Happy New Year everyone.
Earlier today I wanted to see what happens when asking Google about curation on Hive and the AI answer it gave me, I thought was pretty good. Here it is:
Becoming a curator on the Hive blockchain is an inherent function of the platform and is achieved simply by upvoting content. It's not a special role you apply for, but a core activity where your influence and potential rewards are directly proportional to the amount of Hive Power (HP) you have "powered up" (staked).
Anyone with a Hive account can start curating immediately.
Create a Hive Account: You first need an account on the Hive blockchain, which can be created through various front-ends like Hive.blog or Ecency.
Acquire Hive Power: While you can curate with any amount of HP, your vote's value and potential curation rewards increase with more staked HIVE tokens (Hive Power). You can acquire HIVE tokens by purchasing them on an exchange or by earning them through content creation, and then "power them up" in your wallet.
Start Voting: The act of upvoting a post or comment is the act of curating. The community generally looks for quality, original content that adds value to the platform.
Yes, the mechanism of curation is the upvote, but the process involves strategy and community engagement to be effective and rewarding.
Earning Rewards: When you upvote a post, you are essentially allocating a portion of the daily rewards pool to that content creator and yourself. The total reward is split 50/50 between the author and the curators.
Voting Weight and Mana: Your influence (vote value) depends on your HP and your current "voting mana" (which depletes with each vote and recharges over time, typically over 24 hours back to 100% after about 10 full-power votes a day).
Timing Matters: To maximize your curation rewards, the timing of your vote is a strategic factor. There is no longer a "reverse auction" penalty, so you don't have to wait 5 minutes; early voters can benefit more if larger votes follow theirs, as they are seen as "discovering" valuable content.
Community and Engagement: Successful curators often interact with other users through meaningful comments, build a network, and develop a reputation for finding good content, rather than just blindly upvoting posts.
In essence, you become a curator by simply participating and voting, and your effectiveness grows with your investment in both Hive Power and community engagement.
Now back to my own writing. I am not against doing things with AI from time to time, it is a tool but one I think we should be careful with.
Seeing that people use AI tools now for searching and learning about tools they may not have come across before, I would love to see suggestions for using Hive pop up in searches, that would pique people's interest and effectively onboard them somehow, to learn about the interesting mechnaisms that drive this platform and how everyone can benefit.
