Remember when you heard about Hive and you saw the very same people on trending and thought the game was rigged and nobody could reach those levels? And how your 15 cents were nothing compared to the hundreds of dollars other people's posts made, and how they were always the same people?
Ah yes I remember this very well.
Back when I thought I'd never even make it to dolphin. Yeah, those were wild times, but opening the gates for new users isn't something that can just happen so easily. The vast majority of the time there's tons of new content that would get upvoted if the bigger accounts actually saw them in the first place. Curation around here still is in the infant stages. Not only is it hard for new users to get noticed, it's hard for old users to actually do the noticing.
Certainly there are things we could be doing that we haven't done yet. There are so many filters and ways of sharing rewards that haven't even been contemplated yet. A big one is reblogging; there's no financial incentive to do it (yet) even though this is the literal definition of curation.
There's also no way to find users out there who are willing to research the things Hive whales want to know about. I remember when I first got here I was thirsty and researching dozens of coins, now I'd much prefer paying someone else to do that work for me, but there is no marketplace to find such people.
At the end of the day Hive is still an infant chain still looking for its niche. We'll get there eventually.
Posted Using LeoFinance Beta
I've thought about this quite a bit and never understood why people bother to reblog. The reblogger should get a small portion of the rewards if a vote comes from the reblog and from a user not currently following the Original poster.
Yes, wouldn't that be nice!
But on a technical level the blockchain (witnesses) don't know if someone upvoted a post because they were curated by a reblog or not, so this entire idea becomes impossible to enforce on-chain. An off-chain system would have to be implemented, and even then it would only work on the frontend's it was installed on, in addition to requiring permission from the author that received the money to then transfer that money to the curators.
Okay I see.... I think. I know nothing about how things actually work behind the scenes. I just sort of assume that anything can be programmed, but I doubt that is actually how it works. Lol
Let's say I operate a frontend: we'll just use Peakd.com as an example.
So I control Peakd.com
As the server operator of Peakd.com I know when someone clicks on a reblog, and I know if that same person upvotes the reblog, but literally no one else knows this happened (unless I tell them, but this API infrastructure doesn't exist).
When someone looks at the blockchain itself it's impossible to tell whether the upvote came from peakd.com or hive.blog or leofinance.io or anywhere else. All the blockchain knows is that someone upvoted a comment and used the correct private key to sign that transaction.
The easiest way to make this reblog curation idea a reality would be to boot up a new token on a new frontend that is programmed to follow these rules. We have to ask ourselves: is this functionality actually worth having a new token and a new frontend? Maybe; maybe not.
Interesring. Thats more complicated than I realized but I understand now. That makes sense. I guess that would be a discussion then.