How did I Start?
- I have been distributing Ecency points for very long
- It's been over a year now.
- Those who don't know, here is the link when I started.
- @sagarkothari88/ececny-encouragement-post-helping-others-to-grow-1-aug-2022
- I started with gifting 750 Ecency points & gifting as high as 1500 Ecency points.
- For last couple of days, I've been wondering about Ecency Points based support.
Different phases of showing support to Hive Community members.
Phase 1
- I used to select specific posts
- On those selected posts, I used to boost with Ecency Points
Phase 2
- I took help from active an curator
@bhattg
- He is assisting me from that time to find posts to curate & reward
- I started contacting community mods but I did not get reply initially
Phase 3
- After several attempts, I finally started received replies from community mods.
- I co-ordinated with community mods about Ecency Points distribution.
- I discussed with other community members like
@melinda010100,
@pravesh0,
@alokkumar121,
@balvinder294 for feedback on this method.
I still remember following & I always chuckle when I recall it 馃樄
Phase 4
- I started distributing to different contest winners on different communities
- For manually distributing points, I built a basic discord-bot command
- I took help from
Phase 5 - Current Phase
- I am distributing Ecency points to the authors picked by Community moderators
- For these, I've built a bot based on hive-notifications.
- My bot reads all the notifications.
- It filters the mentions - notifications
- If it's having a valid points distribution comment from selected community mods, bot will gift the the points to the author picked by community moderator.
Which Communities? - you may ask.
| Name | Mod | Category | How much? | Frequency |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| We Are Alive |  @flaxz |  @alive.chat winners | 200 | Daily |
| Silver Bloggers | SilverDude | Each participant of Contest | 1000 to 1500 | Monthly |
| Ladies of Hive |  @thekittygirl /  @nainaztengra | Each participant of Contest | 1000 to 1500 | Weekly |
| Shadow Hunters | @melinda010100 | Each participant of Contest | 1000 | Weekly |
| Reflection Hunters | @melinda010100 | Each participant of Contest | 1000 | Weekly |
| Med Hive |  @jaydr | Each participant of Contest | 1000 | Weekly |
| Feathered Friends |  @nelinoeva | Each participant of Contest | 1000 | Weekly |
| HeyHaveYaMet | @BrittanDJosie | Welcome New Hive Members | 150 to 200 Points | Daily |
| HiveCuba | help from @bhattg | Manually Post Selection | 100 or 50 | Daily |
| Power Plant Vegan |  @sirenahippie | Each participant of Contest | Up to 1000 | Weekly |
| Foodies Bee Hive | @sirenahippie | Each participant of Contest | Up to 1000 | Weekly |
| India United | Help from @bhattg | Manually Post Selection | 50 or 100 | Daily |
| Creative Cusine | Help from @bhattg | Manually Post Selection | 50 or 100 | Daily |
| Mundo Autismo | Help from @bhattg /  @parauri /@gsbilbao | Manually Post Selection | 50 or 100 | Daily |
| Visual Shots | Help from @bhattg | Manually Post Selection | 50 or 100 | Daily |
| Leo Finance | Help from @bhattg | Manually Post Selection | 50 or 100 | Daily |
| SplinterLands | Help from @bhattg | Manually Post Selection | 50 or 100 | Daily |
| Liketu | Help from @bhattg | Manually Post Selection | 50 or 100 | Daily |
| SlothBuzz | Help from @bhattg | Manually Post Selection | 50 or 100 | Daily |
| Three Speak | Help from @bhattg | Manually Post Selection | 50 or 100 | Daily |
| Three Shorts | Help from @bhattg | Manually Post Selection | 50 or 100 | Daily |
| Aliento | Help from @bhattg | Manually Post Selection | 50 or 100 | Daily |
| Clean Planet | Help from @bhattg | Manually Post Selection | 50 or 100 | Daily |
| Needle Work Monday | Help from @bhattg | Manually Post Selection | 50 or 100 | Daily |
| DIYHub |  @tibfox or Help from @bhattg | Daily or Contest Based | 50 or 100 | Daily or Monthly |
What else?
- On top of distributing points, I also follow curation trails of all of these communities
- To extend even more support - to some of the communities, I've also delegated some HP
You may ask - WHY?
- Growth of Hive is only possible - TOGETHER
- I want more & more people to join Hive.
- Joining is first step - next step is to keep Hive Members motivated to keep contributing, stay invested, stay engaged.
- With my own set of ideas, I came up with these approaches to motivate community members & help communities grow.
What's next Phase?
- Ecency points can only be used on Ecency web-app.
- I am starting to wonder - Is there a way with which I can reward community members which can be used on entire hive-eco-system?
- Answer is simple - HivePower
What would you choose?
- Reward 100 points OR Reward 0.1 HP
- Reward 50 points OR Reward 0.05 HP
- So, I started asking community mods above question.
- What would you choose? As a reward - HivePower or Ecency Points?
Upside of Ecency Points
- People can use Ecency points whenever & however they want
- Minimum Ecency points based upvote can help them earn 1 Hive
- Ecency has a review process & only quality content gets upvote
Downside of Ecency points
- Most of People don't know "What is Ecency points"?
