Is #autovoting harmful?
➖ Established users often get high payouts regardless the content, while newbies may struggle with a few dollars for elaborated posts they've spent hours on.
➕ On the other hand, supporting a dedicated person with automated votes seems reasonable.
Instead of autovoting, I follow the curation trail of ourpick which is the curation project of liotes. The supported posts are handpicked by the curators and I can rely on them for chosing quality content. I leave some percentage for manual voting.
Yes, there are many projects like that - Curangel, OCD, Worldmappin. It's still automated voting, although of a bit different than just simple autovote.
I’m hearing good things about Liotes / Ourpick
People may consider following their trail if they don’t have time to curate.
There is a team of 4-5 curators who are going through the blockchain to find worthy posts. I quite trust their choices :-)
Most of the time, my vote is manual, but I set some users who don’t make lazy posts to autovote, because I know that even if it’s automatic, my vote will be fair. The limit for this to happen is 95%, so it rarely happens because I am very active reading content and voting on it
We need more people like you then :)
I don't know the exact percentage, but when my Voting Mana is above 90% Auto Voting kicks in. It's to prevent my Voting Power to stay unused when it's at 100%.
My fanbase are a couple of photographers that consistently create quality blogs.
But I vote a lot manually.
But autovoting can be harmful when you don't regularly check up on the authors you autovote on. The quality of their posts can be changed over time.
And manual voting (when done in a good way) gives a better distribution of rewards.
One reason I decided to embrace is is because, as somebody who was a curator for STEMsocial for years, I learnt how difficult it is to reliably separate the garbage/plagiarism/abuse from the legit. If you're not versed in it, you can unwittingly vote AI stuff and beyond...
Well, yes, it also depends on what you tend to upvote. Thanks for your insight.
I use an alt account to autovote people with a dust vote, then I curate with the main account.
Using hivetasks, I get a list of posts that sometimes interests me.
I have over 400 accounts on it, less than 10 post in a week, so I have to follow other curators to find content.
It follows most of the flaggers, too.
That's an interesting strategy :) Thanks for sharing it.