RE: Why I Haven't Been Up-voting THAT Much Lately - Not Anymore Baby!
I was considering following curation trails the last days. While beeing unsure how much voting power it will consume and if I still can upvote myself enough I hesitated and would love to hear what you think about them.
While I dont think upvoting yourself is bad, as long as you put real thought into your comment as you invested money and are taking the risk, therefore I see it as my ROI and mining. This is especially true if you just started out and have a tiny following so you will not recieve any upvotes.
As much as I enjoy my stay here and learn a lot and starting to make connections with other like minded people, it is also an investment for me.
But just making a post just to upvote yourself seems really stupid and nobody will gain anything from this.
You still need to remain a ratio you are comfortable with.
I am totally gonna upvote my own comment ;-)
I completely agree with you @flipstar and I must say that I'm totally into your way of thinking. You twisted a little bit my idea about self-voting and your point is totally fair.
I think that curation trails are good if you are fair and conscious about what you are upvoting. I am trying to make good curations from my very humble SP place to also help a little bit to the community to grow to a more fair place.
I think that if you would share your sincere thoughts with the world through your posts people would love to hear about them (I'm now following you expecting to see that) since you seem to have a really fair point of view that would make a win-win situation if we all would have share it.
And about the ratio, that's true, this is why it's important to keep a good balance between the percent of the upvotes, because if not, you will simply spread it away and earn a lot in
veryshort term, but you would lose a lot in mid-long term due to the less and less voting power. See I lost most of my Voting Power because of voting at 100% after the HF19. Voting mostly myself.So the key is in the balance
i really like your spirit to help others, by upvoting them and giving them reward for what they are doing to the community, but this is a very sad part that most of the community members don't think like you and they are not giving rewards to others, instead they are just upvoting their own comments, thanks for this motivational post @anritco
I am still experimenting with my upvotes also. Since after fork I went a bit overboard also :-) (propaply a lot of us did)
For example I liked to upvote a lot of or nearly all comments I got on my posts. Since I am new and dont have this much engagment yet I can do this (hopfully in the near future I will have the luxury problem of choosing comments I like to upvote)
thx for the follow by the way I am following you also and want to point out one thing which is really important to me that this is not a follow4follow kind of shit.
I really like people who put thought into their posts and comments and if they post about stuff I am interested in I am more then happy to follow.
You will never get a FxF from me, I just follow people because of their content =)
I see we are on one page here :-)
He I just wrote a post about my view on upvoting yourself. since it is relevant I post a link here if you feel like I am hijacking your thread I will remove it of course
https://steemit.com/steem/@flipstar/upvoting-your-own-comments-yay-or-nay-a-newbie-dolpinhs-view
I really enjoyed reading your story and now I understand even more your point of view. I consider it entirely fair =)
Thanks to you for taking the time to write me these lines ! =)