Hello everyone! Zak Ludick here from the Busy Bees group! If you have been tagged in this post, you are one of our Redfish! If you are reading this and you are a Redfish that is beginning your journey on Hive, this post will be of higher value to you than others.
Though, it might be valuable to those that have lost their way and are not posting frequently on Hive but want to!
Not every topic will be applicable to every user, but generally these are issues that every user can relate to!
Posting again and again!
For a lot of people who start posting or stop posting and need to re-start posting, there might be a bit of procrastination regarding posting.
It is up to YOU to figure out what the reason is for your procrastination. Often, the reason is fear of rejection. You are about to put in effort, put yourself out there and people might not like it, or give it much attention.
Well I have a solution for that: Post it anyway.
You have to ask yourself some questions:
Do you find your post interesting?
Do you enjoy what you are posting about?
If you like it and find it interesting, someone else is likely to do so as well.
People on Hive are unlikely to reject something that you post, as long as you follow the basic rules.
When you are a Redfish with few followers and connections or you were dormant for a long time and people forgot about you, you might not get a massive response to your post every single time, or at all for 10 posts.
Also, if you post 10 times a year this will not change. You will still be a nobody and you will not make an impact on others to make them pay attention to you.
I have been tracking the progress and habits of the Busy Bees on this group for around 3 years now and I can tell you something with concrete certainty:
Nobody that posts 300+ posts a year gets zero attention.
There are ways of increasing your recognition and therefore, your success on the platform, but in this post let's focus on the POST only.
There is a lot to learn on Hive if one wants to, its best to do it in bite-sized parts.
Basic Post rules
Your own content.
Probably the most important rule. Is it your own content?
No plagiarism. No copy-paste of other's words.
Avoid AI Generated content in place of creative/personal content.
Everything in this post is written by me, in my own words as the thoughts come to my head. This is like a conversation I would have with 1 single Redfish to teach them or to a class.
Image Rules
Is it your own image?
If not, provide a credit or link. It is best to use an image where you have permission.
I was going to use an image from www.pixabay.com.
There images have:
However, you will "score higher marks" if you can manage to use your own image!
Its just better. I use Pixabay when I do not have an appropriate image ready.
Content length
Avoid the extremes.
There are no hard and fast rules.
You CAN post a post with one image or 1 sentence. You really shouldn't.
A post with your own image and under 100 words might be seen as a bit skimpy, even under 200 words. But they are OK and as long as you expect nothing, you can post it and get a few votes. Perhaps this post serves as a place you and your friends get together and chat.
This style of post is something something that accompanies constant content like Actifit and in this case that are OK. Generally you are posting a photo, a short paragraph and workout stats. Fine.
The Goldilocks zone is between 500-1000 words for most info. 500-1500 words is also ok... when a post goes over 2000 words you run into the following problem:
- Not many people have time to sit and read a 2000-3000+ word post.
- You invested considerable time and effort to write over 2000 words and while sometimes the word-count is justified or a blogger on Hive does this all the time to great affect... I would not recommend it to a Redfish account just starting out.
The chances are too high that you won't see value for your effort and then you would stop writing/posting.
Image count can also balance out word-count. A 200 words post with 10 images sometimes does as well as 1-3 images and 500-1000 words.
Again, I have seen posts with 50 photos... after a certain point it becomes too much.
Final thoughts
Besides the anti-plagiarism rule above, the other items are suggestions and tips. Sometimes people manage to make a success outside there suggestions.
These tips are however, what I would suggest for a newbie/redfish to help them grow.
Thank you for reading this post!
