I am not going to give in - PHUD makes more sense than HPUD.
Regardless - On the first of the month it is encouraged to add a little HIVE to your stake and @arcange even has a badge for it on https://hivebuzz.me/, which if you haven't used yet, is worth checking out as you can see some basic numbers surrounding your account and it is a bit of fun to keep track of what is going on there.
For example, the image below shows some basics of my interaction:
With me sending out 4000+ posts, 35,000+ comments and 71,000+ votes - and receiving 55,000+ replies and 620,000+ votes on my posts. I don't reply to automated messages or spam normally, but I do try to reply to everyone I feel is worth my time - which is most people. I miss some occasionally though - but I figure people generally understand.
I did meet someone at Fest 3 in Krakow however, who told me they stopped following me because I missed commenting on them - but after I explained that I get a lot of comments and it isn't always easy to see them all (especially back then). Some people take offence to not getting replies as if it is a personal attack on them - but at least for me, this is generally not the case - however there are some people I don't bother replying to due to the way they engage or the disingenuous nature of their comments.
I got my PHUD badge.
10 HIVE is the minimum needed to get the badge, which is about $2.38 worth. Not too bad for most people around the world I would suspect.
In 2019, the price for a pack of 20 cigarettes in Finland was around 7.2 euros. Out of the total amount, tobacco tax accounted for nearly 5.09 euros. After the deduction of VAT, the net price of a cigarette pack was 0.74 euros. source
I am glad I don't smoke anymore - but at a pack a day - that is around 36 HIVE a day. We all make our decisions in life.
The same $8.60 for cigarettes will also buy 0.00073400 Bitcoin. That doesn't sound like much, does it? But, 3 days worth of cigarettes would buy about the same amount of Bitcoin if all 21 million were spread equally amongst the global population - 0.003 Bitcoin for everyone individual. Now, that isn't much, is it? Especially considering that 20% is likely lost forever and there are holders who have many thousands each. Have you got your 0.003 yet? A little more?
As I see it, we all have the opportunity to participate in changing the entire global economic system - but it does take participation. What I like about Hive is that we can not only participate at a financial level, but also affect outcomes through social change - mindset and paradigm shifts that slowly nudge the course of society. This is how all cultural change takes place, a step at a time - a little aha moment here, a change in behavior there - until many people are participating.
My personal favorite badges on hivebuzz are these:
Weekly author is the number of times I have published every day of the week, with Monthly authorYearly author ? You'd have to exclude a few hardfork cock-ups though :D being how many times I have published every day of the month. There has been 187 weeks since I joined, meaning I have missed posting on a day in 9 of them. They were early 2017. There has been 43 months since I joined, so I have not posted daily in 3 of them - they were early 2017 too. Hey, @arcange, is there a badge for
Participation is important, engagement is important, discussion is important - changing mindset takes effort. But no one is forced to participate, engage, discuss or change their mind at all, it is all opt-in - all free choice. Not one person is forced to use the Hive blockchain, to post to comment, to act well or behave badly - it is a personal choice. Responsibility and consequence of our decisions are our own, even though we can't control all outcomes or any actions of others.
I find the Hive ecosystem compelling as it gives visibility on a lot of how people act under various conditions, cross-referenced with their skills, background, personality, desires and fears. Even with so few participants, we can see how complex the system becomes and we can see how various factors influence behavior - a change in price, a comment of support, or a downvote - no one is forced to react in a particular way - no one is forced to get upset or smile, to bend or retaliate - but they do. If we can't control our own reactions, what does that make us?
Programmed.
Conditioned to behave in a certain way based on our wiring and code. Controlled. People talk about freedom, yet they do not even have the freedom of their own reactions - and instead justify their behavior as inevitable response to the conditions.
"I want to be free to react, but I have no choice in my reaction!"
Where is the line of freedom?
Do you have the choice to quit smoking - or are you that much of an addict that you think you smoke by choice? It is easy to justify our vices while in the same breath, complain about our position of health. Excuse our behavior through our conditions, without recognizing the role we play in where we stand. We bullshit ourselves saying "this is the way we are and must be" while dreaming of being something different - letting opportunity after opportunity to participate in our own evolution slide us by.
In crypto we look at FUD and FOMO in regards to investing, but dealing with these at the personal level is far more important. The fear, uncertainty and doubt of taking responsibility of making the decisions in our life and living with the consequences, the fear of missing out on the life we want, because we are unable to overcome our fears.
We are scared to participate because we fear failure, we fear trying and not getting what we aimed for, what we controlled ourselves for. It is easy to let the programming decide, to live via default.
Easy to do, hard to live.
Taraz
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you know
phud mean pussy in hindi [ India ]😁😁😁
That is even better!!!! :D
that soo ok overkill 😭😭😭
You reminded me old fun story when two old friend met and one is smoking. So other one tells him: Lets calculate how much cost your daily smoking and during all those years you could buy a ferrari now. While other friend replies: Do you smoke? First friend answers: No... So second friend asks: Where is Your ferrari??? ;)
Lets hope investing into btc and hive gonna work more positively
:D
My Ferrari is made of satoshis ;D
I quit smoking about 10 years ago after I met my wife - before she was my wife. Much better off for it now smell-wise.
