Ask the Hive: If you could go back in time, what would you tell your newbie self about your Hive journey?

in Ask the Hive3 years ago

Maybe some things you've done wrong or focused on that you shouldn't have.

Seeing as how many newcomers we've got joining these days I figured a post like this could give a lot of good advice to newbies joining. I feel like every so often you think about your past self and things you were doing or focusing on you get that feeling that you were so naive or just lacked the knowledge that it feels a little funny. With Hive having a pretty steep learning curve and many we keep seeing focusing on trying to cheat their way forward or take shortcuts and end up just ruining their chances to experience Hive for the better this could be a great post to maybe change their minds and get them working on improving their Hive journey earlier.

A lot of people in the crypto space right now are throwing around APR and APY but not many are talking about how high it can get on Hive with proof of brain and if you're really active on many fronts; such as both posting, curating and building connections that'll improve your earnings over time. Especially with linear curve coming up in the next hardfork making it even more profitable to be engaging I can see a lot of people who may focus just on engagement, that's something I did when I started out on Hive and for the longest time did on Reddit as well as I enjoyed it quite a bit and will hopefully find the time to do that on Hive again once all my other projects are finalized and rolling.

So Hive; what would you tell your newbie self to do different?


Sending 50% of the post rewards to @hive.fund.

Sort:  

This has been open in my browser for a couple of days. The short answer: Everything.
And nothing.
With hindsight, the best advice I'd have given myself, was to have just done it. It's the advice I give noobs, now. Just do it. Four years ago in July, when I signed up, there were no incubation initiatives and nobody told me about the forerunners of @ecency or @peakd. There was no @exxp.io and I had already been blogging on WordPress for a number of years but was markdown and code challenged. I've learned a bit of both by osmosis.

I ran away for about 6 months and then came back. What kept me was the people. Although there have been times when I've indulged in a lot of this:

untitled.gif

The bots and the bullies intimidated me and I wasn't sure how to deal with them. I tried staying out of their way, but didn't always succeed.

Over the years, I've found my niche(s) and even communities that I dabble in. So, actually, it's also about deciding to hang around for the long haul. It seems that @hive.blog is developing longevity. That's good for us all - and thanks in no small way to the likes of people like you, @acidyo, so thank you!

I would have told myself absolutely nothing.

My journey before Hive and now was and is an evolution over time. The good, the bad, and the ugly. Without it all it would have changed thing in unpredictable ways and the hard lessons you need to learn yourself not just be told about them would never have happened.

Hive is a messy pot of mac and cheese on the stove. Tastes great but you got let the noodles cook and the butter to melt with the cheese once the noodles are done boiling. Trying to skip the boiling to just mixing in butter, cheese and the uncooked noodles is not a fun way to go.

If I had to start over as if it never happened I would hope I would go the same route when I first started before we turned into Hive.

  1. Make friends with other noobs and share information with each other.
  2. Comment loads.
  3. Don’t think much about the rewards.
  4. Experiment with different content till you find your voice.
  5. Do things regardless if others are or not.
  6. Do your best to find information without it always having to be spoon feed to you.
  7. Always be learning something new.

Excellent advice. Good strategy.

When I started #Hive I was not consistent and the idea of cryptocurrencies was so mysterious to me that I was kind of afraid to move forward in something unknown, so the first few months I was very fearful.

If I could recommend something right now, looking at my journey since I arrived, I would tell newbies to be consistent in "building their image", having a blog is not just releasing a few things to see if you catch the rewards, I feel it is much more than that, part of your story and essence is there, I think having that vision could make us be more consistent and dedicated to what we do by creating content.

On the other hand, I would recommend newbies to constantly interact with other users, not to stay in a single community, to investigate and motivate themselves to do different things, to go out of the conventional.

I think that would be the advice I would give myself, if I were in that position 😊.

