Someone said a question in the title draws people in. Although I am a title G.O.A.T I will try their ludicrous suggestion. What do you think?
My actual title was going to be: Attention Hooker
But I figured the connection to value might be a bit tenuous.
So to get to the point, I am guessing we are all well aware that if Hive were to go quite low. Fewer people post. When the value of any token goes up then those same people are quite vocally posting like headless chickens.
Personally, I tend to just ignore them and kind of absentmindedly keep track of these "milkers".
They give off youtube trender vibes. A breed that ought to be exterminated.
But...
We all do this to some degree, gotta know how to milk. I guess some call it hustling, others call it making use of opportunities, or grinding. I like to grind baby. No, no I don't. Is that your boyfriend? Bye.
Call it what you will but our attention costs something. On facebook and twitter, that is time and well not much else since really all the hype about privacy is kinda stupid. It is their sites they can do what they want. So it costs us a lack of control and assuming our role as consumers and product.
It seems almost reversed in the blockchain space, since although it costs our time, it is not the "company" asking how can we profit from the users. Instead we ask how can I profit from the "company".
For the most part that just works, and the more we profit from our activities the more the "company" gains through people assuming it is the place to be and boom being popular all of a sudden actually means something for a change.
I have a love hate relationship with incentives, on one hand they tend to not really work because I will find a way to diminish or disregard the value. On the other hand Darren, they do work when the effort input is far less than the output.
Blogging is hard. Even writing nonsense as I do is hard, not because I can't keep writing nonsense. You are your harshest critic, I hope.
So maybe my case is different since I don't have a "blog" or "brand" but what I do have is a, "you can do it" attitude and a tendency to lurk. I lie about the "you can do it".
So I flutter from Steem to Whaleshares to Torum , from ProofOfBrain to LeoFinance. From Splinterlands to Rune and Gods Unchained.
Each one of those and more usually had a few things coming together to create the perfect storm. So without further ado and bum scratching.
My attention costs about $5.49
Don't ask how I figured it out. I just know.
From all the apps and chain opportunities I use I would say that the ones I care to pay attention to the most I can easily earn $5.49 and more a day.
It use to be less, and since Hive is my main focus I guess it has drawn me from the $1 gutter up to the clouds.
I will still find myself giving something more attention than others, even at the cost of income. Hence I don't in fact post or comment a lot. I don't play some play-to-earn games more often.
I don't readily jump on any new thing that comes just for a quick cent. Mostly.
I wait, I watch and I see where my attention is drawn. When something is new it is almost always only because they seem fresh and big surprise because of new faces and chatter within the communities.
As I said before really you are never late to the blockchain or any new crypto, you are there when you are ready to understand it.
What keeps you involved when all the chatter has died down and old Tom must post about one more lofty obvious blockchain benefit making you want to cut him. What keeps you is a mix of the old and the rise in your earnings.
So as unclear as my post probably is, I am sure you get the point, and you are fully aware of what draws your attention to flutter between options. One is your anchor , will that anchor hold in the storm or get caught in the rocks and rip out your hull. Then Jenny will go "Oh no, John. I told you to stop buying that shit." Then John becomes a Hive gigolo and gives everyone hepatitis, they grow old and get horny senile because that is how it works.
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