HIVE Needs More Curators! .:. Hump Day Easy Write

Let's go down to the basics of this blockchain... I know that HIVE became a lot more than just a blogging platform, but still, that's the core of this chain and many people know only this "level" of HIVE... So, let's talk about it, and why it is still important to grow and incentivize "blogging"...

After dozens of hard forks on HIVE, we have reached a solid level of security, spam-free platform, but here and there, some plagiarism posts are going through... But, we have built many mechanisms to fight against it and to prevent spreading that on our platform... That was a very important task as we have seen many (Web 1.0, not blockchain-based) blogging platforms disappear in the past because of that... Now, when we have "protected" ourselves from bad "influences" it is time to take the second step...

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But, before doing that, I would like to mention one thing more... The "biggest problem" (or we thought that it's biggest) here on HIVE, from the moment of creation, was onboarding people... How the HIVE blockchain works itself is way too complicated for "ordinary" people to understand, but somehow, the experienced users were forcing that people understand it before use it... Many newbies quit even before turning the first page, just because of that...

Later, through time, we learned that it was wrong to do it like that... Easier ways of account creation are developed, newbies had a chance to make a first step (create a post) without too much hassle... There was progress made! More and more people came to the platform and it was harder and harder to "stick out"...

I remember very well my first ever live interview with @nathanmars and we were talking about HIVE onboarding, but also about another very, very important issue... It was (and it is) user retention! People come to HIVE, create a couple of posts, see all these hundreds-dollar valued posts, and then they see pennies on their posts... Yes, I know, it doesn't happen overnight, and you can't fly before learning how to do it... But still, after a couple of months, people struggle even if they create fantastic posts...

Is there a solution to that problem? Of course, there is, and some people are already working on it... At this moment, around 5000 posts have been created every day, and it's hard to get noticed in that jungle of posts... Unfortunately, most of them are probably "low effort posts", but there are many great ones, that deserve to get those upvotes and deserve to be appreciated!

Why? Those authors have created unique and valued content that they have published on the HIVE blockchain! That content is the VALUE of HIVE! That content helps Peakd, Hive.blog, and every other frontend of HIVE to get better rankings in search engines... That should help in getting more exposure of HIVE and crypto in general, that should help in that mass adoption that we like to mention many times... I digress...

Solution?

CURATORS

Those fantastic people that take part of their time to go through posts on HIVE, pick the best ones, upvote them, post a comment, show appreciation to authors... Those who are better organized are supported by big whales or curation trails that CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE... I will name just a couple of them and I will probably miss mentioning a lot of others, but we all know for curator accounts (group of people working for them) like @curie, @ocdb, @diyhub, @cccf, @archon-mining, @thisisawesome, @ourpick, and many others...

Most of them create curation posts, mentioning authors, linking to their posts, call others to check them, and appreciate! That has such a HUGE effect on people that have come to our platform as they feel appreciated and rewarded for their hard work... There is no better way to retain people here than that! That "creates" a feeling of being part of the community and viewing this place as their own home...

9 months ago, under the @Liotes umbrella, along with @achim03, we have started a new curation account named @Ourpick... The idea was simple... To search for quality posts among different tribes on HIVE and promote them... Promoting authors of the posts (usually undervalued posts), but also promoting different tribes! Win-Win! Currently, HIVE tribes are the "face of HIVE", as many people come to them, without knowing that they are part of a big HIVE blockchain... How great is that?!

We are still a small curation project, but, in only 9 months, the growth is noticeable and we don't do anything crazy, or hard... We do only 3 steps that anyone else can do...

1. Find a good post on HIVE, read it, and create a meaningful comment
2. Upvote the post and share it with other readers
3. Create a special post where we mention authors that we picked for that day and share the post with our followers...

If you don't have time to do these things, you still can support authors by following the curation trails of these curators! In that way, you will help the whole ecosystem and help in members retention on Hive!

Thank you for your valuable time,

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