How I became a (temporary) orca and what that means for you

Hi there my Hivean friends and followers!

Do you still remember the "marine life hierarchy" from the old days of Steem? As far as I remember correctly, it was something like this:

0 - 499 HP = plankton
500 - 4,999 HP = minnow
5,000 - 49,999 HP = dolphin
50,000 - 499,999 HP = orca
500,000 HP and more = whale

Now we are bees in Hive so this aquatic division doesn´t seem very appropriate anymore but I know it´s still used and I´m pretty excited that I just made it to another level as I became an orca yesterday :)

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Image source: wikimedia.org (Creative Commons Licence)

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But before you start congratulating me on this milestone, let me explain :D In fact, I became an orca only thanks to our one and only @sandymeyer, an amazing dude and one of the leaders of the thriving Swiss community on Hive. Sandy has been a fan of my initiatives here on Hive and he wanted to support my curation efforts so he decided to delegate 12k of his HP to me to round my effective HP to 50k, which is the threshold of the orcahood. Thank you so much again Sandy, I´m really honored and pleased by this nice gesture of yours and I hope I will not disappoint you :)

Talking about the orcahood, I should also mention that I could have already been an orca myself without any delegations. You might now that I have been growing my account organically and last year, I was already at some 45k HP (accumulated only from my rewards) but unfortunately, I had to do a partial power down to cover my real life expenses so I sold (with a very very heavy heart) approximately one third of my then stake. If I didn´t have to do that, my current HP would most probably be somewhere between 50k and 60k now. But that´s not important. What matters now is that my stake is bigger than it was and that´s good for you guys, the content creators! :) I have been dedicating a lot of my time here on the chain to curation lately and now I will try to further up my curation game. I think it´s fair to show you my current curation stats. Usually, I give out around 400 upvotes to some 150 - 200 accounts every week, most of them manually of course. I still do some selfvoting too, I admit, but I have reduced this to just some 5%. You can see all of this in the screenshot below that I took from my HiveTasks profile.

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So yeah, that´s some little update on my suddenly increased HP and my curation activities :) I cannot wait to use the bigger votes in my initiatives like my Saturday upvote giveaway, my photo contests etc. but of course I will be also manually curating in communities and tags that I´m interested in.

Thanks for your attention everyone and keep those amazing posts coming! It will be my pleasure to check them out and reward them :)

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