RE: Power of 2 layer Hive

Well, it's true that maintaining multiple accounts is time consumable (although, in terms of (up)voting, this time consumption can be reduced with auto-voters), but that's not what we had in mind primarily.

When we said counterproductive, we were way more concerned and thinking about how such actions may be recognized as an attempt to farm the Hive reward pool (as all the accounts that way, besides different tokens, also mine some portion of Hive rewards too, and no matter how small that Hive reward is at the moment).

It's all good while all the accounts (including the main one) are "small fishes" (let's say minnows), as they, most likely, are not going to attract the attention of those who are "policing around." But the moment one of the accounts becomes a "bigger fish" (dolphin and up) in the Hiveian sea, somebody would notice that. And when it happens, it may result in hoards of downvotes that would, besides the loss of earnings, also cause a smaller or bigger reputation score drop. (The reputation you have been working on very hard to build it up all the way through.)
We have seen it happen many times before (especially when it comes to multiple personal (alt) accounts).
But don't just take our word for it. Ask around some older members that you know and trust.

However, we would advise you to be very cautious with those alt accounts and certainly don't "brag" about it too much around. (It might be counter-productive!) 😉

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