It is going to be an interesting 10 years ahead :)
I like PHUD too, much easier to pronounce than HPUD XD
I'll keep missing it because I haven't yet succeeded in coinciding it with my magic numbers ^_^;
This is the best bit I discovered yesterday:
Just imagine how good it will feel when the magic aligns ;D
Oh well then 🤣
I wonder how many people there are that have posted every available day for posting for a year. likely not to many, so yeah he should do a really cool yearly author badge. I did manage to power up 10 Hive, so I got the badge, and probably the tiniest bee. I wonder if there will be bee envy after tomorrow for some.
Probably some auto reports and spammers :D
I didn't know there were bee sizes - Now I don't know what badge I got
I think the size of the bee in the badge will be bigger the more you powered up. (Just verified I looked at your bee badge and mine and mine stays in the box, your bee is pretty so big the badge barely contains the wings).
I do prefer how my smaller bee badge looks compared to the big bee badge, but a little bit bigger would be nicer.
Mine:
Yours:
So. I've said it once today, I'm a loser. I power up my Hive immediately with out waiting for the PHUD.
It's all about ROI for me. The sooner I power up the sooner I see reward advances. Or maybe that's not it either. :)
I just do what I do when I do it. Sue me :)
I actually worry about missing comments. I know I do it, but it's not lack of care and concern. I honestly want to reply to every human that comments on my stuff. When I wrote for Adsactly I'd answer at least 100 comments on every post. Everything but your basic 'nice post'and the copy/pasta comment rings. Though I always commented on them too, when I downvoted them.
I bought about 600 Hive this month and powered it within minutes of delivery. I understand the hype, just not for me.
I normally power up whenever too -generally out of frustration ;D
Replying to comments can take a massive amount of time, especially if the comments received are meaty. I often tend to get meaty comments where people have taken the time to think and write, so I feel I should take the time to think and write back. This might change over time, but I always hope that people would spend time reading the comments of others too and starting alternate conversations and relationships, rather than relying on the author. This way, the content itself becomes more important than who wrote it.
I usually comment first, then read the whole string. Sometimes I even stick my face into another commentator's remarks.
It's often where you see the very best of people-when they are commenting without orchestrating every word.
I like this happening a lot. It makes the discussion far richer.
I usually forget about the powerup day and power up whenever I need more Hive powered up or when I have more than a few dozen coins liquid. But this time I made a point in waiting and just powered up 74 Hive on gadrian-sp.
Yeah, I think it depends on the person, but perhaps having a day for it is a reminder for some. I power up whenever in general. Hope you are doing well mate.
Since covid-19 I became even more socially withdrawn, but other than that I'm ok. Thanks for asking. I hope you'll find the resources to pay for house improvement without selling crypto, if possible.
Make sure you get some social contact in, it is important for humans like us :)
If the crazy bills keep coming, I won't get out unscathed.
The badges are really nice looking on Hive. Nice to see many coming out.
It's interesting how these non-monetized rewards are nearly as motivating for people.
I haven't joined phud for awhile, but maybe I'll try for the badge.
10 HIVE is all you need to PHUD.
I am hoping that the gamification, the stats, badges and all kinds of charts will become just as popular as wanting to earn. Essentially, getting these badges makes them similar to an NFT - although they aren't tradeable yet ;)
I've come to realize aot of people around here aren't only motivated by financial rewards and that's a good thing.
In the message about the new badge it said you will soon be able to give it to others. I assume that means if I transfer hive to vesting but at your account...you get the badge and maybe I get something, too?
I don't think most of the existing tokens will be avaliable or desirable to trade, but maybe they will make some that would make semse to trade...or points based on badges. Monthly author would be a weird one to award someone else. I'm not sure what his road map or end game is, but this is one of the more interesting projects on Hive...and no proposal required.
That would be cool. I was wondering about whether I can gift someone PHUD - which I have since found out means "pussy" in Hindi :D
For the individual account badges it makes no sense, but perhaps there could be some badges that are awarded by a third party. For example, if there was a badge that could be given by a select few who qualify on some metric, would people want it?
I have tried to publish every day. In some weeks I succeed, in others I lose the thread. I am to respond to the comments left in my publications, even those I know are to get out of the way. Sometimes I even go to other people's blogs and comment them back. It's a form of courtesy. It has happened to me that they are so good that I become a regular visitor and even, in some cases, a friend. As you say, this is a community. Good September, @tarazkp!
Relationships are made through comments - people seem to think if they write great posts it is enough -it definitely isn't.
I'm glad i was reminded because I most often forget!
I do too - all the days are the same. Nonsense.
PHUD day for the win! I’ve got my own flavor of it, can’t decide if it’s SPHUD or PHUDS but I try and add a couple sponsors of hive SBI shares for quality new users. I’ve received a lot of great support from the SBI service, I’m hoping to help others with that same ability.
Twice I tried to do the every day of the week posting but I somehow screwed it up lol I had 14 posts but I don’t know what times it counts, I’m guessing UTC and I don’t know what that is in relation to me. I’ll have to look it up.
It is a good idea I think, though some people seem to have an issue with it. I reckon that the pros outweigh any cons at this point.
I am pretty sure it is the only time that matters, blockchain time.
https://hiveblocks.com/
Oh to stop following someone just because they missed commenting.... Well, there is not much left to say about that.
I am so happy I never smoked and that I never will. A lot of money go on unnecessary things, therefore it's for the better to see where is the budget bleeding and how it can be fixed.
Congratulations for giving up smoking, that's a very good decision on so many levels👏
Don't start smoking ever - it is a ridiculous habit with no upside.
I never will!
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