I guess it is not a concern for many but it irritates the living shit out of me.
If you are on Hive for any reasonable period of time you tend to have a main interface but also off and on use something like Leofinance or Proof of Brain , maybe you notice that keeping your Voting Power pretty high is better for curation in the long run or like me just hate the idea of VP below 80 to 70 percent.
Aside from creating an account per preferred token, like a LEO account or a POB , CINE etc to maximize voting at 100% using the tokens without worrying about killing your main Hive vote there is the ability to set a Vote Weight Multiplier.
Until now I still only know of the LeoDex option for accomplishing this. You could always submit your own custom_json but then I would wonder why is this not just a setting in the interfaces.
So on LeoDex you are able to view all rewards from all tokens that have a Tribe. Really if they did not build this then you would have to visit each interface to know your Voting Power.
A nice convenience.
Ok so
The Vote Multiplier
On the LeoDex rewards page, there is a little lightning bolt that indicates the multiplier for the token.
The description is thus:
...I honestly don't know what they mean with that description.
What I have tried is setting the multiplier to 100 because in my mind this thing takes your Hive Vote and multiplies it. So I would assume a 10 multiplier would turn a 10% Hive vote into a 100% token vote?
Right?
Well maybe not, because the max I could get the multiplier set via LeoDex was 50
I did test quite a few posts and for the most part, given regen delay, etc. a 2% Hive vote became a 100% token vote.
However, the reverse is not true and a 100% LEO or POB vote via their interface is a 100% Hive Vote.
For something that is such a good convenience and management feature, it is implemented rather shitty.
For the most part my main account does not deal with tokens and I delegate mine to other accounts which then follow my vote and curation accounts.
All of that also relies on Hive.vote and really ever truly knowing whether using a tokens interface negatively impacts your real vote power is a bit of a mess.
I don't think it is a good experience for those who eventually catch on when they realise how these "likes" go around running their Hive Power into the ground.
Why I say that is because there is 2 ways to think of voting on Hive for me, there is the obvious general idea of "Do I like this?"
Fair enough, then there is the "I am going to give this a like."
I think Leo Thread, Ecency Waves and even something like POB or CINE fall in the "I am going to like this." category.
That means we treat them more like social media has taught us, we like stuff because we do, and since we find the "curation" inconsequential then it is just a fun time all around.
Hive and the Tokens you may have a whole lot more of, this changes and you like it but...
You account for other variables, one of those is how much do I want to give them without setting my optimal VP back. Sure I am over simplifying but I do think the Scotbot Vote Weight Multiplier should be implemented much better in these tokens.
More so it needs to be considered when using token interfaces to make vote and show some respect for using the users L1 Hive Token Voting Power.