Changing My Voting Behaviour

Two days ago I stumbled upon a rather interesting tool: https://floating-meadow-28045.herokuapp.com/blurt/foreveraverage/. This tools shows my upvote behaviour in the past 7 days and draws them on a HTML canvas element in the form of a graph. Here’s an example of my voting behaviour.

As I expected my voting behaviour is somewhat diverse, however, there is a clear “favoritisme” towards my own feed which makes sense in some extend. But there is a difference between knowing and realizing that (it has to be noted that these numbers are a bit tainted because I started changing my voting behaviour a few days ago when I first say the chart). As such it’s an amazing eye opener to be confronted with these numbers.

Though there is space for improvement in my opinion, so I’ll list what I’ll try to do:

1. I’m going to vote “blurtgaming” (@blurtgaming) tags mostly, I’m a gamer and have some experience writing gaming articles myself so it makes sense to judge (and read) content that are according to my interests. I'll prioritize "blurtgaming" over my own feed (not that I'll be ignoring my own feed)
2. I’m going to try to upvote content that I actually read, no more skimming to drop my vote power quickly. If, however, I really don’t have much time on my hands I’ll try to follow people from which I feel they also cast fair votes. I’ll try to avoid upvoting a bunch of things because they end up on the top of my screen.
3. I’m going to build some tools to filter on authors that put work on Blurt. Using the API I’ll:
• Pull the gaming articles from the last 7 days
• Filter out the articles I’ve “flagged” as read (I’ll probably save them in a csv file)
• Sort the articles on certain custom parameters:
  • How much percentage of the author’s upvotes are “self upvotes’. I feel like a healthy self upvote percentage shouldn’t be more than 10%
  • How often does the author’s comment on other people’s work. It should be a give and take type of situation, it makes sense that you comment more on your own work as OP, however I'll prioritize "community builders". So author's that go outside the boundaries of their own content
  • How long has it been ago that I upvoted that author
  Parameters I don’t care about:
  • Wallet value of the author
  • If your content is posted somewhere else. You’re the creator of your content and as such you should be allowed to spread it on the medium(s) of your choosing

I think this will pose as a healthy start to experiment with. This doesn’t mean I won’t skim through my own feed or look at other topics from time to time (and upvote them). Yet, I’d like to prioritize community builders, especially if I have the time for it.