Hey everyone, as many of you know, in our Discord Channel we've allowed people to "promote" their posts but doing it through Twitter links rather than Hive links. Then we have a team of dedicated curators go through all of them daily and pick some good ones according to a set of rules and limits, main ones being not to nominate the same people too often, of course also check for quality, effort, etc, but importantly also check for how well it was tweeted. Point being that it's not just a blanket tweet where the author only cares about possibly receiving some upvotes but also attempts to tag the post well, not just the required #hive tag for the @poshtoken comment but also other relevant tags for the post in question in an attempt to of course maybe get some more traffic to Hive from people browsing through tags or finding out about the post through a retweet from someone they're following, etc.
We've often thought about this process and how we could improve it, having a place to link your posts is something we've wanted to move away and many of us consider it something to be so "2016" if you've been around the chain at the time you may understand. At the same time, it's also rather selfish and moves away from the "give and receive" culture that upvotes on Hive bring, or at least are supposed to. (:P) Another thing we've seen very little usage of is the way we've set up the comments of @poshtoken to work. In a nutshell, they scan Twitter and announce when a post was shared with a comment under the shared post, most of the time this is done by the author of the post so the function of the comment to receive upvotes, check hiveposh.com if the upvoter is not the same as the author, then after liquidating the comment rewards using @reward.app and checking who shared it on hiveposh where the Twitter and Hive accounts are linked it would send 100% of the rewards to whoever shared it. Sadly most people don't share other people's posts to make the most out of it, in an ideal world we'd see a lot more POSH'ing from other people, the author then being thankful for someone sharing their post, giving the comment an upvote and the sharer receiving some Hive rewards from the author and some POSH rewards from @poshtoken depending on how well the tweet does.
It's quite a complicated process on the back-end as you can see, while we're trying to keep it as simple for the end-users as possible there are a lot of things to keep in mind of how it works when we want to change things around for a different initiative. And that is just for the comment function alone.
What we're thinking of doing instead may also be a little tricky at first but we're wondering how it might evolve and also the communities thoughts on it, that's why I'm writing this post to see what the general consensus would be on it.
Instead of the Discord channel, we'd remove it completely so people can't just share their Twitter links in there for possible curation. We would instead:
- encourage users to POSH other people's posts
- share the @poshtoken comment link of their POSH
- receive a comment vote for the share + curate the post that was shared
As an example, let's say I want to share @hiddenblade's latest awesome post about her dog giving blood to save another dog's life on Twitter. I take the peakd link, write a description, add the #hive tag, maybe include #dog, #pets, #donatingblood, etc. Then @poshtoken would see my tweet and write a comment under @hiddenblade's post with my tweet embedded. I would then take the link of that comment, paste it under the POSH Curation compilation posts of @ocd and wait for curators to go through it to maybe vote the comment up cause I tweeted it properly and also curate the post that I shared.
This would encourage more people to be friendlier and take care of eachother's "proof of sharing", maybe build some connections through it and get their posts shared in exchange another time, etc. Main point being that we'd encourage the sharing of other people's posts and reward that through both the @poshtoken comments, POSH earnings and curate the post even if it wasn't their own.
Starting out it will of course not be as popular as the current way it works, but I think the psychology behind sharing other people's content, whether they're already friends or not and then applying for curation of both the comment and the post would be better than the way things currently work where they just tweet their post out real quick and apply for curation of their own post. It has a lot of accounts that mainly do that and nothing else, nor do they care if their tweet does well, if they are following other Hive users on Twitter to attempt to grow the reach of every POSH tweet, etc.
Maybe this would enforce the community spirit a bit more and we'd see more activity overall both on Hive and Hive Twitter.
Let me know what you think! Been a while since I've posted, hope you're all doing well!
