What If More People Started Posting Content Without Minding the 7 Day Payout

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This shitpost was inspired from noticing the trend of content I consume from YouTube. Some of the creators I recently discovered and was really interested in are no longer with us. And yet their stuff was still available online still providing entertainment years after.

We have refined the art of record keeping and this benefits the next generation. Future generations don't need to interpret symbols on a stone tablet or wall just to fill in the gaps. We can store records of our lives up in the cloud. Whether you believe it or not, everything can be content and be monetized including our lives as there will always be a market for people getting interested in people and the stuff they put out.

If a video on YouTube talks about their technical analysis for the week, that sets a reasonable time period where their content is expected to be relevant before being tossed into the void of forgotten content. But if one creates content with the idea that this stuff will hook a potential follower / subscriber in the future from serendipity, then there’s a good chance it will remain relevant even years after publishing.

I don’t think I’m the only one who comes back to some bookmarked links to content I like months or even years after I liked them. You know those cover songs, reviews, travel blogs, and product reviews can still generate more eyes on your page if you thought:

What if someone stumbles on your content made years back and this is going to be their first impression of you?

It’s hard to imagine that on Hive because we don’t have any automated algorithms that can lead users to discover other related content on the frontends. A prevailing pattern I noticed when it comes to content creators here are too few users know the value of consistency when it comes to their content. It’s not just curators evaluating your stuff but also prospective followers.

Once you published your content on the blockchain, it’s there until the last frontend and witness stops their operations. You only need to produce something good once and the potential returns from that single piece of content can compound returns in ways you may not have foreseen. You just need to upload a video on Youtube once then let it sit there for ad revenue and earn for an indefinite amount for years if ever it blows up. This is a comforting thought for shitposters that it's not a 0% chance their shitposts can blow up mainstream.

Imagine you published X content months ago, if that content exhibits a well thought out piece of entertainment for your target audience then you’re likely going to earn a patron. Sometimes the right audience just comes past the 7 day payout or just can’t give you those phat votes for validation at the time. But winners understand this and still do their best to be consistent and improve their craft anyway.

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The past is a void where nothing was published and the red line represents the present where most content has less than 7 days expiration. The blue dots are potential followers that may come across your stuff and subscribe or not. Given that content here can last for indefinite years, it's possible that more people can still find your stuff interesting despite decades of it being old.

But it's difficult to appreciate that stuff when our limited vision and attention is focused on the now and less about the past and future consequences. While we have the luxury to appreciate the creators that came before us, if we're really serious about publishing content that's meant to entertain others, we may as well end up being on the spotlight to a future generation we never get to meet. And I see that as something amazing.

I'm still writing a shitpost btw, in case people are wondering where this post is heading, it's a random scribble.

It’s losers that get discouraged if they don’t get their votes for validation and those that post for quota daily that don’t really get it. Let’s be real here, some creators that are active aren’t really into what they post and it’s easy to tell which ones are really passionate about their interests.

I avoid posts that start off with titles like “My battle report for x date x game” or something along those themes because those give me red flags that what I’m about to read is content that is specifically meant to be short lived, waste a few minutes of my time reading notes with little variation from the previous day, and probably going to expect the same stuff from the author if they’ve been doing the same type of post for the past weeks. Exceptions to this include getting a well thought out analysis on the report exhibiting some novelty from the new experience and some side story telling.

If the author doesn’t seem like they would revisit their post in the future because of the intended time limit for their content to be appreciated (<7 days on average Hive post lifespan), then it’s less likely they would create content intended to be revisited by anyone else. I know that some of the views I generate aren’t from Hive but from random searches made possible by Google’s crawlers from people off the platform.

If you like to spend time watching some clips on YouTube, pay attention to the dates the content was published. Even if was years before you came across the content, if you enjoyed it, then that creator did something right, probably?

But you don’t have to pay attention to these silly observations and just post the hell you want. Good content gets you noticed and gives curators a rational reason to upvote when they see something they like but it’s really personality that makes people support you long term.

If you made it this far reading, thank you for your time.



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Interesting random scribble, I can also relate to almost all of what you have said.

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That which has value will eventually get noticed, that's what I believe when picking out content suited to one's liking online.

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Ok po, laban lang! Shitpost pa more

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My shitpost will transcend the heavens.

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I think we are getting to a point where some deep, fresh new thinking is required about reward allocation. Like you, if I come across a post, or video anywhere online that I like, I will then automatically hunt back through the authors previous content, regardless of its age, and like you, have stuff saved in 'pocket' from way back which I revisit from time to time, especially if I can only read offline.

I do wonder though if there is the stomach or will for big changes. The status quo does very well in our PoS, curation based ecosystem so when you do anything that may upset the earnings of the biggest stakeholders.

