In Hive, I had all of my HP delegated, and while it produced some earning interest, I thought it wasn't enough. So, I came across this tool recently (because I wasn't interested in writing there anymore) and I started to study those numbers, finding users who had a profit of more than 30% just by following curation paths and automatic voting.
My APR was 0.00%, and I removed 1500 delegated HP, started using Hive.voter, and started to study, with another person, how to get the most out of it; I talked to a lot of people to find out how he did things, but few go into studying these issues in depth since they are guaranteed a strong vote from some whale.
I had to learn, and I still do, because I don't have, as I did before, the strong vote of a hive whale. I began to analyze and see, how a person (regardless of the percentage of their vote) could have a return of up to 500% of their vote in rewards. Something I never thought would happen, but the numbers don't lie. People who vote before 5 minutes, and obtain higher benefits than those who vote after. In fact, I have seen rewards with 300% profit voting after 14 hours of posting the article... I am still analyzing how it works so that this can happen, and the best, it happens to me too.
Well without knowing any of the details, it sounds like you are misunderstanding something, because that's definitely not how it works on Hive. Almost all whales and bots attempt to vote at 5 minutes, not at 1. The Hive FAQ is clear about this issue. When I had a lot of HP (like in 2021) I noticed my Hive curation rewards went up when I started to vote at 5 minutes instead of before.
So something must be wrong in HiveStats because it's the numbers it gives me, just as shown in the image.
I'll have to trust you on that, because that's now what it seems to be telling me! Maybe I just don't understand.
I don't quite understand how it works either, my dear friend, but those are the numbers. It seems that if a post (at least in Hive) hasn't reached $1, and we vote for it, there is a chance that our vote will become more effective when a strong vote reaches that post.
Here's another shot:
I can barely read that.
What is efficiency? And why can it be greater than 100%?
Oh! I'm sorry. Efficiency is how effective your vote was on the post. From what I have been able to observe, it depends on how much money the publication has accumulated at the time of giving it your vote; If it is less than 1 dollar, the chances that your effectiveness will increase are high.
Okay, well none of those votes were within the 5 minute period after the content was made. The least one is 9 minutes, and that one has almost the lowest efficiency of any of them. Hmm.
I'll show you other examples on this topic (and that I keep digging to see where the secret is) of two users, whose APR's are different, and also their voting times.
One vote after 5 minutes:
and the other, before 5 minutes.
Something had to change in Hive, or we still don't fully understand how rewards are calculated, at least in Hive.