The Problem With LeoFinance Is That It Is Too Good
Credit @mariosfame
A lot has happened in the crypto world, and real world over the last few days and it highlights a problem I'm having here on @leofinance that I don't encounter on Hive and certainly never encountered on Steemit.
The Content Is Too Good!
I started noticing it over the last month so It was way before the whole Robinhood thing. Don't get me wrong, it's a good problem to have but it is a problem all the same.
The problem is for curators. There is simply too much good content out there that doesn't get the attention of the curators and it makes me feel uneasy.
I am but a whimpy collection of two curation accounts and combined I peak out at just above 4100lp. It's simply not enough for me to do what I want to do. And what I want to do is let content creators know they are being seen and heard by giving them 100% upvotes.
My problem is that I run out too quickly. My combined 100% vote equals around $.12 to $.20 and just that little chunk is enough to be encouraging.
If I chop up my votes I feel like they are too small to really matter to a newbie or even a diligent creator that has yet to find their devoted audience.
I'm a big believer in the idea that ROC>ROI (return on community is greater than return on investment) and while the whales do a bang up job around here, I tend not to follow their votes because I want to cast a wider net.
The whales can't be responsible for growing the entire platform through curation and guys like me who have been lucky enough to receive a few whale votes need to pay them forward. It's the only way it will work because the current whales can't be responsible to do it forever. After all, we whale hunters know they are nothing more than blubber and bone lol.
It's in this vein that I say Leofinance is too good. There is so much content worthy of votes and not enough curators to get around to them all. And to top it off, we learn that 100% manual curation is exhausting and nearly impossible to do efficiently. I'm amazed that @onealfa.leo hasn't had a nervous breakdown yet lol.
On @leofinance we seem to have a pretty hardcore community that doesn't exist across the entire base layer of hive. I don't really feel bad for people that post on Hive and get no support. It's a big place and you have to seek out a community that you like. And steemit, well is steemit.
But Leofinance creators for the most part have found their community, believe in the direction it's heading and trust the leadership. That hasn't happened before for most creators and it's incumbent upon us to keep them engaged.
After all, it should be easier to develop a "customer" once they are already onboarded than it is to onboard new people and go through the churning process. It's also a lot cheaper!
I'm sure this is a "problem" worth solving but it is something to be mindful of and we can't rely on whales to make leofinance happen. Let's take the torch and run with it.
Posted Using LeoFinance Beta
