Can Someone Explain These Tribes and Tags Please?
Hi all, I have been around Hive for a bit now and there are still things I fear or don't understand.
One such thing is all the 'tribes' and their tags I see.
For example. I see #neoxian #proofofbrain #palnet #teamuk a lot. I also see #ctp and #leofinance or #leo a lot but they seem to be at least somewhat focused on finances.
However, ALL of these seem to get put on some people's posts all the time. I've seen #ctp and #leo on non-finance posts for example. And #neoxian or #proofofbrain and the others I've seen on a wide range of subjects.
I'm sure there are even more of these than I've listed.
Mostly I have avoided using the tags because I'm afraid of using them wrong and getting downvotes. But it also seems like people that use these tags get a lot of attention and upvotes. So I thought maybe if I just asked like this, someone might explain a bit.
Like if I start putting #proofofbrain or #neoxian on my comic book reviews will they get more positive attention? Or will they start getting downvotes? Or even #ctp or #leo? What if I talk about the values of the books in the post then does that make the #ctp and #leo tags okay? Which is better #leo or #leofinance?
Also I know a lot of these have their own Hive Engine token as well. Does this get rewarded automatically by using the tags? Or do I have to go to the apps, like leofinance.io for that to happen?
I also notice SPT exists for the #splinterlands or #spt tags. I assume this is just for Splinterlands talk. But I have seen #spt especially on other posts, like finance posts. I recently starting playing Splinterlands and it is a blast. If you were brought to Hive through Splinterlands, maybe this tag info will help you as well! (If you happen across this and read it.)
Any insight would be appreciated!
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On Hive, the way communities are designed means people can just add community tags to earn extra hive-engine token rewards.
So when you see people including all the tags they can think of, they're just doing it to get free money.
However, tag pages play an extremely important role in SEO for a domain.
Therefore, the way communities tolerate this spammy behaviour is extremely detrimental to the success of their community, their token and the HIVE token.
In my opinion, a discussion needs to be had about not paying hive-engine tokens on tags.
To sum things up...
If you want free money and don't care about the communities that you're tagging, then just tag them all and accumulate all the shit you can.
But if you want to contribute to the long term success of the domain you're posting via, and therefore the long term success of the HIVE token, then properly tag your post by the topics within.
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I was thinking of it more in terms of upvotes/downvotes, and therefore money. But you bring up a great point as well. Finding things through searching is not always easy when a bunch of non-related posts are showing up for the tag. I guess this is part of why I was confused, I would search some of these and the topics of the posts would be all over the place.
I’ve been here a lot longer and I don’t completely understand the stuff! But then again I haven’t really bothered to investigate that much because most of those tribes/communities don’t really interest me.
I do think the danger you run in “over-tagging” is being booted from those communities for non relevant content, and then if you actually want to interact with them on a deeper level in the future you might be out of luck. I believe @sagesigma posted weekly reports around comic values, speculation, and investment to Leo and got the boot! Maybe he can clarify or give some insight on that though.
Overall I’d rather use my tags for relevant search terms, so I’d never do more than a couple “token” tags. It just looks a bit scammy to me personally. I especially hate when I see a brand new user intro post with all those tags you mentioned. Perhaps they’re just being guided by a well meaning friend who’s telling them to put them in, but it always just looks like a suspicious “farming” activity to me and steers my vote away.
I’ll admit I’m also not sure if simply tagging your posts allows them to show up on the dedicated “Tribe” front ends like LEO, PoB, and CineTV, or if they require the content to be posted through their interface. I’ll keep an eye on other comments you get to hopefully learn more myself!
That makes me even more confused haha. I at least thought I understood leo was posts about finance, so values and investment. And comics are a big investment these days.
You can and should use the tags #palnet, #neoxian and #proofofbrain for all your posts, as they are general topic tags. As you already mentioned yourself, #leofinance and #ctp are both financial topics. #splinterlands or #spt (one of the two tags is enough) is for the Splintertalk.io community.
Thanks for the info. It does seem like some are more focused than others. I guess I just have to try to use my best judgement on whether the topic contains things that qualify for the tag.
Hello! Maybe this infographic can help you a bit on the topics for a specific tag:
As a member of the CTPTalk community myself, we encourage people to talk about entrepreneurship and business but we don't mind people talking about their passions and investments. As long as there is respect for the tag everyone is welcome to use it :)
Hope this helps!
Oh yeah! This is great, thanks. A few I don't think I ever heard of to check out.