I may catch some heat for talking about this, but with alt season basically here, and the sure possibility of our token going up considerably in value, I think It should be said.

Once upon a time

There was a time when I took it upon myself to go out there and recruit people. I made it a point to go after big names, youtubers with thousands of followers and through a lot of effort succeeded in onboarding them.

But sometimes I don't know if what I did truly helped. Maybe the expectations that I set for them were too far off, expectations that invited disappointment in the end.

As a matter of fact, I wrote a script that became an animation for David Pakman. In said story David had finally defeated the powers that be, the censoring overlords that had destroyed his business model on Youtube. (Adpocalypse)

I'm quite convinced David thought this to be true, to finally feel like this blockchain was a viable solution to his conundrum, but as you might know, he's long gone these days.

David was not the only "big name" that Steem (in those days) at some point in time had. This very blockchain also hosted notable people of Crypto like Max Keiser, but the story of his exodus is quite similar.

Why?

I can't say it's only one thing that made these people go away. I'm sure it's a combination of things that did it, but it was certainly not just the value of the token depreciating.

As a matter of fact, both Max and David began being flagged to oblivion by people who deemed them too leachy to be part of our community. How dare they cash out? How dare they make low effort posts?

In my personal opinion the immune system of this very blockchain has done itself a lot of damage, but that's a topic I've touched so much, I'm beginning to sound like a broken record.

So what now?

I hope that this time around we can do a little better on this front. To not be so judgmental, be more patient and give the newbies a better guideline to follow.

This is not, and it probably never was (debatable I know), a get rich quick scheme of sorts. The idea to me is best sold from the standpoint of ownership and censorship resistance, than the monetary gains that can be made here.

So...

If you began recruiting

First, I wish you the best of luck on the task at hand. I know Dan is running an incentive program and I believe this to be an awesome thing. But, do yourself a favor; Be sober, don't oversell, don't tell people "COME MAKE MONEY, lets be whales together".

Attempt if you can to talk about the inevitable shift from web2 to web3, the need for ownership, the downside of centralized big tech, etc. If that resonates with the would be Hivean, only then I would throw in the fact that some gains can be made here too.

You see, none of the platforms they use: Instagram, Facebook, Youtube, etc. None of them promise them riches. Still, they find themselves constantly using these apps, participating of communities and what have you.

Do you see my point?

At any rate

There's another conversation to be having on the need of consumers of content too. A category of users, of people, that we often forget they exist.

Hey, there might be people who use social media just to watch videos, read posts and laugh at memes, but have no interest in being content creators. (slight sarcasm intended here)

Hope everyone has a great productive start of the week...

Cheers

MenO