Hi fellow Hiveians,

Today I wanted to talk about the benefits of doing things on our own.

Automatic And Manual

Lately I've been trying to do a lot more things on my own, and it's been pretty enjoyable!

I've been following the Curangel voting trail for a few years at this point. It really helps keep my voting power at manageable levels, considering I do sleep and I work a fair bit.. Lately though, I've been doing a lot of manual voting - my voting power has been staying at a great level and I get to reward people pretty well!

With the healthy increase in Hive Power I've enjoyed, crossing 45k this past month, that means that I'm able to have a much stronger vote than I did this time last year and even just a few months ago. This build up has been a really great thing to experience, and it also is a good thing to be able to distribute to others.

With the building of my Hive Power, it means I'm changing my strategies a little bit. I was one that would vote low percentages to a lot of people across the posts I would find. I still do that sometimes, but only if they are posts in the communities that I run. Otherwise I have been restricting my voting habits to the people that I know are not abusing the system!

This has translated into giving a lot more people 75% or 100% votes than I have in a really long time. I was only dishing out those votes when I was a newbie and had zero idea of what was going on, and just voting the shit out of stuff until my power was completely gone. That's a fun thing to remember haha.

These days, I try to save my voting power and keep it around 94% or so, but I will bring it as low as 90% if I'm trying to get a few votes in before bed. This makes it interesting because I get to dish out some fat votes, give out some decent Hive rewards to folks, and get a pretty nice return myself.

With doling out these higher votes, I've noticed that the returns are coming in stronger unless the person gets a few down votes. That certainly nullifies the rewards which kind of sucks, but in some cases I get it. Thankfully the people that I am voting for these days aren't in that cohort of peeps who would normally get a down vote so I'm good there.

Having the mixture of manual voting plus automatic voting has been a really fun experience for me. I get to let the system do what it does, so that I never get to 100% voting power and lose out on curation rewards, but at the same time I have it at a healthy level where I can have some fun in the evenings or in the mornings if I want and throw out some votes to let the stuff recharge the rest of the day. Not a bad blend, if I do say so myself!

As time goes on, I may reduce my percentage of Curangel voting trail so that I can increase my daily voting habits. That might never happen, but as I get more Hive Power added to my account, you never know what could happen!

What about you, do you enjoy manually curating content? Let me know in the comments!

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