Many may not know me, because I'm not the most active person in the community, but I always end up creating content in our community.
I'm passionate about sports, and my first post in the community was on December 10, 2020.
Sport in general is a huge topic that millions of people like to talk about and write about.
This makes me believe that a well-structured sports community has the potential to be as big/important as LeoFinance.
For a while, I was sharing some ideas and opinions on points (post 1 post2 post3) that our community could improve. However, I quickly realized that @patrickulrich had other priorities than launching the DAO.
At the time I decided to simply stop giving ideas/opinions as it started to seem boring due to always hitting the same points.
Two years later, I decided to look again at the state of our community.
From what I've analyzed it seems to me that nothing has improved significantly but let's see concrete data:
General Numbers
Currently, we have 4005 followers, but of these only 123 active users and with a total of 584 interactions and attention that this month we had the World Cup.
Let's compare with other communities.
| Community | Followers | Iterations | Active users |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alien Art Hive | 4461 | 874 | 263 |
| 1UP | 1225 | 64 | 35 |
| Black and White | 7874 | 895 | 188 |
| LeoFinance | 15495 | 13312 | 1300 |
| Pinmapple | 9957 | 1743 | 417 |
| Full Deportes | 2706 | 760 | 103 |
| LikeTu | 3682 | 2877 | 661 |
| Ladies of Hive | 4995 | 2447 | 354 |
| StemSocial | 3467 | 430 | 77 |
| THGaming | 519 | 3855 | 230 |
| CineTV | 2018 | 323 | 113 |
| CTP | 865 | 480 | 123 |
| Rising Star Game | 2530 | 3191 | 239 |
As we can see, our community in terms of followers even has more followers than some of these communities mentioned above.
However, in terms of active users and iterations, we are one of the worst performing communities.
These are the points that separate communities successfully being recognized from communities that are just another one that don't really bring much.
Unfortunately, now our community is just one of many, even a community strictly in Spanish about sports that has existed for much less time has grown more and has more iterations than we do.
Despite all the efforts @cryptoandcoffee is constantly warning about this iteration issue.
I think that now as a community we must think and define what we want and how we want to position ourselves.
Do we want to be just another community, or do we want to be one of the big communities?
Financially
SPORTS Token
Regarding SPORTS, there is not much to say since its price will never be attractive, because everyone can farm our token even if the posts have nothing to do with sports or posts from the actifit community. This was something I also mentioned in my ideas posts, but nothing has changed.
However, there would be supposed to be buy backs & burns with the money generated by sportstalksocial.com advertising, according to what was said at the time of its implementation.
When analyzing @sports-gov and @sportstalksocial portfolios, we see that there are 0.01615126 SWAP.BTC stopped for more than a year and another fact is that there are no publication transfers for more than a year.
Has advertising been removed from the site?
To this we can also add that in the bc1qhpcvxv36hjwefp3xhvtda0xrdqgxfv7kaxn893 wallet (which was the last one you transferred to sports-gov) there is still 0.01231135 BTC available.
HIVE Power
None of the accounts have a lot of HP, but I'm sure the HP they contain should be used to reward community users who create content and interact.
This leads me to question why the @sports-gov account is delegating 5k to @actifit.rewards
Is it not enough for the Actifit community to be farming SPORTS that we still delegate Hive Power to them?
Governance
Theoretically, we are a decentralized community since there is a DAO where anyone can create a proposal to change or create something in the community.
However, of the 13 proposals created, 11 forms created by @patrickulrich and these proposals are the only way to see that the “owner” of the community is alive.
In my opinion and also according to a friend of mine:
“We are decentralized because in reality we are abandoned.”
Taking these points into consideration, it seems to me that if we want to change for the better there will have to be drastic changes, but does our community want that?
What's your opinion?