Ever since I started on here, or rather on that blockchain that shall not be named, I've been trying to cipher out a rhyme or reason to upvotes. What makes a post do well? What makes a post do poorly? What is 'doing well'?
In a lot of ways it's like when I used to wait tables. Sometimes you do good work and put lots of effort in for minimal reward, other times you barely do anything and are richly rewarded. In the long run it averages out so there's no sense getting excited about either but it still leaves you wondering why?
With everything going on here on hive, cause and effect can get a little cloudy. Even after years of trying to identify common threads, the best I've been able to come up with is a few sneaking suspicions.
Got a notification yesterday that my last post was the post with the most upvotes of the day. How the hell did that happen? I'd hit publish more out of frustration than satisfaction, that was the last thing I was expecting.
Trying to make sense of why that post brought me back around to pondering voting on here in general but things were still clear as mud. Guess there's nothing to do but ask the hive. Anyone got thoughts/theories/observations/bad advice on what gets the votes (or doesn't)?
In a way hive incentivizes positive content, or at the very least divisive/controversial/negative stuff is going to have a much smaller pool of potential votes. As a cynic and a pessimist, I have trouble being positive for more than brief periods but some of those have been quite rewarding. It's a trap!
Everybody loves to travel. Even if it is vicariously through ones and zeros. When I was getting started it seemed like my travel related posts were about the only ones that went anywhere. Now that we have communities and no bidbots the dynamic is a bit different, but it's still not a bad way to rack up rewards.
On some level it seems almost distasteful to do things specifically/solely for the rewards, like it cheapens your output somehow. At the same time, who can honestly say potential rewards weren't a big part of why you joined up in the first place?
Noticed a pattern (voting or otherwise) here on hive? Drop me a comment and let me know. And as they say on election day here in Kentucky, vote early and often!
