I'm going to push myself pretty hard for 10 days to add value to the ecosystem and get myself on the map.
From scratch, I will generate 100 innovative ideas for Hive.
It's my hope that this will help in some way and that some may even stick to see the light of day.
FYI - I'm not a developer or technical guru, but I've been actively with the community since August 2017. I've seen a lot, but also haven't seen enough, so I'm doing what I can to be the change I want to see.
To those who supported my last retention improvement post to a level that I haven't seen in years, THANK YOU. If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't have been able to convince myself to commit to the task. I also wouldn't have had it seen by a new voter, @azircon, who left me a reply that inspired me to do this.
"If you don't talk, someone else will. That someone else may or may not be as qualified as you. Stage is usually not left empty. So you better make your thinking visible, otherwise other will grab that opportunity and turn the boat whichever way they want."
This won't be easy, but I'm willing to challenge myself to see what I can come up with. Whether these are feasible or not is not important. I want to get ideas down on paper and see what happens. Something I come up with might spark someone else to add to it or think of another application that makes more sense, etc..
Please appreciate the larger purpose and not be critical if an idea isn't worthwhile or suitable to you. These are simply brainstormed suggestions and I'm hoping that I can get a couple of really solid ones that could be taken to the next step if people agree.
On the contrary, if something jumps out as clever or exciting, please let me know. I could use a lot of kicks in the ass to get through this. This will take time, but I'll hammer it out.
If any of my ideas are unique and something to be pursued, please seek to involve me to some degree or give me some credit. I want to get more integrated because I'm an entrepreneurial businessman at heart, with a knack for marketing and sales, trying to be a blogger.
Effort = Results. All it takes the willingness and determination to commit to the idea and take the first step. I'll lead by example. Other can do this to a scale they're comfortable with too.
My ideas will be kept in a static list each day for congruence and convenience.
The First 10 (gulp):
1. The Hive Lottery!
On a set schedule, a pool of Hive or HBD collected in a non-profit fund account will be awarded to one random Hivean that bought their "ticket." Depending on the price of Hive, entries may be capped at $1 to keep it fun and responsible. One entry per account. I'd imagine that one drawing per week would be a good place to start. Furthermore, there could be a mega lottery from another TBD source once a month or quarter to really create some extra buzz/new adopters. If there is no profit taken, perhaps this doesn't trip on any legal or regulatory red tape.
2. Personalized Hive.Blog Webpage Skins
The ability to be able to upload a personal skin that integrates with the current web layout would be a nice touch to feel more like home. It's 2020 and we can do better than black and white. Desktop backgrounds can be very motivational or calming, so let's marry the two.
3. Optional "Are You Sure You Want To Post This?" Confirmation Step
We've all been there. Somehow you hit the post button when you were not even close to ready. Scrambling to edit and finish before people write it off can be a bit of stress and ruin the value you meant to bring. In your settings, you can opt to have this safeguard on or off. This doesn't seem difficult or problematic to integrate.
4. Showcase Pages
If I want to quickly find the best artists, musicians, gamers, or fitness gurus here, etc., prominent marketing showcase pages for key disciplines can help. As communities may be confusing, complex, and clunky to newbs, this would be ideal for those scouting Hive to see where they could fit in. It could also be a quick way to meet and assimilate with their kind post sign up. Lastly, the vetted influencers on display could get far more exposure, and maybe even feature custom Hive-inspired works.
5. Disincentivize Auto-votes
Yes, I said it. This system as it's often abused, milked, and cannibalizes organic engagement. I don't know what's possible, but we learned that bid-bots were harmful for our overall growth after far too long. I feel the same here. Perhaps we can have a 10% penalty for an auto-vote or set some type of parameters that are designed to combat the abuse.
6. Optional Upvote Confirmation Step
Imagine how much SP has been cumulatively wasted on a small vote left in the slider that is immediately revoted to what was intended. If people have a habit of doing this, make it an optional setting and save the SP!
7. Industry Relationship Management Repository
There are a lot of people who have relationships with key entities or people in the crypto space. Some may be with exchanges, blockchain professors, or crypto influencers, etc.. If we kept a tracker of who knew who, we could leverage it to make the most out of our relationships as a team. This would also help us efficiently lead with the best contacts and be unified in our approach.
