RE: 10,000 Comments And The Water's Fine
Hey, @whatsup.
Thank you. :) I hope it's meaningful to others and not just me. Especially since there are plenty of users who are far ahead of my all-time count.
Like you at No. 320 and some 13,000 comments. Woohoo!
re: success of STEEM
It's tough to say just what all matters price-wise. We can have all kinds of drama (ha ha), and we can have all kinds of successes or failures on chain, and the price doesn't seem to do much. So, I don't know.
However, it definitely does matter when it comes to overall morale and productivity and user experience if people are engaging and posting and curating. It makes it worth it to be here and producing more times than it doesn't. And maybe, all of that will begin to matter more to investors when we're sitting at a million or more active users, rather than 1.15 million dead fish and counting.
While I agree we have too many dead fish in our past, I think the way many talk about retention is plain silly.
There is no reason to assume that all accounts created were meant to blog and didn't stay.
An account is a wallet, it is testing account, it is a name saver, it could be an accident or a fail at logging in.
An employee that left, a scammer that we succeeded at removing...
Anyway, you get my point. Retention is not based on the total number of accounts created. Most websites have some criteria on what a user is to track retention and it isn't the creation of the account.
While I get triggered by those who spew misleading data about our retention there is no question we could do better and should strive for improvement.
I think you are one of the people contributing to making this a fun place to engage and hang out and I appreciate it.
re: retention
All very true. Tough to know what true retention is given that list of different uses you cite and what else there may be to look at. Just thinking about, that would be a fair undertaking to account for all users. However, as you say, there is definite improvement to be had, and we both know plenty of people since we started that are no longer active on any part of STEEM.
re: fun place
Very kind of you. :) You're one of the leaders in that department, and I appreciate that.
I would love to see some criteria that accounts for whether or not the account showed any interest in blogging.
Did it log in?
Did it post x number of times..?
I don't know and can't think this hard on a Friday, but usually, companies use some filters to determine what they should count. It's never... EVERY ACCOUNT EVER MADE.
I should actually give drama tokens for those who imply that. :)
Carry on, I got sidetracked and triggered. :)
Maybe you should give out tokens for that. I was kind of wondering if DRAMA was starting to appear here. :) Instead it was engagement.
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