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Never had time to curate contents the way you would love to? Join a curation trail today; its guarantee to improve your curation rewards.

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Yeah. I know you already know what a curation trail is, or maybe not. If you do, allow me the privilege to refresh your memory. If you don’t allow me to educate you.

A curation trail is a voting system that automatically allows users to leave a trail of votes on a post. This means a user allows you to join a voting system that leaves a trail of your votes without you lifting a finger.

Once that user votes on a particular post, you automatically vote for the same post. It is important to join a trail if you are not an active user, but you have stacked tokens. That way you can earn curation rewards and gain visibility in the community.

What you have to be conscious about is finding the person who would use your voting power wisely. It has to be someone whom you trust to vote for quality posts. That way your votes do not reflect on low-quality posts or plagiarise content.

Therefore, you are giving out a vote of confidence when you join a trail, in any of the communities on Hive.

How do you join a curation trail?

To join a curating trail, move over to hive.vote and log in with your keys.

You will be redirected to the hive voting dashboard

Click on the curation trail button and you will be asked to either create or edit your trail.

Since you are joining a trail and not creating one, you will move over to the search button and search for a particular trail. Or go through the list of popular trails in your dashboard.

Now press the follow button. Move into the settings and change the voting weight and timing to your preferences. Then click save.

There you have finally joined a trail. You can move over to a community discord group and ask more questions about the trail you followed.

What if you wanted to start your own curation trail?

You follow the same login procedure but this time instead of joining, you will be creating and editing your trail. Then share with your followers and ask them to join your trail, following the joining procedure.

Can you still vote others even when you belong to a trail?

Yes you can. But you have to understand that your voting also impact the voting power of the trail you joined. This influences how much an author gets from your votes when used by the trail

When you set your voting power for the trail to 50%. And the trail decides to vote 10 posts at 100%. The percentage of the vote an author receives from you will be 5%. This 5% could be a large or a minimal amount depending on the amount of tokens you have stacked.

You may have to understand that everytime you vote 100% on a post, you are consuming 2% of your total vote. On a daily basis, you are supposed to use a maximum of 20% of your voting power or less. So that it can have enough time to recharge.

Which means you get to vote a maximum of 10 posts( or comments) on a 100% everyday. So if you have joined a trail, you might want to reduce the percentage of your voting when you are voting outside the trail.

Can you join more than one trail?

I don't know if joining more than one trail will be accepted by the other trails. But this act can have a negative effect. That is because if you set the voting limits to 50% for lets say two community trails.

They will consume 100% of your voting power on a particular day. This means it will take your power several days to recharge and that affects the worth of your vote left behind as the trail continues to vote.

This is why you need to consider all of the effects of joining a trail before you join one.

I would love you to share your understanding or experiences with a curating trail with all of us using the comment box. Thank you


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