Is It Less Content on Hive These Days?
With a frontend like Veews barely launched, designed to discover personalized content, it would be quite a twist to see fewer posts on Hive at the same time.
But bear markets do have their strange effects. One of them is people who stop producing content as the dollar value of their author rewards drops and return in the bull market when that rises.
Many of us have shown over time that the correct approach should be to remain consistent no matter the market swings or even push harder during the bear market because that's when you earn more HIVE, even though their dollar value may not be the same as in the bull market.
But, on average, people still don't listen.
Anyway, where did I come up with this question in the title?
Now that my discord notifications for people I follow started working again, I noticed something. There are fewer notifications of people publishing new posts every day than they used to be. Many of them still post, but not as frequently anymore.
That made me curious. Is it just a change for some of the people I follow, or is it a general trend? So I checked out the daily stats by @arcange.
This is a comparative chart of the number of posts during the last 30 days and the average daily payout (in HBD):
What this chart shows is that at the entire Hive level the number of posts fluctuates, but doesn't have a clear trend either up or down.
What we can also see from that chart is a significant drop in the average post payouts in HBD during the last few days (from almost $6 to slightly below $4).
I wonder what caused that. It's hard to understand what happened. It could have been a period when a large account (probably with a curation trail too) distributed many low-weight votes.
Initially, I thought it coincided with the launch of Veews, where people may be tempted to vote on many posts they like at lower weight, but those posts haven't reached payout yet. So, this isn't it.
Anyway, not very important that HBD value, as I mentioned at the beginning of the post. Just a remark after seeing the chart. And a better distribution is not a bad thing.
What is interesting is that some of the people I follow evolved from daily posting to less frequent.
They are still very involved in the ecosystem from what I know, which means they find their time better spent in a different way.
This strategy has its pros and cons. Unless you are a very prominent figure in the Hive ecosystem, the expression "out of sight, out of mind" describes quite well what happens when a content creator stops producing content (or does it infrequently).
The pro is that you can use the time to focus on something else, potentially with a higher added value to you or Hive.
In the past, I went through a period of less frequent posting. But at the time, alternatives on and around Hive weren't as rich as they are now.
So, maybe I'll revisit that option in the future. For now, I still feel comfortable blogging daily.
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That's quite a big payout drop. Could it be related to the drop in hive price as the daily posts are quite steady it looks like.
No. The price of HIVE has slowly increased for the past 25 days or so.
Thats strange then, perhaps some whales have stopped voting?
@ijat gave that explanation and I think he may be right. A big curator (or more) may have taken time off around Thanksgiving.
Maybe a curation trail took off Thanksgiving holiday? Not sure how much of hive is North America based.
I have seen some of my post be hit and miss with the big votes.
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New users don’t really get the upvotes from the community of people with high HP.
Creating all the long and good content is also time consuming, it is normal overtime people will drop out.
Maybe look at number of new users? Could just be less people joined HIVE.
Yes, the number dropped, but that is normal in a bear market, and especially with all the FUD being spread recently.
But the number of posts dropped for people who have been on Hive for a long time. I know it's time-consuming, I do it every day. So, they have different reasons to make the posts less frequent. Like having a different focus that takes away an increasing chunk of their day.
The voting the last little while has gone down. Mind you I'm not a frequent blogger. But I do alot of commenting.
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Some big manual curators may have taken some time off around Thanksgiving.
Now that it's Christmas we'll see for sure if it's true.
Yep, that might happen one week after Christmas too if that's the reason.
I follow this rule and put an extra effort during hard times, gathering more Hive. If Hive ever gets to the moon, I'll be worth much more. But since I'm getting more cheap Hive now I still beat the bear market
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Exactly. I receive weekly reports for my author and curation rewards, and they pile up. Much harder to earn that in the bull market from content creation or curation.
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Same thing every bear market...
That's true...
Did the same happen last December?
I don't remember... I discovered this by mistake too. This probably happens every once in a while depending on the voting habits of the curators.
If I remember correctly someone did write about it last year and contributed it to being the holiday season where people are engaged more with family and friends during the holidays.
That is a very plausible explanation.
Interesting data. I agree we need to be consistent even in bear market. Keep posting good content!
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The time period is too small, in my opinion. It could be a confluence of all factors together that reinforced each other. I think tired people also played a role. It's very hard to keep going when you see these numbers and don't know what you're doing it for)
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The explanation about a break for Thanksgiving by a major curator might hold.
About becoming tired and not knowing what you are doing it for may be a thing. Not everyone is capable of self-motivating and seeing a long-term path when FUD is spread all around. But this is why fewer people are successful in what they are setting their minds to, and most give up on the way.
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I haven't had enough hive to make posts and I have been really tired here having to do all the dishes and housework because my nephew had a hip replacement on November 7th. I try to make many comments. Thanks Gadrian for the info. I become a mental wreck at times and just need to deal with that. I'm hoping things will smooth out soon for me.
It could be many reasons for slow down.
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Regular comments could work out very well Barb. Not everyone likes coming up with their own posts.
This happens often when the hive price drops
Yes, it does. It's not like I have a problem with that. The reward pool is the same and it's shared by those still active every day.
It's hard to tell if a post will do well or not so I have not really bothered. Maybe the Hive issues had an effect on the voting bots? I know there were some issues with some front-ends last week.
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There were? I haven't remarked, lol.
I stopped judging a post by its rewards a long time ago. Sometimes it's just a matter of luck that your post is getting shared by the right person and gets a lot more exposure. I just write. The rewards come or not.
From what I saw, PeakD and LeoFinance were having some issues periodically throughout the week. I think something in the Hivemind or something was having issues and it was crashing some of the front-ends.
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Ah, now that you described them I remember some issues with the interfaces too.
I can do one micro post daily, but for longer posts twice or 3x per week.
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Yep, it's hard to write longer posts daily. Not all my posts are 500+ words either, but many are. Plus, there are the comments too.
3x per week is a pretty good rhythm if you write quality posts when you do that people want to read and share.
Quality posts for me must at least be based on one reputable reference whether a book or an article. However, that requires time. It reminds me of my writing project on the Eurodollar, blockchain, and Life after Google, which I struggle to continue due to required tasks related to my work. All I can do for now is at least 1 article for Splinterlands, a token report, and an update of previous articles about precious metals.
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There's not much audience for well-documented and in-depth articles on Hive (if we count cooking and traveling out), with some exceptions. STEM community has that, where articles written much like scientific papers with proper references and all are very well appreciated.
Something was lost along the way to Hive. I am just saying this as a case in point but Steemit was way more fun to be on. Of course it isn't anymore so I guess the charms been lost forever because they definitely didn't hitch a ride over here to Hive.
I believe the landscape in the crypto space as a whole changed. Now there are many more things to do, apart from creating content. And some of the people who were focusing more if not exclusively on creating content back in the day now share the time with other crypto-related tasks they do every day or quite often, some of them less social, if at all.
Interesting stats. Thanks for sharing! I also think consistency is key and every bit adds up!
Exactly. The important fact is the results of consistency are usually shown over time, not in the short term.
The ones who are still here through the bear will be winning when it turns around and back to a bull again. I feel like I need to start spreading my voting power out some more by giving more lower votes.
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