Most Rewarding
Have you ever been surfing the Internet and stumbled across an article that promises to give you some tidbit of information? You open the the article and start reading only to find that they go on and on without ever really getting to the point that made you open the article in the first place.
I really hate it when people do things like that, but I was taught a long time ago that is how you get people to stay on your site for a longer amount of time and big promises like that are how you pull people there in the first place.
I thought about doing that myself for this post today, but I honestly wasn't sure that I would be able to string you along for a minimum of 500 words to at least make this post worth writing.
I already feel like I have been typing forever and I appear to only be just a bit over 150 words.
Getting to the point... Today I wanted to talk to you about one of the single things I have started doing on Hive to make it more rewarding for me. I'm not talking about monetary rewards although I think we can all agree those are quite nice. Instead, I am talking about mental and to some degree spiritual rewards here on Hive.
You see, a short time ago I decided I was going to start upvoting comments. Not my own comments of course, that would be tacky and against the unspoken code that we have here on Hive. If you are upvoting your own comments, just stop. It's bad form.
I did start upvoting other peoples comments though and believe it or not, it just felt good. It's not a ton that I upvote them for, but in my mind it's a little bit of appreciation for them taking the time to write that comment in the first place.
It's actually something I have made a regular part of my routine though it wasn't an easy road to get there.
I do a combination of manual and automatic curation. It was a fine line finding the right balance of upvote weights to keep my voting power above 80% each day, but also giving relatively decent upvotes.
I understand right now my vote value is down a bit because I am heavily delegated to @holozing for the rewards there, but to my surprise, the percentages I have found seem to work quite well despite that fact.
Most of my manual curation is at 20 to 30 percent on a post and then I try to vote 2 to 3 percent on any comments that don't qualify as spam. Ask any of the people that follow me regularly or casually, I vote on their comment pretty much every time. Heck, I even vote multiple times if we have a long conversation going in the comments.
Like I said, it's my small way of showing them I appreciate their time and insight. I've never really understood the syntax of those tipping bot things, so doing a comment vote just makes the most sense to me.
I've been saying this for a long time and I think many people would agree that comments are the heart of many things that happen here on Hive. Without that, we might as well just be posting static content to a web page somewhere.
Besides the obvious windfall scenario, I think comments in general are one of the best ways you can grow your Hive account and comments have been the crux of my growth over the last six years. Just look at my Hive Buzz stats if you don't believe me.
So give it a try and see if you get that warm fuzzy feeling like I did by showing others you appreciate their comment. Just keep an eye on your voting power!
My apologies for the photos in this post. They were the only ones I could find that were somehow related to the topic of "rewards". Wow, there you go, seven hundred words, I guess I did better than I thought.
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It seems that I'm not the only one with a similar idea. Good to see others do the same!
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I think right now interaction overall has kind of dropped off on Hive. Even regular posts aren't happening like the had been. I think people are just kind of waiting to see what was going to happen with the ETFs and halving. I've been doing this for maybe close to a year now and it has really been fun to give back in a small way.
That may be. There's also I think some uncertainty around crypto and its legality in different jurisdictions that might make people a bit hesitant to put their lives on the blockchain.
I think it's all the more reason to use blockchains like Hive to make it sure that people understand that there's really nothing to fear, blockchains are the future, and are here to stay.
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It's really as transparent as you want it to be. There are many people on here who we will likely never figure out who they are in real life. If we even cared.
$PIZZA slices delivered:
@gamer00(3/15) tipped @bozz
You have really been an encouragement to those of us who are just trying to come up. Every time you upvotes, it makes me look out for your next post. That in a way motivates engagement. Encouragement really is the soul of progress.
Thanks, I appreciate that. I try to do my best. It probably doesn't earn me too much in curation, but it makes it easier to sleep at night!
I look at comment upvotes as two-fold. 1) it lets people know I've seen their comment. I guess this is more important if I don't reply, but it still serves the same purpose. I do the same on FB (on the rare occasions I'm there) and other social media. 2) Yeah, as you say, it's kind of a thank you. Unfortunately this is less a reason because any upvote less than 3 cents will go to dust. So.... well, we're back to the first reason 😃 I do hope to grow my account enough that my 3-5% upvote on comments is above that 3 cent limit. I'd love to give like dime upvotes on comments at least eventually.
I thought the whole dust vote thing went away with one of the recent hard forks. That was the understanding I had anyway. When I don't have 1/4 of my HP delegated out to ZING, I think that 2 to 3% does equal close to $.03. It depends on the price of Hive though.
Yeah, I thought that too, but I was set straight. There is a link that explains it. I think it was by geekgirl or gadrian, from a few months back. If I can find it I'll give it to you. Long story short, the limit is still there, so services like dustsweeper are still useful.
I was delegating to ZING, but I was just selling what they gave me, so with the price dropping I decided it was no longer worth it. But then I just moved that delegation to the Japan community, so now I don't have the money or the tokens to sell. Go figure!
