Learn Hive Etiquette

Recently I did a video with @aftersound. Lots of people are watching it and starting their hive journey, again! Here is that post. Aftersound is a popular YouTuber (popular in SL standard, we are modest), so obviously he gets a lot of viewer/comments at YouTube. Since I am trying to get some of that viewership to hive, I was reading comments on his video. This particular comment about me caught my attention:

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Not azircon again! The only reason some people like him it's because he's a Splinterlands and hive whale. He's gonna after people on hive, including some Splinterlands players. There are several stories for those but I'm gonna talk about the most recent one. Very recently the account noctury had all their posts nuked to 0 rewards but azircon alone. Splinterlands giveaway posts that help the community, getting 1, maybe 2 hive reward per post from over 100, sometimes 200 different upvotes. One person comes in and boom, everything is gone. All it took was one whale who makes 150 hive per day to destroy a person making about 100x less when there was a big number people who liked the posts. But this whale says that Splinterlands players should be more involved in hive.

Nothing against Aftersound but why does azircon say his posts deserve much more rewards? Aftersound makes these videos for youtube, where he's already getting paid (I don't know how much or how little). His hive posts don't require any effort because it's just sharing what he already posted on another platform, with a small added text. It's not consistent with the reason for destroying the giveaway posts that they are repeated posts and don't require effort.

And the reason people are not encouraged to make quality posts on hive is because they are not rewarded. If azircon and I made the exact same post, I would get less than 1 hive and he would get between 20 and 50 hive. It has nothing to do with quality, it's all about being known.

Not only does he go after some Splinterlands players, he also rarely upvotes Splinterlands content. If you check his voting history, most upvotes are outside Splinterlands.

And very scary thought: azircon owning splinterlands. I would quit the game on the same day.

Some whales, including azircon talk about "skin in the game". But what does that mean? Apparently azircon is already rich so spending over $10k a year on the game is nothing. Or someone who got into the game at the right time and got their stuff super cheap and now has a lot even after selling a fraction of the stuff for profit. Anyone who bought Untamed packs from the store and did nothing with them all these years, is still in profit! To me, someone who has $100 spare money everything month and puts half of that in the game has much more "skin in the game" than someone who got lucky and joined at the right time or someone who's already rich and drops $10k like it was nothing.

This is to say that just because you have a lot of SPS it doesn't mean you're right. I don't want more Vugtis or even more 1M SPS holders. I want 10k players in the 10k-100k SPS range. 10k new players with 50k SPS would be 500M SPS. That's over 10x what Vugtis has. And the biggest upside it that all of those would vote like regular players and not like whales.

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Mind you I am a polarizing person at hive :) I will never say I am Holy! (do you catch the Fred-George reference from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows?) If not never you mind, it is not important.

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So I will answer to that comment, because I like to show that ignorance is bliss. The person in question is noctury. He really is a decent guy, one of the best logical gentleman I am interacted recently. He used to run a giveway of SL cards, by a series of automated posts that is posted for rewards. I felt it is better for him post original content, so to grab his attention, I downvoted and removed rewards from 6 days of his posts that fetched about 12 total dollars worth of rewards.

Here is the main discussion:

Here is the Positive Result!

Noctury is a stand-up guy. He took my advice, and published an original post and decided to turn a corner.

Here is the post.

Notice, his current original post has $13 of expected rewards, compared to $2 of rewards noctury used to get on every automated post that he used to post. I considered that previous posting habit a reward farming operation. I consider his new post as original manual effort and rewarded him accordingly.

I congratulate noctury on turning a corner. This is how honest original work is rewarded at hive!

As my friend Jimmy says, 13 bucks is 13 bucks! :)

Enjoy posting original content with effort at hive and you will be rewarded. I promise you that. This is the way, and there is NO OTHER WAY.