It's been a little while now since I decided to use 5-10% of all my post payouts as tips for votes - or VIPS as I like to call them. This is my solution to the problem of low stake vote power.
As many of you will know when you start your Hive journey it can be a daunting and challenging place, with very little post rewards from curators, even if you are publishing decent quality and engaging content. This means that building stake can be difficult resulting in very little vote value to give out to others.
As some of you will know my approach to this problem has been to delegate most of my stake, two thirds of which I have bought from the open market and staked. As a result of my delegations I receive vote support and Hive drips which have allowed me to build my stake more quickly. But it leaves me without vote power to reward peoples' posts and comments, hence the introduction of VIPS - my new tips approach to voting.
So once again in the spirit of transparency during the past week I have given out in VIPS a total of 5 Hive, which is the most amount of Hive I have ever given out in a single week for VIPS! But I am still conscious of the fact that in the grand scheme of things 5 Hive is not much, but given my current HP status 5 Hive is not far off what I would have been able to give out in votes.
It feels fantastic rewarding other Hivians with these more meaningful votes and it's great to now have the opportunity of giving back to others who have kindly given me their support since arriving in the Hive community, as well as discovering and rewarding decent content.
Keep enjoy the VIPS guys, plenty more on the way!
Peace!
