I seem to be on a kick about making improvements to Hive, so we'll keep it going with this post. You can make a pretty penny simply by letting HBD sit in your account undisturbed. You can make almost as much interacting with posts, correctly upvoting, etc.
The issue is this: do we really want to reward powering down Hive equally to interacting with the platform? I'm sure these arguments have been made elsewhere, but I'm wondering how in the world the powers that be (i.e. the witnesses) came to the conclusion that this is a good idea. Activity on the platform should not only be rewarded more, but at a much greater rate than what you can make investing your time most other places online.
The issue comes down to effort. The riskiest and hardest effort action on this platform is in curating posts, not writing them. Reading endless articles, upvoting only the best ones. Waiting for the results. But of course curation is meaningless without good content to curate.
I think there's a myth that people think Hive has a visibility problem. I disagree. This would imply that Hive has enough good content and a strong enough and clear enough proposition, that if people were only more aware of it things would blast off.
Hive does not have a visibility problem. It has a quality and ROI problem. Quality in the sense of generating interesting articles and projects (interesting to people who are not currently on Hive). ROI because it's much more efficient to go work for someone who will pay you a living wage for your work than to work based on the idea that you should simply have faith in some future returns. People have needs now, and at the end of the day you get what you pay for in a society like ours.
I don't say all of this to be negative, but these are not thoughts I'm seeing on this platform, and I feel they need to be shared.
