What do we want to reward on Hive?

I am a curator for the @ourpick project and I also curate with my own accounts and with the @ctpsb project. Everday I'm looking for at least one little pearl among all the post on hive that I believe is worth reading.

With @ph1102 and @mypathtofire that also curate in the contexte of @ourpick, my task is to find one post around the gaming topic. I start my task by filtering the content according to certain tags and then try to pick out one post per day. The funny thing is that when I do that, I encounter the same posts with the same title images every single day!

This means that plenty of people are creating the same post on a daily basis with small alterations from day to day. Often only a couple of sentences change from one day to the next and I seriously wonder why people are doing that? Why create the same post over and over again?

The strategy of collecting votes

Looking a bit more in dept at these posts, I see that they all get upvotes from the same sources. It's often sources where you get upvotes that are linked to owning certain tokens. So the strategy of these posts is to actually create content that nobody is interested in and make sure to own the good tokens to get some automated upvotes on these posts.

If you create 7 times the same post and you get 50 cents just for a copy paste, it can be an interesting weekly income in some parts of the world.

What is the value of these posts?

When we create content, we should always try to give some value to what we do. Can our post bring knowledge, entertainment or something else to a reader? If the answer is no, then we don't really create value.

People might argue that when they make give aways they actually create value by giving something away that other people want. Are they right? Are they wrong?

When I see that somebody copy pastes the content from the day before and then uses it day after day. Going so far as to recycle the exact same title image every day, I can't shake the feeling that there is very little effort put into the creation of the post.

When I take a deeper look and I see that in many cases the author doesn't even take the time to answer the comments on his posts. I feel kind of confirmed in my opinion.

People can do what they want, but I don't need to support that

I think that everybody is free to do what he thinks is best on the blockchain and in the end it's up to them to know how they want to spend their time on Hive. However, I think that I don't want to support such low effort posts anymore. I believe that if we support such strategies, we simply encourage others to do exactly the same.

Do we want to reward effort and creativity

There are many authors on hive that put a lot of effort into creating posts and often they are really interesting to read. These are the posts that I want to support because they bring some real value.

We have a responsability to use our hive power to take part in the orientation of hive in the future. We need to support behaviour that we want to see and I belive that effort, originality and creativity should be rewarded. I want to encourage people to become better at what they do so that we get new ideas and new faces in the trending posts.

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