I never said that you said food and travel posts are bad. I don't know where you got that. My wording was "might not be too beneficial... don't have to be"; they are still beneficial, just not to the effect that you want. I just used them as an example because those are the posts I like.
This part of the reply was also in relation to your other statements:
But is that adding value to our ecosystem?
You could argue that it’s helping spread the token far and wide. fair enough.
But is it really extending Hive culture or educating potential projects or individual users on the available technology on the HIVE blockchain? I have my doubts.
I'm of the opinion that this is a less valuable form of curation...
Could there be a way of incentivizing creators to make more content that is valuable to the ecosystem and curators to give priority to this type of content?
And I will again repeat what I said more specifically. People have different interests and we shouldn't control it. Hive is a social platform. Not all posts need to add value to the ecosystem or educate others about Hive; generating conversations and sharing interests is still beneficial. Let the people and curators decide what has value based on what they like.
Yes, people have different interests.
Yes, not all posts need to add value to the ecosystem or educate about HIVE.
Yes, people can decide what has value.
We agree on all points my friend.
I (Alex Rourke) choose to carefully seek to promote and give preference (with a higher upvote) to content that elevates visibility, understanding, value, use-cases of our ecosystem. I believe this builds culture.
Yep, as the first line in my first comment says, I agree with a lot of what you said. There were some confusion, but I'm glad we sorted that out.
As for what you want to happen for those specific posts, I would suggest creating a group or make them use a tag, create a curation trail, and have them upvote those types of posts with the tag. This is similar to how other communities do it.