Life gets busy and sometimes I miss a new post from someone I follow. I may or may not remember to go back and read and upvote their post. I don't like to overlook sharing in my friends' lives and experiences. I also don't like letting my Hive Power sit idly when I could be growing it and upvoting great content.
Hive.Vote helps simplify some of this by automating as much or as little of your curation as you'd like. You can choose to follow pre-made curation trails others have made, or you can set it to "Fanbase" and choose individuals you want to upvote. You can set limits to a scaled or fixed percentage weight, how many posts per week and per day to upvote, how low you're willing to let your mana go down before it pauses and allows it time to recharge, etc. Sounds pretty good, right? Here's how to do it!
Getting Started
You’ll want to do this in Keychain to make things easier. Use Keychain's browser to go to hive.vote. You’ll see this main page. At the bottom you'll be presented with an option to log in / register. Click the button.
Next, you'll see this.
Use your private Active key to sign in. Then you'll see this.
Click the "Hivesigner (recommended)" button. It'll take you to this screen.
Click "Authorize". Now you'll be returned to the main screen and see this.
From here you can do a few things. The main things I use are Curation Trail and Fanbase. Before you go into those options, make sure you check your main settings. Your mana can fully recharge from 80% to 100% in 24 hours, so I set my threshold for 80% so it will pause my voting if it hits this or dips below it.
Curation Trail
This lets you search for existing curation trails and follow them, so your account votes any posts the trail upvotes. For instance, if I type in "hive-193566" it will pull up the Hive Onboarding Committee trail. Any posts the community account upvotes, I can set it to upvote those as well.
Now I'll click the "Follow" button.
Now it'll ask you for your preferred settings.
If you set scaled vote weight, the percentage of your vote will be based on a percentage of the original upvote that started the curation trail. If you choose a fixed percentage, your account will vote that amount every single time. You can set it to upvote the comments as well, and even set a time delay if you'd like.
Fanbase
This feature is fairly straightforward. You put in a username and click "Follow." The difference here is you can have settings set for each individual person, or you can "Select All" and apply the same settings to everyone. You can even customize a maximum weekly and daily number of upvotes to give per person.
Final Thoughts
It took a little bit of experimenting to see how things went with different curation trails and my mana. This helps me make sure I'm upvoting my friends, even if I miss a chance to leave a comment or miss the post completely because life decided to throw a curveball at me. It ensures I'm curating effectively and can tailor it to who I want. I highly recommend giving it a try and see how it works for you.
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