Dear Hivers

Its been exactly 3 months from the hard fork with steem , and many new people are joining hive, and enjoying and interacting with different people on hive.

Yesterday i was engaging with some of the new people and in chat we told regarding the curation trail.

I was little shocked that they is a lot information need to be told them regarding the hive platform.

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What is a curation trail ?

A curation trail means you join a frontrunner trailer like Hive account@ocdb etc. as follower and your upvote will be caste after the frontrunner will vote on any post.The best part is that you don't have to delegate your hive power , You just need to follow it and you can even adjust your voting weight accordingly.

How to join the curation Trail

Here are the simple and easy steps you need to follow in the process to join any trail.

Step 1

First Login to the website : https://hive.vote/ you will see this screen.

NOTE: Its safe to give your Active/Private key

Click on Login/Register. and fill the required deatils.

Step 2

After clicking On the "Login/Register." You will see this screen.

*Enter Your Hive Username in the field.

*Enter Your Active/Private Key in the field.

*Then Click on "Get Started"

Step 3

After Clicking on "Get Started" You see this screen. Click on Authorized the hive.vote and Continue

Scroll Down and the first thing you need to do is set the voting mana threshold. i genrally keep 85% as the best percentage. it can totally up to you what you want to set it as your threshold.

what is upvoting mana threshold?

In simple words, it means after this threshold is reached your upvoting will be stopped until it get recharged, it is automatic process you don't have to do anything.

Step 4

After setting up the upvote mana threshold, Clicking on "curation trail".

Step 5

After clicking on "Curation trail ". You will see "Search for a trail" fill in the correct curation trail name, example sunrawhale and click on search.

Step 6

After Clicking you will see the result displayed. Your search result will be displaying "sunrawhale" and click on follow the trail.

Step 7

After following the trail you will see this screen. Click on Settings and you will be landed to the settings page.

Step 8

After clicking on the "Settings" you will see this screen, you have to set up your preferences.

Upvoting Percentage : You can set fixed percentage or variable percentage. I prefer keeping fixed upvoting percentage if you are having low hive power.
Upvoting Time Time after frontrunner upvote your upvote should caste.