A OMG it's Thurday Already! Ramble
Auto Voting
Interesting thoughts this morning running through my head.
Well, to me they are interesting but they are my thoughts so one would hope I would not bore myself with my own thoughts......
Yes, this is really how my mind works. Scary.
Anyway, let's move on to the subject at hand? head? floating in the grey matter of my brain?
Let me start by saying I use the upvote service @steemdunk to vote for my wonderful friends and family. This way, even on a bad day, I know I have helped in a small way to support my friends and family.
It has helped relieve a lot of pressure I had put on myself to make sure I upvoted on everything I wanted to.
It also has helped keep my VP above 90% which to me is wonderful. This way my vote to people I support is a full percentage vote. Once again making me feel like I'm really helping my friends and family.
I also haven't had to wait two days to watch my voting power slowly climb back up to 90% from me over voting. This happened more times then I care to count. I then would have to wait two days for it to climb above 90% again.
This time was spent sitting on my hands so I would not vote just one more time.
Then last night I was going through my feed and saw all the posts I had voted on but had not had time to read and comment on.
One of those posts was from @katrina-ariel called SELF-CARE: Avoiding Burnout and Caring for Each Other. Which is a great read filled with tons of wisdom and it helped me feel a bit better about not reading as many posts as I want to.
But......... yes, but........
As great as the auto voting is for everyone using one or on the receiving end of the auto vote, does it, in the end, make you read your friend's posts days and days after they posted them?
Yes, for me I think it does.
It helps take the voting stress away but does that stress help you to remember to reach out faster to your friends?
Now I know my friends are going to say that I need to pace myself and not to worry so. To them, I say 'Yes'em' and roll my eyes a tad with a smile on my face because I love them and they are right.
I do need to pace myself or I will find myself in bed for days but there has to be a way to find a happy medium in voting, reading, and commenting on posts. I just have to figure out what that is.
I would love to know your thoughts.
Snook
I resisted getting into auto upvotes for a long time, and I worked hard trying to read everyone's post that I possibly could and give them an appropriate upvote. Two things happened to change that. The first thing that happened was that I had to be away from my computer and the Internet for about a week, which meant no reading or upvoting at all during that time. Not good in my opinion, because not only were my friends used to getting an upvote from me, but I realized that those upvotes also represented the Interest that I was receiving on my Steem investment! So I while I was away I hurt my friends level of income, and I reduced the amount of return that I was getting on my investment. The second, and what I consider the worst as well as the best realization, was that I had made so many friends that I wanted to support that I was completely overwhelmed. I found that I was incapable of either reading all of their posts or upvoting them manually in a manner that did not totally deplete my SP before I got around to all of them.
By using Steemdunk I was finally able to gauge my upvote potential so that I could distribute upvotes more evenly without depleting my Steem Power, and this happened if I was sick, out of town or was just having a bad day. Now I can just go through the list of my friends that have posted and received an upvote from me as I have time and read and comment on as many as possible.
I also have two trails that upvotes for me. An upvote no matter how small helps an author get attention and rank higher on some lists, so by initiating a trail follower that is associated with a great curator that I trust or that is upvoting everyone in a group that I belong to, I can help, if just in a small way, many more people that I could just by working on my own.
So I'm learning more and more about the tools that have become available for our use here on Steemit. I have found some that make my time here much more efficient, and some that help me maximize the return on my investment so that my wife and I can lessen the impact on our quality of life of an inflationary economy.
Very enjoyable ramble! This account is way too small to worry about voting and voting power; for now, I just find 8-15 pieces a day I really like and vote on them, and always leave a comment. Because this is "social" media, after all. And the community and people here are often fascinating.
Have a beautiful day and Bright Blessings!
I always try to leave some kind of comment if I read something because I do know how much they mean to me.......
unfortunately sometimes mine look a bit like spam if I'm very tired so try and not leave the ""I LOVE IT" comments on people's posts that I don't know :D
but my outlook on Steemit has always been a bit different than most people's here.
I come here for the people, not the money though I do need the money.....I'm not saying that......but for me it feels wonderful again to be able to help people with what I earn again.......which was lost when I could not work anymore.
But I have gained a very small amount to be able to buy a small game expansion, which helps keep me sane most days, now without hurting our family income that is stretched to its limit.
the rest I reinvest in Steam in hopes of the future one day.......as you can not live without dreams hugs
I do so much love your rambles!
I too cannot participate as much as I'd like to. It is a constant balancing act between writing, reading, commenting and every single other thing in our lives (which is a lot of stuff!)
In the end, I am just happy that there is so much good stuff to do, that at least I can do some of it, or participate in some way. Way better than that 'there's nothing to do!' feeling!
very, very true!! and an interesting thought too.
and thank you!! Love you too <3
No right answer when it comes to auto-voting, at least in my opinion. You can use a system, and you can abuse a system. It's not the users that destroy things, it's the abusers. We have to be careful not to get too against something that could be used for everyones good, which is what I think happens to some people. :) Thank you for all the love!