A Trifecta
I was commenting on a post that @dagger212 wrote the other day and it got me thinking about writing this post.
My mind was spinning about a million miles a minute and as I started writing my comment on that post I realized it could be a post within itself.
So this post is going to be about whales and let me say right from the get go it is not meant to disparage anyone. The last thing I need is to be on the bad side of a whale.
If you were trying to guess, the trifecta I am referring to in the title is posting, commenting, and curating.
Anyway, it popped into my head the other day that whales on Hive are kind of like UFO's or aliens. We know they likely exist, but if anyone tells you they saw one or interacted with one, they look at you like you are crazy.
Let's be honest, interaction is not something that whales in general are great at. I kind of can't blame them. I'd like to think that if I held that large of a stake I would be interacting and throwing out upvotes like they were candy.
I can understand the draw once your account is that large and you have put in all the hard work to just sit back and let your stake passively work for you.
I can think of one platform off the top of my head where I would probably be considered a whale and I know I don't interact over there nearly as much as I should. Maybe I am just lazy, maybe it is the price, maybe I should take my own advice, who knows.
Finding a whale who does the "big three" regularly and well is even more of a rarity. I can think of maybe one or two off the top of my head. The best example being @taskmaster4450le. I am starting to think that maybe he is already implementing some of that AI technology he writes about into his routine because he is a literal machine.
He posts at least twice a day with high quality posts, he is always at the top of the leaderboard in comments, and he spreads his voting out fairly decently.
Now that is a whale to gives back to the community.
I can think of several other really great whales, and some of them tick a one or two of the boxes, but none of them tick all three.
So what is my point?
Like I said, I am not calling anyone out. In a million years it would never be my place to do that. Quite honestly, I just thought that UFO analogy was really funny and I wanted to work it into a post somehow.
It does raise some interesting questions though...
Do you try for the trifecta each day? Is that something we should all shoot for or should we just do our own thing? Everyone including me has different circumstances and life doesn't always afford the luxury of completing the trifecta.
As our accounts grow larger, what responsibility do we have to the platform? None? A little? A lot? What if it wasn't a "social" platform? Do you think that should factor into it at all?
I look forward to reading your comments. Don't mind me though, I am going to just slide over to that other frontend and do a little curation now!
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