You know how it is. You know you should stay active, and you want to keep growing your HIVE.
But you've had a rubbish day at work, or a poor night's sleep, and your brain feels like mush. You're mentally drained and exhausted, and certainly don't feel up to the effort of writing a post. In fact, you've probably also got writer's block and can't even think what you'd write a post about.
We've all been there. I have days like it more often than I'd like to admit. But there are still things we can do to stay active and pick up a few HIVE that are low effort. Sometimes they'll even get our minds working enough that we can make a post after all. Which (of course) is why I'm writing this post....
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So here are a couple of ideas for low mental energy ways to stay active.....
Use your upvotes !
Upvoting is easy, and takes almost no effort. I have a few of my favourite posters where I've also starred them so their posts appear in my notification feed. Minimal effort, yay !
Once you've upvoted any posts in your feed, you can go to your favourite communities, read any interesting-looking posts and upvote them. Or work through your list of people you follow and vote for them. If you've still got any upvotes left, you can just go to your chosen front-end feed and pick out a few posts to read and vote for. Actually, I do this sometimes anyway, it's a good way to find interesting new people or communities to follow.
Comment, Comment, Comment !
Once you've used enough votes to get your vote value down to 80% (i.e. a day's worth, it recovers at 20% a day), then if you're still happy surfing around other people's posts, comment on any which take your fancy.
It's slightly more effort than just upvoting, but still low effort compared to actually writing your own posts. Commenting is great, it helps posters feel like someone is actually reading what they wrote.
All I'd say about commenting is to try to make the comments you leave something that adds to the conversation. Just putting up "good post" is just that bit too lazy ! Worthwhile comments can attract upvotes from others, and sometimes even find you new followers.
Surf Leo Threads
Leo Threads is another thing you can do that takes little effort. It's like skimming Twitter but with the added bonus that you might pick up some upvotes, either from posting a Thread of your own, or if you comment on someone else's.
It's also a great way to pick up news and information, and to build your network of friends and contacts. That community turns into your followers on Hive, and that in turn is like a bank of future upvotes for your posts, and a bunch of posts you can read, find interesting, and upvote in turn - and both ways gets you HIVE !
I find Threads works best in it's new Alpha version - https://alpha.leofinance.io/threads
Tinker With Tribe Tokens
Another low-effort idea; go to your favourite tribe token interface - Leodex.io, tribaldex.com or whatever, and do a bit of maintenance on your Tribe Tokens.
You can stake the ones you collect, sell the dust, and delegate them as you choose.
I'll probably write a more detailed post about Tribe tokens at some point, but the key thing is that you can tinker around with them without it taking much mental energy !
So that's a few things you can do when you don't feel up to writing a post, all of them socially acceptable and none which will drain too much mental energy. I'd love to hear if there are other things you do when you want to stay active but don't have the energy to post !