It was my first time… 50 to 40??? In a few seconds?
When I saw it, I didn’t know exactly what it was! At first I was happy, but then…
When you find an active and good community (Hive), with all your effort (from your perspective) you think you’re doing well. You look for new things to be seen better, explore Inleo.io and Hivesnaps, just start meeting new people, just begin to understand what you should actually do…
But it all disappears in 10 seconds.
I decided to share my story and be a lesson for newcomers like myself. Of course, it’s our own fault for accepting rules without reading them.
Searching for a Strong Network Like Hive
My story started when I wanted to get more familiar with the web3 world. I felt I didn’t have enough information and was falling behind in this field. One of my reasons was that everything in the future is in web3, and I had fallen behind enough that I needed to start entering this space. Every day I did different searches, discussed and brainstormed with different AIs. I asked them what the best networks are and why. They gave me reasons and some were interesting. Finally I narrowed it down to 3 options: Steemit, Hive, and Deso. I compared them with each other, thought about them, found information about how they work… I was getting tired and almost gave up! I followed a few other platforms but they didn’t seem good to me. Most of them were scams anyway…
I Found It
I found it. I decided to focus on Hive, our own Hive. The more I read about it, the more I wanted to be active on it. Whatever field I thought about, content could be produced on it. It had diverse apps, many ways to exchange information, various options and… I continued my research, searched more, saw other people’s chats and posts, asked AI questions and…
I told myself, well this is what I want.
I Did It
After registration, I read some materials about how to be active and post content (but sadly not enough). I decided to start. I started creating content, browsed sites like Bloomberg.com and CoinMarketCap.com, looked at the news, used my own information and knowledge about analysis. Finally I posted my first post and saw the reactions. It was interesting to me how in that huge volume of content on Hive, my content without followers was being seen and getting upvotes. I liked it. I was going to post another one when I remembered I shouldn’t spam and I actually had something called HP which was very low. But I didn’t really know what HP was! And I didn’t trust enough to spend money and buy Hive.
I was disappointed because with the amount of HP I had at first, I couldn’t do much.
The Savior (Someone Who Made Me Continue)
I was looking for a way to get some Hive, but not by buying it. I wanted to see if there was a place or someone who helps newcomers or not. After lots of searching, on Telegram there were tons of different groups and links related to Ecency. They all seemed inactive because the message times had large gaps and most messages had no replies, but they had interesting content and I read some of them.
I decided to put a message in one of those groups and request HP delegation.
I couldn’t believe it. In that group where nobody was active, after 10 minutes someone replied that they delegated 20 to me and it should be enough for your activity. (Has this happened to you? Or was it my luck?) Without knowing someone in a strange place…
That person was 
After About 2 Weeks
Finally I saw that my RC and VP amount reached a level where I could both post and vote and also comment. I started planning. At what times during the day and for which tags related to my field of expertise should I post. Happily every day I went to a cafe near my house and started creating content and connecting with others on Ecency.
Seeing progress every day made me happy.
Trying to interact with others, connecting with them was attractive to me and I planned to increase my activity every day. Everything was going well (it seemed). After I posted, they gave me votes, left comments. I found new friends and in my opinion everything was great. I had an attractive routine that I enjoyed.
For content I searched for new topics, what’s trending, what to post about today, who to follow and unfollow those who didn’t follow me back, exactly like all of you active people.
The Silent Problem
But there was a problem. I was using AI.
Because my native language isn’t English and I had to consult with AI and finally produce the desired content.
The interesting thing is that I would say just translate, and if something is wrong tell me. Maybe the problem was here that after that I wouldn’t read the text myself and would publish it. Maybe I should have said don’t add anything to it even if it’s wrong, and many other maybes that I don’t know…
Until today when I posted something new and a notification came for me.
When I saw it was from Ecency I got happy and told myself well like always I should start interacting. Then I came to see if there were comments to reply.
But I saw something new!
Hivewatchers.
When I opened the app, I saw a huge amount of downvotes pouring in. I went to see what downvote even is, read about it and came to the app. I saw reputation changed from 50 to 40.
This volume of negative load in a short time. A strange shock hit me that I can’t describe in one sentence. It even made my food burn (I was cooking). All my attention went to what I should do now!
Actually now I don’t know what to do at all. Should I even continue or…
Conclusion
Make sure to read the rules completely before doing anything. This helps you produce your content in the best way. It’s not worth getting into problems for not reading a few short texts that destroy your efforts.
Everything you think you know and can do is wrong. You must be sure. I thought I wasn’t doing anything wrong, but in reality I was acting against the rules even though my content was new and quality.
Whatever tools you use, definitely mention them at the end of your content. Just by mentioning this I could have prevented today’s problem and happily done my daily routine.
I got a bit disappointed but I’ll definitely continue. These problems have probably happened to many of you, but don’t get disappointed. It gave you a big lesson. Everyone in their own field can use this lesson.
Finally, I’m both happy because I’m at the beginning of my work and experienced this problem, and a bit sad (which is natural) that my efforts were wasted.
I will continue with more strength.
I hope you read this post till the end so this problem doesn’t happen to you. Or if it happened to you, share it so we can prevent it.
From Wire Research | PhD Researcher | 9 Years Trading Experience
Disclosure :
This content was originally written in my native language and translated to English with AI assistance (Claude) for grammar and clarity. All ideas, analysis, and experiences are my own.
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