RE: The Curation and Engagement Leagues - Sponsored by @carlgnash and @paulag!
Thank you so much @abh12345! I'm sorry that you have to deal with "resurrecting" a computer today:) And of course a big thank you to @carlgnash and @paulag for sponsoring this awesome league!
Congratulations to @leeart and @glenalbrethsen for hitting 2nd and 3rd place in your first week; that's so awesome:) Also congratulation to @davemccoy, @maverickinvictus, @themanwithnoname, @simplymike, @bashadow, @gillianpearce, @abh12345, and @beeyou for making the top 10, and of course everyone else who is participating in such a great 'challenge'. I'd say anyone who joins your league is a winner Ash:)
Also, this overall list appears to be growing leaps and bounds every week! That's a great sign that so many place such importance on genuine commenting.
Once again, the upside to insomnia is this...and only this ;) Thanks again Ash, I really do appreciate your generosity!
Congratulations, @lynncoyle1!!! You did it! Hat trick!!!
I agree, there have been a lot of new people joining every week. It's cool!
@abh12345 thanks for doing this awesome contest! I like that you changed one of the categories from external comments to >2 layers deep comments. I think it shows that you're willing to follow a conversation. And conversations don't happen a lot on here.
I did have a suggestion for the first league: What if you added an "SP per vote" or "SP per vote per 1000SP" column. Then it would be a quick reference of those who are really utilizing their time well. Because if you give 250 votes it's going to be easier to get curation. I'm not saying to change the method of choosing the winner, just a glance into the numbers behind it all. Or not if it's too difficult/worthless information. Ha ha
haha hat trick! Good one ;) Thank you and congratulations to you as well !
My pleasure and well done to you for making the top 10 again :)
I shall have a think about adding your suggestion to League 1, and well done for noticing the 'conversation' tweak to League 2 - I'm glad you see it a worth addition to the scoring. Cheers!
These threads are so long I can't even tell if I've replied already here?!
I think I have but if not, well done and thank you for the suggestions!
You have. Thanks for checking though! You're the man! I don't know how you have time for everything, especially now that you're running a witness server, but you're killing it.
Haha oops!
Waking up at 5:30 has given me some time to reply this morning, although now I think another hour in bed would be beneficial. Thanks again!
Congratulations to you, @lynncoyle1, for retaining your crown and to @leeart for the awesome debut. Amazing amount of comments from both of you by the way. Holy cow!
As for me, though, I finished way behind the two of you in points, and so was very fortunate that @gillianpearce and @davemccoy were traveling or doing other things. Had this been the previous period, my efforts would have resulted in 7th (only because @abh12345 removes himself from the running).
So, I'm happy to be in the top three, but I'm feeling like I'm going to be lucky to be in the top 10 when everyone else who's normally there returns to form.
Which is really sad, because I felt like I was running all week just to get where I got! I didn't get to spend as much time as I would have liked, but then, I think I still was on more than a lot of you, so I'm just shaking my head, and thinking, "I'm not worthy, I'm not worthy," over and over again.
It's going to bug me though, if I can't find a way to improve even more. :)
I think I got lucky too because of the holiday weekend which made others busy on other things other than steemit.
Well, with the amount of comments you had, I would say it was more than luck. As I said on the other comment, breaking 30,000 points is a pretty big accomplishment. It probably wouldn't take more than a few more words per comment to catch her. :) Or at least, that's my theory. I have no idea how this is being calculated. Asher's formula for the engagement league may be a secret, since it doesn't appear like the one for the curation league does.
I did try to recalculate the scores but I did fail in this. Must be, a great formula that even a smart person like me, can't figure it out :)
Place a witness vote for Asher and you probably can close the gap with the leading lady! Also we must hope for a real sunny summer, that would be our only chance!
If a smart person can't do it, what's the hope for the rest of us? :)
Does Asher want to be a witness? I'd vote for him!
I'm afraid it's summer year round where lynncoyle1 lives, so I think we're seeing what she's capable of even with that sort of distraction. It'll probably end up wrecking the rest of us, though. My wife is already wanting to go do things and in my mind, it's just not warm or sunny enough to do them. Not a fan of traipsing around in the rain and cold and she's from Mexico and lived in Southern California for a long period of time, so she shouldn't be either!
He is: @steemcommunity is the witness he is running!
Don't hesitate to vote for him!
The summers where I live are great to be active on Steem. Lots of rain :)
Still I will not be capable of getting even close to here!
Holy moly You done good @glenalbrethsen CONGRATS!!!
