Lol nice stripper analogy.
The attention span is a tricky thing to try and capture. I’ve embedded in my posts here and there, particularly my longer ones, free hive giveaways to those who are actually reading it instead of just voting and moving on. I did give away hive a few times but other times it went unnoticed. I don’t think this is a new problem, think of newspapers. There was a lot of shit in there daily that most people don’t care about it all. You would go to what you know and like, digest it and go about your day. The difference here is that you can interact with the writer and people in the comments, and directly reward the writers. I think that’s phenomenal.
For the rewards piece, some of the whales and big stakes on here just want to use their voting power. Appreciator and some others are decent folks but they are getting a return on their investment so I don’t take it personally on the voting stuff. I’ve gotten some random votes from those groups and it’s nice but I know that it’s just to get them curation.
Yeah, it just becomes a problem when people get deluded by the rewards they receive thinking they are all that when it's just sugar daddy loving them against the world or just a few friends that give a damn. Nothing wrong with receiving support, just becomes a pet peeve of mine when people say "I give content to the platform and put value in it" and I am setting myself up to disappointment when I do expose myself to underwhelming content but hey, we need that self esteem to keep us going on living.
Like the rewards, be thankful for it, but never let it go into your heads like you're entitled for it before the 7 day payout. That's just the matrix putting its wiring on one's ego and securing their esteem to the rewards. There's a small chance someone produces viral content on a daily basis unless they got an established following already. But those cases have yet to be a norm on Hive.