How to Make Hive.vote Your Passive Income Sidekick (Without Selling Your Soul or Your Private Keys)
Let me guess: You're on Hive. You're posting. You're upvoting. You're chasing those sweet, sweet crypto rewards. And somewhere between coffee #2 and doomscrolling through another “This is the bear market bottom, I swear” post, you realized...
“Why the heck am I doing all this manually like it’s 2004?”
Enter stage left: Hive.vote — the automation tool that’s basically your unpaid intern but without the need to explain what an RSS feed is.
🧠 Let’s Break It Down: What the Hell is Hive.vote?
Hive.vote is like that one friend who actually does what they say they’re gonna do. You give it a little access (just posting authority — not your wallet, chill out), and boom: it starts posting, upvoting, and claiming rewards for you.
Yes, for you.
While you’re sleeping.
While you’re working.
While you’re pretending to listen on a Zoom call (been there... done that... more than once... no t-shirt gotten).
🔐 “Wait, Did You Say It Uses My Account?”
I know, I know. We’ve all got crypto PTSD.
But here’s the deal:
Hive has different keys — think of them like access levels in a bad heist movie. Hive.vote only uses your posting key. That means:
✅ It can upvote, post, and reblog.
❌ It cannot touch your wallet, send your funds to some shady address in the middle of the dark web, or buy 400 Pepe NFTs behind your back.
It’s like handing someone the TV remote, not your Netflix password and your credit card.
🛡️ Security? Yes. Because We're Not Total Degenerates.
Hive.vote is open-source. That means if you're paranoid (or just a really enthusiastic nerd), you can read every single line of its code on GitHub. Transparency? ✔️
When you authorize it through hivesigner.com, you do have to use your password once. Not ideal, but we’re not living in a utopia. It’s how the system verifies you're legit. It’s broadcasted securely, and you can unauthorize it anytime with one click.
TL;DR: No one's stealing your magic internet money.
🚀 Now Let’s Talk Results: How Does This Actually Make You Money?
Simple: Curation + Consistency = Earnings. But doing that manually every day is a full-time job that pays in exposure (ew).
Hive.vote automates:
✅ Curation trails — Follow other people’s voting patterns and earn curation rewards.
✅ Fanbase votes — Automatically upvote your favorite authors right after they post. (Because stalking, but wholesome.)
✅ Scheduled posts — Set it and forget it. Like meal prepping for your blog.
And here's the kicker — your manual votes aren't overridden. You can still be that control freak who wants to smash upvote manually and have automation running. Hive.vote respects your boundaries. Unlike your ex (no, really!).
🎛️ Fixed vs Scaled Votes: AKA Don’t Be Lazy, Learn This
Fixed = You upvote every post in a trail with exactly the same weight (like a robot with trust issues).
Scaled = Your vote weight changes depending on how the trail leader votes. So if they give 50%, and you’re scaled at 10%, your vote is 5%. Welcome to the math Olympics, baby.
💰 Optional Beneficiary? What's That?
You can choose to give Hive.vote a slice of your pie (up to 25%) if you feel generous or just want to tip your robot overlord. Totally optional. No guilt trips.
📈 Bottom Line: If You're Not Using Hive.vote, You're Wasting Time
Look, if you're out here grinding on Hive like it’s 2018 and you're posting manually every day, respect, but also: You're leaving free money on the table.
Hive.vote is that combo of hustle and automation that you could call “mindset meets mechanics”, so “JUST FREAKIN’ DO IT ALREADY.”
Set up your trails. Build your fanbase. Automate your life. And maybe — just maybe — stop crying about your engagement for five minutes.
But don't push it! Don't set it up to upvote every post of all of your fans with 100%. Don't put the treshold of Voting Mana it will respect to 0. Don't go ALL IN! Use it add to your workflow. Use it to help your Hive Power be used to the max. Use it in the spirit of Hive. Don't use it 100% upvote yourself and your friend for instance, make sure the community benefits from it (for instance through following curation trails).
🧠 TL;DR for the ADHD Hive Hustler:
✅ Hive.vote = free automation tool to automate upvotes, and boost your Hive earnings.
✅ Uses only your posting key. Your crypto’s safe, bro.
✅ Lets you follow curation trails and auto-upvote fav creators.
✅ Works while you sleep, shower, or pretend to be working.
✅ It’s open source. It’s legit.
✅ If you’re not using it, you’re either rich, stubborn, or both.
Use the tools. Stack your crypto. Live a little. Just saying...
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I would much rather prefer that people read content.
Then vote for it if they like it. An autovote reduces your agency, and devalues the work that authors put into things. If HIVE is simply an investment vehicle for getting "rewards", then people are very much missing the point.
