An update on the first couple of days following the creation of new accounts to manage the voting power of all these lovely tokens we have available to us right now.
No-one is impressed with these steak references you are making. saucy
While I was writing the initial post I had that fairly common thought/feeling I have when producing content, which goes something like:
no-ones going to care less about this boring ass post, take some photos of your breakfast or something
But to my relief, the post seems to have been well received having 25 Resteems and over 200 comments to date. I did get one comment stating that it all went over their head, but I am also seeing a bunch of .pal, .leo, and .sports account popping up, so that's pretty cool.
Anyway, I've been eating my own dog food
as well as trying to reply to every comment on the post, and the multiple 'help me out please' DMs via Discord. My table manners are OK, I guess, but I am left handed and the knife action is more of a press and separate as opposing to a smooth cutting action.
Anyway, I've got some findings to share for those that are now running with multiple accounts, or thinking about doing so. Probably best to have the initial post read first too.
Delegation of SP to fuel the account/s
I started out with 25 SP for the .pal account and this looks to be plenty. You could probably get away with 10/15 SP if you have no plans to post content or vote 100's of times each day.
My .sports account has authored a couple of posts and I have been commentating, as well as voting, with this account also. I ran out of Resource credits pretty quickly, delegated 50 SP and ran out again, and now the account has 100 SP delegated. Now I know what it feels like to be a new account..... moving on!
Vote_Weight_Scaler
This setting on www.steemrewarding.com was the one I felt would need tweaking the most until the right balance was found. I started out way to high on this with a 350% ramp up on posts that were tagged with palnet.
e.g. A 30% or more vote from abh12345 would mean abh12345.pal (and leo, and the rest) were going to be giving a 100% vote out.
I quickly found out that this was too high, especially for the .palnet account and currently, the vote_weight_scaler is set at 125. It's higher for the .leo account, and I think it's a case of playing around and checking in on the VP of each account often - which is pretty easy on all the front ends i'm using as the current VP is displayed each time you click the voting button:
steemleo.com
sportstalksocial.com
palnet.io
The 'Estimated Vote Value' is pretty cool too, and I know these features are available on other Steem front ends - steemit.com seems to be lagging here.
Clunky collection of rewards
I read a post earlier today that I now cannot find which spoke about claiming rewards via the wallet pages on some of these new sites, and I must admit they seem a bit hit and miss. To be fair, i've had the occasional issue with steemit.com rewards collection where I'll need to refresh / logout/login in order to claim.
Anyway, I do think it works on all, but the easier way is to (script auto claim, errr, ok, next!) log into steem-engine and claim for each account that way. Damn, that could get a little annoying but with Steem Keychain it doesn't take as long as you'd think.
Replying to comments
OK so this is confusing me a little as not every comment appears on each interface and at present, I have 6 Steemworld's open. If you do plan to post from mulitple accounts, clearly you have as much spare time as me and so this might not be a huge hassle...... naa, it's a bit of a hassle. Fair warning :)
First Tag of your Post / Upvoting Comments
I was asked earlier today how I was finding upvoting comments invividually on multiple interfaces. The answer is that I'm not doing that, sorry!
The main account will be doing most of the comment upvoting, and if you have set up a trail rule as above and used a relevant tag (e.g. steemleo) as your first tag, the trail rule will kick in and vote for the comment also.
This only works on the first tag of the main post, e.g.
Someone replies to your post in which you have used #steemleo as the first tag and you vote this comment with your main account, the comment will receive 2 votes.
If you have also used tags #palnet #sportstalk #imafuckingtagspammer, your alt, even with a rule set to follow based on those tags, will not vote the comment.
More manual curation
With the previous comments in mind (did you skim? tut tut), I've actually found myself browsing around each of the interfaces I'm now connected with and curating and voting manually with 'spare' VP. 'About bloody time', some will say, and I will say yes, it does take bloody time.
But this is how it's supposed to be isn't it?
Manually curating your favourite topics, pushing what you see as the most solid content up the pile, irrelevant of the time the post was submitted, and the 'value' it currently holds?
Second chances
Is how I feel about it at present. I want to try to push what I see as the decent investment related posts on www.steemleo.com further up the pile, and right now is a good time to be able to do that. Mr @nonameslefttouse explains it much better than I ever could in his recent, most excellent work, which included:
The platform became the mall. My blog became my shop. Every voter became my customer. Steem Power became that pile of money that needs to grow and grow....
... In order for my shop to survive, the mall must survive. If I hurt the mall, I hurt my shop....
... I've been wanting to expand my shop for quite some time. Unfortunately, over the past while, some silly geese decided it would be wise to pay people to stop coming to the mall.
The new tribes are currently (mostly) without any major bid-bots or 'rogue' stakeholders applying votes to total garbage. And it's easier to keep the mall clean if a little work is done each day - sales of the good stuff should go up, and the past sell by date crap will hopefully be kept to a minimum - maybe that shop will have to close and make room for an awesome shop?
Last bit
I have moved some stake over to the likes of PAL, LEO, SPORTS, SPT, BATTLE, etc this past week or two, but I also think that:
- Steem Power is key long term
- SMTs are still wanted/needed
- Tribes/communities via SCOT tokens are a lot of fun right now!
The longer SMTs are 'delayed', the more time these tribes will have to grow roots. I do hope there will be options in time for integration between steem-engine/SCOT/SMT, or maybe they can run nicely side by side.
Have a nice evening all, time for bed.
Asher