I am a pretty consistent author on Hive. Considering that I've posted every day last year, one could say very consistent. With all that, in my almost seven years on Hive and the legacy chain, this is my first 'Yearly Author' badge on HiveBuzz, awarded to authors who post every day of the year.
That means in other years I missed at least a day. I remember last year I posted every day of the year except one or two days around Christmas time, so I was very close to another one.
But knowing my recent consistency, people could think I've always been like that. No, I wasn't. When I started, I think I posted two or three times per week for a while until I switched to a daily post. Then, at some point, I took longer hiatuses from posting, even though I was still on Hive every day. It seemed the right thing to do at the time. In hindsight, it probably wasn't.
If we look at my weekly badges, I have 240 of them and almost 7 years around (will be 7 at the end of January). If I had posted every day, I should have close to 52*7 = 364 of them.
Like that, it corresponds to 240/52 = 4.61 years of daily posting. However, this is not a precise measurement, since when I didn't post daily I missed the weekly author badges as well. And I remember, in the beginning, even as a daily author, I often missed it with only 6 days of posting instead of 7. For whatever reason it happened to miss a day of the week.
Nowadays, the daily post is very much my routine and almost impossible to miss unless I decide not to write it or something very unexpected happens that prevents me from checking out Hive most of the day (and I have no post scheduled).
Consistency doesn't come easy, at first. You will resist it, especially if rewards don't entice you to continue by comparison with posts of similar quality. But Hive is a long term game, and what new users often don't understand correctly is that in time you also network with other people which may prefer to upvote your post instead of a newcomer they know nothing about, even if posts are of similar quality, or even if the new user has a few exceptional posts.
A history of posts (or insightful comments) also allows someone to see what kind of person the user is, what their ideas are, what kind of activities they are involved in on Hive, what they prefer to write about, and maybe what kind of effort they put into their work. That gives high-stake curators more confidence to vote for them... or not. Of course, they still need to find your posts, which sometimes is an issue on Hive.
The price action of Hive has often been an inhibitor or a motivator to continue being active. Want to guess what's the case now? 😀
What new users often don't know is that people earn more Hive during the bear market when its dollar value is low or very low than during the bull market when it starts to go to the moon. The reason is because there is less competition while the reward pool is constant every day, in HIVE terms.
I am glad to see my first "yearly author" badge, but it is just a confirmation of the consistency I applied in writing my posts for at least two and a half years, maybe more.
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