Sometimes, a well-written article with a carefully chosen title, shared at the perfect time, is worth a thousand bad posts.
783,000 views and 542 comments on Reddit, and 17,000 views on PeakD:
This is the top achievement of our wonderful HivePosh contest this week, and I am sharing it to begin another talk about content quality.
I started this conversation 2 weeks ago when posted Untidy Hive Content Doesn't Help Us on Reddit. And this week, @uwelang shared his thoughts in his Hive Onboarding – Does Our Content Really Attract New Users? Not a coincidence, probably - active HivePosh users have practically seen how much more effective qualitative content is: If you share a high-quality article, you get views, comments, and respect from the mods. If you have only a nice title, your share might be deleted even if it has generated a lot of views and engagement, and the mods can start hating you personally.
It is also obvious that people who visit Hive through our links get different impressions of Hive: superficial posts with zero expertise behind don't make good publicity for Hive front-ends.
AI-generated posts often belong to this category, too.
AI content
In fact, it doesn't matter how exactly a post has been written, it matters how it looks and sounds.
If people notice that the post is written by AI, it means that it sounds generic and emotionally flat (or too cheerful), lacks opinion and personality, and demonstrates shallow logic.
You don't need AI to write such articles. Before AI, there were special technical writers who wrote quick articles for SEO - they were the same - smooth but shallow and soulless - cheap but sufficient for feeding Google bots.
Thus, people hate low-effort, low-expertise articles over-polished by AI or fully generated by AI.
Other Types of Unsharable Content
As @uwelang noted, 90% of Hive content isn't interesting to anyone outside of Hive (and actually inside Hive too).
And that's fine - many people share their personal things as people do on Facebook. They are often related to Hive - powerups, Actifit, etc.
Other people monotonously publish bad posts just to get rewards.
The third group creates cool content, but without a focus on a certain topic. It's when some person posts great opinions about several things in one post with the title "This is what I like" or "I thought about this today" - you can't share that even if every word in the post is pure gold.
As a result, we, HivePoshers have a ridiculously narrow list of authors, some of whom over-polish their articles with AI (like some on LeoFinance).
What to Do
The answer is simple: a share should be rewarded
- in proportion to its success on Reddit (this is what we already have)
- in proportion to the quality of the shared post because a low-quality post has low onboarding potential.
If a shared post
- is ugly from the point of formatting,
- consists of 2-3 paragraphs,
- is a low-effort generated AI post,
- has low expertise and no opinion in it...
...if so, the share of this post should be less rewarded. A list of criteria for assessing the quality of a post can be developed. That might be the next move for the HivePosh reward system... What do you think?..
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Thanks for the mention - 90% not interesting to others might have been too harsh and I appreciate what most of us wanna write about which they also should do - Hive is a place where everyone can do / write what they want.
I just came from the perspective / new experience what other people (non Hive users or better folks that never heard about Hive or even people that hjate blockchain/web3/crypro) might think about our content / platform. Obviously it is the responsibilty of us who share Hive content to make sure it is high quality, it fits the relevant subreddit by also checking their own rules.
Reddit is different but I prefer it over Facebook or such - my main take was, on established web2 platforms people hardly talk about the platform they use for posting / commenting - but maybe just 1% to discuss about the platform itself.
This is where we should arrive at one point of time: Hive to be a platform where you write about all, an established part of web life - While I know our community is different, it grew by community members not driven by a company or an individual.
Hope folks are not angry about my view :-)
nah 90% is pretty much correct lol
It's true. And that's not bad because Hive is used by many people as a place for having rest through sharing their news and their random thoughts/pix while content creation is work (even when you enjoy it).
However, this "not bad" along with mediocre content incentivized by effort-based curation, KE-based curation, and big-wallet-based curation leaves us with few options for sharing on Reddit. (The effort-based curation also has the positive side - you don't have to be commercial on Hive like writing only about the hottest mainstream things).
HivePosh is unique because it offers a new type of curation that supports perfectly tuned attention-grabbing content. It is not only about driving people to Hive and onboarding but about user retention.
I think people have come to see Hive as a social media platform and while it can be, it also doesn't mean our content should get mediocre or low vibrational. You can become a creator making big waves on Hive which is why your content has to be top notch. This will bring attention to yourself and the community. Again I say thank you for this post. Really you have ignited a fire in me.
This is getting much better! I like that criteria bit. We are getting posher! Haha. Well, it will definitely push creators to make better content. Well done. 👍
Pushing each other to share better and to make better content is the best thing since we've reached quantity on Reddit, and it's time to slow down and pay more attention to quality. 🤠🚀 Thank you!
I hope many will join the Hive Blog
We all hope so! 🚀
wow that's a great share, lets see if they remove it...
i agree one needs to share high quality stuff, even tough checking the quality of the share would be more manual work from the curator
More work but not too much work - it should be only about top-rewarded shares, several ones a day. ChatGPT with the help of a well-written prompt can potentially make the work.
I hope they won't. I've also earned good comment karma for comments below the share so, I feel, I'll be especially respectful to this sub as I have a positive history there now - I'll share only perfectly fitting posts there.
Comment karma and post karma are not lose if a share is deleted, so don't worry for that
This is a much-needed discussion. It's clear that content quality really does impact how Hive is perceived by outsiders.
Agree!
I hope even decent conversion will bring many new users to hive
So do I! 🙂
This post has encouraged me to push my creativity and intentionality. Thank you 👍
But aren't those who write with the help of AI muted?