It is a place for people to express themselves. It is a place for people to engage with one another.
It is a place where real relationships can flourish, and content that would never see the light of day on other platforms can be published by people who create because they have a burning desire to do so.
Automatic voting destroys the social structure of HIVE, and actively turns it into a "hands off" platform, when it can only succeed when people are having meaningful conversations and connections.
Otherwise, what is the point of visiting a dead wasteland dominated by automatic votes?
I totally agree with your vision on Hive. And I also agree that this tool CAN be misused in a way that goes totally against these principles. However, that is the fault of the people abusing it, not of the tool. The tool allows for finetuning in such a way that is not abuse at all, and helps you support your social network on Hive at those times your timeschedule, or different timezones make it difficult to do so.
As for reading content, I 100% wholeheartedly agree! I put effort in my photography, in checking out things like for this post, in writing the content, in everything, and getting no reads and 100 upvotes doesn't give me the same fullfillment that 100 reads on 1 upvote would (well, that might be a pretty bad example, as that would mean very low appreciation of my content ;-) But you get my drift, right? Right?? ;-) ).
However, since recently you can see the nr of views a post had in a specific frontend. More often than not, you see posts with like 25 views on Ecency, 25 on Peakd, and let's say 50 more on all other frontends combined (which I think is a real overestimation), yet they have +1000 upvotes.
Same goes for comments, periodically, 50% of the comments I receive are just copy/pastes of the same thing ("great post", "thanks for sharing") or are completely unrelated to the post itself, where it is obvious that only the first 2 or 3 sentences were read, and a comment was formulated.
In those cases, I prefer an auto-upvote. The end-result is the same, but it costs me less time to weed through the spam (I think we can call some of those comments spam).
I see the problem, absolutely!
I see it needs a solution! Absolutely!
I see that this tool CAN be used to create more of this problem, but the tool is not the problem :-)
And yup, I've spend many of nights already thinking over possible solutions to the Hive problems we have...
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On the "poor quality comments" part - I actually did some analysis on this not too long ago. Around 60% of comments on the week I sampled were not unique - they were, as you suggested "great post", "thanks" , "you're welcome" or variations of that, or people just calling various bots for hive engine tokens (which were the majority of comments on chain).
I have recently gotten involved with topcomment, and they are doing a great job at incentivising high quality comments.
I too, put a lot of effort into my posts, be it my photography, analysis, writing, or the insane ramblings that I sometimes like to write by going completely off topic :D
And yes, an autovoter is just a tool, but I really, really want hive to be a place where people do make connections, do have discussions, and grow together.
I feel as though you don't get that with an autovoter, as I said in my prior comment.
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Nicely written. I'm one of those that has been doing the daily manual voting for 8 years. I did try a couple automated voting tools way back in the early days, but haven't looked at them recently.
This looks like it may be time to give it another try. Appreciate the detailed info.
Glad you liked it! :-)
I used to also do it all manual, but then, due to life interfering, I had a break of several weeks, a few times. Then I started looking around, and came to hive.vote (well, actually, back then it was still on Steem even).
What I mostly love about it is that you can set it up, as an extra to your manual voting, it catches up when you left off. It doesn't steal your manual powers away...
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#DBuzz used to have an app named #AutoVote (
https://auto.vote) which was a fork of #HiveVote, though is no longer operational due to their overall team size (not to mention the dev team) getting drastically reduced. 🤔🤯Anyway, both I and @savvyplayer use #HiveVote, which only triggers if the Voting Power of either one of us is already close to 100%, but we still prefer manual voting (with a preference on Followed feeds first). 🧘♂️🤓
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Yes, same thing, I manually vote from my followed feed first, and let the autovoting be for the "leftovers" if I'm short on time :-)
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This is very informative and helpful. It will help users to know the importance of the keys and how to make good use of their time and hive power on hiveblog.
That was my intention indeed! Glad you liked it and found it informative! ;-)
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I've used Hive.Vote for years, and it is very reliable, and I like to do a lot of manual voting too. It definitely does really helps out with steady income, and supporting people and projects that I want, so I certainly appreciate it. I do wish it had a Hive Keychain login, though. 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙
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Hive Keychain login would be great!!! But what I really love is that it keeps working while I am not able to spend a lot of time on Hive, for any reason, and it doesn't interfere with my normal manual upvoting.
I love it, although it can be used for not-so-good Hive behavior as well of course...
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Indeed, and I appreciate that about it too. Yes, I really wish that it would remove downvote trails as an option. If people are going to downvote others, they should damn well have to take the time to do it manually. 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙
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