but in the end of the day, the truth is that you're the ones choosing your own path.
In the end of the day system, how it is built, is dictating the rules, incentives and motivation. And the truth is that creating content for the rewards is simply too time consuming and/or not rewarding, so people are behaving in patterns that give them the most returns in terms of satisfaction.
We can preach and teach as much as we want, but as long as community members do not feel the urge to create lengthy, in depth posts themselves it will not change.
On the other hand, like you said, more does not mean better. Look at redit, that Hive was aiming to become, there is huge variety of posts, from lengthy ones, to one sentence in length.
Do not get me wrong, i am for the good quality content that is educational or fun or entertaining. And i hate the the concept of few big curators deciding and encouraging "favors" enforcing guidelines of what the content should be. This is exactly the opposite of decentralized nature of occurrence and that is why reddit is driven by the community and Hive yet struggles in so many ways.
The bottom line here is, no matter what we know what good content is or should be, it is a no brainer nowadays. It's all about incentives (and i do not mean financial ones as people can be incentivised in soooo many more ways) and culture inside the platform.
Face it. There is no point in creating big educational posts, since the absolute majority would not engage with the content, and come here just to put their votes to get the curation rewards. In times of fast consumerism and short attention spans there is no way people would give their time to go through lengthy reads. And Hive is sadly receiving 0 to nothing of traffic from the outside of the community. And content discovery is still at such a poor state that it's not worth to me mentioned. A CONTENT BASED COMMUNITY THAT HAS NO WAYS OF DISCOVERING THE CONTENT BASED ON THE CONTENT AND NO WORKING CONTENT SEARCH. WHAT DO WE EXPECT?
And trust me, I've been here on the platform for 3-4 years already, almost daily, and I've seen people and good content creators come and go cause miniscule reward in not what content creators work for. They do it for original engagement, exposure with the potential of making serious money. Hive is just a game, an experiment that is failing in my opinion. And that what it was all about, an experiment to see if financial rewards would incentivise people to create and engage in quality content.
Nobody knew beforehand that human brain does not work like that. It's a much more complex occurrence and a few bucks on a post does not make any difference :)
We could almost subscribe 100% of what you wrote there. We disagree on the fact that Hive is failing though.
Hive is in its infancy, or in the best case scenario in some sort of irreverent teenage stage. There's still a huge margin for growth and improvement.
What we wrote was simply an attempt to guide people around, and to allow them to understand the echosystem they are in. We don't have to necessarily agree with it to try to help our black and white community members to achieve better results and visibility. Specially when we are in no position to change anything regarding that said echosystem.
I have probably went off track with my last comment. I have dedicated quite some time for this community only to see it shrink and quality of the content to drop. Any startup that fails to get big traction in 5 years is a sign of big concern. Infancy is wishful thinking but i certainly hope you are right.
And guide is OK, any post that has more of meaningful information theoretically is better. But... Hive posts are basically undiscoverable and non searchable. Which kind of kills the purpose of quality, content and educational information rich content. You do not believe that curators are going through all the lengthy articles, do you? They would simply have no time for that. And voting on sheer volume is even worse practice i am afraid.