It's been two weeks since making the decision to use 5-10% of all my post payouts as tips for votes - VIPS. This is my solution to the problem of low stake vote power.
As most of you know when you begin your journey on Hive it can be a daunting place,= with little reward in terms of post curation, that's if you are publishing decent quality and engaging content. This means that building stake can be a problematic challenge, rendering you unable to give out any meaningful votes to others.
As I have explained in previous posts my approach to this problem has been to delegate most of my stake, 66% of which I have bought from the open market and powered up. Through delegating most of my stake I have received vote support along with Hive drips which have allowed me to build my stake more quickly. But it leaves me without vote power to reward peoples' posts and comments, hence the introduction of VIPS - my new tips approach to voting.
So again in the spirit of transparency during the past week I have given out in VIPS a total of 3.1 Hive, down from last week so I will have to up my vipping! I know 3.1 Hive is not much and I will make sure I give out a lot more VIPS this week, but given my current HP status 3.1 Hive is not far off what I would have been able to give out in votes.
It's great to be rewarding other Hivians with slightly more meaningful votes now! It's nice to be able to finally give something back, especially to those who have been generous and have supported my posts.
Keep enjoy the VIPS guys, I will up my game and make sure more VIPS are given out.
Peace!