And the Reference for the rest of us

Lately there have been multiple people who are writing about how to be successful at hive if you are a gamer, especially Splinterlands player, however same can be true for any games, as long as there is a community behind it. Today I am here to offer some suggestions. Mind you, there is no "silver bullet", and what works for someone, may not work for you, even if you put in the same effort.

However, here is the kicker; if you do not put in the effort, I can assure you that it will not work for you!

We will start with this plot above. It is the plot of 518 Splinterlands account out of Top 1000 SPS stakeholders. Along X-axis, their hive HP, and along Y-axis, their staked SPS. Size of the circle represent their hive reputation, which is proportional to the votes they receive or their Author rewards. First thing off the bat, do you notice, that their circle size are bigger in general to the rest of the players which is all hugging the Y-axis? Yes, these people are different.

• How did you arrive at these 518 people?
• Which subset of these 518 people are different?
• Why different?
• How much different?

I will try and answer these in this post. Hopefully that will help you.

How did you arrive at these 518 people?

Quite simple. I was looking at the frequency distribution of Top 1000 SPS stakeholders. The Plot looks like this:

Data is clipped at 130,039 staked SPS at position 1000. However, it is easy to see which two bins has the highest numbers of accounts. So I decided look into the details of those bins. In fact those two groups are more than half of the data.

Here are the details of that group and its distribution at the finer scale.

So, answering the title question. This is the most common SPS stakeholder accounts.

Which subset of these 518 people are different?

Great question. All I have to do is the filter the data of this subset of 518 accounts to accounts with > 10K HP.

Very easy. 27 accounts, and except exyle, who is long gone (I don't miss his gym selfies by the way), and who was an exploiter, everyone else demonstrate excellent KE! Hey, I told you so!

Here is the plot of these 27 accounts, basically all with excellent KE. Ignoring exyle, which people at hive knows well, there is no outliers.

Now here is the other side.

I want to focus on the good. So many names here who I have begged over the years to write and they have stepped up, davemccoy , beffeater to name a few who have been much more active at hive and that shows. Then there are other who have left mostly, I hope they might decide to come back. Then there are others, who can step up. If I change to log-scale they will be more visible.

Lot of these players between 0.1 to 10 KE can step up their game any time and earn more hive from posting and engaging. I am here to help.

Why different?

My understanding is are the following:

• Time: Lot of the older accounts knew about hive earning potential and used it
• Tenacity: Only a small group of new accounts post regularly on hive
• Quality: Only a rare few post quality content

Below is the chart of time when the account is created vs. author rewards, circle size is raw reputation:

The chart above shows it all. The ones in the purple, you guys are missing out. You can easily 10X your respective HP, gain influence on chain, and develop a personal skill that you might be able to use for other things, if you post on hive. There is a missing opportunity here, and please consider using it.

How much different?

I can compare flauwy to deceth, both account created about the same time. Flauwy earned 24045 HP in total rewards while deceth earn 27 HP :). Yes difference can be 890X!!

I can also compared olaf.gui to mightly ueyuey (the legendary king of Silver). Olaf.gui earned 5689 HP in total rewards while ueyuey earned only 430 HP. Now Olaf posts a lot of spam, but there are worse people than Olaf. The difference is 13X!

Mind you these are spot checks and highly variable. The point is if you are not using hive you are missing out. While others the reaping the benefits, dare I say, at your potential expense? Maybe that is harsh, but others are definitely doing better and you are definitely missing out.

So what is the receipe for success at hive?

Well, my title is not a click-bait, but as I said before, that I do not have a silver bullet. I can suggest a few things that worked for me personally, but that doesn't mean it will work for you. That said, I will write a few bullets that you may find useful

• Build a hive stake. Your stake is your voice and leverage
  • Earn it by regular posting
  • Save it by powering up your hive to HP
  • Buy it, either using fiat, or other crypto
• If you have a 'meaningful' hive stake 10K HP or higher, you will see that you earn curation rewards by 'fairly' voting others
• Vote manually with first 24 hours of a post
• Do not vote your own posts/comments
• Post regularly, but do not post more than once a day, only a very select few can succesfully do it, and likely you are not one
• Don't post too much, or you will get burn-out, or worse, your post will look like farming, meaning you are posting 'just for rewards' and your post is not interesting to anyone
• You can typically know if your post is interesting to people by looking at comments received. If you have received 0 to 5 comments, and if all of them are automated from curation programs, no-body is reading your post
• Bring variety into your post. Daily battle posts are USELESS, 99% of the time. If you are doing it, it is just spam (99% of the time). Pack opening posts are USELESS. Giveaway posts are USELESS.
• If you are creating art for Splinterlands, ask yourself, are people interested in them? Are you?
• Don't self-promote your post too much, it doesn't help
• Read and interacts in other's post, that helps. If you interact, chances are those people will visit your blog
• Try to know people, and make yourself known to others
• Be more than a username or IGN, be a person, a friend
• Most of your peers do not have much HP either, if you have none
• Please for the last time, don't make a post expecting to earn vote/money. Instead write your blog as a journal. Try developing a skill, if nothing else, writing skill

Finally, if you can't demonstrate any long term commitment for hive blockchain, you will NEVER get a vote from me. Believe me, I know how to find that :)

There is no if, but or coconut! :)