Are you using hive.vote already?

Casting your vote on your favorite authors without missing a single blog of them? Letting your Hivepower work for you while you are too busy to do manual curation for a while?

Hive.vote made by @mahdiyari is one of the potential tool options for you autovoting curation trail option to put your stack to work. Why not use it for a bit? But when you use it, use it wisely. That is the only way to keep the quality of the board high as we want it.

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There have been endless posts in the past already about manual curation and the anti's around autovoting. And quite frankly, a lot of them do make sense because autovoting also means circlejerk voting.

But for a user like me who is also away from the board the majority of the week, this also means that I am using my Hivepower stake to vote on posts of people that I always enjoy reading. And yes, when I have (and make) the time and the hours I do read a lot and I enjoy doing that and comment on posts which I like. But when I am in surgery I am nowhere near a computer, nothing happens with my HP, and I do find that my vote shouldn't go to waste.

So yes I do use Hive.vote and I know a lot of the new users are not really aware of services like this exist, hence the post.

After logging in to the website with your Hivesigner (we really need to get some more Hive keychain or some Hive authenticator on there for some more safety) you come into a menu where you can some different options to choose of.





Here you have options for instance to follow curation trails which is potentially a good one. When for instance you follow the trail of ocd or curie or curangel or something like this, you know someone else has done the manual curation and your vote will end up on a quality post. Good for the writer, good for your curation rewards.

Speaking of curation rewards. I have no idea how this is working at the moment and frankly I don't really care what the optimum is for me on when you should vote. I just want my vote to end up good by the receiver, and that I receive some curation rewards, that is a good benefit of it. But how much this is? It's all good....

So one of the things that I use is the 'Fanbase' section. Here you can put in all of the details of the accounts you want to follow. You add a username in the fanbase section et voila, your vote will be casted to soem default settings.

Now default settings suck ofcouse, so I always go to settings to change a bit here and there on how many votes I think potentially can be casted.





Now I don't want to cast 100% votes because that will drain too much of my HP and most importantly, I want to cast 100% votes only on posts that I have read myself. So I would always change that and also for instance that daily limit I would always put it on 1 post per day max.

And last but certainly not least.. Do not forget to edit your own settings so you Hivepower does not get drained entirely. For me this means that I put my mana treshold on 85% which means the auto voting will stop when you are below 85% of your voting power. I find this useful that you never get drained too much, and that there is still room to do some manual curation as well.

As said: For me something like hive.vote is never a replacement for the real deal of voting and curating. But it is a good thing to put your hivepower to work when you are not in the position to actively use it.