Interesting reflection, maybe I'll do a post on this. Thanks 🤗

I like this image creation thing. It's very interesting because many traditionally focus on just creating content that can be well remunerated and sometimes it's far from their tastes and preferences.

True enough! Unless you have a commercial goal, I think ultimately your Blog reflects a little piece of you, or a lot of you, depending on what you decide to share and taking care of that can be a good guide 🤗

Screw all the naysayers, ignore all the trollish behavior, and ask questions when you do not understand something. Some people will respond like the asshat they are, some will down vote you to oblivion because you asked a question in the wrong place. Some will make stupid remarks about your question thinking they are smart or clever when all they really are is an asshat.

So ask the questions, ask for help, and maybe just maybe a real person will come out of the woodwork and lend a helping hand. As HIVE is beginning to grow, you will see more and more of the trollish asshat type of people, MUTE them, learn how to do that. Who cares if they are REP 74 or above, an asshat and a troll are going to be asshats and trolls no matter what reputation level they are. So learn that MUTE button function first thing right off the bat.

Don't forget to ask questions, don't forget to give out votes and don't forget to leave comments on things you see and like. While speaking of votes, use them on content you like. Your content is your content, as a beginner on Hive your vote does not mean a lot and a self vote if you get no follow up votes is just going be be dust blowing in the wind. So use your votes to grow your account not destroy your account.

Be true to yourself, if you present a fake front a false you, after you make friends and then want to be the real you you will have a very hard time of changing, it is all on the block chain. Don't make it to where you need to re-start, People that re-star often end up having a very hard time to get re-established because false facades are pretty easy to see through, so be yourself. Get established, then when you enter fantasy land at least people will know who you used to be.

Hi!.. This is a very interesting question. Thank you for the opportunity to make me go back in time three and a half years ago and remember what were my beginnings in this wonderful journey called blockchain. Hive is a wonderful opportunity to evolve and ascend to the moon and beyond, always keeping in mind the fact of good practices and not taking shortcuts that could result in fatal crashes.

Certainly the road has not been easy but, after so much time and so much that I have seen, I would just tell my novice self, to do it exactly the same. You might wonder how it's exactly the same? Well, with honesty, perseverance, perseverance, effort and learning. I would tell him to work more on growing his HP (HivePower) which, at the end of the day, is the heart of the account and the everything in this immense universe. Make community and work honestly. That they always be original and never try to copy anyone because we all have a space in this sky and we all shine with our own light. That the career brings fatigue and that it is better to be remembered and recognized as an honest and good author than to leave through the back door. I also tell them to enjoy the journey in Hive and be happy creating, giving a little bit of what this wonderful hive gives us every day.
Without a doubt I love Hive for its freedom and opportunities, may you take advantage of this blessing because not everyone can be a writer. May we simply be grateful for this space and take care of it, making it grow steadily.

Thanks for the opportunity and sorry for the length. When I talk about Hive I get excited and my fingers run away. A hug for you. 🤗

I wouldn't. I've enjoyed the journey and in this case, working hard on all fronts (posting, engaging, curating) paid off for me. Maybe I shouldn't have taken a loooong break, but on the other hand, mentally that was all I could do at the time. So yeah, I'm content.

Advice-wise:

  • Stick to yourself: Write about what you like, because that's how you'll endure through all of the low payouts at the start.
  • Find people to follow who write about what you like, so it's easier to engage and you'll grow up together.
  • Join communities you're interested in and post in them. It can do a whole lot of good for your reach.
  • Learn about all of the other tokens! (I'm still in the process of doing this aswell...)

¡Yeesss! it's horrible, I still don't understand the tokens either (I'm more lost than you) I've tried to understand and mix and match and read in some places but in the end, I still don't understand how to use them and what do.

