What The Fork!?!? - Immediate Effects of HF26

It's been more than a year since our last Hardfork. That is when certain changes are implemented that go deep down, affecting the inner workings of Hive, which means for a while nothing works, or at least not as nicely as it should. This time the implemented changes are less spectacular, speaking from my own perspective. But I don't intend listing all the technical details here. Others have done a much better job at it, such as in this post, and many others.

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Autovotes Down!

Okay, it's good to know that I can now delegate resource credits without having to delegate HP (something I never felt I needed), or that now I'll be able to cast two consecutive votes without having to wait 3 second (was this seriously a priority?). But the thing that made me recall this fork is seeing my last post perform so poorly. Was it really so uninspiring that it barely generated any upvotes? (At the time of writing this they're still under 20...) Probably not, though at times I am quite surprised how many more - or sometimes less - votes a post generates than I expected! But in this case it was more likely posted at the worst possible time.

When it comes to giving votes to my favorite Hiveans, those people that I've come to know to make good, valuable, and interesting posts on a regular basis, I have added to my autovote list. The fact that I'm not to only one to do so can be seen in moments like this. With autovotes down - I use HiveVote - all the votes I got were manual ones. Thank you all who actively clicked on the upvote button! At the same time I realize I should also express my appreciation to everyone whose vote I did not get this time: Thank you everyone who has me on autovote! Without you all my posts would look discouragingly poor.

And Now What? Shit Posts or Storm Votes?

So now I'm thinking how to make best use of this situation. Some folks suggested posting low quality entries, so called shit posts, since they most likely won't generate too many votes in the first place. Though I can see their reasoning, I really don't like to clutter up my blog with pointless stuff. (This post is actually getting awfully close to it...) Even during the Great Milking Phase two years ago (don't try to look for it, I just made up this name now), when Hive was created, and many of us continued posting on both chains, it became popular among some to post really crap entries on the old chain, to simply milk it for all it was worth... Well, even then I got tired of it after two such milk posts. I guess a pic of a glass of milk doesn't really go that far, does it?

Another approach I could take during this forking day, is simply cast as many votes as I can manually. Looking at my feed, the lack of vote(r)s is quite apparent in general. On one hand, this would mean that I'd be making a huge difference, even though my HP is not that huge. But since I'm normally happy even about the tiniest so called "dust vote" (another term I learned from this post - thank you @rentmoney ), I assume it won't be any different for others either. On the other hand, I may even come to benefit from this, when it comes time to distribute half of the rewards the post generated among its upvoters. Though until then a lot can happen, as this is still a week away.

Until then, if you happen to read this, and can relate to it through your own post, why don't you check out what I wrote about this impressive collection of traditional German songs. And if you like it, maybe you can help me crack the 20-vote-mark! 😉 As for me, I'm off to make some quick votes all around. - Though I believe they'll still be at least three seconds apart.