HPUD 03/25

Today I powered up my monthly 10 HP. Overall this brings February to a +46.5HP increase and a total of 1548.1HP.

I had a good run at the beginning of the month with almost daily postings but around the middle of February I was occupied with other stuff again. I started into the month with 1501.6HP and reached 1538.1HP with postings and curation. That is according to peakd analytics. I guess the power up of 10HP on February 1st is included in this one? Let's say it was, that brings me to an increase of 26.5HP via posting and curation. Not bad for an irregular blogger. Compared to "traditional" social media this is huge :-)

Slow and steady I also powered up 10HP to @hug.bot. Since it started voting on the posts it delivers hugs to it makes sense to increase its vote value over time.

For March I will set a reasonable goal of reaching 1600HP. I tried out @commentrewarder in February to figure out if it indeed increases interaction with my readers. At least subjectively I cannot report an increase in comments. I had the share set to something around 20% in the beginning. For a low value voter like me this is a nice way to reward meaningful comments. Since there don't seem to be any lurker/leechers in the comments as some people feared, I will keep adding it to have a way to give back to those who take the time to read and add value with their comments but I will scale it down to 10% for this month and see how things will develop.

That's all there is for this month, hope you all have a nice start into March. Let spring finally arrive ;-)

	@hannes-stoffel is a geek with a dayjob. He writes about his passions (including his family of course), geek stuff and every day anecdotes. In his spare time he improves his Python skills while working on the code of @hug.bot and @sloth.buzz community bot.