This Sunday was spent on understanding the Beem package and its usage for extracting data from the Hive API. It has been a fruitful day learning about Python and Beem.

The point of all these is for me to learn more about the Hive data, so that I can do better in terms of upvotes and rewards. Afterall, it is the [bear market](https://leofinance.io/@leoglossary/leoglossary-bear-market), and I should be building!  

Continuing from my last [post](https://leofinance.io/@cryptothesis/journey-in-hive-full-record-of-my-posts) where I listed my posts, this is a closer look at posts that had done well in terms of rewards earned. My posts, that is.

![Screenshot 20221030 at 10.02.02 PM.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmXAiHFYzwrYibcKdqdi44KZC9G3NdBm42LUrUDXDgmXbo/Screenshot%202022-10-30%20at%2010.02.02%20PM.png)

The chart above shows that I have made over 200 posts, and you can see that most of them don't fetch beyond 2 HBD. 

Adopting a cut-off at 2 HBD, only my top 25 posts made it to the list below featuring the workhorses of my account. Be my guest, check them out and leave a comment. They are afterall my winners!  

|Rank|Title|URL|Reward|
|---|---|---|---|
|1|Wrong call to hodl SPS as a non-Splinterlands player ?\!|https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/wrong-call-to-hodl-sps-as-a-non-splinterlands-player|15\.765|
|2|Get your pay raise in crypto by buying cheaper crypto than the price on the payday |https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/get-your-pay-raise-in-crypto-by-buying-cheaper-crypto-than-the-price-on-the-payday|14\.772|
|3|Do you know why the reward amounts on Leofinance and PeakD frontends are different?  |https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/do-you-know-why-the-reward-amounts-on-leofinance-and-peakd-frontends-are-different|14\.354|
|4|If blockchains are countries, I want to be citizens of liveable and flourishing blockchain projects  |https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/if-blockchains-are-countries-i-want-to-be-citizens-of-liveable-and-flourishing-blockchain-projects|9\.777|
|5|Will it be Bullish or Bearish for DCALPHA when dCrops releases their new game packs in Q1-Q2 2022? |https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/will-it-be-bullish-or-bearish-for-dcalpha-when-dcrops-releases-their-new-game-packs-in-q1-q2-2022|8\.879|
|6|DCA moment: A practical tip to share |https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/dca-moment-a-practical-tip-to-share|8\.811|
|7|Work in Progress: Charting LEO prices and SMA in JavaScript|https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/work-in-progress-charting-leo-prices-and-sma-in-javascript|8\.795|
|8|Hodling Hive: Some speculations that make me happy\!      |https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/hodling-hive-some-speculations-that-make-me-happy|7\.981|
|9|To each his/her own \(crypto projects\)|https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/to-each-his-her-own-crypto-projects|7\.154|
|10|Why is the Gen Z more excited about the crypto space?|https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/why-is-the-gen-z-more-excited-about-the-crypto-space|7\.035|
|11|Breaking: Hive moving upwards beyond 52 cents\!|https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/breaking-hive-moving-upwards-beyond-52-cents|6\.919|
|12|Crypto Theses for 2022 by Messari|https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/crypto-theses-for-2022-by-messari|6\.427|
|13|Not stacking BTC anymore\.\.\.|https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/not-stacking-btc-anymore|4\.623|
|14|Investing in tokens that the masses can actually use beats investing in tokens meant for corporations\.|https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/investing-in-tokens-that-the-masses-can-actually-use-beats-investing-in-tokens-meant-for-corporations|4\.486|
|15|Make your own time machine: Hive is your own OG opportunity in the Crypto space|https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/make-your-own-time-machine-hive-is-your-own-og-opportunity-in-the-crypto-space|3\.958|
|16|I bet $50 on Luna a few days ago and it's now worth less than $0\.007\.  |https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/i-bet-usd50-on-luna-a-few-days-ago-and-it-s-now-worth-less-than-usd0-007|3\.665|
|17|Nimiq: What are the advantages of Nimiq moving to POS? Is it a good time to buy NIM?|https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/nimiq-what-are-the-advantages-for-nimiq-moving-to-pos-is-it-a-good-time-to-buy-nim|3\.571|
|18|Separating savings from investment |https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/separating-savings-from-investment|3\.355|
|19|The beauty of immutability: My Hive account as a family heirloom|https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/the-beauty-of-immutability-my-hive-account-as-a-family-heirloom|3\.243|
|20|How to double Hive's market cap from today's  600 million?|https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/how-to-double-hive-s-market-cap-from-today-s-600-million|3\.08|
|21|Using LEODEX: Conversion from Swap\.Hive to Hive depends on available liquidity  |https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/using-leodex-conversion-from-swap-hive-to-hive-depends-on-available-liquidity|2\.608|
|22|Being a sensible Hive hodler: Grow Hive count from outside, not inside\.  |https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/being-a-sensible-hive-hodler-grow-hive-count-from-outside-not-inside|2\.597|
|23|Breaking: Celsius mayhem\! |https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/breaking-celsius-mayhem|2\.478|
|24|Writing and Curating from the Hive Keychain App|https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/writing-from-the-hive-keychain-app|2\.071|
|25|The crypto market is a community of profit-takers\! The earlier one recognises this, the better\.|https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/the-crypto-market-a-community-of-profit-takers-the-earlier-one-recognises-this-the-better|2\.064|

