Been a while since I've posted about POSH so thought I'd give you all a quick update.
We've finally managed to generate enough liquidity for @redditposh and we've been seeing new sharers coming in and learning the ins and outs of reddit sharing which is great to see. @x-rain has been tirelessly running the weekly contests where top sharers earn some extra delegations and now Hive rewards (used to be HBD but prices kind of made it hard to maintain those). We've been seeing quite consistent hits on reddit bringing in thousands of views onto link shared posts.
Maybe soon with lite accounts being available our front-ends could offer easy creation and we could see if visitors start bothering quickly signing up to leave a comment on the shared posts and get more involved in the ecosystem!
Anyway, with the increase of usage of Redditposh naturally there was also a lot of abusers that attempted to join and try to multi-account and overshare along with potentially having a bad reputation and activity on Hive. This caused a lot of activities to mitigate this, both from curators doing research and busting these accounts along with our dev @hivetrending having to update the way the program works to make sure they don't manage to make it out with any hive rewards.
There's currently 404 hive accounts banned through our discord and 73 reddit accounts.
This along with an increase of shares it started to also cost a lot of times towards myself and our new curators to properly reward shares by checking every requirement and other things we look into before we curate the shares.
Thus, we decided to add a curation and anti-abuse cut to the Reddit shares starting at 10%. Since amount of work is proportional to amount of shares we figured a % might be the best option here. For the anti-abuse part, we will share the cut based on how much work was required to be done there.
Anyway, this means that for now, the rewards of the shares are split 70/20/10 going to sharers/author/curation+anti-abuse. We may adjust the latter based on an increase or decrease of sharing activity.
Other than that, we're over halfway through "buying out" @reward.app, which at some point we will change some ways of how it works and make sure it is maintained. The account has for now stopped voting on authors to avoid further abuse as there was a lot of bad activity stemming from that due to automatic votes.
We've also been receiving some requests to look into other socials, for now we may be a bit behind on updating things like blueskyposh or adapting to other platforms, but if there's enough demand we may try focusing on that in the near future.
We have some plans for some giveaways and further encouragement of different initiatives, one that a community has started on its own which is great to see - more about that in an upcoming post!
Thanks for reading and supporting sending traffic to our front-ends!
We need feedback from front-ends, and their active engagement in onboarding through HivePosh. Then, we can adapt to their requests, share links in a more targeted way, and also advise on some things from our side, too.
I hope maybe @snapie might be interested in any sort of collaboration to try onboarding users through HivePosh one day... They have a front-end already - https://www.snapie.io/ but no individual post links are available. Short-form content is okay, there are ways to generate traffic with it, too.
Just sharing links is good, but better to have a plan for how to involve users in onboarding and posting.
We really need light accounts, just email sign up and go, an easy registration page without pay options not to make it look like paywall or too complicated
Switching hbd to hive rewards with that hive prices makes sense
Agree, the main aim should be to keep viewers engaged or coming back, not just to attract them once. Maybe add some personalisation? This would encourage coming back.
404 banned account these people are ridiculous how we suppose to promote Hive to others if we keep having this type of people. I always bring in people and when they see things like this or scammer around they stopped using Hive it's tiring to keep teaching others and this small group is ruining Hive.
When there's money to be made, people will try and abuse.
You're right unfortunately
Agree with some easier sign up options, on a personal note, i have mentioned hive to a few people and they won't do the "wallet sign up thing" but then again do we want people that won't even put the effort in of creating an account? As you say, if there is money to be made people will abuse it.. I personally am getting pretty sick of the 100 word "art" posts that show one totally AI generated imaged that the person supposedly did in charcol on paper... rolls eyes
I guess it's not just about effort when it comes to creating an account, I know hiveonboard.com for instance doesn't work now cause dev is quite afk and the recent hardfork update made it stop working.
A way to quickly post a comment or follow an account to receive a notification next time they post or something could help without going through the whole process and only doing that once you've used hive regurarly for a while to the point where you may have some pending rewards waiting for you. I guess that's my hope of the way the lite accounts will work.
oh certainly agree.. for sure... there are so many great bloggers and "instagrammers" out there that do content that would be great here.... just gotta get them in... im collecting hive atm to do a big powerup (well big for me) however given the price that many people "pay" for social media platforms, hive should be a no brainer... as Hive community pays YOU to post rather than you paying a platform for the rights to post there...
Farcaster is a network that is growing well. I think many people in the crypto universe are there, so it may be a future point of interest for investment.
Yeah have heard quite a bit about it lately!
Easy creation methods is very important cause as viewers take notice, the main goal would be retention. Hoping for the best in the future and progress for the entire Reddit posh team
Best regards, I'll try joining Reddit and see how it goes.
good luck!
Sounds awesome, It's great that the project is taken care of by responsible and motivated people.
Mi compañero abrió una cuanta allí Pero no entiende como operar no le permite publicar no sabe dónde publicar debemos aprender Pero hasta ahora no hemos encontrado un video en español que nos oriente
The truth is, Reddit has been a good way to generate tokens and increase HP while attracting people to Hive, but the difficult part is convincing someone to come to Hive. We're working with community moderators creating strategies to promote both sites.
We're currently testing this contest format, encouraging people to post on Reddit. Let's see how it goes.🤗
The Portuguese public is very resistant to using these kinds of platforms; clearly, we're talking about an old country, and young people are only focused on graduating and leaving! I've thought several times about using a sales booth at the Natal de Seixal fairs; I think it's something I'm planning for the long term, and maybe even include Reddit there @quiubi@quibi
One of these sites, I think it's free, but they're already booked up at this time of year. Maybe next year I'll get organized and we can do this project.
Thanks for the update @acidyo, it is nice to see POSH is growing and some new sharers getting involved. The new 70/20/10 split makes sense, as keeping abuse in check seems like a lot of work. Definitely a frontend improvement will encourage engagement, and the @reward.app sounds like a good one and hopefully will be a more sustainable system.
Does the anti-abuse include downvoters? Just the act of taking away authors’ rewards can be very discouraging, and it would be great to know if that’s being addressed.
Keep up the good work!
I've dm'd marky directly about the recent downvotes, he fails to respond.
Thank you. :)
who downvotes our star from the UK?
Lol.
Thanks for your updates and efforts
Abusers are everywhere, I fully agree with maintaining and rewarding the mechanism to catch and throw them out
I don't really know more about this Reddit posh, maybe if I can get an article to help me understand I will really appreciate it.