Random Spiel, Hive Curation Myth

My old idea about how curation on Hive is ideally supposed to work
is by merit in driving more eyes on the platform. Users are incentivized to make quality content here because that increases the value of the platform and they are tipped in the form of votes. In an ideal Hive world, community curators would be looking out for authors that consistently produce content that has a chance to go viral on other platforms. But in practice, the curation practices that govern community curation and personal curation are just subjective and getting a feel for each other's sense of decent content.

Working hard is producing quality content to get votes, working smart is tailoring your content to what the curators want to see with the least amount of effort possible. The latter is the tendency of authors to produce the same quality and type of content over the years without generating anymore value.

Proof:

Questism Chapter 153 Official Release Date and Updates

Shared previously on my Random Spiels, Have You Heard about the Most Viewed Anime Post on Hive? post when it was at its peak. The post sitting on 150 views up at the time of this writing.

Explaining why these posts work and most posts don't even if they are well rewarded on Hive:

Both posts talk about a trending niche topic that has a wider audience outside the platform especially during the time these were posted. The popular topic, timely content, and maybe some trusted backlinks was all it took to get it rank better at google searches, even if these were beyond the second or third page, there's a group of people out there dedicated to the fandoms.

Personal blogs on Hive where authors share their scribbled thoughts give the platform more soul, but it doesn't drive traffic unless the person posting was someone with already an established following outside Hive driving traffic in here. Nobody cares about my workout routine, that doggo pic I took, my dinner experience at some tourist trap, or how my day went, I'm a nobody and people would never organically search for my posts. But if I talk about a popular topic using the formula that works as mentioned above, I'll generate more outside views and that's the way things work outside Hive.

If I pursue the route that focuses on generating outside views, nobody gets my niche topic here so I end up with more missed opportunities from community curators that don't know what I'm talking about. There is no incentive to go out of my way and change the formula of what works because the smart thing to do if it's for monetary gain alone is making sure the right eyes sees the post and not the eyes that aren't involved with what's going on here.

Assuming that we prioritize getting more organic views from the outside than Hive. The compromise would be promoting posts like @tegoshei because it has all the elements and word count to show effort. The case of @shisuipark is an oddity because less word count but hits all the other right buttons. In Hive's curation cultural sense, the lack of word count would be seen as low effort and that's my initial impression about the post when I passed. But Shisuipark's post really is effective, short content, and probably efficient in the sense of generating outside views than most posts here on Hive. But here's the problem, I'm not sure how the lack of word count posts BUT effective at generating views would really fly by our current norms when it comes to curation. If part of the curation guidelines factored in greater rewards for posts that generated more views, some posts may take more than 24 hours to rake in some numbers. My own posts shared last February 2024 was still hovering around 600+ views last month and it was about tackling on a niche topic like Nikke and Shift Up.

It's just views, so fucking what? I mean, one of the points of creating content was to generate views than toss your creations into the void. I don't think there's really a fix to the curation system we have since everything is just subjective, I see content I like, I press upvote.

This isn't a call to start making changes in people's posting habits to conform to what helps our Hive frontends get more clicks. But it would dispel a lot of confusion for new users if they were told form the start that posting quality content by its own merit, isn't enough as one's social rewards are more influenced by community curator preferences and established social network. How do you define quality content you want to support is up to you. We're operating under the principle of you do you and that goes for what you do with you stake and who you reward with it.

Thanks for your time.