Do participation rewards encourage mediocrity and discourage the pursuit of excellence?
- Should we favor mediocrity to promote participation?
- Or should we ideally reward and promote a meritocracy?
- In other words should Hive Social Media Rewards Platform reward participation over excellence?
Mediocracy
- I feel that the idea of rewarding participation is a best used as an initial incentive to get people to create their initial piece of content or initial engagement comment. But consistently rewarding average or mediocre performance to promote participation may be a bad strategy. As it doesn’t reward improvement only consistency. And consistently low quality content, is low quality content, which should not be our goal.
- I think our goal should be to consistently improve the quality of our communities content by rewarding what we feel as consumers is good content.
- This allows for diversity of content and refuses centralized subjectivity by allowing content to flow towards those who enjoy it, and away from those who don’t, because we can chose who to follow, and thus choose who’s content we see most often.
- I think the motivation to reward participation, may originate in a desire to overcome subjectivity in the assessment of good or bad.
- I think this thinking it may originate in good intentions, but ignores how personal preferences affect our perception of good or bad, high quality or low quality.
- Those who admire written posts may devalue picture posts, no matter the effort of taking pictures, capturing images, editing images or creating pictures. It’s worth is affected by our preferences, and that’s not bad or good, it just is.
- I think it is better in the long term for content creators to seek out content consumers who enjoy their content.
- Or alternatively content creators may need to modify their content to make it attractive to the largest number of content consumers, so their network of followers grows.
- I think this improves the quantity, quality and monetary rewards from engagement.
- I think that while getting upvotes and monetary rewards are important, the reward we get from knowing people enjoy and engage with us over our content is to me, more valuable..
- This is why I think we should encourage content we enjoy, engage with people whose content we enjoy, take interest in content we normally wouldn’t look for but may find interesting, ignore content that we have no interest in or repulses us. Allow each content creator to succeed or fail based on their ability to create, evolve, build and become the best version of themselves or build the most supportive and sustainable network of followers by providing content their followers want to consume.
Meritocracy
- I feel that the idea of rewarding good deeds and superior performance is not a new or inherently divisive concept.
- I feel it encourages and incentivizes the behavior we want to see more of in society.
- I think it promotes hard work and achievement, and although good and bad are subjective assessments, there are objective goods like nurturing and mentoring, and objective bads like plagiarism and theft.
- I think that the diversity of preferences and the ability to reward the content we feel is high quality is a unique situation here.
- It’s not perfect, and requires searching the accounts and perhaps communities where your content will be appreciated. But I think that is a worthwhile and potentially rewarding pursuit.
What do you think?
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Firstly, I'm very sad to see that this post has 0 comments, while it speaks about a crucial topic connected to the core of HIVE and our social media network...
Secondly, the post is great and I can agree with your point of view personally, I have been thinking of exactly these things lately... Not because I have too much spare time to think, but because I saw certain behaviors lately that encourage mediocracy over meritocracy... and in my opinion, which is very similar to yours, this isn't good for the longevity of the platform...
This is so simple to acknowledge and accept, but on HIVE, many people don't have that view at all... I see many people seeking more whale upvotes than seeking out content consumers, engagement, and mutual benefit that comes from that... That's why we have absurd things like posts with $100 payouts with 3 comments, and on the other side, $5 posts with hundreds of comments...
Thanks for talking about these things... It's important to discuss them... I hope someone will see the post from the @Ourpick collection and visit you...
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Merit over Mediocrity
Quality over Particiption
Longterm over short term
Bravo, will put.
Amen!
Thank you for your comment and support.
I was concerned this topic would be controversial and might get negative feedback, but I think it’s an important discussion to have, and your comment is the first one in this discussion. I hope people who are struggling read it and it encourages them to look at all the communities on Hive and finding the one that fits them best; interest, engagement and growth.
It should be controversial! As I can see you are one of the "old Hivers" and you know how it was back on the old chain... We had everything, drama, discussions... Somehow, I miss that... It was something that was pushing us to be better, and these days, there is not too much talk about the crucial things that you have listed in your post...
Keep talking about important things! That's the only way to bring value to the chain!
I still strongly believe there can still be a balance that can be created for both and rewards can be created for both participation and you Excellence
This is also productive.