It's not what you know it's who you know, as is life. Most of the "big upvoters" don't even read content, most is done via bots to ensure curation rewards.
How to shift the balance back towards promoting quality content? That is something we're looking at in sloth.buzz, taking a step back, slowing things down and just inspiring quality content.
Along with the cryptoradio.fm, we hope to bring something a little novel and different to Hive, allowing more users to get involved.
Of course there will always be a bit of that. I've spend six years here building up my followers and reputation which should have some benefits over brand new users.
What we do need however is a new way to determine quality content and reward users who are creating it regardless of when they joined. It would be great for users to turn up on day one and be able to get seen and rewarded straight away if they deserve it.
Doing this in a sustainable way is the hard part. 7 day rewards need to go first of all if we are going to see people generate content that will want to be seen after more than seven days. Otherwise people will keep producing throwaway content to earn those quick upvotes.
Sounds like you have some interesting plans coming down the line.
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Yeah the 7 day period does make a lot of throw away repeat content, at the same time keeps things balanced and fair. How else would you suggest a payout model?
We at sloth.buzz are actively supporting quality content, regardless of new or old users, bring us good content and well help promote it! It’s definitely a hard thing to achieve throughout hive, but with many niche front ends, there’s a place for everyone to get involved