An Open Letter to LordTimoty;
Oh Timothy, you do not know what you're about to get yourself into. You're about to discover HIVE and it's going to be addictive! You're going to find kindred spirits, like minds and learn a whole lot of new stuff about yourself. You're also going to learn a lesson in networking (Hivers call it engagement).
New Years Eve wasn't a big deal for you and you were in bed by 9pm - but it's now the fourth of January, 2022 and you're about to be convinced to write your first blog. You came here via Splinterlands, so it made sense to actually do a Splinterlands post!
You're going to have a whale pass by and give you a massive upvote as a way of encouraging you to get involved in this space; you'll think this blogging thing is a piece of cake - then your next heap of posts will earn you basically nothing. Don't get discouraged - you're just not 'doing it right' yet.
Luckily, you're on annual leave for the next four weeks and you'll discover a lot, but here are the quick tips:
Start commenting and talking to other people. Don't expect people to care about your perspectives if you don't invite them into your world.
You won't hear about #WeekendEngagement for weeks and weeks, make it a priority to check it out ASAP (How's that for gratuitous praise?)
Try and find routines to get your self sorted. Every week you'll enter The Ink Well prompt (you'll win it a few times too, and feel increasingly confident in your creative writing), two Splinterlands competitions and a weekend post. You'll also make it a priority to write a post about a coffee and a few about film.
Those spaces are your niche - and HIVE is all about niches. You don't belong in EVERY community, you can't possibly contribute to them in a meaningful way. Always be meaningful and authentic and you'll go far - it's no different to life.
Rising Star is worth a bit of a look, when you first log in, you'll go 'Meh', but it's worth persevering.
The CineTV gang are delightful, get to know 'em. It's a worthwhile pursuit - they'll give you a lot of HIVE advice, you'll follow it - and it'll work out.
You will think it'll be a good idea to enter the Open Mic Comedy Competition a few times; let's cut to the point. You're not that funny and you'll be disappointed over and over again.
You also need to learn about curation trails! Don't think 100s of people are sitting at their screen voting independently within seconds of each other - you'll work yourself up in knots to figure out what are the key hastags to let that many people find others so quick - they're not - it's automated!
Speaking of hashtags, get to know which ones to use - don't just click on top earning posts and borrow theirs - it's not how it works and you'll end up using tags specifically for basketball - and we both know, you'd be lucky to recognise a basketball in a sports shed!
Now the other tricky thing is upvotes - you'll count down the days until you receive your blog earnings, and then you'll wonder where half your money went! Do some research in this space and you'll see that half of your earnings go to the curators and half go to you! One of the things you'll follow closely is your HIVE power - keep investing here as a priority and watch your vote grow! You're going to aim to be a DOLPHIN within 1 year.
Oh Timothy, it's a lot of learning you'll be doing - and when you start watching tutorials and setting up Binance accounts, you'll feel overwhelmed - but keep watching those tutorials and you'll get your head around this crazy world and be all the richer (figuratively and literally) for the journey.
PS: You idiot! Why did you pick such a dumb name to blog with. It's too late now, embrace the dorky-ness of the gaming name you've been using since you were 12.
This post was part of The Weekend Engagement, get on it here. It's 100 weeks young! That's a milestone worth celebrating!
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