Source: Unknown informant on discord.
Inspired by a mystery user that shared this gold. I have taken measures to censor the user’s discord name with red lines to prevent people pissed by the jest. I also won’t be revealing the #9556 tag on his discord name for additional safety reasons.
In exchange for short term rewards one just trades their long term income generating opportunities from getting curated and the benefits of participating in the community. It’s hard to sell those long term gains when people are preoccupied with the price action and what value they can get with the least amount of effort at the shortest amount of time.
The red line is an event in a Hive user’s growth where they committed some taboo. This is usually in the form of plagiarism, spam, or conflict in the community they belong. This red line would often become the barrier to access future rewards because digital reputation here on Hive matters.
The length of stay on the platform with effort to learn the ecosystem and get involved with the community is directly proportional to the social rewards. Putting out good content is only the minimum.
Once it’s posted, it’s forever. So make sure you promptly do damage control when you make an oopsie otherwise prolonging the explanation would work against you. There are a lot of things that can be excused especially if you’re new to the platform but the longer the tenure the more unforgiving the community can be.
A person that lacks the ability to make content that suits a curator’s liking is far better to encourage than a piece of shit that wants the easy route and refuses to be accountable for it. The former can still improve while the latter figuratively committed social suicide within the community they belong. Never take your digital identity on the blockchain for granted because people will remember and even those who weren’t present that time can still access the records.
Redemption is still possible, but don’t expect people would forget your previous blunders especially when you don’t commit to be fully accountable for them. The golden rule I follow is to not do stupid shit I don’t want to own up to and that goes for the downvotes I occasionally cast and the drama I get involved with. Being accountable on the blockchain is a rarity because most would just powerdown silently than own up to their mistakes.
They may try to bargain with the community in the hopes that sins can be forgiven but would a simple I’m sorry really cut it when they’ve done identity theft, stole content, and repeated it with multiple accounts to make the most of their tenure? I’m sorry for the hundredth account please forgive me after I used someone else’s identity/work for my own selfish gain.
The platform isn’t going to fail if it doesn’t give you any money. And I really wonder what levels of entitlement goes into people’s heads when they think they deserve the social rewards just for sharing an opinion or interest? Worse, stuff they don’t own and selling an identity they don’t have. It’s been a rough week and I spent a good amount of time tracking some user that chronically creates fake profiles just for a few cents and giggles.
The safest way to earn from the platform is just do what you can to avoid conflict and make friends with everybody. But sometimes this isn’t the right route all the time, it’s an easy route of course but not an ideal route. I know some users would just prefer to keep quiet when their peers commit an oopsie because they don’t want any trouble.
This where minding your network also matters because these actually contribute to your overall reputation in the community. If you get involved with users that do shady business, you would get lumped together with those users by association. It’s unfair even if you haven’t done anything stupid yet right? But that’s how it usually happens in real life and the blockchain is no different especially when there’s connections that can be traced in permanent record.
The greatest asset a Hive user has is their reputation and if they took this for granted, things will usually end up getting unpleasant for their stay on the platform. Again, never do things you don’t want to be held accountable for in the first place. Most wouldn’t even care about your excuses because the act would usually speak for itself, that edit post option isn’t going to hide anything. Welcome to the blockchain.
If you made it this far reading, thank you for your time.