8. Abusive Behavior/Language Penalty Box
If someone is being violently offensive, threatening or hurtful in comment sections, I propose a system that they can be escalated to who can review the extent of the complaint and potentially restrict their commenting ability via high-powered flags for a brief period of time. This would help with prevention, and victim protection, as well as let situations cool off once off the rails.
9. Equal Wallet Visibility
From my experience, it seems that some upper-level accounts have their wallet activity suppressed or hidden from the public wallet view. If this is the case, I don't agree with this concealment as it raises an eyebrow of funds flowing that peope don't want seen. If everyone can't have that perk, nobody should have it. If true, perhaps this was a Steemit thing, but I really don't think we should have that on Hive. Wallet activity is important public info and should be easily accessible like it is for the rest of us.
10. Comment Nudging
If you make a badass comment you were really hoping someone would see, but fear it got overlooked/lost in the shuffle, I like the idea of an option to ping the recipient one time with an alert to check it out. Some people get an onslaught of replies and could honestly miss a a bunch, or get behind on them, but to the commenter's relief, they could have one more chance to draw their attention. I'd imagine that there could be a cap per recipient or overall for this for a specified period of time so it's saved for special occassions.
Whew, I made it to 10. Only 90 more to go!!
_I had absolutely NO ideas when I started this tonight. I just had motivation from what I said at the start.
These all free-flowed, helping me think of random new ideas I'd never even considered before. I'll take that as personal progress and a victory in my book for my first installation.
Actions speak louder than words, so I'm making sure that I doing both. This will be trial and error, so be patient.
*Please let me know if you like or relate to anything in particular to help keep me motivated as this will only get harder. Perhaps reply with your favorite 2 or 3 by number???
*I'd also appreciate it if you saved your ideas for the end since I'm going to have to reach to get to 100 and will need all of the opportunity I can get.
I'll try to keep tabs on the hotter ideas for a final report at the conclusion.
Thank you,
Matt
I made a @hivematt account, so please pretend I'm posting from there and give that a follow for the future.
[//]:#skipautoI like your number 1 point here.
Very little is done for charities and we do very important work.
The Hive community can certainly benefit from a caring image and it might cost each Hivean maybe only 1%
@steematt has some great ideas here!
I agree too. No one wants to see Hive becoming a 100% charity platform. However, if I cannot find great content I want to vote for or something that will improve hive, I would rather vote for a charity than just something that will pay off. Also, some people want to devote a certain amount to a charity. In any case, I think eventually developing a charity raffle would be good. To do it legally we need someone with a casino license. I think 75% prize pool, 15% charities (could go all to one or whatever), 4% null, 4% dao and 2% admin would be a good ratio. I'd spend a few Hive a week on a ticket.
Ah! This will surely be the way to go, as believe it that charities, at least Papillon likes to give back to their donors and the 75% would be an ideal way to do this.
Now where can we find someone with a good heart that has a casino license ?
I know a few people inquiring and perhaps someone here has. I think best would be to have user-suggested raffles, where the various % can be decided.
Yeah, good idea as community participation is a must.
So call me when you start it :)
Hey, call me too!! Thanks for expanding on this so generously. This is the type of talk and mindset that makes things go from idea to implementation.
Great initiative!
I know @felander did start a lottery on Steem just before the fork, dunno if that will continue, but it would be fun!
@tipu curate
Upvoted 👌 (Mana: 15/20)
Thanks for connecting us on this.
hey, @steematt / or @hivematt cool initiative
I own an account called @freelottery
The idea is:
People delegate
Each Hive delegated is on ticket
The account curates and that profit is paid out weekly to ONE delegator
The pick is done by a randomizer
SO basically it's a free lottery (see what I did with the name there)
I currently do not have the time to go curating with a bunch of accounts as I am trying to set up my own business. It is hard enough with my main one. So I would not mind starting it up again but would need some way to automate the whole thing a bit... any ideas or people I could check with?
(thx @revisesociologoy for the mention)
yep!
Until very recently, AV's were close to all I had, so I'm sort of taking one for the team for the bigger picture by leading with this. It bothers me more to see the huge AV's that are milked than the thought of losing a daily $1-$2.50 total from legitimate fans that took years to earn.