Around here, we mostly tend to think of ourselves as content creators.

After all, Hive and her surrounding communities are substantially focused on the process of creating content.

In the broader sense of the word, most of us are actually both content creators and content consumers. However, the two don't necessarily overlap all the time.

One of the interesting things I've discovered along the way, is that a lot of time the kind of content we create is necessarily the same thing we consume. Conversely, there are a lot of things I read with interest that I would actually have little to no interest in creating.

It wouldn't surprise me if that's something we see across a broad spectrum of the human experience.

Consider, just for a moment, that as content creators we're likely to write something that relates to an area in which we have at least a fair amount of expertise or knowledge. However, when we read stuff (or listen to someone's podcast) we're usually doing so because we want to learn something new, so it's often away from our area of expertise.

Maybe that sounds painfully obvious, but not everybody sees that right away!

I'm definitely fascinated by articles about UFOs, space exploration, the paranormal and more... but you're definitely not going to see any posts from m, on those topics!

Why Am I Bringing This Up?

These days, there are a lot of efforts and initiatives afoot to market Hive to the world outside our little ecosystem. But who are we trying to reach?

Are we trying to reach more people who will create more interesting content? Or are we trying to reach people who'll be interested in consuming the content we are already producing (and HAVE produced) here?

It matters, because they may not be the same people!

I don't generally have anything to do with web content that hides behind a so-called "paywall." The one exception to that particular rule-of-thumb is that I do have a cheapie subscription to the Medium publishing platform, because a number of my favorite content creators have their articles parked there... and I can't see those, unless I'm willing to pay.

I suppose that could be used as an example that people do pay for the things that are important to them!

Of course, Hive is unique in the sense that there's a benefit for both creators and consumers. Let's, for example, consider that my Medium subscription costs $60 a year. At this morning's rate, that translates to about 170 Hive.

So let's say I bought and staked 170 Hive as Hive Power.

As a very general rule, each 100% upvote would earn 0.003 HP in curation rewards. Multiply by 10 votes a day, multiply by 365 days and you end up with +/- 11.00 Hive a year, as well as 11.00 Hive rewarded to content creators.

Of course, there is still the gaping question mark concerning finding 10 pieces of content a day I actually care to read.

Personal Ethics and "Doing Right"

It all looks nice and simple, but there's always the "personal ethics" angle to consider.

People often behave badly when there's money involved. Maybe not directly badly...

Let's go back to my Medium subscription. Because I am paying for that content, I make a fairly determined effort to "get my money's worth." Do people still take the time, as content consumers, to read articles, if they don't have to pay for them? Or will they choose to simply use their subscription to "auto curate" with that Hive Power, so as to dervive the rewards, but without putting in the effort?

I think it's a worthy question to consider!

Thanks for visiting and having a look at my blog, and till the next one!

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