Me neither! It's been really confusing while coming back with many different front-ends and tokens (and I consider myself a smart person!). For now, I've decided to create an alt account for short posts (twitter-like) and picked a different platform to use, hoping I could get used to other front-ends and see how to earn other tokens there. The first one didn't give me the option to set a post title, so I switched. The next one doesn't let me upload images, probably due to a low reputation, so I only consume content there, but I do get tokens. It's on Ecency and you can use those tokens to boost your posts, like adds inbetween feeds I think. Just tried that for the first time. But then I look at Hive Engine and see the huge amount of tokens there and I desperately don't want to know about tokens anymore! Sooooo many...

Well I think I will go back to ecency forgetting all my frustration to try to understand more. Lol

Haha, yeah maybe that's the trick, just pick a few that seem interesting and ignore the rest!

To my novice self of the past (sometimes I still consider myself a novice) I would tell you to establish connections from the beginning and do not leave to resolve doubts later... If not to inquire, ask questions, investigate promptly.

I think there is a lot of good advice to follow, for example:

  • Don't get frustrated when your publications don't get rewards.
  • Be consistent no matter what.
  • Always participate in contests
  • Interact in the community
  • Understand the principles of the platform as quickly as possible.

Read, research, and digest first, then post. Maybe spend 2 weeks doing that until you have a good understanding of the ins and outs.

Find your group/tribe, people who do things you enjoy.

Comment, comment, comment...don't sh*tpost spam crap, be genuine.

Finally, make an #introduceyourself post, explaining who you are , why you came here, and what you can maybe bring to the table.

Be nice to others. Otherwise you'll find out quickly why that is.

Excellent recommendation for everyone!

Interesting question Acid. Oh! Well, If I could go back in time to tell my newbie self about my present hive journey, I'd make my newbie self realize it really messed up the journey big time. Three things I'd make my newbie self realize it should have done right that it didn't do are; (i) Build solid and genuine relationship with like minds. In summary, I mean proper interaction, communication, and connecting with the people on Hive. (ii) Stack up all those earnings and never power down my HP. (iii) Take blogging on Hive as a Hobby not a Job. Honestly this last part has actually messed with me big time. It makes me feel like a hustler on Hive. I mean I've been creating contents for over three years now and I still worry about who will come to upvote my post or wonder if this new content of mine will get to earn anything tangible.

Well, being working on the first and I'll keep interacting, I only wish I had realized and started doing so since my early years. I'll remain positive and will continue to get better. There's still a long journey ahead 😊

Thanks for asking this question Acid. Helped me re access my journey, realized my flaws, and made me aspire to get even better.

This is an interesting question. So far, I am very satisfied with what I have achieved from Hive. I have received great support from everyone on Hive. I have made new friends from many different countries. And that is also a great motivation for me to continue creating interesting content for the community. However, to say something for myself as a newbie I should be more involved in the fun contests on the Hive communities. Thank you very much @acidyo.

you doing really well, bro. Keep up the fantastic work :))

Thank you very much my sis. You helped me a lot.

I would tell myself to not be foolish like when I started and just dived in head-first without looking left or right or even in front of me!
OK, so that was back on the good old...bad now...Steemit, where there were no communities to publish through like we now have on Hive.
I would have to be smarter and certainly get to know the people first through engagement before writing that long intro post; mine received 15 votes and earned all of 0.28 even though I used the introduceyourself tag but at least it generated 54 interactions!
One thing I would not change is entering contests; I love a challenge and it really is not about 'winning'; to me the prize was and still is that my posts were being read and being seen by bigger accounts as my posts were being reblogged.
I will always be thankful to all the curators, especially OCD, who have made it so worthwhile seeing rewards and comments after putting one's heart and soul into a blog!

Greetings.

My first recommendation is to research, try to learn as much as you can, HIVE is a very wide world, where you have to learn to avoid mistakes. That is why it is important to read the authors who have more knowledge of how things work here. With the translator it is easier to read the publications. Read a lot of publications.

Another important thing is to participate in the Discord servers, there you always get generous people who intend to help, there are communities that have educational programs for beginners.

