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RE: Curie Comment Contest ( October 7th - October 14th, 2018)
Well, thank you, again, @curie. It's always good to be honorably mentioned. :) Congratulations to everyone in the Top 9—@delishtreats,@audreybits, @macoolette, @stef1, @marblely, @janton, @fernando.lubezki, @steemflow and @scrawly. A lot of you are familiar names from another league engagement contest I know. :)
And congratulations to my fellow honorable mentioned: @minismallholding, @myskye, @veryspider, @fitinfun, @naideth, @cubapl, @neymarth22, @drawmeaship, @puravidaville, and @lynncoyle1. Good job all. Probably time we started moving up into the Top 9. What do you say? :)
Onward and upward.
Congratulations too to you @grenalbrethsen!
I like that! And yes, you folks can move up just like I did for this week's round. I used to be in the honorable mentions only so I was really surprised to my name on the third spot. I am very sure you folks can do it to! 😊
There's a little bit of mystery to this one—some kind of formula or secret sauce beyond just the number of comments—a quality algorithm of some kind. So while I'm sure making more comments will help, that's not the only criteria. I'd like to move up, though, just like everyone else. We'll see. Always plenty to try to find and comment on. :)
The big difference that I notice when I was just an honorable mention compared to being on the third spot is the engagement from the authors. Before, not much (almost none) of the authors are replying to my comments except for plain "thank you" or something like that. For this last week, our conversation went further with back and forth more comprehensive replies. I think that is one thing that we need to learn how to encourage further replies to our comments.
I hope this tip will somehow help you and the others. 😊
So, get to at least third place in the curie contest if I want longer conversations and more comprehensive replies. Got it. :)
I agree. We all can do a better job of prolonging conversations. Of course, the other person were conversing with has to be willing and able to go on, too. Able used to mean time. Not it includes RCs. So, it's even more of an art to get people to continue.
I'm glad to see that you're getting more interaction. That's awesome.
I think the tip that we need to answer for ourselves is "what comment will make the author interested to reply?" So I try to end my comment with open-ended or plain question with the hope that they will answer. 😃
that sounds like marching orders! Onward and upward! Cheers!
Hey, @carlgnash.
Maybe they are. :) I'd settle for enthusiastic encouragement, though.
Ducks beat the Huskies! Now there's Cougars to deal with. I guess the Ducks' fate is in their own hands, just the way it should be. I just hope they're up to it. They should be. They know they can line up with the best of them. They just have to do it.
I'm just astounded I made it into the HMs! It's just flying visits some days, but it's certainly a good way to find new people to follow. Stalk the curie comments!
hey @minismallholding.
Seems like they're ready made for stalking. :) I've been trying to dedicate at least part of a day to them but it's a lot of reading sometimes—so, sifting through them and then figuring out something to say can be time consuming. Learn a lot of things, though, and there's plenty of talented people, so it's a worthwhile thing to do.
Thank you, Glenal... Congrats to you too!
Great job to you as well @glenalbrethsen :)
So, I haven't really been paying too much attention to who all is involved with the curie contest, but then I saw you were and wondered if you've been at it long. I've been off and on for a few weeks, I think, with some interruptions in between. There's also the c-squared/cubed contest and abh12345's engagement league. Since they all kind of reward the same thing (commenting) and overlap to a degree, I figured, might as well see what I can do with it all, since commenting along with posting is what I'm trying to do anyway. :)
Haha… I actually was just mentioned by total randomness. I was mentioned a few months ago and had no idea what it was, then again just yesterday, yet had forgotten about the contest. I just read posts like yours, and some others and comment because it’s interesting stuff. Sometimes those posts happen to hit trails and I will randomly be recognized for commenting. It’s a pretty neat surprise.
Well, okay then! That's probably the best way to do it, anyway. Read what you want to read, get some STEEM here and there. :) I've been trying to do it on purpose, and there's a lot of wading through things that I'm just not interested in. All good stuff I'm sure, I'm just not the right demographic for it. So, anyway, I applaud your method (or lack thereof). It's great. :)
Haha… you just made me laugh out loud Glen!! It’s a little over whelming when you hit a trail yourself and all of a sudden you have 30 comments to respond to. This happens to me because usually I’m at work and can’t respond right away so they accumulate quickly. Oh well, the woes of hitting a curie trail :) hah
I've never had 30 comments at once from a post I needed to respond to, so that would be awesome. But then I'm not at work when it happens, either. I do notice when curie hits there is an uptick in comments from folks that normally don't comment on my posts, though, which is nice. I'd just as soon they'd hang around for more, but then, I can't get to everyone's posts myself, so can't really expect it to happen on mine, right? Even with most of the day to do things on STEEM, there's only so much you can do. Unless you automate some of it, like upvoting, and so far, I'm not interested in that.
Yea, I’m not interested in automatic voting yet either. Don’t get me wrong, I love interacting on Steemit, which is probably why I have 30 comments to respond to. It usually happen when I’m away for a full day or so and come back to a bunch of responses to my comments and then some comments on a new post. I think the interaction is what makes this place so special. We are the community! I wish I could get to everything I want all the time, that would make me a superwoman. The cool thing is we pick and choose what we want to read and who we want to engage with and hopefully we have the time to get to everyone we want. I guess that’s when automatic voting comes in handy. So far I’m good sifting through everything manually if you will :)
Yeah you are an example of someone who is just an engaged presence on the Steem blockchain and you have good comment interactions with a lot of other quality presences here - doing that has actually made you pop up in the queries I run to determine the contest winners here, so you earn Steem without even actually trying to participate :) It is great though - ultimately it means you are already doing what we at Curie are trying to encourage - we want people to read and interact with the authors we upvote :) Cheers - Carl
Thanks for noticing @carlgnash! Keep up the good work, we all appreciate it :)