For the Love of Comments. Win 50 SP Delegation for a Month
Shortly after I started on Steemit, I mentioned it to someone on Instagram who was very knowledgeable on his subject and had a very entertaining way of presenting it. His response was that he thought the people who used this site were a bit pretentious. At the time I was surprised, because I'd found everyone quite supportive and humble, but I realise now where this impression might have come from.
There is a lot of talk on here about posting quality and it's certainly true that this is certainly important, especially if you want to build up an audience. However, there is another side to this equation and that is that the audience. Some people are content consumers, some like to interact and I think this is a side that should be promoted and encouraged too. After all, without an audience, content producers are on their own.
There are lots of great initiatives happening at the moment which help promote and encourage emerging content producers. So as a little project, I want to take a different slightly different approach and encourage those who like to interact and comment.
I'd like to offer one month delegation of 50 SP to someone who likes to comment and interact on posts. If you would like to be that someone, then comment below telling me why comments and interaction are important to you, or nominate someone else who you think deserves the delegation. That's it.
I don't really like rules, so my only rule is no making fun of, or ridiculing, the fact that I can only offer a measly 50 SP. In my defence, I'm only a minnow, but hopefully as I grow I'll be able to offer a bigger delegation at some point.
As this is all about commenting, I'm hoping to get some nice interaction happening in the comments section, so extra brownie points can be gained by interacting with others and upvoting other comments that you support.
I will choose a winner in 7 days, when the post pays out.
I'd like to thank @tcpolymath for giving me the push to put the project into action. This will be my level up project for the @themesopotamians initiative run by him.
A very nice gesture and contest, I by the way am not entering. I think we need a few more contest like this, I am one of the steemit consumers, I like reading the content provided, and being able to leave a comment and a vote. I know there are a lot of people out there like me that would like to be able to leave a vote before commenting, or be able to provide a vote to a cool comeback comment but are a little short at the time on Steem Power, so the miss the chance. I hope you get a lot of entries and have a hard time deciding a winner.
Thank you. I hope so too! :D
You're one of the great examples of readers and commenters and a great example of why it should be just as rewarding to be one of them. You don't always have much time to post for the dollars, because you're so busy consuming, interacting and supporting.
Steemit is a strange animal. I was struck early on by automated robo-comments that seemed sincere, but something was not right - too generic, or it doesn't quite fit the context. I thought it was just a strategy to get a lot of followers, but often there was no one home at their blogs. Just copied science articles, food blogs, facts about animals, or flower photos.
I learned that comments and replies were the surest way to find the real people, and avoid the parasites using automation to skim rewards from the system. When I found communities of real people all actively talking to one another, I stuck around!
It sounds almost creepy. A robot world. I wonder if they were the paid resteem accounts. So glad you found some real people! Lol.
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Thank you! I hope HF20 is treating you all right. If you don't answer I will understand. According to steemd I have about 30 comments remaining. We will see how that goes!
awesome work promoting engagement. happy to rule myself out of prizes but engage on the post.
If people did not comment, do you think steem would work? I know for me, if there was no commenting and interaction, I would not stay. The 'audience' as you have put it are a critical part of the success of steem, and I for one think it is unfortunate that there is not more to support people working hard in this area.
Glad to see you working with @tcpolymath, heading over to his initiative now to show it some love
Thank you Paula.
It's great working with Tim. He does some pretty amazing work and I don't know how he manages to keep on top of everything. He's spreading himself over so many things, but still manages to keep us all motivating each other and I think that's been the best thing about his initiative.
It would certainly be a dreary place without the interaction. Even if you were earning a lot, it would be more of a chore to post than enjoyable.
Awesome idea my friend, If I'm not mistaken you are in the engagement league. I could recommend many of the people in there, I think @smithlabs could really put it to good use he's doing a great job, and he's running on about 30SP
I just put myself down for enrollment in the league. I'm not entirely sure if it's been accepted yet though.
Thank you for nominating @smithlabs. This is my first nominated entry. 😊
lol, I followed the rules, sort of. This looks like an awesome level-up, you seem to be doing pretty well with the Mesopotamians. I'm enjoying it as well.
It's a great little community. I love the motivation it gives me.
This is a great contest! I think one of the reasons some folks don't want to leave fb is that they are not so much producers as repliers/sharers. They don't blog per se and non blog content often gets shot down here.
Spot on. We have some great writers here who get discussion going in their comments sections, but others might just post something small in order to get discussion going. Some of them have great conversations going in the comment sections and they often spend time having a good chat on other's posts too. I value these people, but for some of the newbie promotional contests, they get ruled out on the length of content.
Thanks very much!
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Great initiative. Back when I arrived, curation rewards were at 50% of the post payout, and with the quadratic reward curve, finding quality was as important as producing quality.
Now it's all about the latter, which is a shame. Still, STEEM is an incredible currency, so the more people using it, the more useful it is.
One of many reasons I don't mind the giveaways and contests etc.
Thank you for your support as always Matt.