Take care to make your publications the best you can, that the effort you made is seen, be honest, think that every thing we leave written in the blockchain stays there forever. Don't cheat, in HIVE everything is known and dishonest people are soon exposed and left aside by the community.

Don't focus on rewards. Dedicate your efforts to making good publications, good comments and participating in the life of the communities. In HIVE everything adds up and quality and honesty will eventually be recognized.

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

Buy 10k Hive 🙂😜 (Kidding)
I guess I was one of first Vietnamese on Hive. I joined in August 2020. The blockchain was totally new to me. My referee explained a lot but I couldn't be able to understand everything. Then I read some documents written by some Vietnamese Steemians and learned slowly. Still not sure I get to understand everything now but I'm happy that I have introduced Hive to some foreign and Vietnamese friends I met. I'm able to guide them as much as I can. Some of them doing really well...!!!
Well, If I could be able to go back, I would write a better introduction post, and looked into more stuff about Hive, more projects and contests, ... Especially how to make a longer and better content. 🙂

hey there! I still remember how I found you back then. I think it was through you face of Hive or so. You were very new and you had a good growth. Yeah the introductory post, I didn't really make a good intro post during my time. I would love if I can tell my past self to make a killerbean intro post so I can be using it now as guide for friends that I invite to Hive.

You are an inspiration. Thanks for supporting me from the beginning I was on Hive. Always appreciated it 😍.
Yea, I also don't want to use my intro post to give as an example for newbies that I'm guiding ...haha.

Have a wonderful week ahead :))

Hope you do the same 💚

Ask the Hive: If you could go back in time, what would you tell your newbie self about your Hive journey?

there will be great times, there will be bad times. But be consistent and don't take breaks from posting. Don't try to run away when something doesn't work out how you want.

Or in other words:

Befriended more of the "big dogs". Honestly, I thought top 20 and larger stakeholders were some prude asses at first. Now I've realized how much of a community thing this is and I can tell people they suck to their face and know that people know what jokes are. @someguy123 @acidyo I'll slap you with a trout. Trouts for all of the top 50 witnesses.

I should have organized my blogs better and focused on just a few niches and started keeping a log of all the good blogs I wrote since then, that way it's easier for me to track it and add the link to my current blogs. I should have focused on quality versus quantity now that I want my blog page to be a landing page now that I am more serious about my blogging career.

but it's not too late. I am working on how to make my hive blog look a little better and organized.

This is good advice that I will take from now on while I am still on time.

It's very thoughtful of you dear and I agree this will be a great help for newbies. In my opinion the first thing for a newbie is to engage. Find out his interests and make new friends. Hive is a community and its a great place to share your ideas and interests. One need to be patient and invest time. It will take time to get yourself recognised and build a strong relationship with other hivers, till then enjoy the journey and i promise you will enjoy it. Hive can help you find out areas of great interests within yourself. Just be a member of hive family and keep exploring, interacting, reinventing yourself. 😊👍🙏

buy more? kidding as that is just the stupid go to answer :D
looking back, not a lot that i would change. i could have done "better" with rewards in this 3+ years, could have posted more... but it is not a job and most probably never will be, so having fun and learning is most important. Also for noobs, try to find a community that you are into, that is the only way to stay on the platform and have fun (now we have communities)
also find projects that you like and try to help out.
and don't be a jerk.

I would have balanced my work/life situation a lot better. Was murdering myself for an extra twenty spot per week at times...

I wouldn't have let myself get so pissed off with those fucking vote sellers either. LOL

Well honestly, I'd tell my newbie self, "Take things easy and don't expect anything". The person who introduced me to Hive exaggerated alot about how to make massive money from a platform in a couple weeks. Well, I joined with that mindset and made some errors because I didn't have a proper guide to how the platform worked.But later realized Hive like every aspect of our life is a journey and it pays more having a long term goal in mind." We Build on Hive".

