This is how things should be, the whole point of having a decentralized media platform is that content and creators filter themselves. If there's abuse someone can jump in but really, what is abuse to you might not be for me or viceversa, so all the self appointed blockchain defenders are cancer in my eyes.

A long ass post doesn't mean quality like you say, but it's become the norm in here and curation guilds push this narrative. Are they wrong? Probably, but I'm sure they do their best and do not fight low quality - whatever this may be, to hurt the creators, but by following their own views of what hive should and could be.

What's presented above hooks people in. Before I even knew what was inside this post and before I even had a chance to judge the quality of this content, I clicked on the content.

It's an art that it is hit or miss at least for me, sometimes I nail it some times I just don't, there's no formula unless you are 100% in the space and you know the audience perfectly, which is impossible because it is dynamic. But again, you are completely right, it's all about the delivery.

In my opinion, whatever brings traffic should be considered good, especially in a shrinking ecosystem like Hive. What's the point of putting out an amazing piece if it will be appreciated only by the 7 users we have? Of course, it's nice in theory but then you hit the scenario where in the end we are a blockchian with a native token and a ton of users are in it for the investment, not the community, so unless we find a way to bring in more users, some of which will become investors, we are just shouting to the void, and the void isn't even here with us, it's over at Twitter and Tiktok.

Platforms like the above have 99% crap, and they filter themselves, people don't care about shitty creators and that's exactly what you mention, a quality creator will find success anywhere they go, a shitty one will fail to do so no matter if it's short videos, long form posts, microblogging or porn.

As a content creator, I don't give two shits or a single fuck about this concept of high quality vs low quality coming from some Hive curator's thought process.

Exactly, which is why people need to take responsibility for their own HivePower and get involved with the blockchain - governance, voting, consuming, transacting.

Stings a bit when folks say things like "longform doesn't attract people" for seven years as I sat there with longs posts and much higher than average organic engagement, but hey, they're the experts.

Oh of course, actually one of the main strategies of Leo is to encourage long form high quality content by providing ad revenue to the content in case it brings in traffic - because traffic is king, not quality - to the platform. My main point is that considering how the target audience is behaving at the moment, we can lure them in with short content and then they can stick around and realize there's long form content that is worth consuming.

Do I think long form content can get adoption to Hive? It definitely can, but it will be much more harder to do so. I'm going to stick to long form creation and keep hitting and missing, that's my real niche, but that doesn't mean I don't realize my audience is shrinking, and even though I pull in some users into hive by doing this, the cute girl sharing updates about her meaningless life will pull in 10x what I pull.

Then again, hustler twitter is full of amazing content and there are a ton of consumers out there for that content, so if we find a good balance between short, long, traffic driver, retention booster content, we'll be gold.

In the meantime, we can keep talking theory all we want.

Good to see you around man.