That's very interesting. Now that I read it, I realized that I generally use the amount of reward to see if a post is worth reading - but that is already totally biased. The same post by someone who has a lot of HP and followers and someone who just started - I would read the whale's post, because it will have more rewards. I might be missing out on a lot of good writing.
On the other hand, I do get into low reward posts that have an interesting headline sometimes. And a lot of times they aren't really that good. With low reward I mean everything under 1 Hive/day online. I'll have to think about it - or just jump in and try.
Thank you for this post and make me question my beehiveiour (please don't kill me for that pun)!
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That had me laughing hard!
It's true though. I use the rewards for the same purpose. Which is pretty stupid, actually.
Sometimes I get caught in a semi-good (at best) article that just has a whale vote for like $10 rewards. And then that leaves me wondering what that particular post has to deserve a vote like that.
Perhaps hiding the rewards per default would be a good idea 🤔
That's what I thought too. For all these time we're pretty biased when judging a content. We tend to check out content that has a good value just because we wondered, " What makes it a good one and deserved that amount?" or something else. It can totally be a mediocre piece of writing but because other factors, that can do well. When you remove that factor, it's pure content.
For me if the title is too long, the thumbnail isn't great, I'd skip it just based on content alone. In practice, that's how that should work 😂 So, I am very happy to have that enable that won't cloud my judgement.
And that's a good one to be added to new Hive vocabulary. I hope you'll be enabling that feature and experience hive in much different way and not shying away from content that has lesser value because usually, some of them aren't that bad.