February Reward Report

vocup in #leofinance • last year

We are really late with this report this time, but as always, the rewards for the previous month were sent out on the first day of the following month. Meaning the reward collection from February 2023 was sent out on March 1st, 2023. The details about it you may see in the table below.

Rewards for February 2023 - Climbing the rock

We tried hard to reach the amount of the rewards as they were in January, but the month of February was just too short. And in the end, we truly missed those couple of days. So, the total shared amount was about 3 HIVE, smaller than the previous month, which is 0.01 HIVE less per 1 VOCUP token in holding.

Despite that, we continue our curation journey and don't intend to give up!

As well, somewhere in the mid of February, our small family of VOCUP token holders joined a new member. Therefore, we are using this opportunity to welcome @cwow2 warmly.

However, the list of sent rewards for February is in the following table.

Sent Rewards for February 2023 - Ecency wallet 3

Sent Rewards for February 2023 - Ecency wallet 2

Sent Rewards for February 2023 - Ecency wallet 1

Last but not least, remember that tomorrow is LPUD (LEO Power Up Day)!

To buy a VOCUP token, visit Hive-Engine, Tribaldex or LeoDex exchange.

Please review our Announcement post to learn more about our project.

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tuisada last year

Thank you for the report, although it's a bit late. The important thing is that the rewards arrived on time.
😃 I look forward to hodling for a long time, I am sure that the rewards will grow as well. 😍
Keep up the great work 🎉👏

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vocup last year

Thank you very much for your kind words! 😊

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slothlydoesit last year

How about adding the token holders to the fan base, this will increase the rewards users make, plus give the account more curation rewards? Some of those users post daily, so it’ll maximise the benefits for both parties?

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vocup last year

Thank you very much for your suggestion and especially for taking the time to think about what might increase the token holders' revenue.
Unfortunately, creating such a fan base would be the complete opposite of the purpose of this account and the whole experiment. Let us explain why.

As we announced in our initial post our main goal is, "first and foremost" ... "to help new Hive members/bloggers and those with smaller accounts (in terms of Hive Power - staked Hive), regardless of whether they hold the token or not."
And we intend to keep it that way.

It also doesn't mean that we didn't, don't, or will not, from time to time, support a post from some more prominent blogger (who wouldn't fit in any of the above categories) if we find their article quality, interesting, or informative enough.
In the same way, from time to time, we have upvoted, we upvote, and we will upvote the posts or comments of VOCUP token holders, but solely as an occasional not-announced or even less promised bonus.

Apart from that, it's true, as you said, that some of our members post daily, but it's also true that some of them post only about one or two topics and (or) in a very stenciled style with just a couple of sentences difference from their previous or next post. And something like that is certainly not the type of content we would like to dedicate this account and the whole project to.

Furthermore, as we curate devotedly every day with maximal possible power (trying not to lower our voting power below 80% to keep the VP regeneration process within 24 hours), the only influencing factors affecting the shared revenue are the number of days in each month, our account's active HP, HIVE price fluctuation and eventual downvotes (of the articles that we upvote - what didn't happen so far.)

However, trying to observe the Hive blockchain in a broader and more distant future, we chose to dedicate this project to the search and support of new or newer, and "smaller" Hive members for the following reasons.

For new arrivals, it's extremely hard to get noticed at the beginning, especially if they are not brought in by some stronger (bigger) and more established members. Without such support, new members are often disappointed and discouraged, which contributes to a large outflow.
Helping smaller accounts to grow and to empower them to help others, as is not so rare case that behind such small accounts stands more or less self-deprecating, very high-quality old bloggers who are not part of some mutually supporting group or community.

From our point of view, these are the two main factors that may help onboard more new members and, at the same time, help Hive to become truly decentralized. (This means the bigger amount of a bit bigger accounts (more or less equally sized) can provide a better and different spread of witness votes, proposals, etc., which directly may impact future development and the overall course of the whole blockchain by the will of the majority and not just by the will of several huge-power accounts that may easily outvote thousands and thousands very small ones.)

And in this regard, creating a fan base would be just creating another closed group, and it wouldn't help onboarding new members and even less creating solid and stabilized decentralization of the blockchain.

Anyway, we thank you for your interest, goodwill, and intention, and we hope that we managed to clarify a bit more the main purpose of this project!?!
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slothlydoesit last year

Thanks for the detailed explanation, very valid points. Keep up the awesome curation and let's help push New users into the spotlight! How about a curation post to further spotlight these new users?

