Hive account@buildawhale now has an $850 upvote. I've been doing a lot of thinking of what that means.

I've been bouncing a few ideas around in my head and I think I have something really cool. Before doing it, I wanted to get some feedback from the community.

Anyone who knows me, I am insane about never using Hive account@buildawhale's massive voting power for anything other than the voting windows. I do not self-vote with it, I do not sell it privately, I do not submit my own posts as I feel that is unfair as it is my money on both ends. I want it to be as fair as possible for everyone.

With all the self-voting, $500 comments, and crazy 16 posts a day for $500+ it got me thinking. How can I take advantage of this massive $1,000 vote... but use it for good.

If you followed me for any time I have been here, you will know I am a big fan of community and doing cool shit. We are the only bidding bot that has a team going through thousands of posts a day to feature our favorite five posts on a daily basis. This takes a ridiculous amount of work, especially now since our bid windows have gotten really busy with minimum size bids but very large quantity of bids.

Two changes I am thinking about

The first change, we would vote 5% (~$42) - 10% (~$85) on our daily Curation Digest (currently is Monday-Friday, but have been trying to get this back to 7 days a week). This will have a very tiny impact on one of the ten bidding windows a day. Our curators have struggled to keep up with the number of posts coming in on a daily basis due to the amount of support our digests have received. This has become an immense amount of work and many times I have considered canceling it as the majority of posts are low effort and it is a lot of work to find five good posts sometimes.

Second, we would find one or more community projects a day and do an equal cumulative vote to support awesome projects on a daily basis in the community. I will personally curate at least one project on a daily basis I think deserves more support with an equal vote on one project or spread across multiple community posts.

The impact on our bidding windows would be tiny, but the impact on at least two community projects on a daily basis would be huge.

I am still working out the details and if it is something I would ever do, but I'd love to get your opinion on it and open to suggestions of great projects to support.

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