I spend up to 20 hours a week on Hive related 'Microtasks'!
I estimate that I spend between 12-20 hours a week on Hive 'microtasks', which is basically everything else on Hive besides concentrated writing on longer form content.
By microtasks I mean those activities which typically take no longer than a few minutes, and they tend to be interactive - activities such as replying to posts and responding to comments, playing games on Hive or trading on Hive-Engine.
My Hive Daily Micro-tasks
- Check my @revisesociology feed, read and vote.
- Try and get a @tipu in on at least one post.
- Reply to comments.
- Check my @revise.leo feed, read and vote.
- reply to comments
- Claim rewards on Peakd, sort rewards (buy Hive/ transfer to HE, savings and/ or power up).
- Buy Hive-Engine tokens - typically LEO, DEC, SPT in that order.
- Play my Splinterlands daily quests
- Check in with the Holy Orca inner Circle on Discord
- Copy and paste something to blurt
- Copy and paste something to Publish OX
- Get my Brew on with CBM, several times a day!
The tasks which vary the most above are replying to comments - sometimes I can spend 30 minutes on that alone, sometimes just a few minutes, and probably about the same variation on reading and replying to posts, it depends what I find when I log on!
The most consistent time consumer is the Splinterlands Daily Quest - I tend to watch the battles so even if I'm on a winning streak, it's going to take me 20 minutes at least. If I'm not on a winning streak (OK, a losing streak!) and the rule sets don't match my quest I can be playing for 40 minutes, and probably not a very happy bunny!
10 and 11 are more like promises to myself - from now on I will do this daily for a month to experiment and see if it's worth cross posting.
Hive weekly tasks
I tend to do these once a week at least.... I can whizz through the lot in 30 mins, but as with the dailies, I tend to be more ponderous and take longer!
- Power up HE tokens to my alt accounts.
- Check and vote with @blockbeard and @revise.spt for PAL/ SPT curation respectively.
- Check the Splinterlands market, buy/ sell cards.
- Check Splinterlands leases
- Check the Exode market place, make sure I've got the lowest sell orders on certain cards.
- Open my Exode drop/ check in with the Exode discord.
- Check on my witness votes/ DAO
- Adjust my autovoter.
I may have missed something?!
I had to rewrite most of this as my internet dongle ran out of battery and I'd closed down the window before realising the first (completed) draft hadn't saved, so there may well be something obvious I'm missing.
Total time on microtasks in a week
Even if I'm getting my shifty on, I'm looking at 4 hours a week, and I don't remember the last time I spent that little time on Hive in a week (that's more like a day!).
If I'm generous with myself, it's more like 20 hours a week on average, probably more, because I tend to cycle between tasks - read something, comment, check my wallet, reply to something, go Hive-Engine, go to Discord, read something, reply to something, and so on and on!
I mean Hive is leisure as well as work after all, but if I was mercenary about it, I could still stay engaged with only a few hours work a week!
The list can vary as well depending on what's occurring - with WLEO for example, I spent several minutes a day on Uniswap, which I'm going to call Hive related in that instance!
How long do you spend 'on the chain' doing yer 'microtasks'.
I'd be interesting in knowing how much time everyone else spends on the Chain and how happy they are about it!!?!?
Would you even call the microtasks?!?
Right, off to check me feed! (I never learn!)
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Can you edit older posts?
Hi - yes, the original stays on the chain but you can alter the front end version which will appear on the back end as a new version.
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....you have spare hours after hive? Bloody hell, that's amazing!
I need to apply a level of self-discipline, but yes! Why how long do you spend here?
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27 hours a day - give or take 30 mins...
(I have no idea - I try never to look at a clock...spawn of the devil, is them thar clock thingy's..)
Fair play!
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In totality I spend about 5 hours creating my contents on a daily basis, I spend about 3 hours powering up, adjust my voter, check the different hive dapps and and well totally scribbling through everything hive.
But interestingly I spend 2 hours separate consuming contents. I also spend an extra 1:30 minutes commenting alone at different times and maybe 40 minutes manually curating.
wtf - are they all discrete?
That's like 12 hours a day?
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Yeah but it kinda like varies, I'm mostly a college student and I'm unemployed so sometimes I have the time
That’s without writing your posts even? Three hours a day???
Is that since you’re in Portugal or was it the same before?
Something like that, it's mostly in the morning and evening, nice leisurely pace, it is leisure after all!
Been that way for a while!
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If we're talking about Hive only, I still haven't found a good 'routine' where I would take time to sit down and go over the tasks, I just get distracted and be like I'll do it later. That's why my engagement is so bad these months. I am also not consistent on this platform and can go for days/weeks without posting and interacting.
My list of tasks is quite simple: post, upvote, comment, reply to comments, claim rewards, maybe power up sometimes, look out for new people to welcome... but I suck even at this minimum of tasks. Definitely something I should work on, especially now that cold months are coming and I'll spend more time inside.
It might be a better way of using the platform!
You can only do what you can do!
There's a lot to be said for having more of a life outside of Hive after all!
