I hope you’ll see me for me when I say, you could have easily avoided two on’s if you just didn’t wear shoes on Friday…but I as I write that I am obliged to admit that this would take the fun out of saying it. Like when you watch a movie and you’re like “they could have just done this and all their trouble would have been avoided” - a thought that is like a pocket of steam resting in the atmosphere just above a cool ocean…and the ocean is an older, wiser, slower thought that was never not there. It was there when the wise guy though came in, it will be there when the wise guy thought dissipates. It is the thought that may in fact rest beneath the resonance of all existence: …they could indeed, but the movie would suck…
Anyway, cmplxty commented on my article and suggested that I could do better on a curation trail than by delegating. So I looked into what these trails are. I knew of them, and even kind of followed one at one point (maybe probably still do).
I reblogged three of the posts I found while doing some research, it was chance alone that put this ine in front of me, but I thoroughly enjoyed it…
You know something else I enjoy a lot? I really love it when I’m proven wrong 🤣
Seriously, it’s a great way to grow in life, and it’s somehow fun for me - it makes me feel like a on old wizard, being surprised for the first time in ages (not that I’m wrong that rarely, it’s just how it feels for me every time), it tickles a funny spot in the brain and excites something, probably the joy of cracking one reality and climbing through into the new one, one where the old information held as fact is now relegated to the children’s fiction genre. The excitement of now exploring the world with new information and perspective…God man see I do it every time!
Fuck it - this was great. It was a fun read, I’m excited to check out some of your travel and comedy stuff, and I’m seeing from the three articles I read that there is a major hole in the bigass pile of naive ambition I poured out onto the world this morning 🤣
But honestly, if I hadn’t posted that and had the resulting conversations I had, I would be sitting here with a 90% delegation, no idea about curation trails, and assuming that people are all just piling on their votes manually 🤗
I was clearly missing a big piece of how all this shit works, so I’m excited to have a new aspect to learn about, even if it means I need to rethink my whole manifesto before it’s even a day old 🤣🤣🤣
Life is good man, LiFG.
Chance.. funny, try tellin a lucky guy that.
I don't know how else to say I'm so stoked to have you as a fan—serious. I left this message open so I'd come to it first, we just had dinner. Pura's a chef. Dude I'm the pickiest eater you don't know. Some only child shit.
But really. You're the people I do this for. Once upon a time I told someone I'm well aware my traffic isn't monumental but so long as so-in-so and so-in-so tune in, I'm not going anywhere. Would you believe one of those people actually muted and blocked me recently?
Really hate it when my judge of character fails. Hey man, I've seen accounts get fucked with for associating with me, I just deleted a buncha stuff, I'll just leave it at that.
I saw you reblog this one and wanted to say how cool that was so thanks for replying—now I can say it.
We go to the coast over there a couple times a month in the summer. We should compare photosynthesis. Pura and I have met up with probably 15 community members here, they'll all vouch, I'm not a psychopath or anything, just socio. dot dot
Thinking of this message left open over dinner made me smile - that’s cool. It’s neat to see real things, connections made here, stretching out into other parts of the physical world. I’m the opposite on eating, although now that I’m learning how to carry myself with a little more class, who knows. Change breeds change you know?
I’m thrilled to be among that crowd, and I definitely am among it. You’ve got a really natural voice, I can imagine you’re the kind of person whose random little brainthoughts and comments would have me laughing even when you’re not trying to. Something clicks there, I enjoy your voice immensely - it’s got the tonality of an old friend I can’t fully remember.
Muted and blocked? F*ck me, that seems intense.
I got that feeling that night when we talked and I stopped drinking. I saw the notification…I hated to make it weird and for most people I wouldn’t bother. I think it was as much that I have enjoyed your company and comments as it was that I was really bummed that I had misjudged your character. Needless to say, I was glad to be wrong about that. I don’t care about numbers or follower statistics, it’s the conversations I don’t want to be wrong about or lose…the interactions make this all fun, they make it all real.
…definitely piqued my interest with the deleted stuff…but if you wanna leave it there then I don’t wanna pick it up. We’ve all done our shit. You’re not who you were, you’re not what you’ve done, you’re who you choose to be (relevant) in any given moment, nothing is fixed. (It’s also not broken)
No vouch needed man, if you’re ever in the area I would love to get together. It’d blow the lid off my whole Hive thing, but honestly, I love when the lid gets blown off of things - it means they’re ready to face the light. Some things survive it, some don’t. What I’ve got in Hive will, because it’s honest, decent and real. When my predilection for pr0n made its way into the light? It died. Light is good. I would love to compare photosynthesis or just chill and meet face to face.
Sorry for the delay, this one was special.
What's your take on Qurator?
I don’t really have a firm grasp on the specifics of any particular trails honestly, but I like the idea overall at this point. I know it’s pretty much a 180, but I think it seems like trails basically seek to do what I was talking about already, so why reinvent the wheel?
I’m still all in on the Ecency delegation at this point, basically just because I’d like to build up some HSBI. Once I get that up a bit I plan to learn more and switch from the delegation to some trails (or a trail? I don’t really know how it works yet). It’s just the plan that made sense in my mind though, I haven’t actually metered out just what differences there are in HP/Hive management strategies but I’m enjoying learning so fsr
Trails can build HP when you have less time, yourself, they have curators who do nothing but seek quality stuff for you. I've supported many'0 trails.
A little bit of math goes a long way. Appreciator, for example, votes at or around 8%. Qurator, about 43%. Whatever you set your vote at (50, 25, etc), will trail theirs by that percentage. Hope that wasn't confusing. By gauging a trails daily VP usage, you can gauge your own.
Plug your research into hive.vote and, 'tada!' Earn.
Hive.vote, huh? I feel like I’m already a step closer!
Is there a good way you know of to view/manage curation trails?
Time. There's not a stat sheet somewhere. We all oppose and support differently. Some for reward, some on principle, some for something else. I shaved you a lotta time back there.
Hahaha indeed - Also meant to say thank you for taking the time to do so. Got kinda busy for a while there.