Engagement is the Name of the Game!

minismallholding 4 years ago

Can't say I've heard that expression for a happiness comparison. I know "happy as a pig in slop/💩" which is just as gooey sounding, if you think about it. Maybe happiness is wet. 🤔

Not really a podcast listener myself, so not much else to add here, except that I've been trying to be present in the real world a bit more recently, so comments have been low and posting even lower. Hope you get your Hivebuzz badge. 🤞

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http://www.monstertalk.org/

richardfyates 4 years ago

My favorite podcast is MonsterTalk, the science show about monsters! It's skeptical in tone, but the hosts are very funny and interested in just about everything I love!

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jacobtothe 4 years ago

Are you at all familiar with the Dark Myths podcast collective? Lots of shows about monsters, urban legends, alternate history, and exploration of the dark side of humanity all in one place.

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richardfyates 4 years ago

Nope, but I will give it a look!!!

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dandays 4 years ago

Can't walk away from this one without commenting.

How's it goin @jacobtothe?

I don't have a big library of podcasts man, I'm probably missing out. I have a few classical stations saved, they're my drawing channels when I don't want words to distract me.

Hopefully this works.

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nateonsteemit 4 years ago

Yeah man, way to call us all out. What a dick, wanting engagement on a social platform 🤣

Right now my favorite podcasts are S2 Underground and the Mikhaila Peterson Podcast. Been listening to both of them on LBRY, as I've ditched YouTube and other social media. They're not really on the same spectrum, but that's okay. Spice of life and all.

I've definitely been guilty lately of the "squeeze out a post just to keep the rewards flowing" mentality, and have been total shit at engagement, even on my own posts. Maybe I'll start working on that.

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jacobtothe 4 years ago

I am trying to get a post every day this month, but that @hivebuzz badge, and not the crypto, is my primary motivation. I want to see if I can achieve it without just scheduling stuff using PeakD.

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nateonsteemit 4 years ago

That's a lofty goal. I don't think I've done that since steem. I'm more active the last bit because work is more forgiving since I moved to an easier department. I love having time at work for non-work things. Makes it more rewarding.

Guess it'd be easier to write a post a day if I wrote on a more diverse range of topics. I've been liking your anarchism group, so maybe that'll be a goal I go for soon.

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yintercept 4 years ago

I agree that comments have a better effect than upvotes.

I've noticed that votes on posts tend to be dominated by robots. There is a huge number of bots that upvote right at 5 minutes .... which is the optimum time for getting curation rewards.

Upvoting posts ends up giving rewards to the bots.

I decided to buy enough HIVE to get my upvote above $0.02 (the minimum payout amount for an upvote). The upvote calculator shows the value of an upvote for a given amount of HIVE.

In general, it takes about $500 in HP for an upvote to be worth $0.02.

Of course, my buying HIVE caused the price to halve. Sorry about that everyone.

BTW: When my upvote value is less than $0.02, I will look at the comment section of an account I appreciate and upvote the posts that I can bring over the two penny threshold.

Anyway, my observation is that upvoting root posts tends to reward robots. Upvoting the comments gives a higher reward to humans.

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jacobtothe 4 years ago

I know several witnesses have discussed modifying the reward curve to give more opportunities to human curators instead of rewarding the 5-minute bot votes. I'd like to see that play a key role in the next code fork.

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yintercept 4 years ago

The bot programmers will optimize their creations to whatever formula HIVE adopts. If the witnesses change the formula, the bots will be the first group to respond to the new formula.

Peakd.com shows the read time for a post. Perhaps the grace period for upvotes could be set to the calculated read time.

I've encountered the situation where the post has a ten minute video. When I am done watching the video, there is a score of bot votes timed just at 5 minutes. My upvote will reward the bots.

I think the strategy of making comments a primary focal point of HIVE is still a good long term strategy for humans.

The strategy of upvoting comments brings one into the important question of how much HIVE POWER should accounts buy and hodl?

Adopting this strategy creates the incentive for people to follow the price of HIVE and to actively trade HIVE.

When I wrote my reply yesterday, my upvote was worth over $0.02 . There was an 8% drop in the price of HIVE and the value of my upvote fell. Peakd reports my upvote is worth 0.019 STU. Aaaaarrrrgggghhhhhhh!!!!!!!

The strategy of upvoting comments engages people in conversation on the platform encourages people to actively engage both users on the platform and the price of HIVE.

Now, if we could just convince a bunch of ~~suckers~~ Hive Users to adopt the same strategy, the price of HIVE might become a bit more stable and we get more people actively engaged in comments.

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3 votes

ryivhnn 4 years ago

I have often wondered if it was an artist thing (a lot of the other artists I've spoken to liked upvotes for obvious reasons as most of them probably came for the money like everyone else, but generally preferred comments to bigger upvotes), seems that perhaps it's a most people thing?

Meanwhile I often wonder if people are enjoying the serenity when I go radio silent for whatever reason but it seems that some people actually miss my rambling XD

I don't do podcasts, my brain just stops processing audio after a while (even though I can still hear it fine).

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enforcer48 4 years ago

Nice post.

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3 votes

jacobtothe 4 years ago

If it weren't you, you know damn well this would be a 100% downvote. 😂

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https://www.youtube.com/c/charleshoskinsoncrypto/videos

enforcer48 4 years ago

In all seriousness though, I've been an avid listener to Hoskinson's videos.

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angryman 4 years ago

Nice post... Follow my profile...😎

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hivebuzz 4 years ago

Congratulations @jacobtothe! You have completed the following achievement on the Hive blockchain and have been rewarded with new badge(s) :

You got more than 11000 replies. Your next target is to reach 11500 replies.

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jacobtothe 4 years ago

11,000 replies is exactly the sort of thing this post is intended to encourage, so this is a serendipitous award indeed!

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