I wake up today and realize I am left with less than a month to turn one year on hive, does it mean I am not a newbie anymore? I was trying to understand how hive.vote works and how one may potentially harm their account if they use it without caution. Luckily google algorithm brought me to themarkymark's old post where he gave guidelines on how to Audit your authorities. My curious mind scrolled to the comment section as usual and I came across a chat between Littlebee4 and Meriat.ahama.
The conversation led them to share their views on when one is considered a newbie. As expected, you know ladies hate ageing so the exchange was full of giggles that they were both still newbies until they are at least a year old. So in this context, it seems like being a year old was perceived as being an elderly sibling here on hive or pretty much being on your way to fitting in the Hive's ancestral lineage. Littlebee even attested to being just a 6-months old hiver who still had 5-6 months to go before becoming a veteran.
In her view, one remains a newbie until they are at least a year old regardless of their reputation. Maybe she has a point, folks, when does one become an adult here on hive? But if we are to take this age thing literally and say one remains a newbie until they are a year old then it means the two happened to be those kids in the house who learn to be independent quickly. They grew their reputation so fast in just less than a year based on that conversation and both still maintain the growth to 73 a year after.
In the ageing context, the two are the kind of siblings who mature early while some of us take forever to pass the potty training phase after onboarding. I mean if you are like me and haven't mastered consistency on hive then we are probably those siblings who just plan what they are going to dream about before going to bed after listening to a motivational speaker say:"Pursue your dream", would laugh when a couch makes a farting sound, run to stop a microwave pretending we are stopping a bomb from exploding.
We would probably dance and sing along to a washing machine end-of-cycle Melody and are always tempted to imitate the flight attendants when they do a safety briefing before take off. But will still remember nothing from the safety briefing if the Airplane was to make an emergency landing. So if you happen to be my twin whose about a year old on hive and our energies match in lacking consistency, I have a question for you: would you say you're ready to carry all the responsibilities that come with adulting on hive?
Wouldn't you prefer to at least have one more year of potty training and to continue to figure out the system? and master consistency when it comes to showing up every day? I still get a blackout when I want to post on Leofinance the same way I did when given the "solve for X" Maths problems. I am also not ready to lose all the privileges of getting away with using the excuse "I am a newbie" when I mistakenly mess up and unknowingly break community rules. I am not ready to fit in the veteran shoes by just being a year old on hive. There is so much I still do not know about this platform.
I just found out recently how to set up hive vote and ways to buy other tokens. But this again can be influenced by my slowness in adapting to new things. I'm pretty much on the same spectrum as Little Johnny with my Hive growth. My dog still eats most of my content before I post the same way his dog was eating his homework. Can we make it official that one only stops being a newbie after two years? Some of us are not ready to be adulting on hive. I need one more year of potty training and to get my dog to stop eating my content before I post it so I can be consistent and keep showing up.