Taking this chance to scrutinize the posts, I don't see a strong correlation between the amount of effort I have put in (i.e. to inject novelty or creativity, or usefulness) and earning amounts. **Time and effort invested in creating the post do not mean it will fetch a high reward!**

One indication is that one of my *stop press* type of posts [Breaking: Hive moving upwards beyond 52 cents!](https://peakd.com/@cryptothesis/breaking-hive-moving-upwards-beyond-52-cents) and another short break news post on Celsius mayhem [Breaking: Celsius mayhem!](https://peakd.com/@cryptothesis/breaking-celsius-mayhem) made the list. Another short one is [Crypto Theses for 2022 by Messari](https://peakd.com/@cryptothesis/crypto-theses-for-2022-by-messari).

Judging by the length of these posts, I doubt I took long to write them. I am not complaining, and certainly thankful for the upvotes.

I am merely scratching the surface of this analysis, and will certainly do more to understand what's going on with the post-reward relationship. I believe it is a pretty complex issue, though the perceived usefulness of the post does matter, I think.

Maybe it's just about the title and not the actual text. And certain keywords in the title should get more attention than others. 

If anything, my tentative conclusion is that a title that suggests timeliness, practicality, conclusion or a question that arouses curiosity has greater likelihood of attracting upvotes.

According to what I found out on PeakD, it seems that most people do not actually read the posts, judging from the dwell time and click-through info. My hunch is that the unique views are only a fraction of the upvotes. Most of the high-earning posts seems to be the results of the curation trail in auto-voting. 
 
![Screenshot 20221030 at 10.37.41 PM.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmTsmkPDHiERPHnFKXtK9iS15USYH4zN3poTzwBCbZ6UeL/Screenshot%202022-10-30%20at%2010.37.41%20PM.png).

So I should perhaps aim to be as useful and timely as possible to the main curator, at least in terms of the way the title is crafted.  

I finally decided on the title for the current post: 

**Let the data speak: What gets me my upvotes?  And what should be my strategy?**

*Let's see how its fate unfolds in terms of rewards.*



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P/S: This is not financial advice, and please do your own due diligence before investing.

**If you read this far... and if you are a like-minded Hiver who is on the path to learning more about Hive and crypto investing, and if you like to be tagged when I write such posts, I welcome you to leave a comment below and let me know. We can form an alliance to support each other's growth.**

*You might be interested in this post, @jacoalberts, @young-kedar, @vickvan, and @hankanon!*

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