I took a good hard look at my account after reading the post by a Hive veteran from a month ago asking who's here to invest or milk the cash cow? It was an informative take which has caused me to make changes to my account, as I'm certainly not one of the "milkers" but don't want to give even the appearance of it.
Based on the discussion, I now set each post to 100% power up, as opposed to letting the HIVE build until I have 100 of them and then powering up or purchasing dividend tokens. I looked at my delegating percentage and see that that's too lopsided (It was done that way in order to bring more HIVE in so that I could grow the account and augment the small earnings of my posts).
However, how does that look to someone with a large stake looking for accounts to support? The 100% powerup is the response to that. It has been a long time since I powered down to assist an ill elderly relative, that's why my stake is so low.
After 7+ years on Steemit/Hive I should be holding tens of thousands of HP, but we can't do anything about the circumstances of the past, just continue moving forward. So if I was a veteran with a large stake I asked myself: Would I be supporting the evernoticethat account? Without knowing what I know now, no, I wouldn't. Looks like he might bail.
I don't even want to give the appearance of that.
I'm doing all that I can with what I have at the moment, and if there's no poisitive response from the stakeholders, then nobody can say I didn't try.
I may not have the biggest house on Hive, it's tiny, but it's mine, and it's time to fix the old place up and expand it for the future.
Well that's not happening, as I too have been railing about the extractors for years who receive consistent high upvotes yet are constantly powering down. And if it wasn't for ionomy taking the money I sent to it months ago to buy HIVE, I'd be much further along to buying the token and powering up on a regular basis.
I am going to figure out some way to get BTC from a crypto ATM and onto Hive since I no longer use Coinbase due to the creepy service that they use now for verification. 7+ years later I'm still here. Even the small upvotes and the rare thoughtful comment left on my posts are greatly appreciated. We need people with a long-term OWNERS mindset on Hive, and I'm proud to be one of them.
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