BLURT is unique in that it charges a small fee for each transaction on the blockchain. This is a wonderful design as it provides a mechanism to fund the site and it reduces spam.
My only complaint is that it forces users to waste valuable brain power to maintain some free BLURT for the fees. Run out of BLURT and you can't vote.
The fee for an upvote is about 0.1 BLURT. We get 10 upvotes a day or 70 a week.
This means that I need 7 BLURT a week for upvotes.
Last month I announced that I started a power down of 7 BLURT a week so that I could fund my upvotes.
This power down worked perfectly for upvotes.
Sadly, I did not give myself BLURT for posts. I want to drop a post once or possibly twice a week.
So, I decided that I would raise the power down to 10 BLURT. This gives me enough funds for 70 upvotes and for a few posts.
While I think that this is the best method for funding BLURT posts I worry that having an active power down will put me on the BLURT naughty list.
My current BLURT strategy is to power up the earnings from my post. I am running a 10 BLURT power down to fund my activities.
This predictable power down approach is much easier than trying to live off author rewards.
MAGA Santa Edits His Naughty List
I've been generating an image a day on Night Cafe. I started creating Christmas Images on December 1.
Night Cafe has daily challenges. Today's challenge is "Christmas Characters Gone Bad." So, I asked NC to generate an image of a MAGA hat wearing Santa editing the Naughty and Nice List.
There is no such thing as a Blurt naughty list. On Blurt you can do whatever you want. It’s your money, power down, power up, sell it all to buy Bitcoin, Pepe, Tron, Steem, and Dogecoin. Do whatever you want. The most important thing on Blurt is to have fun and earn tons of blurt from posting and upvoting. . That’s it. That’s all.
Blurt is very different from Hive.
I had to mention the naughty list because the picture shows Santa creating a naughty list.
The picture is a meme. Santa is wearing a MAGA hat!!!!!
OMG, imagine the horror of Santa going MAGA?!?!?!?!?
The horror!!!!
BLURT is created by people. As such it will reflect the ideas of the creators. HIVE and STEEM have subtle ways to encourage power ups and discouraging power downs.
These systems are necessary. Sadly, programs need to have mechanisms to prevent copyright violations and there are some topics that shouldn't be broached.
My articles are original. The only questionable thing is the AI image.
But, this article is about powerdowns. I launched a power down of 1 STEEM a week on SteemIt and have received several notices that I would not receive upvotes from certain bots because of my power down.
There are bots which are hostile to me because of the power down.
I have a 10 HIVE a week power down on HIVE and have received notifications that it is a bad thing.
BTW, the reason for the power downs is that I decided I want to receive an income from my curation efforts. Since curation rewards come powered up, curators must power down to receive their rewards.
There is a stigma on powering down in all of the SteemIt derivatives. The reason I bring up this stigma on BLURT is because powering down provides a consistent source of income for the comments. Power down is the perfect mechanism for funding upvotes.
My perspective is that votes are a means to give tips to another via each created posts. No one is entitled to receive up votes. It's on the free will of the individual to do so.
Essentially my fair bum brother, this is your bazaar. You have a tip jar. Your posts and comments are means to have an open lid to receive tips and gratitude from the public.
Make a sale. Be it comedy, any sort of entertainment. DIY, music etc. It's a free world here. But remember. We're all human and our morals vary from person to person.
You'll be fine me thinks.
Cheers.
I agree entirely. Upvotes are given freely to encourage writers.
This is the main reason that I want to fund my upvotes with BLURT from my curation rewards and not BLURT from my posts.
I don't want to depend on something freely given so that I can upvote.
I earn my curation rewards by curation efforts as such they are under my control.
A SIDE NOTE: A few months ago I got fewer upvotes for a post than I was anticipating. I dropped a garbage post just to get some BLURT and ended up waiting several days without voting because I lacked free BLURT.
So, my current strategy is to power up all of my author rewards and to pay for my actions by powering down curation rewards. I think that this is the best approach to the fees.
I am pulling the same stunt on SteemIt and HIVE. I have received nasty comments for having power downs on those platforms.
Personally I just think 25/75 reward split is fine enough.
Your curation rewards will not all be in liquid but depending on whether how the author of a post has the rewards set.
For example, if they set it to powerup all them your curation will go entirely to BP (blurt power).
Post daily and comment daily on other people's content, You should theoretically get enough votes to cover it all.
Fees are cheap. Just be active and all should be good. And I'll restrain from up voting untill you can get enough BP.
I see no problem with Powerdowns. People should eventually get paid for the work they do.
Lmfao
Sadly, it is true:
A few months ago, I found myself trying to design a strategy to assure I had enough BLURT for upvotes.
One post received too much reward. The next post received too little. Should I publish a low quality post hoping to get the BLURT for upvotes?
I found I was stressing about an upvote that really doesn't have much value.
There's no strategy I think.
Get blurt in 6 ways.
Up voting 10 quality posts you personally believe deserves it. 10 for max profit.
Purchasing blurt on the available exchanges, such as tribal dex, probit.
Selling your products for blurt. Open the free market for blurt. Use your username on blurt to receive payments from other users. Invite your customers to get an account. Help them make one. Do it for free. Kindness doesn't hurt anyone.
Make a publication. It's a free speech platform so you have free will to say what you want.
Trading. Casino essentially. Place bets on the market make bread buying and selling against the psychology of the market.
Staking. Get APR by staking. Increases by voting good content.
Yes there is probably a bit more like adding to liquidity pools and.... Actually that's probably it.
Good luck.
I have ran my account dry before but I always try to keep the flow with all these chains! CHAIN GANG!