The planning continues as I brainstorm and formulate a strategy for creating the communty I envision. I have the idea. I've gathered feedback from members of #thealliance. I've chatted with some whales in the Hive Discord channel about their view of short form content. The general consensus is with rules in place to avoid plagiarism, copypasta, spam, AI and non-citation of sources, nobody would be opposed to the idea.
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I asked if anyone knew of any Hive communities that grew on their own without a whale to curate posts. Nobody could think of any. I'm far from a whale, but that doesn't mean there aren't ways around this.
Delegations
Rather than buy a massive amount of HIVE, I could take on HP leases. I'd pay out 80-90% of curation rewards for these delegations and slowly build additional HP with the 10-20% left over. To avoid this affecting my personal account, the logical step for this would be to create a separate curation account for this.
Funds
The question is then where do the funds for the liquid HIVE come from? I'm currently running a silver/gold raffle where people can buy tickets for a chance to win silver or gold from my personal collection. I pay the shipping, everyone gets to have fun in the raffle, and this gives me funds to pay delegators until the curation rewards start coming in and I can keep the project going from doing power downs.
I doubt I'll get enough delegations to get into whale territory, but with the funds I have now I could see the curation account being a decent sized orca that could hand out $0.50-0.60 upvotes. It's not massive, but it is substantial. I may consider other rewards as well, such as other H-E tokens, HSBI, etc. It's all still a work in progress, but I think the project is viable.
Let me know in the comments if you like these ideas, hate them, etc. I appreciate any and all feedback.
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