How Dynamic Is Your Voting Behavior?
So I got this notification today by @hive.buzz to remind me that I've given 65000 upvotes in approximately 53 months of being on the blockchain. For me, some stats feels like milestones and that's because they're like a proof of continuity. I would firstly say continuity because it's occurring frequently, timeless and rapidly and not dependent on time.
Everyone has a voting behavior, it could be a circle without the jerk, it could be a full circlejerk, it could be voting the content irrespective of the personality (quite rare, a bit improbable), or voting the personality irrespective of the content, (Rampant) It could be voting the personality because you've come to love their content overtime, voting the personality because you have established a close or physical relationship with them.
In fact, it could be following a trail or proxying an account to do your curation duties because you feel they can do better and also earn you better curation reward. In fact, some stakeholder on hive are busy. Having real-time business or commitments. The best way to earn from their stake is by delegation. By doing so, they've subconsciously established a voting behavior by giving their stake out to a project they deem worthy to constitute the right voting behavior and then earn as well.
Now these people might not be on-chain to monitor the activities of the project they've delegated to, but since it was their choice to do so in the first place it means every curation choice made on their behalf represents them by virtue of proxy. This means that people can establish different kind of voting behavior and these behaviors basically represents their decisions, their ideologies and choices towards contents and the creators
This isn't me, I do not like delegation, except it's for setting up a newbie in the aspect of resource credit and all. The reason is that I feel I can be my own influencer. This means establishing my own curation behavior. If there wasn't the delegation system, I probably think it would have its good and bad sides and the bad sides might probably make it a bit difficult for investors to actually put their investment into good use, after all, the aim of investing is to actually make more money with money.
This isn't to divert from the intent of this post. Back in the days, my own voting habits were to dump votes on the posts of whales or anything on trending, probably because I wanted to inorganically gain traction. But these votes weren't worth anything, up until I became a minnow and actually got the slider, to measure my vote percentage.
With Slider's Comes Direction
In 2018, I think February, I became a minnow and Getting the voting slider, meant something, it changed my curation behavior. In the past, it was dumping 100% of my worthless or $.001 on trending posts because I had no control of it, but when the slider came, my voting became intentional, I started curating with more direction and as a result of the great prices then, my 100% was worth about 15 cents or so and I began curating manually, not on whales' posts anymore, but on the posts of people who I've come to know.
"Know" in the sense that, I've come to build a relationship with them based on how I could relate with their content, how they inspired me to grow and how I looked up to them to actually grow. So my curation became more intentional in 2019, and it was mid-2019 that I decided to set up autovotes.
53 months & Counting
One thing I've done so far is to keep my vote percentage at 70% and upward and whenever it goes below that, my autovotes automatically stops. In order to keep it at 70% and above, I turn on my autovotes by 7am and turn it off by 7pm then curate manually in-between the times the autovotes are off. So I have done a simple calculation of my vote, and it seems like I have managed to distribute about 40 votes each day and since my vote is 50/50 auto and manual.
I think I manually have done like 18 to 22 votes manually, every day for 53 months. Isn't that staggering? Anyway I like to measure my stats like it's a milestone because it helps me to bask and to keep me going at the same energy or even more, despite whatever real-time commitment I might have.
I've heard so many people say I'm not the "community type of guy", but this hasn't been true. The last 4 years has been really hectic for me, due to educational commitments, but it's finally over at where I've stopped. In reality, I haven't seen this as a task whatsoever, but the truth is that making the curation choices itself is what is time-taking. Nevertheless, I can't believe I've done this for 53 months.
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Why You Couldn't Create Good Contents In 2021, Why You Still Wouldn't In 2022.
A Psychoanalytic Dive Into Incentivized Loyalty
The Nigerian/African Disposition On Marriage As An Endowment
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