I'm upvoting comments on my post from the past month.
This is not the first time for me but I stopped doing this practice years ago. Resuming it makes me feel good.
It's like a little appreciation for the commenter who put their efforts, thoughts, opinions into my writing. It means so much more when I see people interact genuinely. Only giving thanks to them seems like not enough.
Why did I start doing it again and why did I stop it before?
I was pretty inactive a few months back. I couldn't manage to post regularly and commenting was really impossible. I was busy with life, with some offline stuff. Also, my physical condition was not very good because of Covid. Anyway, now for a month I again start to get a little active.
This is the reason I stopped interacting on my own, used to only reply to my posts. It made me feel so wired. Like I'm taking out the juice without giving back anything.
Now when I'm feeling okay, I think it's an opportunity to give back something that I can.
Benefits I'm getting by upvoting comments.
It's giving me pleasure, that's the first point. I have said earlier that it's like a little appreciation for your efforts. It means a lot to me.
As Hive price is up now so my Upvote value caught up around $0.60. Upvoting 10%-20% is like $0.05-$0.10. That's nothing if I compared it with the total value of vote people can get by posting. But it's something that could add to your wallet, no?
Not always I can come back again in the conversation so upvoting makes it easy to present that I agree/have seen it/appreciate your efforts. It seems more rational to me.
I think I'm getting more interaction than before. I wouldn't claim that it's because of the upvote but because I'm being more active than before. But I guess, there must be some influence. What do you think?
So that's it.
I'm feeling pretty well with this. I guess if you have a good amount of vote value you can do it too to appreciate the people investing their time and effort reading our writings. It will overall affect the genuine interaction of people in Hive.
That's my thought but I would love to know what do you think about this.