I love getting inspiration for content by poking around the blockchain....
I'm starting my next big trip on the road and before I did, I had some downtime this afternoon. So here I am, spending time...Scroll the snaps on the blockchain and guess what I see...
Something that inspired me and hopefully could inspire you too!
And it's from a VERY active creator on Snaps.... 
I have been screaming from mountain tops about short form content (microblogging) and it's importance here on the blockchain. When 
Remember these marketing messages we used to parade around...
I mean, microblogging was tailor made for this blockchain and with the recent developments taking place here, across the board, it's evident that there is HUGE potential with short form content.
Everyone is doing it, Leo has Threads, 
And that's all fine and dandy but alas.....Take a look at what
The fun will be lost, if people don't feel valued and that means...No upvotes, no traction.
So let me get this out of the way right now....
Save that 'protect the rewards pool' for someone who hasn't been here since day one. We've been 'protecting the rewards pool' since I got here and it's left us with a 6 cent token and I think we're tracking at #600 or something on Coingecko.
I actually have a solution for this that would increase the price of the token (maybe lol), but more importantly would retain our members and make people actually rave about this blockchain to their friends and family...
And here it is....Use your upvotes.
Crazy, I know. Revolutionary in fact but let's look at this from a purely psychological angle...
New User A comes to the blockchain. They actually figure out how to manage 'account keys' and don't give up with the awful onboarding we currently have on chain and start seeing the amazing applications and communities here.
New User A starts to poke around on the short form apps. They hang out, they share some pics, they network a bit, they engage with others....And they do this, without expecting a thing in return.
After a few weeks of this, they get zero support in the form of upvotes, and they start to drift....Eventually because of no support they leave. No big announcements, nothing huge, they just leave.
Meanwhile, we have protected the rewards pool!
So what happens if New User A gets 10 cents worth of Hive when they make a Snap or two. What happens when they start seeing the boost in engagement from the other community members. What happens when they start to write and create long form posts and get a few bucks here and there.
You know what that develops.....Loyalty.
We have been our own worst enemy here on chain because we scare people off and then the people we don't scare away, we rarely support. So they eventually leave because why would they stay...Zero rewards, zero community involvement, and zero growth potential.
Yeah, they aren't going to stick around because it's 'decentralized' either.
We literally can become the change we want to see, we just need to stop holing onto our voting mana like it's a boittle of water in a desert. And I'm not saying support the obvious fake accounts, I'm not saying give people 10 bucks worth of upvotes a day.
I'm just saying....Let's start treating the rewards pool as a REWARDS pool. Let's see what happens when we do things differently than we have since Hive first started....
Which reminds me....I need to go use my voting power of
