Other than having the option to freely shitpost and reduce the clutter of topics I share on the other account, this one doesn’t trigger automated upvotes when posting. Don’t get me wrong, the tips are nice but it’s better to just not get intoxicated with the whole get paid to have an opinion or sharing subjectively what you find interesting online.
The best thing this platform has to market outside is also one of the worst things I later found out after taking a step back. What I mean is the whole social reward system on Layer 1 being a constant source of drama for people. It’s nice to get a big leap by earning from an opinion or content but the consequences of being conditioned to receive those rewards are just as toxic as the good it brings.
I know we can look past the upvotes as a tipping gesture for a thought. But other sides of the reward system include misrepresenting genuine human interactions and reducing them to a transactional level. One can upvote because they like the content, want the passive rewards from curation, or just like the person, the end point is distributing more of it.
The problem comes when authors get deluded that their thoughts shared entitles them to get compensation for what? Sharing a piece of opinion or interest that most of the time less than ten people actually pause to read?
And there’s the thing about autovotes, I do wish there was a more refined way for hive.vote or other autovoting tools out there to help the author signal the bots that it’s a shitpost therefore it probably shouldn’t get voted on. Once in a while I thought of just sharing 1 paragraph and a photo because I think it’s nice but that seems like low effort content as I get like 10$ average on whatever post I put on my main hence why I became more selective about the topics I share there and post it under here instead.
EDIT: Setting beneficiaries to hbdstabilizer or opt to burn rewards solves the above problem.
Some opinions don’t need to be rewarded but if they do, thank the people that bother to consume your content but don’t get stingy with the people that don’t. Vast majority of what is considered Hive viral isn’t exactly content that could go viral outside. And the posts that go to trending are a product of having a limited set of names to vote on that puts out decent content or something.
I'm not even sure if the ones upvoting on the other account are actually reading so that only makes me question whether it's deserved if it ever gets taken to trending.
If every account used their stake to vote on “quality content”, refined and all the nice thing you can tell about the post, everyone would be earning less than what they currently yield for their opinion posts/interests. That’s a reality where everyone can attempt to be a blogger. I ain’t trying to throw shade at those don’t have the skills to blog as well as the top, we all had to start somewhere in hobby blogging, my pet peeve comes from reading reactions that scream entitlement to social rewards.
Having my post be on trending is more of a stressful experience because I don’t think my interests or opinions don’t really deserve that much but it’s always a thank you for those that do appreciate it.
If you made it this far reading, thank you for your time.
