Why don't you upvote the Musing questions that you answer?
I have noticed that not so many users actually upvote the questions they answer and I wonder why that is the case. Whenever I find an interesting question that I answer, chances are that (if I have enough VP) I'll upvote it, because it's worth it.
But why don't you do it?
Curation is important and we need more of it here. What is your excuse?
I am honestly guilty of this as I have already answered many questions here on Musing but only upvoted around 5% of them. So I guess Sorry is in order. Sorry!! :)
My reasons are mostly because of the "dust payout threshold" and the VP percentages. Before HF20 all posts and comments with a payout less than $0.02 becomes $0.00 after 7 days.
Last month my effective SP was only at 250, which would mean I have to give a full vote($0.023) in order to ensure that my vote won't go to waste as not all questions are being upvoted by Musing. Seeing as VP recharges around 20% per day, that would mean only 10full votes on Musing alone.
Well I'm probably just making excuses here but now that I have an effective SP of around 1000+, I can now at least scale some of my votes to make this platform grow more.
So I swear to upvote ALL questions I will answer on Musing from now on as long as Musing has not yet upvoted that question. I think this will help the curators see what questions are of quality.
I probably will start at 20%($0.010) which I think is still below the threshold but I guess it's the thought that counts? :)
Ever heard of Dustsweeper? Tell people where you vote often of that service "My vote is only a small amount but with Dustsweeper it won't be lost"
I have heard of DustSweeper and have been using it for months now. It would have been cool if they added a feature in which a votee's vote would also be followed by them 5days after to ensure that it doesn't becomes dust.
Right now, dustsweeper only upvotes posts/comments from the one who have subscribed or was sponsored to their service. :)
You mean a service where I invest and it looks whether the comments I voted for had a high enough reward to be paid out? That could be quite a big amount, I don't know who would pay for that. I wouldn't. And perhaps that might discourage ppl to invest in Dustsweeper...
Truth be told the reason I tried DustSweeper was because I thought it did exactly just like that.
Months ago I used to get a decent amount of comments on my blog posts to which I always make sure to upvote above the dust threshold. This means I have to upvote most of the time around 50% which is ery costly, my thought was just I could upvote them at 10% and let dustsweeper do the rest. Well turns out it doesn't work that way.
So yeah I for one would pay for a service like that.
Thank you for using Dusty.
What you mention above is in the pipeline. The idea is to give users a choice, if they want Dusty to follow their vote or vote their own comments. The choice will be to set the preference, if there is enough vote-power, or not enough votes in one of the categories, Dusty will automatically do the other category.
Perfectt! Looking forward to it :) Thanks
I upvoted your question :). I agree with you though. Realistically though the majority of answer upvotes are coming from the @music account not other users on the platform. For whatever reason, they seem to vote for answers more than the actual questions themselves.
In addition to that, I think a lot of it is just selfishness. The users aren't here to upvote others, they are here to cut and paste their answer they grabbed off of wikipedia or reddit and try to make a quick buck. Kudos to the musing.io team as they appear to have picked up on some of that behavior and are tending not to upvote that stuff as much anymore.
Finally, there probably are some people who are just trying to manage their VP and keep things at a level they can sustain. When you are lower SP and you don't have the slider it can be hard to manage your VP (mana now) when you have to upvote everything at 100%.
Greatly put together. I agree with everything you said. You made some solid points.
I myself try to upvote as much as I can and think that it is important for the success of Musing for users to bring up the quality in answers or questions with their upvotes. If not the value, then at least by quantity.
My SP is so greatly stretched out already with everything I do on Steem so sometimes I just dont have the VP but, I at least try to upvote a question that I find interesting enough to answer.
But we shouldnt forget that we need to upvote more answers also .A couple hundred users are smarter than a team of 5 curators.
Guilty! Now that you have mentioned it, the reason I haven't upvoted the questions I answer is because it never crossed my mind that I should. When I first got here, people were rarely upvoting each other, and perhaps that gave me the impression that it's not necessary or even appreciated. After all, my upvote isn't really worth much.
But, you're right. Musing.io users should also be upvoting the questions they answer and even other answers here in the platform. It's still a social platform, after all, and @musing should not be the only one doing it, if we are to grow this platform into something useful.
Thanks for pointing that out.
I think that people are still mainly spending their votes on steemit and very rarely on the dapps. That will change in the future though. I wanted to bring it up to speed up the process here on Musing.
You're right about that. The more people are aware that their votes could also benefit the DApp they're using, the faster this could happen. Another thing though, is that there are still very few users in Musing.io. Only 186 accounts have been active here in the last 7 days, so there are not a lot of votes to go around too.
I didn't upvote before because I've been under 500 SP - just recently got a big delegation. With only being able to give 100% votes here I wanted to save my voting power for important posts.
Thats alright. I wouldnt upvote in your situation either. Congratz on getting the slider! Keep working on your SP and Steem on!