I do, too, which certainly helps when it comes to this sort of thing.
No need to bow. I feel like someone else is going to crash into the top 3 this week and make me look like I was standing still.
As it is, I was 12,000 points out of first, and 5,000 or so points from second, so, anyway. I'm happy to move up so many spots from the previous week, but I don't even know yet what it's going to take to get to the top. I'm afraid to find out. :)
Ohhhh I just realized I edged you out on the curation one. woohoo
I think I hit a couple of OCD posts with perfect timing...
5 times!!! dang!!! Good job!!!
I actually found this by checking your wall.
Well, I figure the resteem is there for a reason, so I might as well use it.
There tends to be some important or interesting information floating around and I've learned not to take for granted that everyone sees what I do. That was before I came here, where hardly anyone sees what anyone else does.
I made a concerted effort last week to move up from my 20-something position, and it was still sorely lacking. And I have no idea what to do about moving up in that curation league. I realize there's timing involved and how much rewards are in place and how much I put in it, but i just never see things fast enough and with the engagement league, we're not encouraged to leave large reward amounts. So, I'm trying to strike that balance, but it's going to be tough to be in the top 10 in both.
For timing, I check https://steemstats.com/ before I check my feed.
It shows how many minutes ago the posting was, how many upvotes and where the payout is.
BTW When I just looked at it before doing this comment I saw this post you may be interested in... It's another type comment contest he will announce on Sunday...
The comment challenge looks interesting. I'll need to learn more about it.
Sounds like you've got the curation part down to a science. Thanks for the info. I need to change whatever it is I'm doing if I'm going to get anywhere in the curation league. :)
Thank you so much! I was happy to see you up there too.
You are anything but, Glen! Congratulations ;)
Well, we'll see what happens this week. Regardless, you and leeart set an amazing standard for number of comments that I don't think I'm ever going to be able to match (at least not in these initial stages). My net needs to widen, obviously, and that's happened somewhat in the two weeks I've been doing this, so I would expect it to widen even more as I have to go looking for more content to comment on and curate.
It is amazing to me how that ripple just keeps extending outwards. It's slow at first and then seems to grow exponentially. I really try every week to find at least one person completely out of my circles though; that seems to help too.
I can see that.
I think things will only improve as more people get involved. I've been enjoying it, even if I'd rather concentrate on my posts. But I'm buying into the commenting more frequently idea (I was already curating as much as I could). Knowing that members of the league are at least trying to engage is helpful, too, because if they've come across a post I feel I can comment on, then I don't have to necessarily do all that digging on my own. That said, there's plenty of divergent tastes and likes among the members so following them can be hit and miss.
I know, I know. I need to broaden my horizon. There's only so broad it can get and then I'm just a walking trivial pursuits, which some people already think I am. :)
hahaha There's nothing I can tell you that you don't already know...about commenting and engaging I mean.
...but quite possibly, "Trivia" (your new name), on a lot of other things as well :)
Better 'Trivia' than 'Trivial* I guess, though I'm sure there are plenty of people on here with more stored knowledge than me. I think my brain storage cells have been written over enough over the years that they're starting to lose their ability to retain information. Either that, or they only retain the 'trivial.'
I don't think I'm helping myself here, am I? :)
hahaha ummm no, you're not ;)
And it's age buddy; I know of which I speak...who are you again, and why am I talking to you? :)
again, congrats to you farmgirl! You deserve the crown and I'm truly happy for you :)
Thanks Dave, this farmgirl appreciates that :) Congratulations to you as well!
I think we should throw in the towel already haha
All hail reigning Queen @lynncoyle1! Congrats Lynn. Pretty darn good for taking a day off. To think, sugar redfish @maverickinvictus thought you would ever be dethroned. Pshhh :) Nite Lynn, it's nearly 5am. We need to sleep!
hahaha It was worth a try to pit you two haha
Now...had you done a video blog dancing, it might have been an entirely different list here hahaha
hahaha thank you! I went like a madwoman after taking the day off; maybe I didn't need to :) And our sugar redfish @maverickinvictus, did a fine job, even with his divide and conquer tactics though, it wasn't quite enough ;)
What on earth are you still doing up for?? :)
5am! You crazy cats, get some rest!
Ah, sleep is overrated Asher :)
I used to sleep so well, it's tougher these days!
It's called age buddy. That's me, speaking from experience. :)
All hail the Queen indeed haha. You didn't take the bet and even with the three of us tried our best you are double to what we can churn out.
