreds of similar images down to the singular, and then the post editing.
At the end of the day, its not really about any of that at all. Even if it is low effort, low quality, in my eyes, the value isn't in those measurements, the value is in the attention it brings, and the network effects it can stimulate.
Justin Bieber spend millions buying a BAYC.. Imagine the network effects of him posting that.. A lot of subsequent economic activity right?
I totally agree. Since the beginning of STEEM and me being in Decentralised platforms I have been trying to fight that battle. Not very successfully, clearly lol, but I totally agree. Because I know that is true. Because even if my images are not the best out there and sometimes might look simple, even these works have a lot of time and thought behind it. Not to count money lost. This one for example. I had to leave the house, get transports, stay outside walking on the cold for a couple of hours, grab some food while I was there. Come home, edit the image, write the post. And it looks so simple. But even if I get the usual votes I get in here I will still be losing money. Lolol just the underground ticket cost me £6 lol 😆
I think at the end of the day, there will always be limits to the amount that a community can reach consensus on for reward pool based allocation of rewards.
You don't feel like you're "paying" for a post, but you actually are.. it's new coin that is created everyday that is on the margin, an inflationary pressure on every stakeholder. Now, it could be argued that the right kind of inflation going to the right people makes inflation a non-issue, but the fact remains, that there needs to be consensus on that, and so it is difficult to capture maximum CONSUMER SURPLUS from potential customers as an individual, when most of that surplus is expected to go into propping up the price of HIVE, and bolstering the community reward pool.
The alternative - which is evidently quite successful in other areas of the internet as well as crypto space - is to tap into the willingness of consumers to outright pay for content they deem desirable (you know, the other kind of voting with your dollars). That is exactly how I think about things when I go about my business on other parts of the (not necessarily crypto) web.
"Would I pay for that"
"Is it worth it"
All questions that I make on an individual basis, and has a direct relationship to the person who is selling me the product / good / service.
At liketu, I believe the eventuality - should things eventually grow and reach escape velocity - is that people will be using liketu to gain attention through whatever means, whilst feeling comfort at the fact their accounts can never be tampered / censored. With this attention, the goal isn't to get the votes, but to upsell people to paying for content they would happily pay for.
Think about it, if you go around HIVE/Liketu and ask yourself the question, "Would I pay this much for that" - most of the time the answer is no. So then the question naturally gets passed onto the community, who are ultimately the purveyors and carriers of the responsibility of mal-attributed rewards, why then should we pay that much for a post?
There are literally tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people who are posting on patreon, onlyfans, using Pay per view unlocks and charging upwards of 20+ dollars for a single picture and they are successful in convincing people to straight up pay
There is no reason therefore, that people cannot do the same here. Where yes, they use the reward pool to bolster engagement and build some community (with community funds!) but ultimately use their account as a funnel to selling content directly.
I would love to support people who actually do that.
I totally get what you mean. I think from my side it is a little bit difficult and also I think the kind of audience that decentralised platforms aims are not the same type of audiences you are talking about and that are whiling to pay for content. I think that is the biggest problem. For me personally I also know that I make the mistake on looking more from the artistic point of view and I often ignore the business side. I have to work on that when it comes to be an online content creator and in the way I work on putting my content out there. But I totally understand your point of view and agree with it.
Actually, decentralised platforms are perfectly aligned with creators traditionally viewed as demerit content creators. OF has had many problems both on their side and creator side dealing with banking, but also seizing people's accounts and withholding creator monies. Neither is a problem when business is conducted on HIVE.
Hello, i totally agree with this you've said.
Nice talk, to me i love see many different pictures that shows different things.
Nice question.
Thank you so much for taking the time to reply :D I personally will keep trying my best to bring cool images
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I prefer 4-5 pictures in a post, I don’t really mind that are pretty much the same, at least you are trying to capture them from different angle 😜
But have you thought that maybe when you need to share so many images of the same subject it means you were not able to create one good image that told all the story?
Oops I didn’t think about it, I am not really good in telling story by picture only, so my post is a bit longer than the others on here liketu 😅
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