Here's a great way to spend your hard earned LOTUS - send yours, or anyone elses, post to the PROMOTED POST section on www.naturalmedicine.io!

Promoted posts have a percieved value to anyone visiting the site from outside HIVE. As we work at gaining more eyeballs onto our user interface, it's your post they will notice if it's been promoted in this section. A promoted post has to have more value, right?

As an advocate for the Natural Medicine community, I've been spending some of my hard earned LOTUS in the promoted post section, promoting content I think is valuable on the site. Here, you can see Hive account@justinparke's post on curry leaves, Hive account@ofsedgeandsalt's post on hiking the Colorado trail, wild tending and foraging as she went, and Hive account@derangedvisions announcement of his Homegrown podcast.

When you promote a post, what you are doing is sending LOTUS to Hive account@null, an account with no keys that no one can access. This means that the LOTUS supply is reduced, potentially raising the value of the token.

The more you spend on post promotion, the more visible you will be. I'd like to think that people wouldn't just promote their own content, but content that you believe is worth visiting and supporting. I'll certainly be checking this section from time to time to see if there's anything promoted that's worth me upvoting! However, please ensure you ONLY promote excellent content, and you're not just using it for upvotes. Our muting system and downvote system is also ready to deal with anyone who uses this in an abusive way.

How to Promote Your Post

It's super easy. Simply make sure there's enough LOTUS in your account (you can even buy some on TRIBALDEX) and click on the title of the post. Now, look at the bottom right, where the social sharing icons are. Click on 'PROMOTE':

Here I'm promoting Hive account@julescape's wonderful post on the golden age, and I'm spending 150 LOTUS. You don't have to spend that much, but I want to put it higher in the feed, so the more I put in, the higher it will go. If there's nothing in the Promoted post section (they disappear in a week) you might be lucky, and won't have to spend as much to be visible!

We think this is a great way to spend your LOTUS and help the community, as well as potentially sending eyeballs to your post, contest or advertisement on www.naturalmedicine.io. Give it a go and see what you think!

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