I've decided to take part in the Newbie Initiative hosted by @starstrings01. Every month there is a new initiative, and people with low reputation (newbies) are encouraged to write something every day. You then post it on the Smile Discord Server and the people there help upvote it.
It seems like a great initiative. I just posted [my introductory post](@shawnlauzon/back-from-the-what-i-presumed-was-dead} and thought that I wouldn't receive much interest, but I was pleasantly surprised to see it get 28.19 HIVE (so far!) This encouraged me to jump on this initiative (even though it's 4 hour past the deadline, I hope that it will be forgiven!). This will encourage me to post every day (without it, I would probably lose interest and other activities would take precedence), which is great because I actually do love writing and interacting with others. And having more opportunities to receive HP will hopefully help my words be more widely spread across the network.
Oh, and all the posts should be set at 100% HP so that our votes make more of a difference. After all, the purpose is to be more active Hive citizens!
And the benefits? TBH I'm not so far clear what this means: "Newbies would be set as 15% beneficiary of all newbies initiative task post", and "Newbies would receive 25% of my autovote i.e $0.15+ on two publications they make daily, if so far my voting power isn't below 85%". Hopefully that makes more sense to others (perhaps clarify in the comments?)
Also each person receives 50 HP delegated during the initiative, which I love: it means when I vote for something, my vote is worth 3x as much as my current approx. 25 HP is worth. I am then more a part of the Hive community and more contributing to the Hive Proof-of-Brain system.
And there are also prizes, can ask questions on the discord server, and also get to know other people and my fellow new Hive citizens
My reputation: 52
Hive power: 23.241
Again, thank you @starstrings01 for creating an initiative to welcome newbies and encourage participation. Wishing you much success.
♥️ shawn.