As you might've read, or not, I am without most of my HIVE Power for the next 5... almost 4 days.
The reason: I delegated HP instead of updating my delegation. My fault, but way to go Hive for a great UX (most likely limited by the available APIs)! And I'm not saying this for myself, I can cope with it despite being annoyed by the situation...
In fact, I checked to see how Ecency handles HP delegation too. You can see they try to make it more user-friendly, but in the end, they seem to be limited by the same legacy APIs that make things so unnatural. So... we know where the ball is now, for the most part...
Ok, maybe it's not the right time to speak about all this, with all the anxiety caused by the price evolution, so I'll stop here. Unfortunately, it hardly ever seems the right time.
But I do want to talk about the before and after. Someone needs to experience it to feel it.
People may not realize how important their HIVE Power is until they don't have it anymore, even temporarily.
Before I lost access to the majority of my stake for 5 days, I voted on comments with a 5-10% weight, in general. Now, to push a comment over the dust threshold, I'd have to vote it with almost a 50% weight. I'm not going to do that. I guess my commenters would have to suffer through this period with me... or not. It's up to them.
Then, manual curation on other posts also suffers throughout this period because I don't have control to my full stake. I could choose only a handful of posts every day and upvote them at 100%, but I don't like that. I have a system that worked for me and I won't change it for 4 remaining days, even if that means much smaller upvotes from me during this period.
There were some opinions (to which I agreed) that we should change the name of HIVE Power to Staked HIVE, to match the terminology used throughout the crypto world. I reconsider my position on this... I said in the title I felt incomplete without my HP. That's the wrong word! What I should've used is impotent (as in powerless). Thus HIVE Power makes more sense than Staked HIVE given all the use cases of HP, particularly its power to influence how inflation is distributed through curation and, to a much smaller degree for non-whales, governance.
Just curious... from what interface do you make HP delegations? How often do you delegate, to yourself or to others?
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