A higher upvote for a post this short isn't my norm, but the information you present says a lot. You're a high volume curator on Hive, Leo, POB, and now VYB. In 2021, alone, you've voted well over 10K times. I don't have stats on auto or manual voting, but past commentary indicates that most of them is manual. I mean, people need to sleep.
Your DV'ing is a fraction of your total votes, but it appears consistent with your voting habits: You like something -> UV, You don't like -> Ignore or DV. Sometimes you leave comments and sometimes you don't.
Utilizing your stake to curb or shape content creation is a standard on Hive. I'm wondering, have you ever put out something stating what you felt "good" looks like? I think it would be important to communicate this especially to those new to the platform.
In all honesty, I think it would be good for the whales here to communicate their own views as well: What you like, don't like, in terms of content. I don't mind a DV-free platform, but I also can't stand a milker's paradise either. I think curation would be more efficient if people had these views.
Would you be interested in an interview? Perhaps something as simple as targeted questions you would answer in a post or DM? I can then post them to an article and donate the funds or burn them. I don't intend on making money on this. I'd also love to interview @frot with the same questions as well as the others. It's a team effort to make this community thrive.
What are your thoughts on the potential interview?
Interestingly, I hate it when someone with a large stake describes what they like to see because on this platform it has the potential to shape what people are producing as they target the "whale vote" from that person. Back in the day it was well known that Dan Larimer liked deep and lengthy "philosophy" type posts and it led to some users focussing on that to a huge degree and lots of imitators jumping on to the bandwagon. Which ultimately serves no one really.
On the other hand, I would like to see an interview with the mighty Mr Onealfa!
You make a fair point.
I try to keep to myself most of the time with the "why" of why I do things. My reason for making that statement is because I get scrutinized now and again with my voting. The engagement in his article was awesome in my opinion. So, I wanted to make clear why I loved this particular piece.
Also, I did want to make a positive comment about Onealfa's efforts in this regard. I'll be making the interview article within a week. It will be a no- or burn-rewards post for the benefit of the community and not the author.
Yes, I know what you mean. I was looking at some vyb articles before buying some more and came across this and was convinced it was the right thing but then I saw your question and I had this awful vision of the whole of VYB becoming posts to impress him. Lol.
I look forward to it. I think he does great stuff for the communities he is involved with.
Ugh, I know what you mean regarding "posts to impress". I definitely don't want that happening.
Me too, I want variety and interesting, off the wall things!
Looks like a good idea. We can try to do this
BTW, perhaps the targets for such interviews could be expanded to more stakeholders on LEO, POB, VYB ?
Anyone from these three TOP10 can be an interesting target:
Yeah. That's a great addition to the original idea. Ok. Let me work on the questions and I'll start the requests for interest. I'll keep the questions short. I'll limit it to 5.
You don't half make it fun!
Keep yourself healthy and active, that's all I recommend.
A side-note here... the mentions in the graphs/charts/etc are understandable although you do have a habit of misrepresenting myself in these more often than not (usually it's good promotion, often it's bordering/is slander). Carry on by all means if you think it is right; although a little respect goes a long way. Respect and truth usually go hand-in-hand.
Anyway... enjoy yourself! We sure are. Congrats on reaching the #1 spot! Great idea with expanding the questions outwards to more of the larger stakeholders. I'm positive that @scholaris has some great questions to follow.