and i thought people might get confused when they tried to use DeSo. this is way more complicated lol.
and it's super tricky, i wonder how exactly people get onboarded here in a way that actually gets them started with that more complex stuff.
i could of course ask someone to tell me the ideal steps to take to get involved with delegating to try to do that as soon as possible. but this is crypto stuff. scams are in every other megabyte and for all i know someone could use your avatar and slightly alter the way your username is and yeah it's not that i have to be careful, i have to take my time.
not that i would expect you or anyone to necessarily even tell me (or be able to tell me) how to immediately hook into some bot that could result in ~free moneys~, but i don't think i could even ask because i don't know that i know enough to know if i were being scammed.
outside of someone telling me to delegate to a bot because "bot's dev team is doing great A+++ job and i very much looking forward to amazing successes all people involved shall share, you should delegate now or might miss out on this super alpha opportunity" - that sounds like it would probably be a legit person and i don't think i would say no to that kind of opportunity, things like that don't come around more than once in a lifetime.
but, i mean, if you have some tips, i'm all ears. LOL
i don't know exactly how to know when i should stop voting and wait for a recharge, i don't know how to know to use the % slider (i don't think my votes count for enough now where that's really a thing to worry about?), and i don't know if i should actively be looking for things to downvote (i don't want to use that really unless it's literally for no-effort copied content that i stumble upon, someone just being an ass just means i will ignore, i have no desire to spread negativity myself).
i do know i need to spend more time looking at other people's stuff, and upvoting that kind of thing moreso than every single comment i get (which i stopped doing for the most part since i figured i should recharge). but i don't know what might offend people either. if i don't upvote a comment, are there people who will then decide "guess i better not comment on her posts again"? :D
right now i'm building a site that will pull in my content from the other b-chain i'm on, and i'll be able to format it and create custom content to go alongside it, essentially as a way to have a sense of ownership over it. at least, i will have the ability to own how it might appear in google searches, since i should be able to rank my profile and content higher than any node since i can add additional content to the pages that will set it apart from the places just copying what went out on the b-chain. and then at least the hope (though, this is also not a major concern of mine) would be for my own site to act as a personal hub for my b-chain existence. i can highlight my content on specific nodes, ignore ones that may in the future not be appealing to me, etc. i could run ads on the pages if i wanted, in order to further monetize the content. i don't intend to, but a big motivating factor for why i decided to do this is because i realized nothing stops any other site from running ads with my content from the b-chain, so getting ahead of the curve on the SEO could be nice.
and now i'll likely see about pulling in my content from here as well.
i'm certainly capable of working on bigger projects. but i want to be able to properly balance all of what i end up doing. if i get big into dev work, i'll be sacrificing time to spend creating content, though of course dev work is also creating, and i love it. but i'll worry about thinking about that kinda stuff once i've been here long enough to actually know my way around things. 😃
It's confusing and complicated when one tries to take it all in at once. I've been around so long I've been afforded the luxury of simply following the story as it develops. I know the people and their projects.
You're right about scams. You won't see a crypto scam 'trending' here though. The community will swarm it and expose everything. There's no free lunch around here. Phishing is something you need to be wary of. Keep your keys safe.
Delegating is relatively simple and secure. Someone delegated 50 Hive to your account. That's not your money they're just letting you use it so you have resource credits and they can take it away at any moment. That curator bot I mentioned. I found out about that because I followed someone years ago, I know them, and one day they wrote a post talking about 'Meow Curator', so I followed the steps.
I've delegated tokens to noobs before but stopped doing that because they'd often post a couple times, then vanish. So I'd pull the delegation and then they suddenly show up again. Or on another occasion I hooked someone up like I did here with you, plus delegated some HP. They took what they earned and frickin sold it. Instead of powering up their earnings so I could take the training wheels off. Still, I wasn't out any money.
There's one case a whale delegated a massive amount of stake to a member. That member, rather than using the earned curation rewards to help build and fund a community, used the money to enrich himself with Splinterlands. So yeah, people get burned. Try to help and get taken advantage of.
As for recharging. Visit your page on Peakd, hover your mouse over the 'i' next to your name and reputation score. A tooltip pops up and gives you that information. Also on PeakD hover over your name, top right corner. Blue bar goes down with each vote. Red bar is for downvotes. Downvotes trigger people. Be very careful with those. Downvotes remove rewards.
Because I have something like 50k HP, my vote is worth about four bucks. If the value of Hive goes up, the value of my vote goes up. Value goes down, so does the value of the vote. Still gives out the same amount of tokens regardless. As I mentioned, we all get about 10 full 100% votes to use in a day. If I use the slider and knock it down to 50%, I then get to use 20 votes worth 2 bucks instead of 10 votes worth four bucks. If you just want to 'like' something, you can slide that right down to 1% and you won't burn through voting power. But even my 1% vote is worth 4 cents. Because your HP is so low, your full 100% vote is worth half a penny. I enjoy upvoting comments but I can afford to. Plus that's like a way for me to pay myself for the time I spent, and of course compensate whoever else for their time.
Your posts will pay out after seven days. You'll receive half. The other half goes to those who voted. Those with more HP get a larger portion, those with less HP get less, but the percentage remains the same across the board.
As for the other stuff you said. Google NoNamesLeftToUse. Leads to me. Even the images, for the most part near the top at least, all mine. This brand or entity is Hive exclusive. The platform is quite powerful on its own. There are plenty of people who post here, there, and everywhere though. You're free to do whatever the hell you want with your content here. It's yours. You own it. Your account is also locked and can never be removed. You own that, too.
awesome i'm chewing through all of that, thanks.
i'm not worried about getting scammed, honestly i don't understand how anyone in today's world could have grown up not knowing such simple rules. i mean, even if you never used discord or telegram in your life, who would type any information out? and i am assuming it's not just like super old people anymore.
yeah there was someone who helped me figure a lot of stuff out. i don't actually know who delegated to me, and i guess there isn't even a way to send any kind of direct message here which i do find kinda odd. then someone gave me some other tokens too which i powered up or something.
but on DeSo, people have invested money into my profile. i don't know if you're familiar with that platform. but technically i could take the money now, and that would screw over those people who invested (cause i put $0 in and i could take more than $1000 out). i know not that many people are like me though, but i definitely feel like i need to "pay my dues" where i am first.
thanks for all the info, hopefully i can get back to posting tomorrow. i've been so exhausted, i started writing this comment a long time ago and i'm just getting back to it. i'll check out your stuff for sure~ 👽
There's actually a chat with direct message in PeakD. It's the button just to the left of the notification bell but if that member isn't using peakD they won't see it. You can also send a wallet message. It's kind of cheezy but people send 0.001 Hive along with a message. Those can go unnoticed as well and some actually see it as 'wallet spam' and frown upon it. I think one can send encrypted messages that way as well but I can't remember how. Sometimes people will also simply send a message under an old post and talk. People do that to me anyway so I assume they do it to others. I don't mind but some people freak out if you're 'off topic', which is weird but whatever floats their boat I guess.
oh, yes, i also will frown upon this. frowns upon all of it! i toss my frowns directly at these actions.
i just know when i first started seeing values showing up in my notifications, my first instinct was to try to send a thank you message to each person. now i realize that this task would have become insurmountable lol.
ok i need to go use my upvotes, i am being stupid lol (then i must sleep)