What "I" Avoid Posting on Hive

Hive is a never-ending journey to me. It started as a curiosity, got to become a frustration at some point, became an addiction for a few years now, and playing an important role in paying the bills since 2020. Hive made me a blogger and I'm proud of that cuz I somehow climbed on the content creators train through the WEB3 stairs.

I'm close to 25,000 posts on Hive and I am perfectly aware those are not 25,000 blog posts counted by the system, it's a mix of long-form content, a tiny amount of shit posts, and some "decent number of comments" altogether. I don't know if the good mood I'm having now is due to a great arms workout that I got today or just Hive making me feel great...

...But I wanted to make a sort of a guide type of posts... again. I do that once in a while. I'm probably not the best to give advice on creating content to new peeps on the platform, but I do that anyway. It feeds the soul ;).

I was planning to title this post what not to post on Hive, but then I realized that we're a free society built on this decentralized blockchain, so who the fuck am I to tell anyone what not to post in here? Hence, I rewrote the title and turned that into: what "I" avoid posting on Hive.

It's more gentle I guess. So, let's begin, shall we!

One thing that I avoid doing and it's something that I hated since the Steem era is reporting news. I find that so dumb and boring... I mean, we all have Twitter, and we all read the news... What's the point of making a whole blog post about some report?

I instead prefer to wrap a whole story around some event that I consider worth talking about. I once called myself the dot connecter because I believe in interconnectedness and I can promise you that if you look carefully there's always something more to any so-called isolated event. Always.

I avoid "duplicating other people's posts"... I don't avoid joining communities, though, but I would never make any posts of mine look like the ones of others. Even when I post charts and throw my shitty analysis to them in the form of a blog post, I do that in such a funny way, thus making these really "my own". I like being original and I'll always stick to that.

I don't do stats posts. I never had one of these ever, and never will. I consider numbers to be important, but I doubt anyone would give too much shit about any stats coming from me. I like stories better than stats and that's why I'm sticking with these. I appreciate the ones like @dalz for example, who do great stats posts, but that's not for me... No sir.

I also hate extremely long posts. I do read some of these once in a while, most of them coming from @edicted, but rare are the ones who can manage to captivate me for a 10-20 min read. I never tried such extremely long-form content and never will. These ones rarities, Edicted is unique, don't try to be like him cuz you'll fail.

There was some guy about three years ago who thought he would revolutionize Hive through his example... I forgot his user name, but the man was also writing extremely long posts and always, I mean always, paid bots to push them to the trending page. His life on Hive was short-lived though as he probably got back from where he came from, which was facebook and Instagram. Again, don't try to be like Edicted, you'll fail.

I'm not a fan of "pure shitposting" either. I mean, I really doubt I have anything like one pic and a phrase with a title wrapped as a post. I would never do that. Even my @liketu posts which are usually labeled as short-form content are not that short. Check em out if you don't believe me.

I have also always stayed away from poor-quality pics. I believe that every smartphone nowadays has a pretty decent camera, and if you use that camera properly and also spend a bit of time editing your photos, it's hard to have poor photography posts, but some really do a good job at that(poor quality posts). If you don't have the time to dedicate to your photos, don't post them, let others do that.

It's that simple and Hive is not just a "photography dedicated" social media platform. One can always try something else.

I'm a professional ranter, you know, but I actually hate ranting because too much rating kills the joy of what's good in life and the progress you can have, but ranting is sometimes necessary, cuz it can be eye-opening. Too many rant posts are not my cup of tea though. Bitterness oftentimes drives the public away.

OK, I'm about to enter the extremely long-form type of posts category with this one, so it's time to end this marvelous piece of content, but what about you, what are you trying to avoid posting in Hive?

Thanks for your attention,
Adrian