By the way, did you see @pharesm's interesting post today? Well worth a read.

Great post and thoughtfully laid out.

Hope the weekend has been good for you and best wishes for the coming week :-)

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I checked the post out but it didn't resonate with me yet. I mean, it's expressing an idea which is nice but it's just that, an idea. I may be more invested when I see a working product already so I'll just wait and see how it turns out. BTW, Pharesim's name is misspelled there.

When it comes to content creation, I think Hive creators (most) undermine how much value they have opportunity at their hands when they can publish content without fear of being regulated by algorithms or Terms and Condition changes form centralized social media platforms. Most just lean on towards the 7 day payout muh rewards side of the argument that this strength gets forgotten.

Books about fairytales survive because there are oral traditions turned to literature to keep them alive and these are content through the ages. Let's say blockchain is really here to stay, content published here will thrive and be carried forward to the next generation, bookmarked by a generation probably two or three years from ours. What would the masters thought if they knew their works has acquired a lot of patrons throughout the ages? the same thought about what we shitpost now but all that goes away when some fool just dumbs down the power by using the "muh rewards".

Thank you for taking the time to read, and hope your weekend was great :>

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I read this but my mind didn't read it, probably cos I'm on the train reading it after work.

I think I write some things here that I think are worth more than what they are viewed as but due to my randomness in afraid won't win me anyone.

But hey I'm good with that since most are just thoughts I want noted for future reference.

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Anything can be turned into content with the right audience. The fact that a video of a guy doing nothing for hours on screen went viral makes any shitpost have a shot. If I peer through the master's notebook like Da Vinci, some of his scribbles are just for the sake of scribbles but to fans, it's like oohhhh genius, much creativity, much wow, well I can appreciate the intuitive imagine, remove the name and present the same ideas to a stranger and they'll probably think differently of the scribbles.

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I avoid posts that start off with titles like “My battle report for x date x game” or something along those themes because those give me red flags that what I’m about to read is content that is specifically meant to be short lived, waste a few minutes of my time reading notes with little variation from the previous day, and probably going to expect the same stuff from the author if they’ve been doing the same type of post for the past weeks.

Too many doing just that and too often to even bother to count.

Exceptions to this include getting a well thought out analysis on the report exhibiting some novelty from the new experience and some side story telling.

Yeah! I'm afraid that there are really very few Heyokas shitposting memorable and outstanding crap like yours and mine on the Hive blockchain. };)

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There comes a point when the shitposter gets caught up in their own genius design for no one can better conceptualize what we can desire than us convincing ourselves it is a want. Not much time to spend on the platform as much as I used to but your shitposts would have been something I'd read, take a few minutes to think about then move on to the next shiny content that comes my way, and lastly reflecting what I just read before I sleep.

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Not much time to spend on the platform as much as I used to but your shitposts would have been something I'd read, take a few minutes to think about then move on to the next shiny content that comes my way, and lastly reflecting what I just read before I sleep.

Thank you! :) and yes, what you'd do is what true thinkers disposing of a extensive lexicon and abundant vocabulary to be able to decrypt & decipher the real substance behind the message of what they read would do too, if only they were willing to learn something new every day. LoL

There comes a point when the shitposter gets caught up in their own genius design for no one can better conceptualize what we can desire than us convincing ourselves it is a want.

Yeah, I'm afraid eloquent shitposters with something relevant, valuable and meaningful to share are slowly becoming into a breed and species in extinction. But unlike you, who no longer have much time to spend on the platform as much as you used to. I rather still insist on keeping it as a fun hobby planting clues everywhere as much as I can just to show how total extinction could eventually be avoided.

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Keep doing it then. I wanted a HiveBuzz badge for receiving a lot of replies.

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Hi @adamada why did you downvote my daily post ? (its a post that rewards writers ???

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Nothing specifically personal as i just follow @livinguktaiwan 's downvote trail, so the dv are triggered on their own. I think you need to clarify it with her. But if I had to guess why she may have downvoted, it may be due to how the daily templates with little variation are the source of rewards for disagreement.

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Thanks @adamada, I just checked and just removed @livinguktaiwan from the awards list (as she asked me, in one of her comments that I hadn't read).
Can you correct your votes
Selection May 12 - 2022

Selection May 10 - 2022

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No. The dv stays from me. You had the time to check the comments prior than leave templated posts on their own. There was a request and due diligence wasn't done under these posts. Not that hard to check.

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As requested, I have removed the posts in question from the list. But, really I haven't had time these last days to read the comments because my computer programming activities in Germany took me a lot of time. I hope that you will take into account my constraints and that you would act taking into consideration my good faith and my sincere apologies.

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