For about eight months so far, I have been using the auto-voting system tools to be able to support some Steemit authors that I like continuously. From day one I knew what kind of blessing such tools are, at least for me.
By automation, they would detect the every newly published article of every single author that I listed and upvoted it at the time and in the amount (percentage) that I determined in my settings (for each of them individually). Great!
From that point forward I didn't have to worry anymore am I going to miss to reward any newly published article from my preferred authors as they are going to be upvoted automatically and regularly as long as I keep them on my list. Perfect!
But behind that blessing, there is also a hidden curse that may catch you and in which trap you may easy and quickly fall if you are not aware of it.
The Curse of Auto-Voting!
As first let's be clear about that the Auto-Voting tools, neither their creators or owners are not the ones who we should blame for the existence of that 'curse.' We are the only ones who may be guilty if we are not aware of it if it slips from our attention and if we don't care, neglect or even just forget to solve it.
So, what is the curse?
The curse of using Auto-Voting tools is that being lulled with such wonderful automation, we might forget even to check and read those posts and not to mention leaving a comment there. And that's exactly what happened to me!
It ended up that I was missing most of the articles of my preferred authors, more than I would miss out at the time when I was doing it manually. I felt so nice and secure knowing how auto-voters would take care of everything (or almost everything), and by my auto-votes keep supporting the work of those members I like the most. But that was partially wrong, and I'll explain why.
If nothing, hey, I didn't put those people on auto-voters because I don't like what and how they write. I put them there because I do, and it turns out that I read every second, third, fourth or even any of their publishing. Not to mention that accordingly, I didn't leave any comment there either. Pure disaster!
OK, those members enjoy my regular upvotes but is that really all that it is about!? I don't think so! After all, Steemit is not some lonely publishing-platform planet. It's a social network as well!
And above that, wouldn't those members be happy to see my comments, some real engagement with their content, except just some, more or less, blind automatically left vote? I'm sure they would! I know, I would when we turn sides.
Therefore, I decided, this has to be stopped! If you think that I'm going to stop using auto-voters - oh, no, NO! You are wrong. I found a much better cure and way more efficient solution for this issue. In fact, I came up with simple and easy but...
A perfect magic against the curse of auto-voters!
It's, in fact, another daily task for me but after all, it's a pleasant task which I already started to implement. So, the only thing I have to do now to get rid of the automation curse of auto-voters is to go through my voting history data, actually read those posts, and if I have something to say to leave my comment there!
It's very easy to do if you are, e.g., using SteemVoter as I do, where under "Logs" tab/button you would find listed all the posts that have been upvoted by SteemVoter auto-voter on your behalf. The links listed under the "Post" column will take you directly to the particular author's post.
Realizing how many great posts from my preferred authors I already missed by not doing it before or at least not regularly, I decided from now on to implement it in my daily schedule as default. And I'm sure it would be a pleasant win-win combo as for me same for the authors on my list!
If you are using auto-voters too, I would like to encourage you to consider, at least trying the same! You might be surprised with the power of that simple magic!
Posted on Wednesday, March 21, 2018
