I have unfollowed many people for powering down.
It's okay to take a payout.
To take everything out, not bother voting, not supporting anything... I can't vote for these people.
I don't expect a vote back, but if I see they don't vote for anyone, or delegate all their stake away... I'll unfollow and never look back again.
Likewise, I don't vote many of your posts.
Because you get excellent rewards already.
If they were lower, I'd vote.
The way it is now, though, I prefer voting for small accounts.
I am voting - by hand - for 8 years now. With my own stake, which I earned here.
I am trying to keep the ball rolling.
And when I see a small account immediately delegating it all away, I want to smash my keyboard.
Greetings @felixxx,
Thank you very much for the support you gave Bleujay when I returned....I appreciated it very much....and I hope you continue to do so because another thing I really appreciated about Hive and the other site is the Team's E'Spirit de'corp formed....which has sadly depreciated...imo due to major delegation.
Many I enjoyed following, reading their content, voting for, asking after their families etc. have different plans for their blogs these days. Of course it is their choice and there are now new people to share this E'spirit de'corp with...but the others are still missed.
That something special is what binds an organisation together..at least I think so.
Thank you again....it is appreciated.
Cheers, Bleujay
You are something special 😘 😅
I remember November 2018, Krakow, you dishing out 59c votes on a handful of my posts..., I was overjoyed. I don't expect votes from you now.., it's not necessary.., a great comment.
So true, powering down is completely fine. Everyone should do it. But leaving some of chain and growing it should be as important as taking it all.
Yeah save your votes for new accounts with low reps, if I see someone that is a 50 rep it always feels better to upvote them than someone in the mid 70s or whatever.
Glad you have a working system, sounds like a good plan.
You know rep is really just an upvote activity count, right?
Basically, unless somebody downvotes the living hell out of them like you see with the incessant negative repped "bcpvoter" or berniesaunders back in the day, rep is just a cumulative "I posted a lot of stuff over time" number and got upvotes on it number. And we all know how upvotes used to be HEAVILY gamed, less so in current chain fork rules iterations and with various groups scanning for scammers but overall, its just a sort of longevity clock, no indicator of any kind of "quality" across the board.
So voting that 50 is going to encourage them, but voting a 70 because they seem esteemed based on that number? Is just voting for the person who has been vocal frequently and consistently for a long time now.
It's funny because I took a break for emergent medical health issues and international move caused by them reasons, and left with a rep number, came back and began posting and interacting again and watching my rep move daily and in decimal sized incremental amounts, and its moving based on sheer quantity of output, as opposed to the quality of that output.
I get my fair share of upvotes on wordless, two seconds of giggling between two people chatting in comments single image "GIF reaction" comments alone which moves the rep number just like my 2000 word project manifesto and feature update posts upvotes do, illustrates that.
Rep is more of an indicator of time served, than quality time, is all I am saying.
Low rep more or less just means newer, until its SUPER low on an old but very active account, then it means that person is socially pissing EVERYBODY off lol