Being a Hiveian

Hive Blockchain feeds on the spirit communities bring. But what feeds the communities on Hive takes no-brainer to understand. Content enthusiasts like you and I are keeping the communities alive. Our activities are helping the spaces to thrive and come up with lucrative project ideas. So, basically, it’s pretty much simple. You create content, publish on your favourite and relevant communities, and the wheel moves on.

However, it’s not only about content; but to gamify the growth, the importance of engagement is paramount. Not to mention how valuable it is to create meaningful, intriguing content that attracts people to read, interact, and leave a token of gesture, aka upvote, before switching to another content.

Now tell me, who is responsible for all these?

Again, it doesn’t need an answer. Every Hiveian onboarded successfully is smart enough to know that it’s our space, and we are liable to keep it clean, tidy, and healthy. Otherwise, opportunities will never come to us. And we will leave this ingenious platform by cursing those who get a sizeable amount of daily rewards.

We need to foster a growth mindset over time about keeping the space tidy. When we are accumulating Hive, be it from the markets or by leveraging posts, we contribute to its growth. At the same time, we are ensuring our growth, which is necessary; cause if our growth is stilled, we won’t find interest in sticking with this platform, and eventually, it will die. Thanks to the people actively working behind the scenes to inspire, motivate, and guide us through different money-making projects.

Unfortunately, it has become a one-sided practice where people behind those projects actively guide us to thrive while we are selfishly collecting every possible bounty in our range but giving nothing in return. There are many ways you can incentivise Hive Blockchain. Splinterlands and Hive Blog are two of the most promising ones. Some find Splinterlands boring, some just don’t find a clue, and some players can’t make a career out of it due to budget restraints where top players have gained a significant position with all the powerful cards.

If I talk about myself, I played the practice match for almost 2 months before buying my ticket to the real game. Practice matches are fairly easy, and any newbie will confuse them with real battles out there, as I have found the real ones are more strategic and 5-6x difficult to win compared to practice matches. So, after trying many matches with the basic cards, I quit cause I don’t have the capital to access those big cards, or I am just too dumb to play the tricks.

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But here on Hive Blog, I am thriving and can see many others doing good, far better than me. Many congratulations to them. However, I don’t know how much my effort contributes to the community's growth, but I believe it’s not enough. There is more I can do what I am doing now— and I am sure 90% of authors in this community feel the same. So, what’s that one point of the contribution we are missing out on?

Engagement. Meaningful interactions with others— within and outside of the community.

It’s not much for the community to ask from us compared to the benefits we are exploiting; still, we are constantly failing. Now that we are asked once again to engage with others, I am sure we will follow this for our own benefit.

But what do we call engagement? How can we establish connections with others and strengthen our networking?

By commenting on others' posts, right?

Well, that’s just the beginning assuming we are not using a template to comment on every post made in the community. By template, I mean “Nice post, keep it up” or “I liked your idea.” They are a form of engagement; I am not complaining— but what value are you adding to that post by saying those mere words? To me, it simply means either you didn’t read or couldn’t understand what my post is all about.

So, what could be a good practice?

Read the post, compare it with your point of view and highlight the part you liked or have questions about. Criticise it if you feel so, but politely. Criticism doesn’t have to be an attack but can bring the best out of it. Connect external sources if you find something that says the opposite to the statements of the post, make discussions, point to the mistakes if you find any— finally, try to understand the psychology of the authors and act accordingly.

Now, you may not like every post. It’s perfectly normal. Engage with the post you have liked, but to do so, you have to read first— and my point is, read read read. The more you read, the more you get ideas, and the more you know where the flaws are— strike right there. Be a respective author, own your own post— that’s all the community asks from you.

However, the community does not have any legal obligation for you to force you to engage and contribute. Still, it’s your sacred duty to do so if you have taken the money printed out of thin air to satisfy your personal interest at any point of your Hive journey.

Let’s bring it on, folks. We and the community— together, we thrive.