I don't know about you guys, ever since I switched over to Hive, I've been posting less. Previously on Shiteem I was posting pretty much every day, trying to earn more rewards. I had some auto votes, and I know if I kept my my quality up, there was a good chance of getting decent payout, not to mention the whale votes if I was lucky.
Since Hive, this didn't seem to matter so much. Don't get me wrong, I'm not fed up with Hive, quite the contrary in fact. As a community we worked hard to create Hive, it was a painful process and not something we wanted to do if we had an option. And it's for this reason, Hive deserves to be treated better, and made into a better place. We've had the experience of the good and bad, and know what good to make better, and what bad to eliminate.
Posting and earning rewards although still nice to do, has become secondary for me. I feel as part of the community, we all have a responsibility to make Hive a better place, otherwise we could end up as Shiteem 2.0 minus Shit Sun. I used to think not abusing, not scamming, not being an idiot is the basic requirement of being a good corporate citizen on the chain. Just do what a decent human being would normally do is fine. The masses fall into this category, myself including, and there's nothing wrong with that. Hive is nothing without the community.
At the other end of the spectrum we have the witnesses. For the newbies who don't know, these are the people who runs a server to process our transactions (post, comment, upvote etc). One of their other important responsibility is to vote on whether the chain should run a new version of software (hard fork). Anyone can become a witness providing they have the technical capability and infrastructure, that's why there's only a handful of witnesses on Hive.
In between the masses and witnesses are what I call the influencers. Their roles are wide and varied and undefined. Basically they make things happen, and these things make a difference to people. These things can be anything, they can be good (or bad) , can impact the entire chain, parts of it like a community or group of people, or maybe even just individuals. Anyone can be an influencer, you don't need to be a whale. In fact there's probably more around than you think.
And that's what got me thinking. What can I do on Hive to make it a better place? What can I do to make it less me and more everyone? I'm not looking to make a massive impact, that's beyond my capability. Just little things, things that can make an impact on one, two, three or even a few people every week will be great. In fact, if 50% of the masses became influencers, just imagine how much better we could make Hive.
Ramble over . . . . . and now it's Monday