Hive is the ideal tool for curating hashtag games. I believe that one of the best ways to bring users into HIVE is by presenting HIVE as a curation tool to people playing hashtag games on other channels.
During October I decided to concentrate on curating the #inktober hashtag game. This game started in 2009. It challenges people to draw a picture a day in October. The game attracted top talent from the illustration industry. I've encountered wonderful videos and galleries developed during the event.
The event has tapered off in the last few years because it requires a great deal of work with very little in rewards.
I decided to following inktober2021 on HIVE, SteemIt and Blurt to see how the game fared on different platforms. I made a page reporting on the event.
Sadly, things did not go well on SteemIt. Many of the entries on SteemIt failed to crack the illusive $0.02 barrier. 80% of the SteemIt rewards went to a single player who appeared to be getting automated votes.
HIVE did much better. There were 49 people with #inktober posts. The contestants had 431 entries and received 52,569 upvotes. The system currently shows about $5,707.31 in HIVE rewards. That is over $13 per post. This is phenomenal as many of the posts would qualify as amateur or outsider art.
The entries get additional rewards most of the participants included the #CreativeCoin tag and got CCC rewards. Currently the price of CCC is quite low. It is currently running at 0.00333 HIVE. However, I would like to point out how the CCC rewards for Inktober are nicely distributed on CreativeCoin.
The alt coins are able to signficantly supplement the HIVE rewards for posts in a hashtag game.
It appears that there were only four players who completed the inktober game. I only completed 2/3rds of the prompts. I spent the first weeks of October trying to read HIVE and HIVE-ENGINE documentation so that I could create a program that automated the collection of data on the hashtag.
HIVE developer documentation is extremely lousy. Much of it is old and obsolete. Simply parsing hive.blog would be eaiser than reading the document.
There should be a very simple URL format that would return a JSON object of flat file with the data for a hashtag. But I can't find that URL.
grumble, grumble
Anyway, since I couldn't find the tools that I needed, I wasted hours manually creating a spreadsheet of the hashtag data.
Why I Wrote This Post
If there was an easy way to report the rewards for a given hashtag, then we might be able to attract users from other platforms who are interested in playing hashtag games like Inktober.
Even though there was only four people who completed inktober, HIVE dished out several thousand dollars in rewards for the game.
The reward pool was fairly well distributed.
Alt-coins like CCC greatly enhance the game as it is easier to assure a decent distribute of rewards with alt-coins.
For the picture I stuck two toys on one of the images I drew for the inktober event. I also have a little toy steam locomotive that I bought back when HIVE had a different name.
Conclusion
Inktober is a highly visible hashtag game. What can people on HIVE do to attract users from Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr or other places where people play hashtag games?