I think once I hit my target and pull back that delegation my rewards should jump up a bit. At these prices 2OK has a significant impact. It's a little concerning that Acid has been MIA, but I understand he had some real world stuff going on. I think the price of ZING will recover once a product is out and people are past the dumping stage.
About that dust thing, @bozz & @dbooster... I know of at least two bots that are designed to help with the dust issue; @dustbunny (created by @fraenk), and @dustsweeper (by @danielsaori). They both work in a similar fashion, that they check your upvoted comments for upvotes that haven't broken the 3 cent mark, and give a tiny upvote to push it over that limit.
I've seen @dustbunny work on some of my comments, so I do know it's at least active, but I'm not sure whether the discord channel is still active or not. I hope @fraenk and @danielsaori see my comment so they can confirm whether and how the bots work today.
Mind you, those links are both quite old, so some information might be a bit outdated.
I feel like one of them you used to have to buy credits and have enough available for it to work. I could be thinking of something else though.
Yes, that's correct. @dustsweeper requires an active balance to be topped up by payment. The @dustbunny comes basically for free and only requests a delegation to provide the full service.
Chiming in a bit late ;)
@dustbunny is still working normally, there hasn't been any major changes since the last posts were made years ago, the bunny is fluffing around happily ever since.
@dustbunny is intended as a community service where people can voluntary delegate some HP into a "pool", so to speak, and will receive dust-protection in return.
The bunny kind of prefers to help plankton users with outgoing&incoming dust-votes, under these conditions enrollment is completely free (no delegation required) and will provide the occasional dust-votes. As a user's stake (or more precisely the total rewards earned on the platform) the bunny will be less generous to these users unless the contribute with a delegation.
To sign up, people can either just send a delegation or say "hi" and request free enrollment on the discord server.
All accounts on the watchlist are vetted for spam or automated commenting. So it's best to just pop into the discord and ask to get your account cleared. The goal of the project was always to encourage and reward genuine organic engagement on the chain.
And hey: Thanks for the shoutout! You've been a very generous supporter of the bunny's mission with your big delegation for a long time, so thanks a lot for that, too!
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Thank you @fraenk, I'm honoured, and will continue supporting @dustbunny!
You know I upvote comments. I do think that it encourages engagement, but you have to watch out for people who are just fishing for votes. Some of them show little sign of having read the post and you can see they comment more than most so they can't have time to read much.
I do not check if these people upvoted my post. In many cases they could not have much effect anyway. Their comments just need to have value.
We need to spread the Hive rewards to more people to keep them coming back and build more activity.
I don't check for votes either. I get so many auto votes most the time that it would be tedious sifting through the list every time.
Exactly. I know some people run scripts to check, but I can't be bothered. As I said, the value is in the content, not in doing each other favours.
If I receive comments on one of my blogs, and that comment also indicates that the commenter has read the blog, I always give an upvote of 10% ... which unfortunately is still no more than 0.01, and therefore dust. Still, it shows that I appreciate people leaving comments on my blogs. I also think it is only normal to appreciate that with an upvote, especially because engagement is already difficult to get here on Hive. So I certainly want to reward the engagement I receive.
I totally agree!
I'm always tickled when my comment gets upvoted. It doesn't go unnoticed. My low VP and delegations make upvoting comments (even 100%) usually not pass the $0.03 threshold so they vanish into dust, so I prefer to use tipping tokens, like !ALIVE or !LOLZ or !HUG
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The tip has been paid for by the We Are Alive Tribe through the earnings on @alive.chat, feel free to swing by our daily chat any time you want, plus you can win Hive Power (2x 50 HP) and Alive Power (2x 500 AP) delegations (4 weeks), and Ecency Points (4x 50 EP), in our chat every day.
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@bozz, I sent you an $LOLZ on behalf of ironshield
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That makes sense. Like I said, I have never been able to figure out the syntax. It seems simple enough, but every time I try it fails. I just eventually gave up.
I sent 1.0 HUG on behalf of @ironshield.
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I started voting comments this year. I seem to be engaging less and less on Hive so when people comment then I vote and love it.
I don't think it's just you. It's hard to engage when less people are posting.
Yes could be, I think people are less chatty now, either that or I am more boring to people 😆😂
Have a wonderful weekend.
Thanks, you too!
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That’s a very nice thing to do. Most of my Hive Power is delegated so my votes suck. But I do my best.
I've seen a lot of people that delegate out the majority of their power. I get it, some of those other tokens are nice rewards.
Most of mine is to my communities. Silvergoldstackers and thealliance. Only a very small portion is for token positions.
I understand, I delegate to both of those communities too.
I agree, comments have been a big boost for me. I tend to upvote the ones I like and do some of the tipping as well. And talk about click bait, showing some fine bourbon at the top and not one mention after that! LOL
Great post!
Haha thanks! I have actually covered this one already. I was the stuff I got from Smuggler's Notch Distillery in Vermont. Good stuff if you can ever find a bottle.