You are so right!!
You said it first
What is art without eyes looking at it?
I remember that a long time ago, I also saw a need to consume and create content that was not here, and I will always remember it because it was the content that I was interested in and wanted to see, which was makeup, I took a need that was not only mine and now turned it into a community where to interact and that in fact has brought more users from outside interested in the same.
so, they're seeing things that they're interested in and joining in, they're learning about this new model, they just need to be educated a bit more about it
Yes indeed, a lot of people, women in general, have makeup in common. So of course in theory it should be easy to gather interest and develop a market. You did just that. I was watching.
Of course, I didn't see everything. In general, business interests me and I enjoy seeing it take shape on Hive, even though oftentimes folks don't even realize they're creating a business or contributing to a business.
You mentioned a bit of education would help and I agree.
Many contributors to that makeup community were given support, often. I'm not sure how things are going now but I know for a fact many received generous upvotes, quite often.
Those were the seeds. Did they eat the seeds, or did they plant the seeds? By that I mean, did they cash out, or stake and hold the tokens?
In order for a community/business to be successful, the support system can't rely on only one large 'whale' vote. The support system must be decentralized. If that whale suddenly stops supporting your community/business, what happens? All is lost.
But, if you have 100 community members with 10000HP each, combined that is 1 million HP. In that scenario the 100 community members combined act as one whale, supporting the community. If one drops out, you still have 99 more, acting as one whale. That scenario is a decentralized support system. No single point of failure.
That could be 200 members with 5000HP. 1000 with 1000HP. Altogether equates to one solid foundation and the community/business can thrive for as long as it wants.
Community members building up enough stake in that fashion (planting seeds) means the orchard can grow and they will forever have fruit (cashing out isn't such a big problem then).
Depending on one individual with one large vote is kind of like the grocery store. If that store burns down or closes, nobody eats.
Something to think about.
I understood it because some time ago, I thought exactly the same thing you are telling me, now it is easier to do it than a few years ago, to run it you have to name it and organize it, but still educate because I feel that part of the community is halfway with all this, they know something but it seems that it is the basics. Sorry if it sounds rude but most things are not fully executed because there is ignorance but if we explain to someone with apples and sweets in some cases something might happen.
It's nice to read from you :)
It does help using analogies in order to bring people closer to unfamiliar ideas. In life it seems many things are similar but require new labels and long descriptions just so they can seem different, new, or interesting. Some things don't need to be taught. Everyone can drive but most have no idea how the engine works, and that's fine.