Orchid
Sunday Flower:Orchid
- This lovely orchid greeted me today.
- It’s beautiful color really brightened up my day, and made my Sunday chores a joy.
- Weeding, watering and fertilizing are not glamorous at all.
- And they are probably the last thing you think of when you look at a blooming orchid.
- But those are the things, the work, that made the blooming orchid possible.
Reminds me of tokenized Social Media like Hive or Leofinance.
- You can join Hive and Leofinance for free, but that doesn’t mean that your posts will be discovered by the big upvoters, and that cryptocurrency will come to you like rain from the sky.
- Nope, you have to pay a price for other peoples time and attention. The price in tokenized social media is your time and attention.
- Yep, if you want people to know you are here, you need to go to their posts and read them. Then comment in a way that makes it clear you read the post, you understood it, why it had value or if you didn’t understand it, ask a question.
- Success on a social media platform isn’t rocket science, it’s people science. And people science is relatively easy. People are driven by simple desires of food, water, shelter, love, sex and attention.
- The latter, attention is easy to provide here via replying to peoples posts in the comments.
- In fact the system on Hive and all its sub-communities like Leofinance are basically the same: you comment, the author upvotes your comment, and you both get paid.
- No fancy math skills are need; one half of a one dollar upvote is 50 cents, that’s what you will earn for your reply, and that’s all the math you need to know.
- Now not every reply/comment will be replied to and not all of them will be upvoted. But that’s where the work comes in. You reply often and you will get noticed. And your comments will start getting upvotes.
- You may say well that’s not a lot of money, and right now your right, it isn’t. So you will have to make a lot of replies to increase your earnings. But one day those upvotes will be much more, and it’s then that your work commenting and upvoting other peoples posts will payoff.
- Joining Hive and Leofinance is free, but success isn’t free, you have to pay for it with your time and attention. You have to put in the work.
- You need to earn other peoples time and attention, with your own.
- That plus a sprinkle of creativity, a dash of spell checking, a large portion of persistence snd an equal portion of motivation will help you succeed.
Flowers and Upvotes
- When those flowers bloom, some people think it was easy. Some think you just put the seeds in the ground and come back in a month and there will be beautiful flowers.
- Nope, it doesn’t work that way. There’s work involved.
- When you see the flower, you are looking at the finished product. But you can’t see the labor that went into that product.
- Success on tokenized social media is the same.
- Some of you will only see the article with the big upvote.
- Some of you don’t see all the reading, commenting, and upvoting that went into building the network relationships that resulted in that upvote.
- I hope that I have opened your eyes, and that you can truly see.
Yep. - Flowers and Social Media both look easy, but to succeed you gotta do the work. You gotta pay the price; time and attention.
@ shortsegments
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Excellent article ! Another thing worth thinking about is the time factor.
What you think of now as a 50 cent upvote is really 1.13 HIVE. But that's with HIVE at around 44 cents. When HIVE goes up, so will the value of all the upvotes you've ever had. Not only that, but if you've turned that HIVE into HP, the value of all the curation rewards you've ever had will go up.
Very Good Point!
We are not earning Dollars, we are earning Hive, and Hive’s value can go up. But a dollar always stays the same.!
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Wrong.
Dollar constantly keeps going DOWN.
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LOL
Your right.
As soon as I wrote those words I thought to myself, but with inflation the value of the dollar goes down.
However the value of my cryptocurrency, hopefully, goes up!
😊
What a great way to say we gotta work to be seen :) I like the flower metaphor :)
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Thank you!
I am trying to be more colorful in my language and graphics. I feel like I am a continuous performance improvement project.
:)
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That's nice! I think we are all a work in progress yet you are advancing already hehe
Thank you, your very kind.
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When I first noticed that flowwer in my feed, while browsing, what came to my mind the very first second was - flowers? in Leofinance? What a heck? I'm going to DW that !
Until I noticed the author. And started reading
Enjoy the BOOM
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Hi @onealfa.leo
Thank you!
I am enjoying the Boom!
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Hahahaha. What an analogy! Never saw that coming.
But however, I've seen some great flowers in the wild, no human effort was put into getting it to grow, it just grew there on it's own. Your analogy still proves true here, though, because we've seen posts with little to no effort still go on to have great upvotes 😂😂.
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I am glad that you were positively surprised.
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True, the randomness of nature is mirrored by the randomness of discovery and curation.
:)
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Beautifully composed. I like this format you're writing in.
Perhaps this is what separates the wheat from the chaff: interaction. Maybe I've been doing it all wrong since the beginning.
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I am glad you enjoyed the post.
:)
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I like your comparison of flower and upvote, personally I have been onboarding friends, they get the motivation when they see my account balance but when they land on here, they just fail to put in the effort for long term growth.
We are mostly drawn to beautiful, shinny things but don't want to put in the effort to make our own stuff beautiful.
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Well put. We are attracted to beautiful, shinny things, and sometimes don’t see the cleaning, waxing or buffing that makes these things shine.
:)
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I like the comparison and it takes both time and effort to get some traction on Hive. You can't join and expect high rewards if you don't give people a reason to visit your post.
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Exactly, why should people devote their time and attention with no expectation of reciprocity.
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Good points! With Leo, I've made reading, commenting, and curating a part of my morning routine. Cup(s) of coffee, with no rush, I take my time, relax and it all comes naturally.
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Thank you, and congratulations you are establishing a routine, which will result in consistent input of time and attention, and from that you can expect an output of time and attention.
:)
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Cheers! Well said.
That picture is just exquisite. Great job capturing the flower so nicely =)
The post was good also ;)
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Thank you
I am glad you enjoyed the flower.
This started off as a post in Amazing Nature, but as I thought this through I realized there was more I could say.
:)
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In many ways consistently creating is it's own reward... but some good upvotes definitely won't hurt 😀
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True. A creators enjoys creating, but external validation in the form of upvotes and rewards is nice.
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Success often looks easy from the outside, but it looks very hard from the inside.
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Exactly, well said.
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STOPTo support your work, I also upvoted your post!
Thank you
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You're welcome @shortsegments, it's well deserved! Thanks for your constant involvement on Hive 😊👍