How did I Start?

• I have been distributing Ecency points for very long
• It's been over a year now.
• Those who don't know, here is the link when I started.
• https://hive.blog/hive-125125/@sagarkothari88/ececny-encouragement-post-helping-others-to-grow-1-aug-2022
• I started with gifting 750 Ecency points & gifting as high as 1500 Ecency points.
• For last couple of days, I've been wondering about Ecency Points based support.

Different phases of showing support to Hive Community members.

Phase 1

• I used to select specific posts
• On those selected posts, I used to boost with Ecency Points

Phase 2

• I took help from active an curator @bhattg
• He is assisting me from that time to find posts to curate & reward
• I started contacting community mods but I did not get reply initially

Phase 3

• After several attempts, I finally started received replies from community mods.
• I co-ordinated with community mods about Ecency Points distribution.
• I discussed with other community members like @melinda010100, @pravesh0, @alokkumar121, @balvinder294 for feedback on this method.

I still remember following & I always chuckle when I recall it 😹

Phase 4

• I started distributing to different contest winners on different communities
• For manually distributing points, I built a basic discord-bot command
• I took help from @bhattg again to distribute points using that discord bot.

Phase 5 - Current Phase

• I am distributing Ecency points to the authors picked by Community moderators
• For these, I've built a bot based on hive-notifications.
• My bot reads all the notifications.
• It filters the mentions - notifications
• If it's having a valid points distribution comment from selected community mods, bot will gift the the points to the author picked by community moderator.

Which Communities? - you may ask.

What else?

• On top of distributing points, I also follow curation trails of all of these communities
• To extend even more support - to some of the communities, I've also delegated some HP

You may ask - WHY?

• Growth of Hive is only possible - TOGETHER
• I want more & more people to join Hive.
• Joining is first step - next step is to keep Hive Members motivated to keep contributing, stay invested, stay engaged.
• With my own set of ideas, I came up with these approaches to motivate community members & help communities grow.

What's next Phase?

• Ecency points can only be used on Ecency web-app.
• I am starting to wonder - Is there a way with which I can reward community members which can be used on entire hive-eco-system?
• Answer is simple - HivePower

What would you choose?

• Reward 100 points OR Reward 0.1 HP
• Reward 50 points OR Reward 0.05 HP
• So, I started asking community mods above question.
• What would you choose? As a reward - HivePower or Ecency Points?

Upside of Ecency Points

1. People can use Ecency points whenever & however they want
2. Minimum Ecency points based upvote can help them earn 1 Hive
3. Ecency has a review process & only quality content gets upvote

Downside of Ecency points

1. Most of People don't know "What is Ecency points"?
   • HHYM - they are new members they hardly know about Hive & Hive power. How can I expect them to know Ecency points
2. Most of People don't know "How to use Ecency points?"
   • I have received couple of replies asking how to use it.
3. Most of the Points are wasted
   • People don't use it at all / rarely use it
   • Points Boosts are rejected sometimes
4. Ecency delegation return is low compare to our own hp-return.
5. They can not Encash it

Upside of Hive Power

• People get Hive Power in wallet directly
• No hassle of learning additional tokens / points
• People also get resource credit because of their increased hive-power
• With Hive power, People can do lot of things
• With Hive power, People stay invested (at least for 13 weeks)
• With Hive power = Hive Ecosystem
• People can encash it
• 0.1 HP - instant impact - whereas Ecency points are not useful till it's used for boost
• Hive Power Transfer can be done any time - even after post curation is complete
  e.g - Silver blogger, MedHive announces winners at the end of month

Downside of Hive Power

• Human Phycology - 100 Points always sound bigger than 0.1 HP
• 0.1 HP & 0.05 HP may sound little to the content creators
• Ecency points can be gifted/transferred to someone else Hive Power can't be transferred until power-down.
• 100 Ecency Points can earn a good reward compare to 0.1 HP
• And even if - 0.1HP & 0.05HP - may sound smaller today,
• I am sure that Hive price will touch the moon in near future
• With these values (0.1HP & 0.05HP) I can afford to extend my support to even more communities.

Downside of Hive Power for Me

• More expenditure for me - I get daily 30 comments for reward distribution - I may end up spending up-to-3 Hive per day.
• I don't get delegation rewards from Ecency, instead I end up spending liquid Hive & I may have to power-down to give rewards

Decision

• Based on interaction with couple of community mods, I've received replies as follows.
• I am yet to hear from few community mods.
• Instead of reaching out them individually on Discord, Hive & other mods of communication, I made a post & tagged as many as possible.
• I request them to decide what would they use to reward community members.

Dear community mods,

Eagerly waiting for your reply. Please reply.

What's next?

• I will work on my bot 🤖 & add a feature to distribute HP
• Once done, Selected Community mods can distribute HP from my wallet to motivate members.

Support me

• Do you like the work I do?
• Do you want me to keep going?
• Please Reblog
• Please help me connect with more communities
• Please vote me as Hive Witness