- HHYM - they are new members they hardly know about Hive & Hive power. How can I expect them to know Ecency points
- Most of People don't know "How to use Ecency points?"
- I have received couple of replies asking how to use it.
- Most of the Points are wasted
- People don't use it at all / rarely use it
- Points Boosts are rejected sometimes
- Ecency delegation return is low compare to our own hp-return.
- They can not Encash it
Upside of Hive Power
- People get Hive Power in wallet directly
- No hassle of learning additional tokens / points
- People also get resource credit because of their increased hive-power
- With Hive power, People can do lot of things
- With Hive power, People stay invested (at least for 13 weeks)
- With Hive power = Hive Ecosystem
- People can encash it
- 0.1 HP - instant impact - whereas Ecency points are not useful till it's used for boost
- Hive Power Transfer can be done any time - even after post curation is complete
e.g - Silver blogger, MedHive announces winners at the end of month
Downside of Hive Power
- Human Phycology - 100 Points always sound bigger than 0.1 HP
- 0.1 HP & 0.05 HP may sound little to the content creators
- Ecency points can be gifted/transferred to someone else Hive Power can't be transferred until power-down.
- 100 Ecency Points can earn a good reward compare to 0.1 HP
- And even if - 0.1HP & 0.05HP - may sound smaller today,
- I am sure that Hive price will touch the moon in near future
- With these values (0.1HP & 0.05HP) I can afford to extend my support to even more communities.
Downside of Hive Power for Me
- More expenditure for me - I get daily 30 comments for reward distribution - I may end up spending up-to-3 Hive per day.
- I don't get delegation rewards from Ecency, instead I end up spending liquid Hive & I may have to power-down to give rewards
Decision
- Based on interaction with couple of community mods, I've received replies as follows.
- I am yet to hear from few community mods.
- Instead of reaching out them individually on Discord, Hive & other mods of communication, I made a post & tagged as many as possible.
- I request them to decide what would they use to reward community members.
| Name | Mod | Decision | How much? | Frequency |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| We Are Alive | @flaxz | @alive.chat winners | 0.05 HP X 4 (0.2 HP per day) | Daily |
| Silver Bloggers | SilverDude | Each participant of Contest | 0.1 HP per participant | Monthly |
| Ladies of Hive | @thekittygirl / @nainaztengra | Each participant of Contest | 0.1 HP per participant | Weekly |
| Shadow Hunters | @melinda010100 | Please reply | - | - |
| Reflection Hunters | @melinda010100 | Please Reply | - | - |
| Med Hive | @jaydr | Please Reply | - | - |
| Feathered Friends | @nelinoeva | Please Reply | - | - |
| HeyHaveYaMet | @BrittanDJosie | Welcome New Hive Members | 0.05 HP to 4 new Hive members | Daily |
| HiveCuba | help from @bhattg | Manually Post Selection | 100 or 50 points | Daily |
| Power Plant Vegan | @sirenahippie | Each participant of Contest | Up to 1000 points | Weekly |
| Foodies Bee Hive | @sirenahippie | Each participant of Contest | Up to 1000 points | Weekly |
| India United | Help from @bhattg | Manually Post Selection | 50 or 100 points | Daily |
| Creative Cusine | Help from @bhattg | Manually Post Selection | 50 or 100 points | Daily |
| Mundo Autismo | Help from @bhattg / @parauri /@gsbilbao | Manually Post Selection | 50 or 100 points | Daily |
| Visual Shots | Help from @bhattg | Manually Post Selection | 50 or 100 points | Daily |
| Leo Finance | Help from @bhattg | Manually Post Selection | 50 or 100 points | Daily |
| SplinterLands | Help from @bhattg | Manually Post Selection | 50 or 100 points | Daily |
| Liketu | Help from @bhattg | Manually Post Selection | 50 or 100 points | Daily |
| SlothBuzz | Help from @bhattg | Manually Post Selection | 50 or 100 points | Daily |
| Three Speak | Help from @bhattg | Manually Post Selection | 50 or 100 points | Daily |
| Three Shorts | Help from @bhattg | Manually Post Selection | 50 or 100 points | Daily |
| Aliento | Help from @bhattg | Manually Post Selection | 50 or 100 points | Daily |
| Clean Planet | Help from @bhattg | Manually Post Selection | 50 or 100 points | Daily |
| Needle Work Monday | Help from @bhattg | Manually Post Selection | 50 or 100 points | Daily |
| DIYHub | @tibfox or Help from @bhattg | Daily or Contest Based | 50 or 100 points | Daily or Monthly |
Dear community mods,
Eagerly waiting for your reply. Please reply.
What's next?
- I will work on my bot 馃 & add a feature to distribute HP
- Once done, Selected Community mods can distribute HP from my wallet to motivate members.
Support me
- Do you like the work I do?
- Do you want me to keep going?
- Please Reblog
- Please help me connect with more communities
- Please vote me as Hive Witness
| Please 馃檹 | Support Me |
|---|---|
| Vote me as Hive Witness | Donate Hive Or HBD |