One of the first users I followed and one of my biggest supporters on Hive wrote about having one of his posts be the most viewed for the day on peakD. I was not surprised that this user works hard every day, writing reviews of restaurants, products, and even hotels on Hive, and the majority of those external views make their way back to Hive.
He has been an intentional creator, and it has paid off. Why? It is a no-brainer: He is the type of creator who focuses on SEO and hopes to bring us back some views here.
It was one of my goals while looking for airdrops. To gain feedback on Hive, I conducted extensive reviews of Hamster Kombat and other popular trendy Airdrops.
I am not good at SEO, but when I am targeting a popular topic, I use some keywords that are frequently mentioned on Twitter, because many people may be searching for these keywords on Google.
It is not surprising that many people want Hive to succeed while others want it to fail. There are those who are unconcerned about their actions or the consequences.
Intentional creators are those who want to direct their actions for the benefit of the chain. It is simple: when people have too much to lose, they do everything they can to avoid losing, whereas the opposite is true.
Now, this person made an important suggestion: Should curation be view-based?
I have come across some really good content out there, and sometimes I vote just to let the creator know that I saw the post; it may be insignificant, but two to ten cents added to two dollars is quite significant to some extent.
Curation cannot be based on Hive views due to the reward model that is naturally imbued in the core. Stakeholders are in charge of Curation, which automatically distributes the reward pool to individual creators.
Curators are sentimental.
They are humans with friendships, connections, preferences, and emotions. Unless we have Curation proxies and ninja-mined accounts, Curation will be difficult to base on views.
Now, hive needs individual investors who believe they have control over their stake and can direct where it goes. Stake owners are the most powerful entities on Hive, and this is due to the decentralization pattern; any individual can decide governance and influence the reward pool only if they own what is most important: Hive.
Owning what matters improves the network's value and, as a result, the price. It is how the network maintains its traction.
Web2 excels at delivering view-based rewards. Unfortunately, we are not big on advertising; in fact, one of the main goals of this blockchain is to make the system ad-free. However, many arguments have emerged claiming that we no longer need to adhere to this core because we require a large amount of external revenue.
Ad revenue is a multi-million-dollar business, and while we do not have the numbers to make a lot of money from generating ads, if Hive decides to generate revenue through ads with the various frontends, the revenue may not be as bad.
However, if we decide to go against the grain and violate privacy by incorporating ads and generating revenue, view-based Curation will become a reality.
However, overhauling the entire system is difficult, so the only way for view-based Curation to work is to blend it with the existing form of curation. Perhaps the generated revenue will be combined with the rewards of those who generate the views. I am not sure how this would really work.
I am not a smart person, but I do know that for curation to be based on views, there must be an external incentive or a higher intrinsic value generated by a post that a potential curator sees.
Second Option
Another option is to use a model to recommend posts with the most views to potential curators. This way, people with the most views have a chance to receive additional curation from what they originally created on their post within the seven-day payout. However, the seven-day payout system may have a flaw.
In Conclusion
Hive can easily instill any model it wants; we have the smartest people who can do so. We must acknowledge that Hive requires external revenue in one form or another, and ad revenue can provide it. However, it is not a widely discussed topic because the big boys are not talking about it.
The same is true for the valueplan debate; it has not been widely discussed, so it is not an emergency or priority issue.
Having ads however can negate privacy to an extent, but it can generate revenue to buy back hive off the market.
However, this tinkering may appear to be a centralized move, but many people are unconcerned at the moment as long as we generate some revenue. If ads are introduced on Hive, view-based curation will become viable.
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