Finding quality is still as important as producing it, unfortunately it's not as well rewarded. However, with more people like you around, finding ways to reward it, maybe we can bring it back into fashion. ;) Thanks for being an inspiration.
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Nice initiative. Although I would like to nominate myself but I will be busy for the next 2weeks. If you have noticed I have tuned down my activities on the blockchain, this is because of my exams.
I do believe comments are there true measure of interaction on this platform. the upvotes and cash value of a post can be decieving because we have bots faciliting that. However, from the comments on get, they can weigh how much the information put out is absorbed.
So in a nutshell, comments are the fuel that drives engagement on the platform, and how much this platform grows depends on it.
I most certainly did notice and wish you the best of luck with your exams.
Thank you for finding a bit of time to comment here.
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I just got to knkw about @dustsweeper so days back but I do not fully understand their operations
Communication means a lot to me! To me the big draw here is to be able to not only communicate my own creative content, but to read the content of others as well! People here are trying so hard to be relevant! Some of these people are ill, and poor, and just need a few more Bitcoin in their pocket. Honestly, I admire so much the fortitude it takes to keep posting for a cent or two here or there, and I pray for those who really need more than that! Nice post!
It's certainly a lonely place without communication. Even if you were getting great money, it wouldn't be as fulfilling without the discussion. I write for a magazine now and again and the editors always give me little bits of feedback. The cheque even arrives with a little note with lovely thoughts on the article I wrote and something about how it relates to her, the editor in chief. It makes me feel valued in a way that the cheque cannot.
It's certainly a tough learning curve on here and I love the incentives that encourage communication. Have you seen @abh12345's curation and engagement leagues? I finally decided to enroll myself, although in all honesty I really don't think I'll even make the board. I don't spend enough time on here. Real world commitments!
Hi @minismallholding
Thank you for the positive mention of the Engagement League, it's great to see people spreading the word - I appreciate this very much. Cheers!
Thank you for the league. It's the only thing that I know of which promotes the engagement side at the moment. I'd love to be corrected though.
My pleasure 😊
Relating to engagement, we have @paulag's Redfish power-up league, and our witness @steemcommunity is about to start doing similar for minnows.
@danielsaori's runs a comment challenge, and @pifc also encourage engagement with a contest each week.
I'm sure there are others, perhaps searching #contest or #engagement will unearth them.
Oh yes, @curie's comment challenge and @c-squared (partnered with @steemcommunity) also run a contest for those registered in relation to my league.
Wow! Lots to investigate. Thank you.
I do like pifc, my only concern was the restrictions for those put forward; as in their posts have to be above a certain length. This isn't helpful to those who aren't lengthy writers, but still like to chat in the comments. Some photographers, for instance, post quality photographs, but don't want to alter people's opinions by saying too much about it. Instead they want to know what others have to say about it.
pifc does rock.
Lol! It certainly does! Can't cover everything with one contest, though (although it does a LOT). So it's great to see so many projects going.
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You already know what i love doing here on steem i.e. photography of course. I don't like to write much but i am often said i should do so. One of the reasons behind it is, i want people's comments and reactions on my photos and want to observe if they are seeing the same things that i want to show them. I don't want to force my perspective on others but rather want an observer's views on those.
Also, i am always looking for ways to improve and i feel i have done so, much by commenting and asking on other photographer's posts, be it about a gadget, their editing style or their shooting styles and settings.
Often i like to engage in something except photography i.e. something related to philosophy and way of life and love meaningful conversation on those topics, although i find myself being dumb on those. I feel commenting is the true way of appreciating a musician's composition or an artist's creation.
I like when you pose a little question with your photos. It encourages the feedback and comments without you giving your opinion to get in the way.
I have to admit that I was a bit disappointed with the commenters who pushed you to write more, because, as I explained in my post, I value your communication. There are some who post long or in-depth content, but reply to very few of the replies they receive. It puts people off even trying when that happens.
Your presence on this blockchain is a lovely thing and it's valued. I think the fact that you have gained in popularity so quickly its testament to that. Keep being yourself and don't change for the sake of others, only for yourself.
I see what you are saying there about wanting a viewer's real reaction to your art... For me, the difference between a few words and no words is great.
Reading and writing feels to me a lot like speaking, so when I see a picture with no words it's as if the artist walked into the room, silently hung up a picture, stepped back and observed it without a word. I might smile and nod, but would probably follow suit and not speak.
I follow an artist here with amazing drawings, but who rarely titles them, gives no description at all and does not reply to comments. It's his prerogative I guess, but I think not interacting reduces the votes he gets.
If you see my posts, you will know that i am also a few words type. I also feel that no words type miss out on their upvotes or reactions. But what i don't do much is write about 200-300 words, which is a norm here in steem.
Congratulations @cave-man, you are the winner for the month's delegation of 50 SP and a small @dustsweeper enrollment.
Will comment for brownie points.
Haha! The best type of brownie!
Have a marshmallow reward: