🔍Recently, the Hong Kong Carnival has been very popular and has been trending online. Although I didn't attend, I have been keeping an eye on the updates and beautiful photos!

However, I have also seen many families have mixed opinions about KOLs attending the event; some actively participate, while others want to block them?

Why is that?! 🤔

Do you tirelessly attend various industry conferences?

In Web3, offline meetings are essentially the core scenarios for industry resource integration, information dissemination, and ecological collaboration. KOLs frequently participate in industry activities, which is not only a real-time follow-up on industry dynamics but also an important means of establishing personal influence. The consensus conference is also widely regarded as a 'resource bridge' between project parties, exchanges, and communities, after all, many KOLs in the industry now have a voice that even replaces traditional VCs.

✅Here are some benefits of attending conferences that I believe in:

1. You can get first-hand information on hot topics, which can help fans avoid pitfalls.

2. Resource integration, project connections, networking, and money-making.

3. Without some offline social skills, why should you replace VCs as a resource bridge?

4. Attendance and speaking at various small and large meetings accelerate the enhancement of personal influence and visibility.

✖Drawbacks:

1. Selectively expressing opinions to obtain sponsorship or airdrops from project parties, leading to a decrease in the truthfulness of statements, with interests binding and content distortion.

2. A large amount of ineffective information piling up, content homogeneity, occupying public resources.

3. Some social scenarios like yacht parties and rooftop cocktail events are criticized as 'capital revelry,' which goes against the 'technology-oriented' advocacy of Web3.

⭕️Although attending conferences accelerates information flow, promotes ecological collaboration, and shapes industry trends, it also breeds interest binding, dilutes content depth, and exacerbates a superficial atmosphere.

I believe that the matter of 'whether to attend or not' should still be viewed objectively. For KOLs, it is essential to find a balance between 'resource integration' and 'content independence,' clarify interest disclosures, delve into vertical fields, avoid being solely bound by interests, and not treat fans as mere resources! For users, it is necessary to establish diverse information channels and filter noise with 'critical thinking,' rather than completely denying the value of attending conferences.

As the underlying logic of Web3 suggests: decentralization does not mean the absence of nodes but achieving system robustness through the diversity of nodes.

👏If there’s anything I haven’t mentioned about the pros and cons, feel free to add your thoughts!!

Lastly, the reason I didn’t go is definitely not because I can't afford the plane ticket! 🤭