RE: Rethinking curation on Hive — WeAreAliveAndSocial

Greast post - this is the kind of conversation we need more of on Hive !

Pulliing together ideas related to good points others have made;

@bitcoinflood raised the issue of advertising. I agree. In order for Hive to grow, we need increased genuine market cap and the cashflow to pay for external advertising. So we should find ways to get advertisers spending money here, in ways that don't clutter th eplace up or get creepy. The only other way to increase market cap is when people invest cold hard cash to buy HIVE.
A couple of people have mentioned that curating people who earn and then cash out drains liquidity from Hive an dcommitted Hivers. Perhaps a simple (but controversial) answer is to persuade front ends to code in an icon or colour change in the user's name when they've got a power-down going on. After all, it shows up in the wallet screens, so the data is there !
I agree about SEO. Google has to be pushed hard to index Web3 content; I suspect they recognise a competitor when they see one. Post tags are useful internally, but don't really help expternally, and most users (quite rightly !) aren't SEO experts. But Hive has some genius-level developers; I wonder if AI couldn't be put to work looking at posts and creating the SEO for them based on content, then we'd just need to code in ways to feed that data through to Web2.
Although I mostly make long-form content, I think short form content needs to be rewarded as well. A big barrier to getting upvotes is seeing a thread or snap with no votes and thinking it's a wasted vote if I don't commit enough to get it over the 2 cent dust threshold. So perhaps the answer is that tiny upvotes for short form content could be consolidated daily (similar to the way they go into containers) and the dust cap for short form content applied to the daily aggregate.

Sorry, I wrote an essay ! :D

First thanks a lot for your essay.. You should write a post about it :-)

These are all great points. I think that hive needs to sell itself better. It needs more traffic, better SEO, external monetization and a growing user base. I believe we can get there by having a short message platform that actually rewards people for engaging and interacting. Few people are capable of writing 500 words posts but almost everybody can write short form content. When I write a snap, I check whether I get comments and upvotes almost on an hourly basis. I do the same for posts but I tend to make more snaps than posts. That just makes me come to the platform more often and stay longer. The more interaction we have, the more traffic and the more the mouth to mouth marketing could emerge. In addition with the hive reward pool, we have a great tool to incentivise all that :-)