Let's just start with a simple statement: Hive needs curation to thrive and grow.
We need content consumers as much as we need content creators. It will be vitally important for us to create a reason for viewers of our content to create accounts and use those accounts to upvote and curate content.
Let me explain.
We start out looking at Blogging on Hive.
Some of us integrate and become both bloggers and content consumers mostly of people that we follow and who follow us allowing us to do reciprocal growth.
However, most of us here want to Blog on Hive. Experience and repetition has proven it time and again that merely blogging is not enough. Making friends and engaging with other people's content is just as important as actually writing blogs of your own.
Don't Waste your VP!
So many Redfish and Minnows do this and it seems that one the handful of the upper echelons, the Dolphins, Orca and Whales know this!
When you upvote a post, you are using your stake to allocate rewards to an eligible post. HALF that only goes to the author and the other half comes back to you!
This means that if you have XXHP and your vote is, Hypothetically $0.50 then $0.25 worth of rewards is awarded to the Author of the content that you upvoted. And $0.25 of that post reward is paid to you once that post pays out!
Thus, it is your job to keep your VP between 80% and 99% but never 100%
I am guilty of burning out my VP to lower than 80% but the smart people will tell you that this is not the best idea. You should rather make more 50% and 25% upvotes or limit the number of 100% upvotes that you send out.
Also, there is a minimum threshold and if the post you vote on does not meet criteria there is no payout. If you have low HP, but you vote on popular posts then you will get your full Curation payout, even if it is small.
It snowballs so it keeps going!
A new class of Hive user - The Reader/Watcher/Consumer
We need people to come use the platform and upvote and comment on posts. People who are not necessarily interested in the adventure and grind that is being a blogger on Hive, but those who want to use this platform and share and read content created by the Bloggers!
Bloggers need encouragement and feedback!
There is nothing more vital to a blogger than a comment on their posts! Even if the message that you leave on another person's post is short and simple, getting feedback and encouragement is vitally important.
If you can, ask questions of the writer or when people make comments on your posts, ask them questions instead of closing off the conversation with a conversation stopper/ender.
If we posted blog posts about a variety of different content, but nobody ever made a comment or engaged with you, you would feel like you are living in the void, a Ghost Town.
That is not what we want on Hive!
Busy Bees Unite!
I am looking for a team of 100 Active Bloggers. The Busy Bees are all about reciprocal growth.
After I establish the A Team 100 Bloggers, I want to focus on building a Busy Bees Reader group. People who just have accounts to use to upvote others and make comments on posts. This is also a category that would to well for people who only ever post casually once in a while.
By increasing the Curation and Encouragement by making upvotes and comments we KEEP Hive a busy place and a safe place for us to blog and grow!
Thank you for reading this post!
Cheers!
@zakludick
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