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How some Hive-Engine tribes lose their main use case

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What is the biggest use case for tribe tokens? It's the capacity to actually stake this token to give your upvotes more value and to curate posts with them.

Thanks to this feature you can obtain quite nice returns for curation that are above returns for Hive curation for example.

Creating specialized accounts to maximize curation rewards

A lot of people realized that and started to create specialized accounts for each tribe. I created for example an achim03.ctp and an achim03.leo account. I staked all my respective tokens on these accounts and I curated posts that would carry the correct tags. This allowed me to maximize my CTP and LEO curation rewards.

If you own one account it's already difficult enough to curate posts manually. If you create some specialized accounts, you try to do at least a part of the curation automatically. I was using the rewarding.app service by @holger80. The great thing about it was that I could limite the upvotes to specific tags. I could make sure that my achim03.ctp account would only upvote posts with the #ctp tag.

The problem is that this app is not working anymore and I had to move to hive.vote. Unfortunately, hive.vote doesn't allow to set tags for the upvotes. I could circumvent this problem by setting a higher vote weight multiplier in leodex.io and like that maximize my curation for CTP.

Tribes without vote weight multiplier

I wanted to optimize my curation for SPT recently and I went to leodex and was looking for the vote weight multiplier of SPT... I couldn't find it. The reason is that new tribes aren't using scotbot but a special smart contract that is now available for tribes. I don't know whether it's still possible to set vote weight multipliers for these smart contracts. At least, I don't know how it would be possible to do it.

The problem is that now without rewarding.app and the vote weight multiplier, it becomes virtually impossible to optimize curation of certain tribe tokens! This is actually not a small feat. I can't optimize curation of these tribes and therefore the main use case of some of these tribes disapears. Maybe I can keep up the manual voting for my favorite tribe but I can't do it for all of them.

This means that I have no interest whatsoever in staking these tokens! I will therefore simply sell them on the market. The effect this will have on the price of the token is obvious...

Without a voting service that allows optimization for curation of tribe tokens, the main use case of these tokens is taken away and it is very negative for the development of these tribes!

There are some services offered that allow you to delegate your tokens and get a return for it. One of them was the program by @amr008 and I just saw yesterday that he is stopping his project.

Let's say that the tribe tokens in general are in big need of a voting service that allows to limit voting on certain tags. Without it, staking rates and prices will drop quite certainly...

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