SMALL ANNOUNCEMENT: please refrain from promoting Project.hope and bringing new members

in Project HOPE • 4 years ago (edited)

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INTRODUCTION

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It's not news for anyone here, that prices of STEEM, HIVE, TRX as well as SBD and HBD has been doing great lately. And just as I expected - it stimulated more people to become active and posting again. Many more have joined our social media platform lately.

And it seems that Project.hope has been attracting more new members now than ever before. Which is sort of great. However, we manage limited resources (voting power) and this growth cannot continue at such a rapid speed.

ACKNOWLEDGING THE PROBLEM

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It's crucial for all of us to acknowledge this issue and realize that part of the problem comes from within our community.

I've lately realized that many newcomers are somehow related to current PH members. Friends, colleagues from work, family members, or simply someone they got to know online and decided to bring to our community.

To make things worse, I've learned that on some Spanish-speaking WhatsApp group our community has been promoted as a place where everyone can get strong upvotes if they set up beneficiaries to ph-fund.

THIS IS JUST SO WRONG ON SO MANY LEVELS.

At this stage I would need to request from all of you, to AVOID PROMOTING our community as it is becoming increasingly more and more difficult for me to welcome and accept those new people into our team.

PROBLEMS AHEAD OF US IF WE CONTINUE TO GROW

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Our community already grew to quite a large size. So far we've been doing quite well and we've been able to manage our voting power. And with current price levels, all rewards are decent.

However, many delegators decided recently to cancel their delegations. Many of those who followed our curation trail powered down already. More and more people are cashing out part of their portfolio and trading some of their steem/hive tokens. And in a result, our voting power has decreased lately.

So as long as prices are high - things will be great. So we can support many new members as well with decent upvotes.

Unfortunately, sooner or later we will experience market correction and once we do - it will be time to verify which of those new members are actually active and engaging.
And reduce support to those non-engaging to a maximum of 1 post a week.

That will be obviously happening in the future. Let's focus on current solutions ...

SOLUTION FOR NOW

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Let me repeat:
I would need to ask everyone to avoid promoting PH community. Do not bring more of your friends and family members to our team, as I may not be able to support their content.

CONFIRM AND RESTEEM

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Please drop a short comment below, so I would be aware who already did read this publication. You may simply write "I confirm reading it".

I would also appreciate every resteem, since it would help me reach out community members much easier.

Yours, @crypto.piotr
@project.hope founder

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     3 years ago 

    Seems like the same old community problem, too many members, not enough support. Hard to get support and then those in the community are only takers and do not help each other either.

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     4 years ago 
    Greetings my friend, no doubt we are facing a scenario that much we were not able to foresee, in any case we came to think that the current price increase of Hive and Steem would bring great benefits to the community in general and apparently the scenario has been otherwise.

    First of all, this scenario should serve as a learning experience, which will strengthen the PH core team, assuming the commitment that we must have in front of you as a leader and the rest of our colleagues, because in the long run the benefits are for everyone.

    On the other hand, we must establish limits with clear objectives, for this we must answer the following question:

    What are we looking for within PH?

    Will it be a large community of uncommitted users, or rather we are looking for a select community that has users committed to the project and that their publications are constant over time, so as to generate constant and lasting income, where there is a balance between curators and content creators.

    From my perspective, I believe that the option that favors us the most is the second one and that we should work according to it. Regarding the HOPE token, it is a fantastic idea, because as I see it, we can perceive the normal curatorships in the different HIVE/STEEMIT blockchain and at the same time we can establish credits in our own HOPE token, which will allow us to use them as payment for the commitments that you have already been driving over time.

    Methodically, I do not know the principles and structures that you must follow to generate this type of tokens, as well as the support that it must have and that will serve as support to it, I suppose it will be an evaluation that you will have to follow. In advance, I am willing to collaborate in whatever is necessary. @madridbg.
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     4 years ago 

    Thank you for that amazing feedback @madridbg

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       4 years ago 

      @crypto.piotr, there is really a simple solution for this. No one can consistently output top quality posts everyday or multiple times a day unless it is their full time job to do so (in which case they should be reported as such). Just select a few people to rank posts or select posts every week that get top curation. Others get lower curation. Now that creates other problems of subjectivity but if you do it right, that effect will cancel out. I honestly don't like the idea of not advertising the community or not letting people in because you really don't know who will be the next @crypto.piotr on the platform. Just my 2 cents and yes, I confirm reading this.

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       4 years ago 

      Thank you for your comment @aiplusfinance

      I honestly don't like the idea of not advertising the community or not letting people in

      I truly understand your point of view.

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         4 years ago 

        I guess this is a good problem to have while the crypto party lasts :) I will reference the Mae West philosophy on crypto...

        "It is better to be looked over than overlooked."

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         4 years ago 

        Hello friends. I confirm reading this.

        Honestly, i have always thought that it is the duty of the core team to recruit writers into the community. Maybe because that's how I joined. However, I believe that if we consider the economy of the Project Hope community first of all, then we will understand why too many people can't be allowed to freely come on board.

        It would have been a good idea if we are to allow people to freely join and make curation totally based on the quality of posts, but again, after setting a beneficiary percentage to ph-fund, a writer automatically has a sense of "right to an equivalent upvote value." Since this is what the economy is based on, we cannot allow a bottleneck situation that upvotes won't go round and people who are affected will have a sense of "breach of agreement."

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         4 years ago 

        I confirm reading this post.

        Well, I think this is really what happens people see a great community with good potentials and protects. I just hope we start receiving great support from Steemit Inc team and other great whales to rectify the rejection of people joining our community.

        Thanks for sharing this great post with love from @hardaeborla and I hope you have a great day ahead ♥️💓💕💞

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         4 years ago 

        I confirm reading it
        For us as a community it has always been quality over quantity.
        It has been the hallmark of our community and hope this initiative would ensure that the quality creators are supported and they get a decent payout per post.

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         4 years ago 

        Thank you very much for coming up with the issue with clarification. I think otherwise the newcomers and the existing engaging members of this community could have been missguided. now it's clear to all of us that support is not always possible as people expect. and I am very much surprised to listen about the WhatsApp group for their promoting but in different way. let's grow together with some positive minded about the community. I confirm I read the post

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         4 years ago 

        Hi @project.hope
        Certainly, there has been an exponential growth of users in the community, and that's fine, especially if we had the voting powers, but it's not the reality.
        I confirm Reading it

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         4 years ago 

        According to your explanation, I really agree that "you need to ask everyone to avoid promoting PH community. They should not bring more of their friends and family members to our team, because it will be difficult for you to support their content". I support you all the way @project.hope. But I hope people who are powering down won't damage more things?
        I will resteem this post too because I understand how urgent this is.