RE: The BEAST Of LEOFinance - Beastial Things For The Community
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Ever since I first started blogging years ago starting with Steemit, I thought commenting and engaging users on their content was key to building yourself up on the blockchain.
Leofinance is no exception as I have been actively looking to show support and share my thoughts on posts with what I think, to help them enjoy people actually commenting and not just upvoting.
People shouldn't need to tag the big whales and just accept their posts as receiving their rewards when people vote.
Sure the massive votes now and then are great, especially when trying to grow out and build your own stake to curate more effectively, but you got to be patient and keep working hard on the content.
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I totally agree with you!
Whale votes is obviously amazing in its own way, but I would rather work my way up, grow my audience along with my stake and generate more rewards with time instead of a whale vote every now and then. A fat paycheck is nice, but getting smaller ones regularly has more of an impact in the long haul.
Due to manual curation, we can grow the entire community, one step at the time, and that will strengthen us, and the results will be a solid, strong foundation to build upon. This, manual curation and rewarding comments even gives users who aren't familiar with- or comfortable enough to produce fully-blown articles a superb chance to grow as it's easier to write a comment than an article. So it's a win/win/win situation.
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Smaller votes definitely matter as well and they get their own bit of curation rewards also. Helps them feel useful knowing they are helping someone to grow and helping themselves grow.
I normally don't post finance content, but have a few times lately and gotten more into the finance side of things. But that's why the votes coming in on my comments, even small ones giving some LEO, help me to grow when I can't keep posting content in finance all the time.
LEO price heading up again, so can't buy too much at a time when I do, but still am buying bits!
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I hear you! I am definitely not used to produce finance-content either, but LEOFinance makes me go out of my comfort zone and even though I might talk much about LEOFinance in itself, I try to up my game and produce other types of content as well. It's a learning curve, a bit unfamiliar compared to the things I am used to, and have been used to for 4+ years, but it's fun and rewarding at the same time.
As I still haven't become truly comfortable writing about finance, comments makes things a lot easier for myself as well. I love to comment and discuss things and to be rewarded for that feels almost unreal as I am used to how things have been on Steem/Hive for such a long period of time.
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I always feel like unless you are able to provide the statistics or a proper economical analysis, a lot of the things posted about in finance wouldn't do so well.
Then you still got other topics that are probably easier and more up our alley, for getting into and being comfortable posting about finance. For me that was talking about dCity and providing information about value of my cards, or the helping people grow their cities by talking about their SIM income and what it was before, then after helping, etc.
50/50 rewards are great just because of the ability for curators to actually want to do the work in voting and knowing they get a much bigger chunk back. It's win/win for authors and curators.
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I can relate to that. Those things were/are often the most rewarded stuff on Steem/Hive as well, until you become someone "noteworthy" and gets added to auto-lists. That's when you can start produce whatever content you want, and still be rewarded. A shame really, as it often tends to lower the quality of content as well.
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It only lowers the quality of some people's posts, the ones in it for money with least effort in their posts. But yes, that's when auto votes are the worst, but with any good comes bad.
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Yeah, that is very true. Obviously auto-votes doesn't necessarily automatically turns high quality content into low quality, but I have seen dozens of people during the years I've been around here, who've started to produce less quality, and often more quantity as well. And I would be surprised if that didn't had anything to do with being put on auto-lists.
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The problem always is there are so few whales and many are not active.
It is a better approach to focus upon forming a following among a large number of users. After all, some of those minnows today could be dolphins or orcas tomorrow.
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Exactly, and that would benefit the entire ecosystem. Unfortunately, many of the larger accounts aren't willing to sacrifice their own rewards in an attempt to strengthen the community, so manual curation on LEO is a really, really good thing.
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The key with LEO is a lot of people are staking as opposed to sending it. With Hive, many sell the token.
We see the spreading out quickly because people are staking which then improves their standing. The compounding effect is incredible.
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That is true. I suppose more people are likely to dump Hive due to the rather steady decline in price as well, but I don't have any stats for that.
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