A few months ago, I embarked on an onboarding project, and most of them were students. The thing is, I had thought, "Oh, they are young; they have the time to invest and make something meaningful out of Hive." The goal was for them to build up their hive blog, gather enough HP and HBD so that by the time they were done with university, they could have something substantial to start up life with and not be part of the oversaturated unemployed labor force.
I had thought of it as a good plan, but boy was I wrong in my thoughts, as they were mostly not interested in my investment plan plus guidance. They were all just after the reward and not wanting to put in the work. And despite me telling them that hive is not a get-rich-quick scheme, they did what was on their mind anyway, but thankfully, I was a step ahead, as they they were not as smart.
Another thing is, I am aware of how plagiarism and AI-written content are frowned upon here on hive. Countless times I have seen and heard newbies be guilty of this, so I devised a means to keep my onboardees in check as to their content creation. What I did was that I had asked them that before posting on hive, they should post their introductory blog post on the WhatsApp group that was created for scrutiny. The aim was so that it can be checked and flagged for AI if found wanting.
So after my instructions, the introductory blogs started rolling in, and of course I read through all of them and noticed that 98% of them were AI written. I immediately brought this to their attention, and they were defensive. Thus, in order to avoid unnecessary arguments, I asked those affected to either send the unedited copy before using Grammarly to edit for grammar, or they should whip up another introductory blog post.
To cut the long story short, they sent another introductory blog post, and while some scaled through, others did not. The ones that didn't got really frustrated and accused me of sabotaging them lol. One even told me that my AI checker was not correct, as he wrote the introductory blog post from head. But then a quick read through the post screamed AI. So, to show them that nobody was being sabotaged, I sent the results of others that scaled through, and they became embarrassed plus mute.
The particular guy who said that my AI checker was not correct messaged me privately and apologized, stating that Hive is not for him.
In the end just One person was onboarded successfully and tries to keep up. Although I am quite disappointed that the person is unstaking all his liquid hive, I can only hope, he retraces his step and sees hive for the longrun and not shortrun benefits.
As for me, I have learned and hoping next project sails smoothly.
As in ehh I had similar cases opp they all about fast money nobody want to earn money the easy way anymore