Yet I have to thank you for continuing to engage the community. We need more people like you that leave novel like comments to post and thus encouraging them more.
Thank you so much and congratulations to you as well! I may have not taken the bet publicly, but internally, I've discovered I'm pretty darn competitive haha
I do appreciate your kind words though and really do feel the importance of genuine commenting. I do find I have gotten to know people more because of it, and that can only be a good thing ;)
Indeed and it is such a great thing when you receive a great comment in your post that is not just a good post, keep up the work.
It is when someone genuinely connects that it really makes a lasting impression to the person.
I have to share a comment I received lately and I think this encompasses everyone of us that is doing their best in the 2nd league,
It made me cry a bit to be said something like that.
Wow that really is a beautiful comment!! It would have made me cry, I can easily admit. You should be very proud for all that you do, for someone to leave you with that :) That deserves a very big congratulations!
...and it's those kinds of comments that pushes us along when we occasionally feel like, "ah, it's good enough" :)
I told you I will not take the crown away from you haha! Cograts! Insomnia pays off again 😆
Yhe real purpose of this contest brought that out more in me. I hope rveryone can be enciuraged to join this game but moreso in giving genuine comments and be more engaging.
haha well you came pretty darn close @leeart!! What an awesome job you did though, and you're right, @abh12345's League does do a lot to encourage us to leave genuine commenting. Congratulations again...you really deserve it!
Is that what this takes? Insomnia? :) I might as well just surrender right now, I guess. I love getting my 7-8 hours of sleep waaaaaaay too much.
Congratulations on 2nd and all of those comments. Wow. Just. Wow. :)
Insomnia paid off because the queen still has the crown lol!
She definitely keeps different hours than I do. :) She also very much deserves the crown while taking some time off for all the effort she gives on top of everything else she's experiencing in life.
That said, you had a very impressive debut. You were the only one other than her to get over 30,000 points this week, and the amount of comments you had is the most I've ever seen. :)
That's why I admire her for that. She puts a lot of effort in everything she does.
I guess I was forcing myself too much to others to hopefully get an interaction. It works to some and I always end up talking more to the same people who I talk to regularly.
That's been my experience so far with interactions here, too. Some people will, others, not so much. I don't see any harm in testing the waters, though. You're still trying to engage, even if people don't have the time or seem to want to engage.
Yes, she does. I don't think I could keep up.
Let's just keep doing what we're doing and see what happens. See you at the top again @glenalbrethsen :D
My pleasure and well done again!
You have finished so far ahead this week, and I think you can afford two days off this time!
Everyone in the 2nd list is certainly doing their bit, well done all!
Ps. The laptop is lifeless, not what we need at all! :(
Thanks again; it's becoming a little obsessive I think...well I know...you just have to look at the numbers to see it's a bit of a problem haha
Ugh!! That's a horrible feeling when your computer dies! I hope @osm0sis gets everything recovered! Not a nice way to spend your day ;)
I think the universe is trying to tell me something...
At least for today anyway :)
You can relax a bit this week :)
While we stress as the laptop isn't coming back to life!
oh no! I've had that happen before...it's horrible!
I'm going to slow it down this week...I think :)
Really? Cannot imagine it! With all the genuine interaction you are having. I guess people will miss you, when you are not online!
Well saying and doing are two completely different things ;) I doubt in the end that I will because I start to miss everyone too!
I was thinking about trying to win the 2nd league. But that looks fairly impossible as long as you are around 😀
Congrats with your 3rd win!
haha Well the same goes for me regarding the 1st League:)
Congratulations to you as well!
What do we need to do to overthrow the Queen haha
I see you're recruiting Mav!! :)
ahahha you can't blame me for trying lol! but it seems impossible unless I do the dance that will make you sick for a week haha
hahaha that's funny!!
We need to have a better strategy then Lynn, later this week I will write a short post about this subject.
Congratulations on 3 weeks in a row, that is amazing. I also think it is great how many people are joining.
Thank you @bashadow! I'm beginning to feel very attached to it haha
Congratulations to you too!!
I'm just happy to still be in the top 11. Looks like a lot of people are learning how much fun it is to comment on post and engage the people.
Yes, our secret is out ;) I'd say we have all done a good job at newbieresteemday; there are sure a lot of our team members on that list!
I think we should throw in the towel already haha
Congrats!! You are a rock star.
Thank you @thedarkhorse!! Always wanted to be Joan Jet or Pat Benatar lol (How's that for aging me haha)