I would warm us all about the Justin take over of the all chain.... LOL true be told i wouldnt change anything cause all the mistakes i made at the start help me learn my way around the chain, i would probably just say "you are getting here for the money but you will stick for the community"

When I joined the blockchain back in 2018, I didn't have much understanding of how things went. I gave up and left the chain and came back 2020 last year. If I was to go back to when I joined, I would tell myself to go around asking questions on how things run here, try making friends and building relationships, blog consistently and be little focused on the reward; mostly because I know it was not easy at all during those days of steem.

To be honest , the biggest mistake I made was when I joined into hive I wasn't making friends.
Back in the days , my other friends on hive will always be laughing when they come on hive but me rather found it very boring and uninteresting . But right now I've decided to free myself and make friends and luckily for me , hive has never been better .
Also I wish I could go back in time and just change those HBD I've been making into some sweet hive power instead of withdrawing and spending them.
Think That's it for me though.

For me, it would be to post regular as possible and don’t give up because it will grow :)

Disfruta del viaje, pregunta cuando no sepas algo, relájate, vota y comenta contenido que realmente te guste, no por compromiso. Aunque ingreses por dinero en el camino comprenderás que hive es más que eso.

Enjoy the journey, ask questions when you don't know something, relax, vote and comment on content that you really like, not for commitment. Even if you enter for money along the way you will understand that hive is more than that.

Ask the Hive: If you could go back in time, what would you tell your newbie self about your Hive journey?

It does not matter what I would tell, because meeting with myself (if it is even possible) would probably break the space-time continuum.
And if it would not, I just wrote down the cryptocurrency prices of the future, so I could solve my (and other people's) financial problems. But this would certainly affect the timeline and this present. If I would say anything about the future, then that would affect the timeline and this present.
Maybe "eat more fruits and vegetables, because it is healthy" is safe to say. Or not, because I would probably buy more fruits and vegetables. Meeting with myself would alter the timeline and this present. And time travel may have unthinkable consequences, even if I do not meet myself, and do not say anything. This is certainly an interesting question.

lol, way to go all rick and morty about the question :D

Look buddy, it's not gonna be easy for you. It's not a get rich quick scheme. You need to be steady and persistent. You may sometimes feel frustrated but consistency is the key to success, so try to be as consistent as you can.

Enjoy the journey.

Find your people and find your voice. Do not be sad about the rewards early on despite putting in effort.
Take part in CONTESTS, it is the fastest way to engage on hive.

Can't really say I've stepped a foot wrong in my hive journey except a few newbies mistake. If I could time travel back, perhaps I would wish to write more during the bottom price of hive when I can build my power faster.

Post better content and make more.comments and friends early on.

And party harder!!!!

Think I'm a dolphin? Maybe?

"You should have gamed the system more. You should have abandoned your principles when everything was a shit show."

Wait. Is that valid? 😂

That wouldn't be great long term for your potential post rewards I reckon. :p

You wouldn't have picked me if I did that. But I probably just did an apology and turn my ways for good and get away with the shit I've done, just like what some people did. I guess we'll never know.

If I could say something legit, I would probably say, "Continue posting even if you feel like quitting."

Well, I've been here for a little over 2 months so if I were to go back in time I would tell myself to sign up for Hive ASAP.

I would have told myself, don't spend your rewards immediately, increase your hive power as much as you can, generate more connections, support others, post more often. Try to understand this ecosistem and enjoy the journey.

I would become a farmer or a lawyer. If than I would end up in crypto - LOL.

Use crypto winter wisely to stack quietly at discount prices.

I think I will also value this comment for myself. Learning to value cryptographic winter sounds very smart and unfortunately I don't know how to do it.

That the beginning does not really matters what matters is what we are to achieve at the end.

Le diría que lea bien los títulos de las publicaciones y que tenga mucho tacto con las notificaciones.

What happened to your rep :p

lol. I see you've managed to fit right in here... <_<