The last time you made a pie for me for this, my votes were very much weighted towards on minnow and smaller. I have the feeling this won't be the case as much now, because those redfish and minnows have either gone or they've grown with me. Dare I look at the new pie?
I don't think the smaller accounts are missing out, however, unless they aren't posting much worth sending to the curators. The newer accounts are better supported than they've ever been, because we now have such a range of curators. Many of the dolphins are the ones sending the posts to those curators as well, so they aren't being ignored by us. Because of this, any redfish that puts that effort in doesn't stay a redfish for long and I feel like this is why votes are falling more onto minnows than them.
I actually stopped worrying so much about the size of the account my vote is falling on, because the drop of in support that comes when a redfish turns minnow can be off-putting in itself. There's no point in getting them there and then them feeling like they are no longer going to carry on moving forward, so they power down and leave, which defeats the object. So now I try to focus on supporting good content, no matter the author, and I like those who interact and I know I can have a good conversion with. I also focus on those writing in the areas of the communities I support. So hopefully it's still a good range. 🤞
Edited to add: I notice that the rep number doesn't always give the best indicator of fish level. Some experienced and long time creators have very high rep scores, but have powered down over time as well. So it's hard to judge the account size on the reputation score, too. I wonder how aware we are of the size of the account when we vote on the post.
you should take another pie :)
Totally agree with both statements :)
Yep. It used to feel this way as a young dolphin account, but I think the support for these accounts is good now - just got to get that first 5000 HP.
High Rep, low HP is an interesting combination - not my favourite account type to support.
Thank you Asher. That's actualy looking better than I expected. A bit low on the redfish votes and the dolphins are up there as expected, but mostly minnows, which I didn't expect. To me that says that voting on the content rather than the account does give a good spread. Not that I don't have my autovotes set for certain accounts, but I like to have plenty of VP for manual votes too.