People will gravitate towards anything that has value. You would think that your content is the one that’s giving money on the platform, it isn’t. It’s your name and what you built around your name that transforms it into an asset that could get you rewards here. It’s the same thought when you dislike someone a bad reputation than would convince you not to vote their post even if there’s nothing wrong with it.
If curation practices were mostly done using the idea that we’re here to promote good content alone, many would be unqualified and probably overcompensated for existing. Like who would actually be convinced to pay out of their pocket after reading someone’s day about walking in a park sniffing flowers and photos of what they had for dinner? Probably simps but that’s beside the point.
The spirit of bayanihan translated into the blockchain takes in subtle forms where you don’t even see it at work. You’ve been complacent about that it becomes an ordinary thing. Since days from the legacy chain gone by, pioneers here had to start rough proving themselves useful for the community and that made successive new users have an easier time understanding how things work because pioneers become guides.
The long term goal for any member, ideally, is to make the community a better place than when they first found it. When your goals are aimed towards uplifting one another, it's not that hard to see everyone wins in the setup. What we have here isn't a crab bucket system where the success of one member over their social rewards means the downfall of another. Everyone has their own learning curve to market themselves and some people just so happen to be better at it.
There will always be bad actors popping up and attracted to things that shine. You know what’s HivePH’s greatest asset? It’s the people that are continually building on it. People that have built their networks across different communities and attract other valuable persons within the ecosystem. That’s why it’s not easy to penetrate tight knit communities like HivePH, everyone gets peer reviewed and when you got majority consensus for approval by the community, you got through the first hurdle and that opens up to more opportunities in expanding your network.
The slogan “walang pera sa hiveph” was born from a sarcasm I had with this community, the slogan is there to ground the idea that it’s not the name that gives it money, it’s the people that keeps holding up the name. You’ll know you’d fuck up as a community member when not a single person ever asks how you’ve been doing when you ghosted the community. We’ve seen how much impact one can have to the rest of the community for their limited time with us.
Highlighting a recent case of 
They get culled sooner if we got community conscious members who are looking out for one another. Imagine niyo nalang na yung rason bakit nalaman nyu yung tungkol sa Hive ay dahil may nag tanong sa inyo if kayo ba talaga nag popost dun? Or kinopya yung mga posts nyu galling sa ibang blogging site? Saklap besh pero normal lang yan na mangyari because some people would sink low for a few cents for lying. Trading it for the dollars you could’ve earn long term by just being authentic.
Losing a face here is bad, making yourself qualified as an example of who not to emulate is worse. Take for instance our local plagiarism case that happened in the past.
Faking their digital art is one of the most efficient ways to kill reputation. It's not worth losing a face here and even more so when it's permanent.
Most of the time people don't really take the damage to their reputation seriously. I bet some members don't even show their blogs to their significant others on facebook.
The best thing about this public ledger is that everything is permanent and any alterations on the things you published can still be transparent. It’s the best evidence for your previous screw ups for generations to see. It’s also the best record you can create if you’re here to build with the community.
I believe a community eventually gets what it deserves. It starts when you pick people who you want to be in your group. So if you vote on the initiation channel are rooting for questionable characters, don’t expect good results. It only takes one member bearing the badge and title to spoil the entire network of value being built. And doing nothing also means getting the results of nothing.
HivePH has always maintained a minimum level of quality when producing members capable of navigating the blockchain on their own. While the community account can’t bring in riches for its members, it certainly has the resources to keep its members thriving within the community in the form of knowledge, experience and network.
Before everything got organized in the community, there was shits and giggles to blog and marites. It’s when key members start making things a little organized and put in some direction to those efforts that everything started to become efficient. Until everything is handed to any member easy.
The #voteme channel, the guides to follow, and the key persons to approach across the ecosystem all in one package as soon as they got the member status on their name.
Here’s a sneak peek on the themes for next month’s blogging contest, directions to participate are to follow at a later post:
Week 1: What does -Ber months mean to Filipinos like you?
Week 2: Back to school experience.
Week 3: Where do you want to go on a vacation in the Philippines?
Week 4: What does wake me up when September ends mean to you?
Sinulat ni Adam~