For those of you that follow me and have engaged in my posts, you all know that I am a very busy person. My life doesn’t revolve around Steemit...Steemit revolves around My Life. I hop on and create posts or curate when and if I have spare time. I work full-time as a High Voltage Lineman, taking outage calls at anytime of the day or night. I’m a Do-It-Yourself Guy, auto repairs, house repairs, blah blah blah. My wife and Children deserve my time more than a Social media outlet. You know...priorities
After getting a few @curie votes I wanted to to show my support for those types of projects. Also, I wanted to be able to support as many Steemians as possible but with my limited time that would be pretty much impossible. So I decided to research Steemauto.com and start messing around and see what I could make happen.
Steemauto: Fanbase
Fanbase, sets up an autovote for your favorite authors. So whenever they create a post you give them your vote. This doesn’t include comments. I believe I have like 2 or 3 users on my autovote. When these users post I upvote their post, in my mind they always put in 110% into whatever they do. I feel they deserve my support. Plus, I enjoy rolling the dice with playdice and scoring some Steem/SBD if I win. When it comes to upvoting specific users automatically, be careful. If they post multiple times a day, your Voting Percentage will take a huge hit and your vote will be worth nothing in no time. So monitor your account whenever you can and make adjustments. Just a little FYI for you people thinking about it.
Steemauto: Curation Trails
I want to give a little shout to @dandays. We have had some really good conversations on discord and have developed an awesome....Cyber-Friendship? 👍🏿 Anyway, we were talking about post value, effort, autovoting, and...do I dare mention it...bidbots. Then I mentioned about possibly doing a post about why I use the Steemauto service for Autovoting. Thanks @dandays for giving me the nudge to do so.
In our conversation I stated this:
Then again, a post might be worthy of $10 to one person and only 0.05 to another. That is where the community part comes into play. Most people aren’t going to vote something they are not interested in. But it could be something that person spent a lot of time and effort to produce the post. People who are into their style/kind of post will upvote but I won’t because it doesn’t really interest me. That is why I join the Curation trails with my autovote. My vote goes to such a wide variety of posts it is unreal.
This statement plays in with other languages too. I’m not going to vote a post that I can’t read, makes sense right? I could find some translation app and yada yada yada But the whole time I am trying to work through that I could be rewarding others. With my Steemit time limited anyway, I need to get the best bang for my...buck minute.
My outgoing vote count has increased at an incredible rate. I believe I am coming up on 38,000. Spreading my vote like Peanut Butter and Jelly to so many Steemians. That means I am sharing my vote across so many forms of content, languages, and users on Steemit, that would be in no way humanly possible. This isn’t just rewarding others, I also get some 0.001 SP curation rewards out of it. Not much but every little bit counts.
There are several Curation trials that I am a part of including one that I have started myself, @splatz. It’s is just getting started and trying to find its place in the Steemosphere...is that even a word??? I don’t know but I like it. With the help and encouragement of @dandays hopefully the @splatz curation trail can develop into something.
These established Curation Trails in my mind have a great community of curators bringing content to the table to be looked at and rewarded for their hard work and effort.
- @curie
- @qurator
- @c-squared
- @c-cubed
- @christiantrail
- @actifit
- @foodfightfriday (the coolest kitchen on the Blockchain)
I want to thank all of you and your team of curators for all that you guys do here on the Steem Blockchain. To me this is what keeps people motivated to stick around and to keep putting in time and effort into bringing their form of value to the Blockchain.
Setting up Steemauto
Now when setting up your autovote on your chosen Curation Trails, it’s important a to know how it works. Your account can take a huge hit to your Voting Percentage in just a matter of minutes if your not careful. Steemauto tries to prevent this from happening buy setting your vote to a scaled vote by default.
A scaled vote means for instance, if you are following a Curation Trail with a 50% scaled vote, and that Curation Trail votes a post at 100%. Your upvote will be a 50% upvote.
Now let’s say the Curation Trail upvotes a post at 50%, now your upvote of that post if 25%. It’s 50% of your scaled vote percentage. If your scaled vote is set to 10%, igiven the above scenario you would only vote 5%. You follow me?... get it :wink:wink
These Curation Trails vote a lot so monitor you Voting Percentage after a couple days and see how things are going. I use Steemworld.org/@(insert username), this also is a great way to so many other stats on the Steem Blockchain. I have my trail vote set around 10% to 15% in order to keep my Voting Percentage up so I can manually curate posts when I have time to.
With 10k posts rolling out a day, I would be lucky to be able to “look” at 15-20 and that is being generous. So that leaves approximately 9,980 post that go unseen to me. Let alone all those posts that are indifferent languages. In this case that is what these Curation Trails do, the team finds those posts and attempt to give them some credit for their hard work and effort also helping users to utilize their vote to the Max!!
I am totally willing to admit that in the beginning I was totally opposed to autovoting. I wanted to manually curate and that was it. Due to time restraints this wasn’t happening. Naive as I was, I assumed autovoting was strictly for setting up an automatic vote for your favorite authors, or in what seems to be in a lot of cases, a users pals or buddies. Hey, to each his own whatever. Thus creating that “Circle” if you will. Then no matter what kind of effort is put forth on that post, it always gets your vote. I mean after all the users are friends and that is your slice of the Steemit pie to do what you want with.
This is just what I noticed and it is just my opinion. Let’s say a user once produced great articles or insight, where it had obviously taken them a good amount of time to investigate and put together. You know Effort ya that’s the word. Then something changed and the user begins to post (for example, I am no way judging) a simple photo and a few sentences....and....Ta-Da...a little effort post gets the same payout as that in depth article or how to guide that took hours to research and put together. So why would that user continue to put so much effort into something when they get the same reward for just a couple minutes worth of effort. (These are just examples and I am in no way saying these are the only type of posts that deserve rewards or don’t deserve rewards) I know life isn’t fair but I didn’t want to be one to encourage this type of stuff to happen. I wanted to reward people for their effort and hard work and encourage them to keep doing so. I didn’t want to encourage the Something for Nothing type of environment. That is what kept me away from autovoting for the first year of being here.
I hope this post encourages people to join some good Curation Trails and maximize the amount of upvotes you have at your fingertips. No matter if it is 5% or 2% when it comes to a Curation trail it all adds up and every vote counts for something.
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