RE: Travel and Food Bloggers on Hive should do a little more SEO with their content
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I understand where you're coming from, I too love personalized articles over the whole SEO articles, because that's a lot of work over just having fun creating good content that people will enjoy reading.
However, if you look at where we are now with Hive, sooner or later people begin to get upset that food posts and travel posts are earning a lot and the creators are just selling - well, travelling and cooking cost money, so I don't know if we don't think that far.
So at the end of the day, we have to likewise compete, SEO is just one of the ways to do that not to mention that part of the revenue could go into buying back hive or defending the market value and everyone would stop overly protective of the rewards pool.
But if any other sustainable ways to incentivize creators can be deployed then fine, because if people are not incentivized, the truth is that at some point, the social side of our chain will die off.
In respect to your idea, I must say that is interesting but I believe if that were to happen, the vast majority would stop writing the usual fun-filled travel posts that you love reading and join the SEO train because often than not, people will follow the money unless of course if sticky to the regulars is more rewarding of which that would also make people less interest in joining the SEO writers.
I don't know if it makes any difference if a new community is created or not given the nature of hive posts tending to show up in multiple places.
What I was proposing wasn't to eliminate the organic travel reports or food posts, but just to have a little SEO mix to it. Maybe the communities can host occasional contests focused on just that.
I'd wait with major conclusion about rewards until the next bull market, then future of Hive will be much more clear IMO. As for this ad-stream idea, let's how it works with Leo, but it generates anothers risks and factors when scaled up (censorship of content and incentives to meddle with policies). The other thing, I wonder if you agree, is opinion that SEO destroyed contemporary Internet experience, it's hard to find high quality opimized sources, articles are hard to read, ahhh, I'm starting to repeat myself.
As for people just posting and powering down rewards I'. frustrated by that too and solution is simple - I just try to not vote these accounts. I had access to a statistical analysis I'd like to share with you now, this data is all on the blockchain, on the right are ammounts of accounts active during a particular month in 2023, and the left column shows how big percentage of author rewards earned by accont sits there as HP. Basically we had 2000 active "investors", people who have more HP then what they earned by posting, and we had around 1200 "leeches", people who powered down more than 90% of earnings. And a lot of people in between. Please note, not active accounts were not taken into account at all. This speaks something in terms of trend but statistics is not full without ammounts of HP.
I concluded there are not that many people just posting and powering-down, but it's hard to precisely measure influence of these on the price and subject is generally a taboo.
Yes, I agree, SEO has ruin content creation on a the grand scheme of things.
If Leo leans towards content, I don't see why ad revenue wouldn't be a great addition to the ecosystem. But your mention of content censorship, well, the arguments around here has been that one cannot be censored given that the post can't be taken off the chain, so it's like we totally ignore the fact that frontends can and will censor and praise what lies on the blockchain of which the average person won't care about because you know, the average perform is no developer.
Now, about the rewards pool, this is some interesting stats really, if it isn't much work to you, can you point me to where this data is from? That's if you still have access.
It's another, more subtle form of censorship, people creating content about certain topics will be disincetivised to add to it either by policy introduced by frontend or much lower rewards from curators (downvotes?). It's about topics advertisers don't want to be associated with such as religion, politics, sexuality, health, or diversity. It's happenning right now on Web 2.0. In the endgame, when scaled up, we finish with bullshit, that's the case.
I don't have access, actually the source is not available anymore, I'd just link it to you. As far as I know few SQL command would do the trick. I don't know SQL :(
IMO, such ratio (accumulated HP/earned HP) seen on the account would be an interesting secondary reputation for curators, that would help with distribution of HP and price in the long term.