I made this tweet the other day in regards to my clickbaity title: 

https://twitter.com/oAcido/status/1650413621699309568

Read another example today in the @ocd server of some users who constantly and consistently reposts photos, demands to be removed from the muted list in a photo community and justifies his reasoning with "I thought Hive was decentralized, this reminds me of Facebook!"

It's kind of funny in a way, some problems people have in their day to day digital life. Some come here and expect to be praised and showered in monetary rewards just for existing and taking the few minutes to having created an account and made an intro post. I mean, that's not necessarily bad as most intro posts get a lot of love either way, we like people and stakeholders are more than happy to welcome them with open arms and voting power. It's just that some think the bare minimum is required for that to continue happening. It's like they instantly start looking at trending, disregard anything of that author such as history, reputation, effort, quality, consistency, investment, connections/networking they may have put into to their account. 

"If he's getting $50 on a post then I should too!" 
"My content is the same if not better!"
"This place is just full of circle-jerking!" 

just a few sentences I've heard just this week. I honestly don't understand some sense of entitlement some people have, like what happened? Maybe Hive really isn't that complicated and hard to get into as we all think, maybe it's just a great filter towards some folk. That filter is maybe not just based on IQ but also work ethic, social activity and other good attributes which if you lack too many of them you're maybe not going to have that much fun here. Maybe there's also a Venn Diagram where the filtered people may be too successful for Hive's current marketcap so they decide it's just not worth the risk to invest their effort, time and activity if they can do better in web2 for now. So maybe it's mostly just people who do have a bit more of a strive to make things work, put in the time and effort and also believe in what they've read and researched about the technology this ecosystem uses and why it may be worth waiting it out until later. On top of, you know, barely anyone knowing about Hive in the current "web3" sector. 


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I remember when I was younger, maybe around the time I was in highschool still playing world of warcraft and buying some gold from some random gold sellers. I only did it once just for the experience really, and I was kind of intrigued as to how some people made money off of selling gold. I remember digging deeper into ways to "earn online" at the time but other than spam clicking ads you really couldn't do much back then. 

I mean, even in the blockchain space. I consider myself to have been pretty lucky and fortunate to have stumbled and stuck around long enough to read and understand Bitcoin. Way before there were any alts and way before it became this clusterfuck of a nasty disgusting maximalist crowd it has become today. Other than mining it with your GPU's just before ASICS came to life there were not a lot of options to earn Bitcoin without "any skill". There were some ways people could earn it through advertisements on forums such as Bitcointalk, I was usually quite engaging coming from Reddit so I spent quite a bit of time commenting and responding to people about all kinds of things and figured why not place an ad after my comments if it can earn me some BTC. This was one of the first and only ways I could come up with earning it as my student life at the time didn't allow me to buy BTC at 50-200$. At some point my account got hacked and sold never to be retrievable but after lurking in some crypto subreddits I stumbled upon Steem which kind of connected earning and the social aspect way better - even though comments would often back then be completely ignored reward-wise. 

Point of this story is that it's just baffling to me how there are some people who expect to earn online. Aside from all the scams and MLM schemes where you can earn something from referrals if others get fucked by it, aside from ads which is kind of the same except the spender thinks he got a good deal/something they needed out of it. Aside from having an actual skill and putting it to work/use much like jobs work in the real life, I really don't think it's "easy" to earn something online and I doubt that has changed over the years. I still remember when people were fascinated when they could turn ~~Steem~~ Hive into fiat and "hold it in their hands" because they thought it was more likely a scam like the rest of the internet. 

Instead we have some people who disregard all that and want to earn as much as they can without any effort behind it. I mean, some of those do exist but they at least have skin in the game and take on risk; investors. They can earn a decent amount of curation rewards with their stake by easily trailing other people's votes. People instead expect to also be able to earn easy post rewards without putting in any effort. Or if they've invested they expect to make sure they get the highest returns possible through votetrading and the sort which often means the effort behind your content and social activity declines. God forbid to be content with only curation rewards if they don't really have anything worth sharing with others.


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I'm sidetracking a bit again, but I just think it's funny how they always have an excuse one way or another if stakeholders or regular users agree with their earnings or ways to go about it. "I thought Hive was decentralized", "I thought censorship didn't exist here?". What would they say, if they could on web2 or the shithole Steem has become now? Oh right, they can't cause they'll most likely have their whole account deleted/shadowbanned or even worse, their investment and funds stolen. For every big personality/content creator that gets attention on Twitter or Reddit for having been unfairly demonetized or banned I reckon there's thousands of smaller voices that just dissipate because they can't attract attention or people just don't care enough because it's becoming a norm. 

I'm sometimes one of those who undermines problems, like say something silly or small that happens in life I usually like to be "that guy" who goes like "yeah well if you think that's bad, look what's going on in Ukraine", etc. I think there's also a term for it called "first world problems", i.e. problems that mostly just affect people in developed countries because they have it so well already they like making a big deal out of small things, or things that people in developing countries would just roll their eyes about if they could understand the problem to begin with while they face much harsher issues in their day to day. 

That's kind of how I like to see some of the issues some people face on Hive, they're here with all the opportunities and possibilities open to them but instead they choose to try and maximize earnings while their output is minimized and don't realize or give a shit that the reward pool is limited and something we all share. To then complain about things I reckon people who don't know about Hive would take their place instantly if they did and outperform them any day of the week.

If Hive is a great filter to some people and then the community and stakeholders are another filter to some that make it through but misbehave in some ways, I personally really can't wait to see what kind of folks will exist and become active here over time. Figured I'd end it on a positive note as most of the post was quite complainy in general.

Image source: I filtered for the word filter on pixabay.

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