I have always wondered how all these works but reading through this, I've come to understand a little of the basis of how some things work here on the hive blockchain.
What you said about people having auto votes is true and I'm privileged to have one and I always notice I'm always trying to make a post but it's not really because of the vote, it's because I've set a target for myself, so what can you say about that, is it enough to justify making a post everyday?
I just believe that I should make at least a post every day because it helps me engage easily with other authors and some days, i make up to three post because of some ongoing contest too and I always try my best to put in effort and quality but some are of course has less effort than others.
Thank you for bringing this to my knowledge, I really appreciate it so much, I guess I'm privileged to have seen this and I really do hope to put what I've learned into practice.
Your account seems fine to me, plenty of unique voters on the higher payout ones and it seems to be from manual curation projects so they've checked the posts out.
The issue is more if you start getting autovotos from bigger accounts and attempt to maximize it even if it lowers your quality and effort to the point where either no one bothers engaging with the content anymore or you're taking it for granted and not engaging with those who do engage with you or socialize with others on their posts. Say if all you do is just post and collect the rewards and don't care about the other aspects of hive and most social medias.
Okay I get it now, I just pray I don't drift away from the right.
One of the reasons why I love hive is because of the engagement in it, I'm always sad if I don't get much comments because it only means that my content was not really that good, so I always try to put in more effort every time.
It will be really nice to have a whale add me to his or her auto votes because it means more income for me but I will still need more people to engage with, it's the best part for me.
It's really sad when I engage with someone and I don't get a reply back and even others that engaged on that same post. I always love it that I have a comment to reply to and if I don't have any, it means I didn't engage well, so I try to improve on that too.
You've given me an advice that will come more handy in the future and I'm really grateful you thought of writing on this, thank you Sir 🤗. And please Sir, I will want you to always leave an advice on any of my posts you come across, if you don't mind 🙏.
Have a fabulous weekend 🌹💐.