I have a busy life: Relationships, health, work, social activities, down-time, sleep...these things and others all demand time and with only 24 hours in a day (that's 10,080 minutes in a week) every minute is important to me. I don't like wasting time but because I'm human I do, now and then anyway, which puts pressure on the remaining time. I manage it well though and am really good at prioritising what's important, working efficiently and finding productivity in many different ways; I'm also good at cutting things loose that are wasteful of my time.
It's with that in mind I've thought a time or two about ceasing my Hive operations from a posting/commenting perspective and I've come very close to doing so each time, very close.
I think there's many who would celebrate my demise on Hive but should it happen I'd still be around voting (up and down) so I'm sorry to disappoint those people fuckers.
I have over 333,000 Hive powered up, almost half of that again on an exchange which I trade with and a couple thousand HBD in "savings" and have been thinking that it's enough...or is it not?
Those numbers above, most has come from posting and curating with only about 100,000 coming from trading on exchanges - I started on Hive (it's predecessor) with no financial injection. Small numbers compared to some of the others but I've worked for it.
I put the numbers in to indicate that I think I've done reasonably well over the eight-plus years I've been around and that I power up - the only amounts I've taken out have gone to exchanges for trading and have come back and been powered up once again...but those numbers don't have much of a bearing on why I'm here and why I continue to be here despite thinking it's time I stopped on multiple occasions.
Enough or not
It's enough for sure and I have no need for more. What I "earn" on Hive is a small drop in the financial ocean of my real-world situation and the time I spend on Hive inhibits my financial income rather than augmenting it; time is money. Yep, it's enough...but I'm not here for the rewards. I didn't start off that way and have never had that ethos in respect of what I do here, my posting and curation I mean; it's always been about enjoying it.
I'm pretty sure there's whole groups of people who think they're doing great "onboarding" work by telling others how much money that can make on Hive but I feel that's not the way to approach it.
That attitude will invariably bring people here for the wrong reasons, the wrong people and the wrong people doing the wrong thing...or maybe also the right people doing the wrong things because they know no better. Hive isn't a bank, it owes nobody anything at all and promoting it as a pot of gold is a flawed method of attracting people. I believe people need to feel that they enjoy it rather than feeling like their lives depend on it because if their lives depended upon Hive why haven't they died before they came onto Hive?
Enough or not
Anyway, before I get to ranting on about all the greedy cunts flooding onto Hive for a quick dollar to buy plantains and jollof rice I'll reflect back to myself and my thoughts of ceasing my posting and commenting operations.
For clarity, I am not doing that just yet, I'm still well and truly here. I think I just heard a few people booing and uttering wishes to the gods that I would finally fuck off and never return, sorry to disappoint.
The thing is that while what I do here takes up my precious time, (and I've given a lot of time over to it in the years since I started), I enjoy that time spent. It's been a relaxation and something quite different to what I do in my real-world life personally and professionally and while I've been the target of some truly reprehensible posts and commenting by a few out there (clearly that shit doesn't worry me much) it's generally been a pleasure.
Is it enough or not, have I run my race? I don't think so.
These days, I struggle to find decent content to upvote but don't like my VP being above 90% - I like the 80% to 90% range and vote to keep my VP between those numbers. I've changed how I vote over the time I've been here though.
I try to reward some users who earn lower rewards, as long as their posts present in ways commensurate to my expectations of passion, personality and effort, and I reward a few people I have closer relationships with, you'll know who you are. I also upvote comments with large votes, sometimes 100%, but only on those who engage with me all the time and add value to my life on and off the blockchain; if you're one of those people you'll know it, thank you I appreciate you.
I don't give votes out to support those who apply no effort, who engage with me only when they do a post to draw attention to themselves or those who ask for votes. Fuck 'em.
I do not reward a lack of effort and those who choose not to add personality and passion to what they do here and I especially don't like upvoting extractors (those who take out all their rewards instead of powering up some - a 50% ratio should be what everyone aims for in my opinion. I don't care what reasons a person gives for wanting my vote; my votes (up or down) are mine to use with the same freedom people use to rape the system through their bad acting which every single one of us should be downvoting...but there's too many weak cunts out there.
Enough or not
Having said that, I'm pretty generous with my vote on those who deserve it and even have created concepts to prompt people to post and comment with rewards as the hook. The #weekend-experiences topics is one such thing which I started it in 2020 (week 267 this week) and is designed to get people posting "well and with interest" and to give me something to upvote and curate to curangel. It disappoints me that people choose to drop a post and run without any hint of engaging with me outside of that concept but the loser is them not me...those that have done the opposite get votes every day rather than just once a week and much larger votes too. But that's the problem with bringing on the wrong people or people being here for the wrong reason...that's why retention is not what it should be.
Just have fun, the rest will come in time
Anyway, it is what it is. When it comes to retention, I'm retained and there may even be a person or two who is content with that. If not, that's ok, I'm still here and still enjoy (mostly) my time here which is why it gets a few of the 1440 minutes each day offers me.
I don't know what this post is about - I guess just a brief "why I'm still here" post - most will only skim it and a lot will simply fail to read it at all but that makes no difference to me. What matters is that whether the numbers are enough or not the time spent is enough and when it's not I'll amend my activities accordingly. Enough.
Design and create your ideal life, tomorrow isn't promised - galenkp
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