Yea - It's not like it can really be helped that much also, unless there is a different pair of glasses put on -- as it were.

And it's not super obvious to people.

It seems like the newb way of looking at things is:

Make good quality posts, and then get rewards from the people on chain. Look it's better than Facebook, cause I get money for my posts. Except my old facebook friends aren't here, they are these weird crypto people.

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But things are sort of foreign, and there's a lot going on in terms of tech that is not easiest to understand, and whatever. So a lot of it can get lost in the weeds.

But the transition is not one of understanding more about blockchain -- but changing how you see yourself, and how you see what you are doing.

If I just post my art here on HIVE, then my audience is just HIVE, and my rewards are immediate, and Nothing bigger is happening.

This is the fulfillment of the newb message -- post quality on HIVE and you will be rewarded.

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We run into problems when we try to expand this model, because then it's like -- "Hey come post quality stuff on HIVE and you can get paid" -- and it's true, and that's a compelling arguement.

But, the audiences aren't large enough, and people complain that the same people have the same reward pool allocation who are in the same sort of voting patterns, and then there's this "I'm not noticed" type thing.

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Your job isn't to be noticed.

Your job is to get others to notice you, by doing something noteworthy.

And Noteworthy projects require audiences that are bigger than HIVE, and have a longer scope.

So we monetize with Kickstarter / Patreon / ETH / Shopify / Kindle Unlimited / LBRY / Gumroad / Paypal Commissions -- etc.

AND HIVE.

And we target audiences for our projects wherever they are -- beyond HIVE as well as HIVE.

And then we are setting ourselves up for a win-win.

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It's a paradigm shift from blogger to project coordinator.