Building Our Hive Power

Previously, as part of a rule with our previous curation initiative, the Hive account@moviesonhive account was not allowed to make money from its posts. With all the work the moderators were putting in, it made sense that the distribution of rewards should be even. The downside to this rule is that these community accounts remain dormant. They're incapable of growing during this period, keeping communities reliant on the curation of whales and friends. Once we parted ways with the initiative, this made us purely independent. Which is something that I feel is best for Hive communities and Hive as a platform. Though this results in many hardships that makes building a community difficult. The primary problem: funds are needed. Funds are needed to build HP, curate posts and reward users, and also support frequent contests. To do all of this, this account needs to build its strength up a bit. For the past few months, we have pursued some changes that have encouraged this, starting with changing our highlights to 100% HP, purely curated and created by me, Hive account@namiks.

Recently I started to think of different ways to engage with the community and support it, and this led to a recent series I've started in which I use this account to throw out weekly film and series recommendations to the community. This is one of the ways in which I aim to move the community from being reliant purely on community highlights to support itself, and find more fun ways to do so. There is a complete graphical overhaul planned to change our icons, backgrounds, and banners. This is something I'm really excited about since I haven't been happy with how things have looked for quite a while now.

Here and there I have started to send my own funds to the account and powering them up, adding change to the HBD Savings side of things as well. But I can't do all of this on my own, and this is where the community can help. We have an active hive.vote curation trail that has been available to follow for a few years now, so firstly I'd like to remind everyone that this exists! If you wish to support the community in some manner, I'd suggest this one first. This means that your idle Hive Power can support our curation efforts, but the curation rewards go to you, not us. Secondly, the option of delegating your idle HP to us remains. I'd be much appreciative of any delegations, though I'd prefer to know that you're earning directly from this support with the trail.

Alternatively, if you enjoy what we do and want to support us, you could always curate the community highlights, which will continue to have its rewards set to 100% HP, much like the rest of the posts here in the community will. Once there is a stronger base for the community account, the aim is to return to our old ways, in which we distributed the earnings of these community highlights to those featured within them. Operated a podcast in which we paid the contributors, and more. I want this community to remain independent, to thrive and have the support it deserves. Naturally that may take some time, but if you read this and choose to support us: thank you.