The Case for Banning Autovotes for a Brief Period

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The Case for Banning Autovotes for a Brief Period





I love Hive and hope to see it thrive and there is a case to remove auto-votes on the platform. The people against this idea are the early adopters when setting up auto-voting was more popular and understood. Much time has passed and now I think auto-voting has transformed into something that takes away real engagement from the platform.

Hive is still in it's early phase I don't know the stats exactly but we have very few active users. But I clearly am frustrated as a long time Hive author and as you can see below I hardly get any support...



People Don't Read

The problem is people are not reading posts. Instead they are just looking for a bunch of pics with a high enough word count. I strive to write at least 500 words a day but it's difficult so that's why I like to journal some of my life.

Today I'm going to go to the beach with my son and I can't wait to see him.

What would it be like if we trialed banning auto voting for a month or two. What's the worst that could happen. A great reset is needed to entice more engagement. Engagement is key to Hive's success as new authors stand a better chance at receiving larger upvotes.

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You do realise the insight is just one front end and does not capture post visitors who don't get captured because they don't use peaks, like me right?

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Hello! I saw you had upvoted a post of mine and came to return the favor. Alas, you make posts infrequently.

Saw this post about auto voting and thought I would argue against any suspension because I use SBI to come and upvote my posts. I have also called other voting trails to upvote my posts periodically. It seems you do/have taken advantage of SBI yourself.

To address the problem you are having with getting bigger upvotes I take the liberty of making suggestions.

  • You must make frequent posts to build your audience.

  • Focus on your strengths. You seemed to get more upvotes when speaking about crypto or business on LeoFinance.

  • Some topics are more profitable. Finance, Splinterlands, dCity. They have a built in audience looking for interesting or informative content.

I also notice you tried setting up a game with those bonus points. Folks who love winning things are also a built in audience. You should bring that back and run it at least once a week. The powers that be here on Hive don’t like posts asking for upvotes to participate, so don’t do that. But the challenges and engagement aspect is a good idea.

Anyway, good fortune to you whatever the final plan is!

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Oops, almost forgot.

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