When I look at the content that is daily posted on hive, I can't help but think that there is so much creativity on this blockchain. Of course there is variability in terms of quality, effort and talent but nevertheless, as a community we bring to paper an amazing quantity of newly created content every day. My question is whether we could step it up?
One content creator and many content consumers
There are many different types of contents, be it in form, style or topic. However, in most cases the content is what I would call one sided. You have the author on one side who creates whatever content he likes and then you have, on another side, the readers and commentators who consume this content. As a commentator, I'm free to pick up whatever I want about the content and in a way express my thoughts, opinions about what has been created. One content, two sides. One is the creator, the other is the consumer. But there could be another option...
A different structure
With the Liotes project, we are running a mission almost every week where we ask the community a question and then get a wide variety of answers. The post is not the central part of the interaction. It is often quite short but the value is in the comment section of these posts. There are plenty of nuggets that come to the surface. Even though we publish one of these missions almost every week, we always have a lot of comments on them. People like to answer such questions and it gives us the opportunity to learn more about the members of the community. We learn about their lives, their background, their thoughts and whatever they decide to share with us. These Liotes Missions are therefore content that is different from the traditional content that we find on Hive. It's not one content creator and other content consumer. It's different...
When content creation turns into collaboration
Seeing the success of this other type of hive content, I wonder whether we couldn't go further in this direction. Imagine that instead of just asking a subjective question to the community, we would start a collaboration process, where each mission would build on the exchanges of the previous ones, where we could develop a kind of community project where everybody is involved and where we work together towards a goal that is defined through the process...
I can't really say how it would look like and what would be the goal but I think I would enjoy such a project. What about you?
With @ph1102, I'm running the @liotes project.
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