Woke up to 100% VP!
Happy Fork Day!
I believe that it definitely had to do with some preparation and slowdown from content creation in anticipation of the Hard Fork. However, I immediately got to manually curate in order to distribute rewards as if we fail to do so I see it as an opportunity cost for both ourselves and the deserving community of curators and content creators. I never have to be reminded that this systematic ways of distributing the reward pools is not only free for us but it also allow use to get more from the pool considering the curation rewards.
Now that the Hard Fork 21 is live, this takes an even more relevant meaning as the amount of rewards for curators will improve even more. In fact, I believe that curators are the most benefited group of users from these changes. While I can find thoughts that make that troubling to believe, I also believe that it will be a fact that could start to drive more engagement. I rarely provide an upvote without making an engaging comment on the post as it is a lost opportunity to interact and provide thanks or feedback to the author. Now that it provides me an opportunity to grow my wallet, I will be looking forward to even more engagement in the comments section which are often the place to really see great content and thoughts.
While prices have remained low, the fact that we can still individually distribute value by upvoting and using out Voting Power is a great opportunity to demonstrate to those projects and developers that we can leverage the technology to build here. Even for the social aspect it is amazing as being able to personally distribute about $2 a day without it costing me anything is incredible. I am sure there are places in the world that could benefit from this type of value; understanding that the infrastructure is still not there yet to leverage the potential. However, it could be a catalyst to build that foundation.
I am looking forward to seeing how I put this Voting Power to work and also see how others are doing the same. It will surely change the behavior of many of us here as we continue this journey to learn to be an early adopter in the technology that feels like the future given its potential to change the world. I am even planning some time to review my delegation and take control of some more as I have seen that some communities have slowly disappeared or significantly reduced their engagement. Those are additional opportunities that we must allocate properly to ensure that value creation is maximized across the ecosystem and community!
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Hopefully this will improve some curation rewards for you!
Trying different upvote weights to see the difference in values is interesting right now. Hoping my upvotes do not turn to dust for those who engage!
I don't want to brag or anything but after I powered up my steem and now have 100% voting power my up vote stand at a cool $0.01
So yeah, think I will go paint the Steem Block chain red with my pennies tonight.
Awesome! I remember how proud I was when finally able to give $0.01 upvote! Enjoy the upvote spree and its curation rewards!
Let's hope that with this fork we fixed the PoB, it's hard to tell so soon, but I've seen much enthusiasm from big Steemians for the downvote pool, bad content might finally get downvoted to hell as it should. And now curation is incentivized a lot more, maybe the voting will be spread even more... at least I hope that's what happens, we have the machine running we just need to oil it up before it can move at fast speeds.
It is definitely too early to come to conclusions but my list of concerns is longer than those that I am happy with.
Hey, @newageinv.
I think the reward pool count went up, like it did last fork, so we'll probably see a gradual decrease again in the VP amounts, until the STEEM value goes up.
Anyway, don't want to rain on the parade. Just throwing out a possibility. :)
I think the sources of information like SteemWorld have some adjustments to do after as this continues through. I am upvoting comments but they seem to be falling below the dust threshold!
Hey, @newageinv.
Yeah, so there might be some adjustments to be made on steemworld regarding the curation rewards actual amount, but the issue with the dust threshold is, we've got a non-linear curve to begin with, so it needs to hit a certain amount, or it won't make it up the hill. :) I'm not sure what that is, but it must be greater than 0.02 STEEM now, because those are no longer valid.
Yeah I saw this as well. I voted for a post and was like "wow, that's higher than usual." My vote isnt worth much but I definitely noticed that change.
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Hopefully, we get more clarity as we learn more about our behaviors!
Yeah as soon as I saw that I started curating too. I don’t know I’ve ever let myself get to 100% before since I have auto votes.
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Just saw I was once again at 100%. Definitely weird as I have seen Autovotes come through.
I’m not sure I’d trust it. I just discovered the platform was telling me a different upvote value than it was actually giving. Which means not everything is updated accurately. SP not moving could indicate another one.
I am looking forward on how this really unfold as time goes on I must say
We will see soon enough!
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