Now you're catching on. I think you have your roles mixed up a bit.
Since Hive is a decentralized blockchain, and each one of these content creators is like a business owner, I'd say it's each individual's responsibility to attract consumers. And if people wanted their businesses to make money, that would require paying consumers.
A paying consumer wouldn't walk into a shop and begin sweeping the floor to earn money from the shop owners before being able to make a purchase. They'd simply bring their money with them.
An individual with stake is a paying consumer in this scenario. Staking tokens in order to support products the consumer wants is a good deal to the consumer since their money isn't spent and they actually have an opportunity to earn consumers perks like "curation" reward and upvotes on their comments.
There are also a few shortform content platforms on Hive someone wishing to play that role might be interested in. Threads and Dbuzz for example. Very few posting in that fashion are being downvoted for it. It's encouraged.
So what they need are fewer people injecting fear and gibberish in their heads, like you're doing, and more encouragement. In a way I guess you'd call that "good customer service" and really, it's up to each and every individual to provide that.
The platform has a lot of people attempting to double as both content creators and consumers. Consumers show up thinking they need to become content creators, which of course isn't going to work.
Their role along with the perks and benefits needs to be highlighted more. They also have games to play though some of those games can be tricky for the average consumer to get into.
I've been talking about this stuff for years. I compared accounts to businesses in a post here several years before task wrote this post.
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