A little @poshtoken and OCD community update

As most of you know, focused curation in the OCD community has been halted ever since we announced and launched the Community Incubation program, so far the incubation has been going pretty well and we have no plans to change it, although we would encourage anyone to start communities with niches that don't exist on hive yet (or aren't incubated by us) which you believe might grow and find an audience on Hive. Once you've created your niche, have a few active unique authors posting in it, you're welcome to apply in the #community-incubation channel in our discord server. Eventually we will start our own communities we think could grow well on Hive even with the risk of others claiming we're attempting to centralize communities, I think you've had enough time by now. :P

Although we still curate a little here and there in the OCD community, we encourage anyone posting there to post into the niche specific communities either in our incubation or outside of it (if we know about them and they are active). In general the OCD community has become kind of a mixture of introduction posts and general blog posts (blogging) which we're not against. We also mention in the rules that we prefer authors to post into more fitting communities but that cross-posts are welcomed (a feature that only exists on Hive account@peakd).

In an effort to also get the rest of authors who either don't seem to take the hint that it's better for them both curation-wise and attention/interaction-wise to post their certain niche content into the fitting communities, we will effective immediately "enforce" a beneficiary percentage when posting into the OCD community to go towards Hive account@poshtoken. Peakd allows communities to have posts posted within it to automatically send a beneficiary percentage towards a specific account, those who don't mind this and want to still post in the community are welcome, but hopefully those who post things that could fit better in other communities will eventually do so. If you're continously going to post, say for instance gaming content into OCD when you much rather could post in the Hive Gaming community and at the same time avoid the beneficiary cut we will be forced to mute you from the community after a warning or two.

Some words about why Hive account@poshtoken.

POSH is a community-funded and community driven coin, of course there hasn't been a lot of development in it yet for the community to weigh in on what to do with it, other than the core functionalities working properly now thanks to our dev Hive account@rishi556, but in the future we will open up those discussions a lot more. There are now a lot of plans on what to do with it, although a lot of it will require developers and artists, but the smaller things that we can work on for the time being are things like this beneficiary settings sending it some extra rewards and we're also planning on having the account start to curate posts based on POSH earned. Keep in mind we say earned cause we don't want people to just be able to buy POSH tokens and thereby "buy" votes on their content that way. The account is still a considerable small size so it's not going to require that much oversight to begin with but over time we will make sure to remove and add people from the curation list if they're showing signs of abuse in any kind of form. Similarly, we can also remove people from being able to earn POSH if they're going out of their way to cheat Twitter performance that affects POSH earnings and we have removed some in the past.

It's a community token, "Come on, man" in Biden's voice, stop abusing it.

The end-game for poshtoken is the same as it's always been even before it was a real token while we were distributing it "on a regular database" to users sharing hive front-end links onto Twitter. Our next goal is to also add more front-ends eligible to earning but we would also appreciate it if some of the front-ends that aren't listed yet would want to accept POSH as a currency for promoting their posts on said front-end. After all, users earn POSH by promoting the front-end on Twitter and bringing it traffic, so it would make sense for the front-ends to allow users to promote their posts in the promoted section by accepting POSH. We will be reaching out more about that to individual front-ends as POSH needs some usecases other than just holding it right now, except for the bigger plans we have that may still take a while to be started.

Lastly, we're also considering accepting delegations on Hive account@poshtoken in exchange for earning some POSH. We would have to take part of the daily issuance of 500 POSH tokens and send it to delegators in exchange for their delegations. No percentages are confirmed yet, we'd have to do some math to come to a fitting conclusion but we'd love to hear your thoughts on this as it would allow the account to grow, curate more posh earners and eventually our plans would be to take part of the weekly curation rewards and buy POSH and burn said POSH or use it for things to help it grow. Important thing to note here is that we will keep Hive account@poshtoken fully "non-profit" for anyone specific except for all POSH holders. The reason we want Hive account@poshtoken to grow and gain in value is of course as incentives for more people to share hive links to their Twitter followers. Lowering the issuance to earners and sending it towards delegators isn't that bad as I think it's kind of in the spirit of crypto to reward early earners/holders and make the token harder to earn over time and have more usecases, but we'd love to hear your thoughts on these changes here and some of our plans for Hive account@poshtoken in the future!

Will be posting this in the OCD community now to test the default beneficiary function.