The News

Nothing too exciting with crypto prices that I have seen. $HIVE is down a little, but has not varied a lot over the last few months. I am just amazed that $STEEM holds up at all. They have no obvious development going on and a few accounts milk most of the rewards. I know some people post there as well as on Hive, but you would be lucky to make much there. My old account is censored anyway.

Some time ago @pharesim created Hiveinvite that let you create accounts for others and would send the keys directly to them. Previously you needed to enter your key on the site, which some would not feel comfortable doing. Now it works with Keychain. I have lots of account creation tokens, so I will try this soon.

I did create an account for someone who contacted me on Facebook, but I did it by the old method of downloading the keys and sending them over. I will delete that file, but they have to trust me to do it. Of course they should really change their keys anyway, but I suspect a lot of people have never done that. It is actually pretty easy on Peakd and I have done it several times. As long as you ensure you have the key file you will be safe. There is a need for better newbie resources about Hive. There are various help pages, posts and videos, but finding them can be tricky. I found some peakd 'collections', but they were quite old and some information may be out of date.

I also saw @anomadsoul discussing curation. This is an endless topic. We have issues both with rewarding good content and in how downvotes are used. The big accounts need to use their votes for the good of Hive. I have seen so many debates about what counts as quality content. It does not have to be a 500 word blog post with lots of images and detailed sources. People should make it clear if they did not create something though. Elsewhere online a selfie or meme can get massive engagement. I do not see why Hive should not get a share of that. We have ways to do short form content with Leo Threads, DBuzz and Ecency Waves. Those are designed to avoid massive rewards through automatic votes. Put your memes on those and have fun.

Friday Follows

• @silviabeneforti has a solo art exhibition right now. You can wish her luck and perhaps find some art you would like to buy.
• @lordbutterfly shared a clip from his Hive documentary featuring @theycallmedan. I am excited to see the finished movie. It is due to be previewed at Hivefest, but I would expect it to be available after that.
• I think I mentioned @buzzparty recently, but they have now put out maps showing Hive events around the world. I keep saying that anyone can host an event as it can just be a meetup in bar, cafe, park or other place where people can get together to chat. Let them know if you do.
• @daniellemurray posted some songs that she and I along with @purplesinger and another friend recorded one weekend.

These folk get a share of the post rewards.

The Doghouse

A while back an account was posting gaming videos, but the owner was very reluctant to verify that they were from his Youtube. We get plenty of instances of people posting content as if they created it when they just found it online. He did eventually prove the link, but had a bad attitude that won him no friends. He is still posting, but gets no real engagement. He has tried to exploit buying votes from Ecency instead of getting actual fans. I would not think that is too profitable.

Meanwhile he seems to have created several other accounts, including some that try to imitate people from the abuse-fighting community. This also seems to be one of his, but it just posts these random texts. Some have got votes, but those have been removed.

I do not think you need to 'suck up' to the big accounts here, but if you actively antagonise people whilst making no attempt to build a real following then you will not succeed. Hive rewards cannot be taken for granted and if you try to play the system you are likely to be found out. Some people here are very good at tracking down abuse.

It is possible this person has issues with engaging with people, but has made no claims about that. Hive is a social platform and behaving antisocially will hamper your chances.

The End

I will be compiling a new #BritList tomorrow, so please let me know if I may have missed anyone. It is not too late for your inactive friends to post, comment or vote to be included. Any of those activities will count. I would love to see the active numbers go up again.

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