A post about something I haven't done in a while

which is curating @poshtoken comments, a.k.a. tweets with Hive link shares in them. Although we do have our initiatives here and there through @ocd which garner some rewards and pick up some great tweets and some times also curate the posts that were shared, I wanted to discuss and at the same time show you what this process entails.

It's not an easy task, there's a lot of posh eligible tweets that exist daily and looking at the stats they're constantly growing (recent record of 416 tweets in one day, and this is only those who reached the minimum requirements to earn some POSH, the total was 643!). Now you may be thinking, but "that's your job", well, not quite. Although it's true that I'm leading @poshtoken there's a lot of people involved in it such as curators and devs helping out and my plans have always be that if something were to happen to me it could be moved over to another person to take charge (or if I did something the community would deem unacceptable for me to continue working on it). Point is, it's a community project and a hobby for me, a hobby that has cost me quite some time and other people as well and personally it has also cost me quite a lot of Hive until we switched the tokenomics around a bit to make its price self-sustainable.

I guess you could say it's a general problem on Hive with curation, one could put in a lot of effort to make the most of it daily, thus investing time, or one could just set up an autovote or trail and receive the same returns without all that headache of actually putting in any effort. I guess it's a bit of a crux similar to when you're trying to cast some "good" downvotes to help distribution, although I'm sure we're going to figure out how to balance incentives all around for a healthier ecosystem eventually.

Either way, here's the video first so you can take a look, I only included a little text here and there along with the song names I was listening to at the time as I had youtube on auto.

(warning audio music)

So, why did I stop doing this curation? Well there's a few reasons to it.

1. I have a lot going on and this was taking a lot of time out of my day. So much time that I started getting lazy with it and just voting up comments without doing due diligence which is not something I like doing. Not just that it caused accounts I don't think should've received Hive rewards to get away with some but also cause when I strive for manual curation on this account I like to stick to it and make sure what I'm curating I have at least a faint knowledge and memory of later having read or at least glanced at it if it's from an author I trust.
2. The added "no incentive" for doing all this work does take a toll on you in the end, after doing it for about a month you can imagine that's a lot of hours in total I could've spent on quite literally anything else and gotten some extra stake out of that. Now yes, I understand the "greater good", etc, but I'm just human and have my limits towards selfless work, especially when it's this kind of "labor" work that is both boring in a sense and requires you to do a lot.

Plans for the future would be to share the workload with others, preferably curators with a history and experience in either curation or also posh since part of the work gets easier if you already are familiar with a lot of the usernames and their history/reputation/activity to not have to check on everyone on the Twitter activity side. It's the thing that's also important with POSH cause we want to keep our Twitter activity similar to the one on Hive; genuine. Not just because the reward pool helps us reward these tweets and keep the token price up for those wanting to cash in on their POSH rewards, but also for the reputation of Hive for those who are on Twitter promoting it. We don't want bot looking accounts with fake followers and activity being at the center of Hive cause that'll make us all look bad which is a reason we keep things so strict to not incentivize that, even though we can't control what happens there we can make sure not to reward it through here. We already have quite a POSH banlist and that's part why curators are important rather than just automating the poshtoken comment curation. (beat that AI, we still need humans)

Other plans would be to reward this activity, the how is important here and we will have to think about more as we wouldn't want to take too much value/stake from the project for this as that can surely be used for development and growth later on, but one thing is sure is that this kind of work deserves some good rewards as it's quite tedious even shared among others.

With this post I'd also want to encourage projects/games/dapps to look out for poshtoken comments and similar to us help us curate them, especially those that are about your own project. For instance if @splinterlands would see that some great splinterlands posts were shared by some people and seem to have genuine impressions on Twitter, give the comment a vote to not just encourage people to continue sharing but also incentivize more to do so. The rewards on the comment go 100% to the sharers (-1% reward.app liquidation fee) unless they also selfvote it in that case their share goes to @hive.fund. Of course others are also welcomed to join the poshtoken curation and we'd appreciate any and all of it, except for abusive ones. :P

Anyway, thanks for reading and watching, I'll be posting again in the near future when we think some more about some solutions. Could be it would also be a great time for POSH to finally get a DHF proposal up as it's been quite a long time of development and a working concept that's looking to grow and help bring more traffic towards our front-ends that could really need it. Do you think that could be a good idea for POSH? Would you support a proposal?

---