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vocup last year

It sounds like a very good idea! Although besides finding and curating posts which are way more time consumable than it might seem, we are also doing some other work, slowly preparing future development(s) of the project, which work is not visible yet. So, it would be an additional task for us.

However, at the moment, we are not able to make the obligation of publishing such posts very often, but a couple of times per month, we can do that for sure.

Thank you for bringing this idea up! 😀
!PIZZA

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acidyo last year

whether they hold the token or not."
And we intend to keep it that way.

Didn't read the whole comment but this part sounds great.

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vocup last year

Thank you! Appreciated!
!PIZZA

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youarealive last year

@slothlydoesit! You Are Alive so I just staked 0.1 $ALIVE to your account on behalf of @vocup. _(9/20)

The tip has been paid for by the We Are Alive Tribe through the earnings on @alive.chat, feel free to swing by our daily chat any time you want.

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cwow2 last year

Sounds like a bad idea.
Sounds like an upvote scheme based on bidbot, its very frown upon here on Hive, so wouldn't recommend it.

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slothlydoesit last year

I’m not sure what bidbot is. Doesn’t seem like a ‘scheme’ merely a way to support token holders and increase revenue for the main account. We’ve already paid our dues, curation is the main way of earning for most on Hive (other than posting).

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cwow2 last year

It will look like an upvote scheme, if you buy a token to get an upvote.
And abuse can be high in a system.

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slothlydoesit last year

It will look like an upvote scheme to who? There's nothing against a token having a curator and voting for content. If you're really worried, don't make it automatic (although there's toold on hive for such a purpose) Manually curate token holers content. Still provides a bonus for the holders and helps the account earn...

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cwow2 last year

To many of the OGs who came from Steemit and saw it first hand and what it did to the platform x)

This is why manual broad curators is highly praised here. Such as Acidyo for OCD.

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acidyo last year

If you buy votes either with hive/hbd directly or through a token it's frowned upon indeed. If you're buying curation in the token (i.e. you're not counting on getting hive rewards but rewards in said token, then that should be fine as long as it's not affecting L1 rewards).

For instance, if I pay you 100 l2 tokens, doesn't matter if you burn it or whatever, if that constitutes a Hive vote it's not acceptable.

Curation means curating based on the content, the author, etc, not cause you're getting something in return (other than curation rewards, engagement, follows, etc).

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cwow2 last year

Yes, spot on. Way better at explaining it than I am :D

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slothlydoesit last year

If you buy votes either with hive/hbd directly or through a token it's frowned upon indeed. If you're buying curation in the token (i.e. you're not counting on getting hive rewards but rewards in said token, then that should be fine as long as it's not affecting L1 rewards).

For instance, if I pay you 100 l2 tokens, doesn't matter if you burn it or whatever, if that constitutes a Hive vote it's not acceptable.

This is the exact system Ecency uses. So I'm unsure how you can say this is the rule yet allow a platform to do it 'because it's not all they do'. If you mean to say, it can be done, as long as there are checks and balances then that's fine. However it seems we're picking on certain select words and using those to formulate replies, it doesn't seem a productive way of moving forward.

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slothlydoesit last year

Ah, of course, the good ole boys club!

Indeed, Manual curations should be highly favoured, and I believe Vocup answered the question perfectly.

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cwow2 last year

Vocup did explain their accounts, but the voting schemes in generel

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siddhartaz last year

ohhhh how did i miss this?
pretty sure it wasnt there when i looked last time haha
interesting topic in the comments too!
keep up the good work!
we are already at 27 HIVE monthly given out! almost 1 Daily in just a few months ^^

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vocup last year

lol 😅 Yeah, it was hidden on the plane site. 😁
And yes, very interesting, and a very good discussion developed in the comments. They are worth reading them through!
Regarding our current monthly cumulative, we agree with you it's a solid one for a relatively short time. Purchases of VOCUP tokens helped us a lot in that direction, but as well we are trying to bring in some additional fresh funds into the account on a monthly basis by buying HIVE with our own money. This combination slowly and gradually brought us to this point, and we hope it will steadily bring us even better future results for the benefit of as many as possible (authors of the articles we are going to upvote and token holders).

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pizzabot last year (edited)

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