It is with great delight to receive the newbies initiative second task.
And guess what? The floor has been opened for us to share our minds, our ideas about how the newbie initiative can be best improved for the betterment of those involved.
Wow! That's a great task you know?
Before heading towards that lane to answer the required and asked questions, I want to pause here and invite every newbie on the Hive platform to SMILE discord server
Click on the invite link, highlighted SMILE above and it will take you directly to the server
And now to the questions;
- What they think about the Newbie Initiative
If you ask us what we think about the newbie initiative, personally my answer will always be the same but fine-tune every time.
Newbie Initiative has been the best thing that has happened to me while joining the Hive platform.
I don't know how it would have been if I didn't find that initiative.
Perhaps I would have been so frustrated that I might have abandoned my account for a while until I was able to cope with the frustration.
But thanks to this initiative, I wasn't frustrated, maybe I was but a little and that was before finding the NBI.
So to say the least, Newbie Initiative is a great program running on Hive whose major aim is to reach out to every newbie that arrives on Hive and they are doing their utmost best to make every newbie feel welcome and not get lost and frustrated on their arrival on Hive.
- What Ideas they feel needs to be added to improve support to newbies
The already existing support and help to the newbies are of great benefits and I don't know if there is any newbie that would dispute that fact. But aside from the already existing benefits, I know some newbies still feel they should be more and those ideas is what we are asked to give in this task.
And I would like to start mine this way.
Even though we all are here with our best and doing everything possible to dish out our best quality posts or contents, some are still always hidden among the crowd.
So one of the ideas I am giving here is to;
AUTOUPVOTE
I am not saying we should always expect every day to be Christmas but to a certain percent, the team should provide this to either the best two or even three newbies they see that are doing well or doing their best on the platform.
I know @starstrings01 does this with his account.
They should be recommended for an auto upvote list. I don't know how they call it here. This would go a long way to helping the growth of such a newbie lucky enough to be enlisted. I am also sure if this happens, every newbie would be eager and striving to do their best to be enlisted.
There is no joy as a newbie to see that your works and efforts are rewarded and not just ignored or jumped over. I am sure the team can do that. They can recommend a particular newbie for an auto upvote list, only if they have the power to do so.
POST PROMOTION CHANNEL
I don't know if the post-promotion channel is of any benefit to the newbies cause it feels that the team doesn't even have time to check the posts dropped by the newbies in the channel.
Personally, I didn't see any benefit so I stopped dropping my posts. No offense taken!
But if the team provided that room for newbies to always drop their post link then it's in their place to ensure that amidst their busy schedule, that they go check out the newbie's post and either support or encourage them. This would go a long way to boosting their confidence and help them do better.
MEETINGS
I am sure a lot of us still have so many questions to ask because we want to know and understand certain things and how things work and are operated here.
We all have those lingering questions, things we feel we should know or we wish to know.
So if the team wants to help the newbies in that aspect then they should start conducting a meeting on SMILE discord even an hour meeting can go a long way to helping answer some questions the newbies have concerning a particular thing on Hive they don't understand.
- Critics on how the Initiative run, and better alternatives
There are no many critics on how the newbie initiative runs but then I would like to know something about the initiative.
Apart from the few benefits that are enlisted in the newbie initiative, are the team not really concerned about personal growth on the system? Our weaknesses our flaws as bloggers? What we aren't doing well that needs to be corrected? If not then there aren't any critics as to how the initiatives run but if yes.
Then I can say with all confidence that it's very poor and very sad.
Ask me why I said that.
ENCOURAGEMENT
I don't know if it I alone or it is the same with others but then, there is no form of encouragement coming from the team as per comments on posts.
The only time we have them present in our posts is when they run a contest or we are given a task aside that then we newbies don't even see their brake light on our post. I stand to be corrected if the impression I am giving here is wrong.
I know we are all busy with our lives and we have our lives to live outside Hive or blogging but then if a shepherd is taking care of his sheep, he doesn't leave them wandering or let them go astray.
Inasmuch as the newbies are under your tutelage then they are your responsibility until they become a full ledge Hiver that can do well on their own or until they are done with their newbie initiative program.
So for the little while they are under you, they should receive that encouragement from you and be corrected when they go astray. This could help them become better and do better as such also be a guide to another newbie when they find them.
I think aside from this, the newbie initiative program has no other Critics from my own point of view.
With these few points of mine, I urge you all to encourage every newbie out there to join this initiative and their newbie life would never remain the same.
Don't be scared of the critics, lol😁 it was needed to better this program for all of us newbies.
Aside from that, it's an amazing program that you wouldn't wanna miss, so come be a part of it.
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