Whenever I write and publish a post on Hive, I am fairly happy. The reason behind is just the fact that it is an acknowledgement of my engagement with the platform. And, it also reminds me I am creating value to the platform and to myself. What would I do otherwise? I would consume media. At least, I am creating on Hive and that keeps my creative juice flowing everyday. I feel like I am hustling everyday from the day I joined Hive.
Having said that, I recently observed a pattern with my Hive posts. I post almost everyday. Somedays, I will publish three posta and on average it will be roughly two posts. And, we know that on this platform we have a 7 days payout window. That means readers on the platform can vote on your posts within that 7 days window. Ofcourse, readers would like to upvote fresh content as the curation reward is higher if you are one of the curators who acknowledged the value of the post early on.
In that case, I always thought my posts would garner readership and upvotes for at least a couple of days after publication. It seems I was not accurate. My posts die within 6 hours of publishing the post. Even-though the readership of Hive is across the globe and that should give your posts a much needed readership window. There are occasional incidents where I receive upvotes the next day on my posts.
It is funny how you have to wait for 7 days to receive the payout but your post is already stale the next day.
Was the original intention of the platform was to allow readers to go through posts for much longer and award the author?
Or do you think it is because of the auto-upvote system we have? The autovoters will likely value the curation reward and tend to set the upvote for the post as early as possible.
And, yes, those second day upvotes on my posts are manual curation.