Why Is It So Difficult to Take Action?

That's the question I asked myself this morning as I was watching this image

and saw 35 users powered up Hive every day last month (1 HIVE is enough). They are fewer than last month, by the way.

Here are the 35 users. They probably deserve a little spotlight:

My question in the title is a rather general question, and, as a general question, the answer is: it isn't. It's a matter of choices. You always choose to do something, even when you "do nothing". Had you not chosen option 1, you could have chosen option 2, or 3, or any other of the variants one has in front of them, sometimes in plain sight, other times, reachable after a long path.

Given a choice, most people choose the way they are the most familiar with. Interestingly, that's not often the easiest way, but it is the way they know, and change seems more difficult than continuing with a hard job to do. And obviously, less stable. And people seek stability, on average.

But my flow of thoughts carried me somewhere else than I wanted to reach, which for now is on Hive.

I was wondering, like others, why various Hive initiatives where small actions are needed from any and every regular user don't see more participation. Even when there are rewards involved.

I have some answers, and I'll give myself as a bad example. But also as a good example.

Something like the PowerUp Month Challenge with which I started this post is a longer term commitment that requires consistency. I like consistency and thus I participate, and usually I complete these challenges.

But they are more of a lead my example way of acting to "train" newbies a good practice on Hive - to regularly powerup. It's not a requirement, people can have different strategies, and whales already have huge stakes, so it's a matter of option whether you find participating in this kind of challenge helpful to yourself or to others as an example.

Since it's a 30-day challenge, experience tell us not many will follow-through. Missing one day is enough to blow it.

But with Hive PowerUp Day (which is today, btw), it's a different thing. It's once a month, on the first of the month. Much easier to participate, and more people do. For example, last month, 358 Hivers powered up at least 10 HIVE on the first of April. About 10x more than the users who were able to complete the PUM challenge in April.

Let's say both PUM and HPUD eventually have an impact on community excitement and as an example to newbies.

But we have outward-facing initiatives that could help Hive outside the ecosystem.

We have the TheDappList initiative led by @coldbeetrootsoup, aimed to vote Hive dApps on that platform. They have a post every Friday where one Hive dApp is spotlighted for you to vote on. If you do and comment with a screenshot within 3 days you get some rewards.

What I find kind of disappointing is that only about 100-200 people at most vote on these dApps every week. For something that literally takes less than 1 minute, you don't need to create any account (you just have to login with a wallet like Metamask), 200 people is too few for a place like Hive, imo.

And now, other Hive initiatives, equally or more important, where unfortunately I set a bad example as well.

The initiative of

, where prizes are won by those who reach most people every week. Consistent participation (every week) lead to more HP delegations.

I actually thought to participate at some point (a few of my posts were shared, but by others). My holdback is that I made an account on Reddit while we were on the previous chain, and after one post over there it was banned or deleted or something. I hear that happens sometimes with new users on Reddit. Well, if that happens, I'm not interested to make temporary accounts. But if you already have an account on Reddit, you should check into this initiative. Maybe even if you don't, and aren't bothered that your account may be banned soon after creating it.

The initiative of

about Hive. Pre-made videos, nonetheless. That's another initiative with prizes (50 HIVE). Used to be few people every week, but last week there were many more for some reason. Unfortunately, I don't really have exposure to Web 2 nor do I desire one, although I understand the benefits it would bring to Hive if people shared those videos in a non-spammy way. If people do have exposure to Web 2 or want to grow their accounts there and follow the rules, 50 HIVE weekly is an enticing prize, imo.

So... I take action on some Hive initiatives, not on others, but we are thousands active on Hive, so even if we don't all choose every initiative, we can do better.

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