Engaging is key though I think, but only when you can of course!
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I have no idea how long I am interacting/ creating on here but I can say with some certainty that the more ti.e the more benefits and those benefits seem to compound.
I'm not sure I even want to know how much time I put in, lol. I can also say that I am rather sporadic. I'm hoping that going through the holidays I can set things up to be much more consistent and focused so that I can come out the other side with a much stronger resolve to the blockchain.
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I think that compounding point is spot on - you're digging away commenting etc. and all the time picking up an audience and it benefits your rewards, fair point!
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Is it worth doing either? You call them tasks.., but it's all good fun.. and you know it!
Certainly shitposting to blurt is and copying if you get the right tags, POX I'm not so sure about, it's a bit more of a hassle for less rewards!
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@revisesociology, In my opinion this Blockchain Journey made many people Restless in a good way. Stay blessed.
Damn man! I need something like that!
But if I put up a chart, I would probably end up sth similar to yours. As, from what I remember I am full time HIVE and crypto user ;)
Sleep, Youtube, (other stuffs) exclude them, I am all in here or within the blockchain.
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'All in' I like that!
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I hate to think how much time I spend on Hive. It's more than usual whilst I'm not working. I need to force myself to do other things. I just find it so compelling and the amount I make cannot justify the time.
It's a bit like that for me, having to forcibly stop myself - good practice to do so though for sure!
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As usual, you are a wealth of information. I can't believe so much time has passed away from HIVE for me. Thank you, as always, for your post. I've been looking for other forums to cross-post. Your article did not disappoint. Have a grand rest of your year!
Cheers! And you too!
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Interesting consideration!
I really did not give it much thought myself so far, but I'd say between playing all my games, reading and commenting on articles, claiming rewards and moving tokens around, an so on? Probably 30-40 hours per week? I often just check my wallet while waiting in a conference call or just play a round of Splinterlands when I wait for my report to finish.
I'm certainly happy with that amount, though. Hive is a fun hobby and I enjoy it.
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Krikey, so that's all your time outside of work near enough?!?
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Not exactly. I work in IT management, so I have a lot of these 30-300 second breaks where I just wait for something to finish or start or where I'm stuck in a conference call/online-meeting that's not really relevant to me but I still have to attend. So a lot of that time is just low effort/low concentration stuff happening on the side.
I find I'm either on (sucks hours) or off (do nothing on hive). I find it really hard to moderate involvement and micro tasks can take h-o-u-r-s. When The Ink Well is in full swing, that's easily twenty hours a week alone managing micro-tasks, and we're not even a big community! We are moving to a better model, though, who knows I may even be able to post again. I recognise the wash, rinse, repeat cycle, though!
i can only imagine how long it takes to manage a community - you need to share tasks a bit more widely by the sounds of it!
It's not necessarily a bad thing taking time off, but I'd try and post a bit more if you can, now's still a good earning time I think!
Yes, we've just introduced our new community builders, so more sharing of tasks and fun!
That is good to hear! Don't want to burn out!
I never really thought about it in terms of time spent. Although thinking about it now I do spend quite a bit of time playing Rising Star, Holybread, and Cryptobrewmaster every day. I just recently started usng LeoFinance and I absolutely love it.
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It does kind of suck you in, it has that effect!
LOL now stop making HIVE related posts while on HIVE! 😛😋
I did say I was guilty!
With classes, it's tough for me to find time to even post as much as I'd like to. I'm a tweaker, who tends to tinker with my posts until they're just right. Choosing an image that pops can easily take an hour, along with the title as well. i could spend days with ideas in my "Post Bank" before acting on them. I did an over 3k word post on the best job I ever had and some other long ones recently, that I doubt anyone ever saw. But now that they're "out of my system" I can go back to writing shorter ones.
I'd say most of my limited time is spent:
Checking stats to see how the post did (that's the fun part!).
Looking for a few interesting posts to manually upvote.
Working on post ideas and adding them to my "Unfinished Posts" folder.
Growing my town on Dcity.
Buying and powering up some HIVE, LEO and the other odd tokens.
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I have a post bank too, and a timetable of when I want to put things out, a different theme for each day of the week, although recently I've not stuck to the later.
Honestly with those longer posts you're better breaking them down into series, anything longer than 1000 words is probably wasted on here! Make it 3 posts instead.
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I thought about that, but was so short on time I just published it quickly, but that is a good idea. I know a big YouTuber who films all of his videos in batches and has a theme for each day of the week. It'd be great if Hive had a "schedule post" option. Not sure if other front-ends do.
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I think Hive Auto allows you to schedule posts, but even so if you've got them written in Peakd, all you need to is log on once a day and hit 'post'!
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I have no idea about how long, but it's a lot. I've been a bit slack of late really because I just need space from all those micro tasks - I should write a list to make it more manageable. Hive burnout is real - a break should help. I didn't even write a post for 5 days until today - how hive slack is that !!!!!!
It's good to take a break for a while, I recommend limiting yourself to 30 mins a day on the Hive faff if yer burning out, 30 mins is enough time to stay in the loop!