Thank you for your support and feedback @wil.metcalfe, much appreciated!
We do not plan to rebrand the user's classification. It's not based on Steem but on the global cryptosphere vocabulary, especially about whales.
We brainstormed on moving to a "bee" ecosystem, but it doesn't work, mainly because it would have been more role oriented when the current classification is weight oriented.
Thank's for your response @hivebuzz team!
I have taken some time to think... Before the week picks up I thought I had better come back here.
I certainly understand the ideas behind the current user classification. The only problem I see is it's strong affinity with the previous ecosystem on Steem(it) and a difficult fit from the branding end of things.
I really do think that there could be huge benefits to a fully thought out re-brand of the user classifications and there would/could also be more support for this proposal.
These badges have the potential to be iconic to the Hive brand as they represent the identity and hard work that each user dedicates to the Hive Blockchain.
I have been wracking my brain trying to come up with something that works... I think that you are right about the direct parallels of the insect world; it being one that's more role orientated. That's probably something we would want to avoid.
What do you think about zooming out from the bee hive and moving into the forest? Perhaps we could draw land rather than water comparisons...
Personally I like the idea of trees in the forest... perhaps different size/type tree's. All homes/ecosystems for honey bee's, birds, raccoon, deer, bear, etc. Or perhaps we could imagine that the Hive ecosystem is the forest and we the account users are the animals in that forest.
They do say that the best time to plant a tree is 100 years ago... So the next best time to plant a tree is today. That might work nicely for promotion don't you think?
I hope that I haven't been to presumptuous here... This is really just me thinking out loud and my best attempt to not just weigh in but lend my mind (so to speak).
So do you think that this idea could this work? Is there benefit to re-imagining the classification system for Hive?
I think that, at the moment, we are all still in transition... If we found a way to effectively step away with the implementation of new classifications. It could go a long way to bringing people together around the Hive Blockchain and forging new, proud, and diverse distinction between where we have been and where we are going as a decentralized community.
What you guys are doing is important. (I think so anyways!)
...so now is the best time to dive deep and think all these sorts of things through carefully don't you think? (Maybe there is even some value in crowd sourcing the community...? That's another idea!)
I hope that I have been of some use.
Let me know if you would like my continued input/brainstorming with this. I'm happy to help wherever I can.
Ok. Gotcha... just curious... why did you guys unfollow and ignore? I just got this notification and was a bit surprised by it...
Hey @wil.metcalfe! As you can see hivebuzz is not following anybody at the moment. As it is a project there is no feed required 🙂
