Those GU Hive babies need your tender care @acidyo.
also one of the nice things with VP is that when you need it more it will be there and not deplete instantly but scale down while still giving out decent-sized votes and in a way "refresh faster" or at least feel like it.
How you put it here makes the most sense. If you stick to voting one way for an eternity, surely that will get old eventually. Adapting on a day-to-day basis is probably going to be the best way to curate manually. Some days could be shit for content and others may be chock full of golden posts.
Having to spread all of what OCD is capable of handing out around Hive is a massive task that surely needs a team of dutiful curators.
a question I often get from people is why OCD isn't voting them which often is cause they already do quite well
As much as it probably hurts OCD's curation rewards to often avoid posts that have already achieved some success with potential payout, it would be so bad for the small guys and newcomers if OCD just hopped on that train towards maximum profit. The curation practice of OCD vs a solo dude like myself just cannot be the exact same since the stake at hand is drastically different and the number of people involved as well.
we have been voting a bit more often on the hbd.funder comments to help stabilize HBD with the remaining VP we have since the userbase has not grown by as much as the price of Hive has.
Is there really any other option at the moment besides letting the extra voting power waste away? It makes sense to put it to use someplace. I feel like I have been seeing people tweet about hbd.funder being bad for Hive. I didn't quite get what they were trying to say though and assumed they were wrong since so many large stakeholders do it. I cannot find the tweet otherwise I'd be linking it here.
Later on we believe that downvotes will play a great role (if used wisely and well). If we can't manage this and get angry over downvotes or constantly just attempt to maximize our own posts without caring if others are getting their fair share it'll mean that the way the reward pool works right now won't be able to scale
Scaling is what will lead to success for Hive years down the road. I know I don't want to just have a few years of success and then dip out. I would love to have continued success and also watch others learn to find that same success here. Winning alone just isn't as good as winning with a team.
To answer your question;
how much VP you have doesn't really change how much returns you get since the curve is now linear so I doubt it matters.
BAM! Thank you for the detailed response and for bringing up several topics of importance.