RE: ¿Otro post? Mejor no || One more post? Hard pass
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I actually find it quite a bad choice of @hivebuzz to have achievements for publishing daily in a week/month/year. I feel like such achievements are a cause for users to feel pushed into finding something to write about every day. It would be better having such achievements for weekly posting - but daily posting is too much if you don't have multiple hours at hand to write good content for Hive every day - and I feel like due to obvious constrains as real-life work few people actually have this time.
Focus on topics you have a solid foundation in, and develop your ideas thoroughly.
I would like to disagree with this thought (I hope I understood you correctly).
I am currently writing my own multi-part story. I've never written fantasy in my life. During writing I still struggle a lot with it. But I still try to write one chapter for Hive per day. It is a way to learn new skills. I have a problem with being consistent in learning when I cannot put my newly learned skills into actual use and demonstrate to the world right away.
For example when coding, I rarely code stuff for myself for the sole purpose of learning. I always want to integrate it into projects that others may use in the future.
Same goes for my experience with writing a fictional story: I write it in small chapters so I can publish them somewhere already and feel like I actually achieved something, instead of writing a hundred pages, then professionally editing it and then throwing it away because the first half seems incredibly bad with the more professional perspective I have from having written a full book.
Writing on Hive/Blogging in general can always be a way to discover new forms of writing, to share quick thoughts. But when it turns into a form of hunting for achievements or money, it is a bad thing.
And this brings me to the person you wanted to address as an example in your post: This person - from what you have said - seems to write from a passion. They seem to write quality content. If this is the case, it is an "Armutszeugnis", we would say in German ("poverty certificate", google translate). Hive should do better than limiting people in their ability to have fun while producing good content online. Hive should support exactly that: Having fun; putting time and effort into something.
But I don't have an answer yet, how to resolve such issues.
Of course, I agree with much of what you say. For me, Hive has been a place to develop skills I didn't have, and here I've always felt encouraged to try new things. But Hive has become a way for many people, especially Latinos, to support themselves financially. The guidance I give is based on what is “usually done” (which is not an absolute rule, as each curation project is independent and votes according to its own criteria).
It is reasonable to think that if you are just starting to write, it is likely that it will not be good and it is also likely that you will not get votes. In that sense, if you are counting on getting votes, my recommendation is to do something you already know how to do.
I like to support, as you say, people who make an effort and enjoy what they do (even if it's often not “the best post”). But one thing I can't do is vote three times on the same day for the same user, because there are many other people who are also making an effort.
That's what I mean.
Danke für deinen wunderbaren Beitrag! 🤗