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It's exciting to make multiple posts, edits, upvotes, and give feedback during a session at Hive.Blog, Leofinance.io, ProofOfBrain.io, or whatever front-end you use. It's just as easy to get so carried away we blowout our allotment of Resource Credits. People in marriages or other types of relationships experience something similar occasionally. As a result of getting carried away too quickly, I fell victim to RC Blowout. That's a quick loss of RCs even after getting or having a big boost in Hive Power. 20 combined HP in early June 2021 is better than the 4 personal HP I had then, but it's not enough to overcome vulnerablilty to RC Blowout. Heck, not even 35 combined HP (including my own 20 HP) is enouggh to avoid RC Blowout. Beware RC Blowout, folks.
Context
First Time
After I posted Part 4 of my "How Anyone Can Invest in Copper" series to LeoFinance I was shocked to see my notification bar reach 69 after a short time. I was used to seeing that bell stay at small numbers like 0 or 1, so this was amazing to me!
That's when it occurred to me to backtrack to earlier posts to add a menu at the end of each post. This menu would have links to each post in the series (not to mention "Coming Soon" entries).
(Adding this menu was harder than I had anticipated, and I'll write about that and my workaround in a future post in the community where it belongs.)
I was able to retrofit that menu to 2 posts in that series. When I tried a 3rd post, I received error messages indicating I had insufficient Resource Credits. So I ended up putting myself back in RC Jail.
After scratching my head for a few moments, I took a look at my wallet to make sure my latest delegation from Giftgiver.site was still active, and it was.
From what I read in my research about Resource Credits, the more Hive Power a Hiver has, the faster it takes for RCs to be replenishd. I'm not expecting to be back at 100% quickly, but I hope to see enough of an increase to be able to resume the post retrofiting I was doing.
I had trouble nesting Markdown codes for images inside those for links/anchors; the menu (really a small table) didn't come out in the Preview as I had expected. After a few more attempts using different tactics, I ended up using HTML for this table-based menu.
I'm not sure why I self-inflicted RC Blowout, but I have a couple of ideas:
- HTML requires more coding than Markdown, but it also offers more options than Markdown. Unfortunately, HTML is more costly tthan Markdown when it comes to RCs.
- On top of that I neded to upload additional images to the Gallery I use, and I think that's more costly than I had expected.
So now I wait before I resume retrofitting that table-based menu to the remaining posts. I'll take that as my cue to go to bed and see how things are when it's daylight.
Second Time
Having an @ 15 HP delegation from the Giftgiver site doesn't remedy RC Blowout, either, so I found myself back in RC Jail. As of 20 June 2021 I had between my own HP the Giftgiver delegation over 35 HP.
Recently I had been assisting @forexbrokr with a series of Crypto Guides covering the better-known cryptocurrencies. So far we've covered Bitcoin, Hive, Ethereum, Dogecoin, and now Binance Coin.
Considering posts, communications, comments, images, tables, etc. I was using lots of Resource Credits. Since I had 35 HP total (including my own 20 HP), I thought I was free form worries about going back to RC Jail.
Nope.
While trying to make a comment on the daily Leo Market Talk thread for 20 June 2021 I was noticing a drop in my RCs. When I went to my profile to check how I was doing on RCs, this is what I saw:
I was back in RC Jail. Dammit!
During the Leo Market Talk I let @forexbrokr know that I could still work on the Crypto Guides series, but it would be some days before I could post what I had. @taskmaster4450le saw my predicament and delegated me enough HP so I could continue posting without interruption.
Now that I discovered other tribes and communities where I want to post, I'll be able to do so. I just have to be careful with how fast I burn through Resource Credits if I want to stay out of RC Jail. RC Jail isn't as bad as Twitter Jail or YouTube Jail; but jail is jail, and jail isn't where I want to spend my time.