On Hive, there's a culture that's emerging where creators are conflating word count with value, and then they optimise their articles for length because they believe that the sheer effort correlates with financial rewards. And usually this results in massive walls of texts, and they pad their posts with, for example, translations, not for accessibility, but basically to double the volume and prove that they're working hard. But if they wanted to give the best experience to their followers, they wouldn't bother with that. They would just deliver the core content cleanly and concisely. And this dynamic transforms the platform's reward system into virtue signalling and manufactured labour rather than a genuine meritocracy.

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