Giving Leo Premium a Go is a No Brainer ATM...
Leo Premium has been around for a while now and following the most recent post by @kahl I thought I'd give it a trial run for a month.
It's $10 HBD a month and you can find details about how to subscribe here - it's quite simple if you've got Key Chain installed, and simple enough even if you haven't (it's just a direct transfer).
Khal's offering $30HBD back if you don't like Leo Premium after a month, the big selling point being that if you post just 4 decent posts a month, you're pretty much guaranteed to get yer Vest back through votes from the @leo.voter account...
NB with well over 2M HP delegated, that account has a vote value at 100% of nearly $100.
It rarely votes about 20%, but even at 20% you're getting yer $10 back, right there! (Half of 20 = 10!) (That kind of MATH should be work an upvote alone!)
For me it's a win-win...
I'm what I'd classify personally classify as a third tier Leo user - I'm certainly NOT in the inner circle or one of the 'Leaders of the Pack' but I have had interaction with a few faces and have a reasonable 30K LEO stack, so I've got a reasonable chance of getting some decent Upvotes.
I also like writing about finance content and this sort of motivation is perfect for me, I've been looking for new ideas recently and don't mind steering myself to write on finance stuff for a little more cash.
But what counts as quality...?
This is obviously subjective, but I'd say there's a pretty low bar. NB I know the difficulties as a curator finding decent stuff to vote on, good quality content is so thin one often ends up settling for decent content by people you like instead.
And unsurprisingly based on my experience that's what the @leo.voter account seems to be doing.
Take as cases in point.. two premium members get regular upvotes...
Have a look at this post by a guy everyone knows and loves - @trumpman. It got a @leo.voter vote... it's really just his typical thing.
And he does his thing daily around the chain and gets regular @leo.voter upvotes. No disrespect to the guy whatsoever, he enjoys himself by putting out relatively short posts about topics that tickle his fancy, and usually not too serious.
Someone else who gets regular upvotes is @cryptoandcoffee, a different type of content to @trumpman's, what you'd call more classically about world and crypto finance topics and this stuff seems to get slightly higher rewards than the former's. But while his material is decent, it's not 'uber amazing' - it's still fairly short form for the most part and of the format 'something going on and here's some brief analysis'.
But my point is this: if this content is getting regular @leo.voter upvotes, then all it should take for anyone to get such curation rewards is around 200-400 words, some basic skill, a bit of critical analysis, relevant pictures and some appropriate formatting and you are in!
At the end of the day, there isn't enough content demanding all that VP ATM!
So get onto it, get that leo premium on the go! And if you've got the time, churn out some REAL quality, depth posts, you MIGHT get a phat vote.
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So inleo has all the regular communities now, I understand, so you can write about pretty much anything with your premium account and, usual terms and conditions apply, you'll get an upvote from leo.voter? or is it only crypto/finance stuff?
Yes, I usually share my posts on threads and twitter which seems to increase the chances of being curated fyi
Thank you, useful to know.
I think that'd about it - just finance. It probs helps if you get a follow by whoever controls the vote given the increased visibility!
All content now can potentially get a Leo vote, not just finance
Oh OK I thought it said finance on Khal's post - I did just try to check but LF is dreadful on the mobile and I cldn't be arsed to see if the post wld load again after one fail!
I'll take yr word for ir!
Yeah inleo is now all content friendly, one of the reasons for the rebrand
Good to know although I have a sneaky feeling... slight bias probs towards finance and Hive/leo posts!
That's what I thought, you can just write all your usual stuff, only using the inleo UI
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To my defense, it's super easy for me to play with words repeating the same shit again and again in the same post like many do just to hit an abstract "quality" quota. I sometimes am tempted to do since certain curation bots only vote when you pass 500 words. But I don't. Cause it's retarded.
For that coin for example, there's pretty much nothing else interesting to say other then its dumbass look. Anything else is just boring semantics.
Thanks for the mention 😍
You have nothing to defend! You've got integrity!
i am yet to try the Leo premium, as for quality content I am trying my very best to meet the standard. As you said, it now goes beyond quality content. Thanks for the update
It's worth a punt for a month then take it from there!
Mm... 4 posts is my monthly threshold. I should consider joining :)
You may as well!
I am going to try InLeo, due to the Evergreen rewards and am upping my link spreading on X and FB. It can only help HIVE in the long run and we need to stop being so insular.
It's making an effort!
Hi!, Just a note about the quality. We do have a team of curators and the votes do be affected by quality. Even if a person does get regular votes from leo.voter with a less quality post, or some times we vote posts that have less words, doesn't mean they are getting the same as someone who made a better quality post.
We also revise how and what we curate so content that is quality text and quality format gets a better value for those efforts.
We do not encourage low quality content and are working towards educating our authors to improve themselves so they can continue being curated.
Promoting on X and Threads is a way to be more visible for the curators, often times the people that receives more regular curation is because they promote their content on both.
OK cheers good info to have!
I've been using Threads, but not gone for Premium yet. I do have some concerns about how they manage things such as discouraging links in Threads. I think it's party to keep eyes on their site to maximise the ad revenue, but they said people were spamming links. With microblogging you want links to take you to more in-depth info.
Can this be considered paying for votes? I know that's a sensitive subject around here. That said, at least the Leo team are doing stuff to get people active and we really need that.
I'm not a fan of microblogging.. but one of the premium features is to create a threadstorm out of content which I fancy trying. I'm all for links too!
It is paying for votes among other stuff... i mean if you get more of a vote with Premium than wout it has to be paying for votes but at least that's only part of it.
I enjoy the Leo premium and I get more than $10 hbd back from Leovoter. At least, that's something amazing for subscribing.
It seems like a workable system! But it is basically vote buying which isn't great.
I didn't know that, man, that sounds interesting. I might look into it a little bit more and consider joining the system. 10 HBD is nothing huge.
It'd probs gonna be worth the return!