Build Your Audience with ARCHON Community

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Trying to blog your way up the Hive ecosystem is a gruelling challenge. Your first posts won't get much attention. That is simply because few people are going too even see them in the feed, let alone open the post and read it. You can get lucky with a fat upvote once or twice but even that does not guarantee building your audience that is going to read and reward on a regular basis. Most new accounts do not get the fast start and have to build gradually which feels painfully slow. Many decent posters do not make it.

There is a handful of projects trying to address the issue. I am neither going to review them nor present a new one. I am just offering to show you an oportunity that exists in the Archon community neighborhood.

Archon is a generic tribe that has its own token distributed both to the money-investors (holders of miners and stakers of the Archon coin who upvote posts) and time-investors (content creators who tag their posts with #archon - or other tribe tags). You may want to refer to a recent post that contemplates whether Hive needs as many generic tribes as it currently has. I think it is fine as long as the tribes have agendas that can position them.

Archon graphics. Image credit @mondoshawan

Hallmark of Archon game would be automation. Starting from @dhedge-drips fund dripping (annoyingly frequent/small) payments in various tokens, through providing tools for communities (proposal system for governance or comment rewarding bot), all the way to automated list of top posts. I am pretty sure you would love to see your post on the board, wouldn't you?

The bad news - this particular list is rather static and populated by global Hive stars. The good news - since the curation changes in HF25 (hardfork that happened late June) the author variation seemed to improve. I myself vote a lot more manually and while I appreciate the performance of the top authors, I tend to skip the heart icon for them. I am not a firm believer in showing up every day as you might not have anything to say at times. Those who do (at the cost of being mildly repetetive) already seem to do well (which is fair). Consumers should upvote what they like. I am long-term invested so I prefer looking around for new stuff.

The list does show up every day and I never upvote it (unless the hive.vote bot does that for me). The predictability of it is pushing it towards the low-content area for me. Hell, most of the Hive rewards actually come from HSBI which I dislike as it promotes low-content posting. I can tolerate it - until it hits the zero-content line where I tend to counterbalance the too-much-automation-risks. Still, I have hard time promoting such schemes.

Recently, another list has been launched. While it is still required to get an upvote from a couple of big Archon holders to make it to the main list, the new addition is pretty much open door. It is a list of posts related to #dCity game. Making the board entitles you to get HSBI and I have even had a weird experience already. Someone thanked for their content being rewarded. I did see the posts but could not see any content, just letters. So, I partly feel guilty for promoting the initiative but I am certainly not going to fight it the way I fight the actual zero-content voting-circle operations. Instead I bet on competition bringing more quality. The actual jackpot would be kickstarting a few interesting authors for different niches anyway.

I mean, does it make any sense to post about a game you have never heard of? Well, it could. It does not have to be a strategy guide from a seasoned player - a fresh eye look from outsider would actually be more pleasing to the eye for me. Remember to use #dcity tag to be found and #archon tag to pick up a decent reward if you do well - both @ecoinstant and I can upvote around 1 Hive worth of ARCHON token. Most importantly, a good post is going to build your name around Archon and attract more eyes to your best works.

Let me conclude by handing out a personal invite to @vendata and @butherfly87 as I found their recent content enjoyable.

Question for Archon veterans: Do you think the tribe needs a formal set of rules on zero-conent posts?



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Great and informative post Jelly, you have my thanx for turning my eye towards the Archon community, i just ". made a "pledge" yesterday to post more (mostly (monetaryliy speaking i´ve been bloging on Steemit still.) But i want to do more on this platform, (Hive... it´s such better UI ((i can´t belive i´m saying this)) lol.
I have tried some tribes here, usually i just "slap some tags". But will be picky in the future. And hmm, next week i will post on it as a main group, see how it goes. :)

thnk you for the description mate, and another thing. if you could answer on the comments? is Archon limited to a certain type/s of subjects or anything go...i mean with normal boundries ofc. i mean material wise. :)

I have a loooong developing story that would tale many posts. is such a thing "ok"
I have beem thinking posting on the Norse mythology and theology, as well as runes.
gaming / gaming related content, (#dCity) LEADING the way there, as it rightly should.

Some material "in charackter", some personal, some sholarly...

Hope you.(and other readers, have a brilliant day!

Eythorphoto ;)

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Anything goes.
Some topics are more popular than others but that is based on the preference of token holders (that can vary in time). There are actually a few niche-content communities that have started within the tribe. For the main tag, any topic is fine and any of them can be uncovered as the next sensation hitting the interest of the tribe members.

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Awesome to see that you used the logo i made... that makes me feel good. Thank you! To me this is as good as all the votes i could get on a post. 😊

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I am glad to hear that. For anyone's reference, it comes from "assets" channel of Archon Discord and I really liked a couple of other works as well. I am going to use a couple of those in future tribe-related posts and it would be nice if other posters did the same to showcase their preference.

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Guess i don´t need to name you the reason for my flag🤷‍♂?

The ones in the comment section (the post i mentionet) i did not vote so far are "not checked/new to me", but way more important is, that i already could find lots of new users by checking comments on posts like the ones you seem to dislike that much...

Check @schlunior, basically it was/is the same.

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Not for me, but out of consideration for other readers you might have linked our related dialogue. You disagree with me and want to defend a spam operation I am DVing. Fair enough.

It is ok with me you support low-effort approach with your stake. I start supporting people when they pull their socks up. Those who do tend to do it because they realise the effort is needed not because someone encouraged them to post "dabei". So I find your POV unjustified in an academic debate (and legal on the pitch).

I checked schlunior. You created an alt to post your variation of the spam scheme. I understand why you did not want to litter your main. Is there any other point I was supposed to get?

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Not for me

Because you demand, threaten and flag in one move.
Both, communication and empathy, are not necessarily your strengths.

You created an alt to post your variation of the spam scheme

Sure, thats absolutely all that has been done here :DD.

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Instead I bet on competition bringing more quality.

This is the way.


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I really appreciate your support.

My money might be on a different club than yours are but I am always ready to support you for the game itself to thrive.

I am catching up on reading the POB talks on governance and there are a few aspects I am going to forward to Archon leaders soon. While each tribe probably ends up running stuff differently, at least the technical backbone could/should be shared (if not more).

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Concerning Archon, maybe I did not look properly but for me archonapp.net is not working anymore. Is that normal, and is there a new frontend instead and I don't know ?

Really interesting I didn't even know about that voting list. And as you said making a post about a game you barely know could not be a good idea. My problem is that since the taxes are really high. My gameplay is just mining cards and trying to sell them. So that would be the less interesting post ever.


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for me archonapp.net is not working anymore

That is a domain issue. @taskmanager was going to sort it out a while ago, maybe it is a time for a mild ping.

And as you said making a post about a game you barely know could not be a good idea. (...)

I actually argued it works the other way. Recently, the most content from long term players was exactly following the pattern you stated in the rest of the paragraph and that is exactly why the feed dried up. It was boring as hell. It needs fresh eyes to be revived.

If you barely know a game, your observations or questions can help a lot of others.
If you know a game and barely understand it - that is quite a different animal.

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