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RE: A post about excessive self-voting/vote-trading

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Thanks for your reply.

I'm not a fan of the Ecency front end, I use Peakd and am happy with it. However, several weeks back, I went to Ecency for some reason (can't recall why) and realised I had over 5,000 points there. I have no idea how. I immediately began to distribute them to others, not myself, as boosts.

It's actually pretty handy as I can reward people in that way even when my own VP is low. Seems like a good use of them. No one has thanked me for it yet, but that's ok, it feels good just giving people a little boost now and then.

Anyway, I think it would be nice to see everyone doing it that way, sharing it to others. I'm not naiive though, and understand it's unlikely to happen in a wholesale manner. I think it's a lost opportunity for users trying to build relationships should they squander their Ecency points on themselves.

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Thank is what I do with my Ecency points. I never thought to use them on my own posts....

But then again, I use Hive.blog that no one but me uses so... take it for what you will LOLL

Yeah, using those points on myself isn't something I'd feel comfortable doing; the benefit of casting them on someone else is too great to waste them on oneself...and looking like a greedy fucker. I'd like to cast spells like Gandalf, but instead I cast Ecency points.

It's better than casting some other things :D

Sorry, I read your weekend prompts and now all I can think about is going shopping... LOLL

Lol...well yeah, go shopping in the city at your peril.

It was a joke topic, but there's been multiple posts based on that topic. Bonkers, but good on people for getting in there and having some fun.

HAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Yeah, I do not think I could write 250 words about shopping. For one, I dislike shopping. I would never spend all day doing it sooooo there goes all the fun. LOLL

I think I will miss reading those posts HA!

Shopping? The topic was about shitting ones pants whilst shopping and how the person would deal with it.

But skip it, good plan.

Bye now.

If I do not go shopping, the likelihood of me going in my pants and being all alone in the City is 0%. Hence why there would be nothing to write about. :D

Have a great rest of your day!!

I think I might just do that too. The only two things worth considering with boosting posts with Ecency points are:

  • that they aren't always approved (doing it within the first 24 hours seems to improve your likelihood of getting the boost
  • You can only use it if the post has not been voted on by Ecency already.

Not deal breakers, but worth nothing.

I think it's a nice thing to do. I actually received one last night from a user I'd not have expected to boost anyone other than herself. It was nice to see for sure, and I was sure to leave a comment saying thank you to the user.

With the two dot-points. Yeah, Not deal breakers. They want to maximise their curation hence the 24 hour thing and I agree with not boosting/voting twice.

Let me know how you go with it.

This is actually a good post in my opinion:
https://ecency.com/hive-167922/@evernoticethat/the-future-of-hive-is-in-your-hands

and I tried to boost it within the first 24 hours. Not sure what criteria Ecency uses to approve or reject boosts.

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Oh well. I guess I'll keep trying to use it, but it's not in my my favorites list at the moment.

I've had that happen. Maybe it's something to do with their voting power.