The Curation and Engagement Leagues ๐ - STEEM prizes & steem-bounty available! ๐
Welcome to this weeks Engagement and Curation leagues, kindly sponsored by the awesome @curie!
This past week has been interesting to say the least. The introduction of Resource Credits had a huge impact on how many of us could engage here on Steem. It seems like the creases of HF 20 are steadily being ironed out, and hopefully normal service can resume for all over the next week.
The results/scoring has not been altered, but in coming weeks adjustments may need to be made, depending on feedback from you guys.
Thanks as always for taking part, and good luck!
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The league tables are reset each week and so any time is a good time to join!
On your marks, get set, curate!
The Engagement League - Sponsored by @curie
This league is not based around financial rewards and relates to engagement.
Everyone currently on my master list has a chance here - including those powering down or dealing in delegations over the past couple of weeks.
I've used some metrics (which is the fancy way of saying that made up some numbers) relating to:
- Posts (P)
- Comments - number of (C)
- Comments - replies to replies - depth > 2 (C R)
- Number of people spoken to (PS)
- Comments - length in characters (C L)
- Witness votes (W) (for those proxying witness votes, your total is always 30)
- Up-votes to others (V)
- Up-votes to different authors (U V)
- Self-votes - a (getting smaller each week) minus score for this one sorry! (S V)
Firstly, if you are placed in the table above then you among the top 25% of the league entrants!
HF 20, or no HF 20, Resource Credits or no Resource Credits, it doesn't make a blind bit of difference - Congratulations to this weeks Engagement League winner, @janton! ๐
At around 600 SP, @janton was still able to engage enough to top the league. Is everyone feeling a bit better today?!
@glenalbrethsen, back with a bang is in 2nd this week. Was this a chance to top the table? Either way, a fine effort. Welcome back Glen!
And in 3rd spot, @cryptoandcoffee with what I think is his highest placing so far. Well done!
Excellent engagement levels also from @ancientknowled3, @smithlabs, @veryspider, @abh12345, @themanwithnoname, @delishtreats, @newageinv, @steemflow, who will all be receiving some STEEM this week.
Those without a self-vote (from their main account at least! ๐ฑ) and placed in the top ranks will also receive a little STEEM. These people are: @melinda010100, @davemccoy, @gillianpearce, @erikah, @brittandjosie, @bashadow, @lynncoyle1, @bengy, and @scrawly.
Well done everyone!
The Curation League / Rewards based
Please find the rules in a previous post.
The end column is what I think is a genuine indicator of how well you are financially working the curation game with the tools, including vested Steem Power, that you have at your disposal.
Congratulations @arv1!
๐ Prizes ๐
The Engagement League
0 votes to self - Spot Prizes
Lucky number 25 in The Engagement League
A @steembasicincome share, courtesy of @fullcoverbetting, goes to @maquemali!
Thanks Peter and well done @maquemali!
Finally
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Yaaayyy the king @glenalbrethsen is back๐๐ still keeping his place even in the hectic forky day @janton ๐ howdy and congratulations๐ I can see the total score reduced to half from usual scores.. but glad that the league still managed to run๐ congratulations everyone๐
And what happened to lucky number seven?
Hey, @cicisaja.
Thanks for the shout out and kind words. I'm not sure if this means I'm back, given the week we all had, but I'm looking forward to a better one this week and seeing where things end up. As far as I know we don't have any other major changes taking place on STEEM this week, so hopefully no surprises.
How are you?
I'm doin fine now, I keep steeming as usual after the RC full yesterday and try to keep my stage of engagement as usual, won't comments under 40 characters and choose not to comment if I found it not so interesting to put up.quality over quantity and it would be good if I can collide the quality and quantity.. hehehe. I really hope to see you back @glenalbrethsen with your long and insightful comments, the HF20 doesn't seems stop people from spam comment at all, LOL.
I'm glad all is well, at least on STEEM anyway. No fun sitting there not being able to do anything while you watch others posting and commenting.
Quality and quantity colliding would be awesome.
Well, I'm here for the moment. Who knows what tomorrow will bring, or for that matter, the rest of the today. But I'm working on another week of engagement, so we'll see where it all leads.
If the spam comments are still around, then HF 20 wasn't that necessary, because all of what we just went through was to stamp that out. Probably not helping that everything with resource credits is 90% while the patch lasts. I'll be interested to see how long they go with that, and whether or not they choose to ease out of it or just pull it completely.
Somehow.. I think the new RC system won't stop the bots from spamming and many accounts still posting more than 4 posts a day without interactions and crappy posts... but at least, the forky day has shown us the real engagers and steemians ๐ nothing can stop human to keep steeming.
Would love to see you with the green mark each week, and I'm struggling to drain my RC because not so many interesting posts lately.
There are a couple of posts, one from Asher, actually, which seem to indicate while they've not been stopped entirely, the spam accounts are being slowed down quite a bit. They obviously took advantage of the quick power up that took place, along with the 10 x boost from the last patch, but then quickly ran out of resource credits after that.
So, since Steemit Inc made the last change to accommodate activity by the lower SP accounts who actually are human and not spammers, they still have some life, but won't be anywhere near where they were before, as long as their SP remains below at least 50 SP, and in most cases, that probably won't be anywhere near enough to do what they've been doing.
Hopefully, that's what we'll all be seeing as this new fork goes on, but if not, then the removal of the 10 x booster patch may come sooner than later.
Well, thank you for wanting to see me higher up on the list. It might help your RC draining if I were to actually get back into a posting routine. With all that's gone on around here and in my life the lat seven weeks or so, I'm afraid I'm not nearly at the production level I was.
I guess we'll see what this week brings. No bad surprises would be nice. :)
stop worrying about the RC.. I failed draining my RC again, I put many comments today, but the RC approximately enough for a hundred of comments, a hundred of votes and a hundred of transfers/power up.. LOL, thanks God I still have the SP delegation from Asher and Matt, I'm gonna need that to get back to the green mark list.. LOL, just let us take advantage of this situation, more deep engaging better then just random comments, I don't aim for the prize anymore.. I'll take it as bonuses for being loyal on Steemit, I found many wonderful and important information easily now, maybe because some of the posters on Asher's list a bit slower.
Enjoy your Steemit journey, ready or not ready we need to be prepared for a more surprise from steemit.inc
And the placings are full of the usual suspects too for the most part.
Lucky number 7 was a 3 week thing as a trial, it may be back soon :)
Now I'm a usual suspect, according to @abh12345 ๐๐. Am I indeed or just howdy janton? ๐
Yes I would class you as a usual suspect these days @erikah :D
Well, at least I know ๐
@cicisaja, the scores are reduced because of the number of comments in my humble opinion. Howdy janton used to have 1200 - 1400 comments. Now he and anybody else has more less due to the mess of this week.
I'm glad everything worked out (apparently) and the league goes on! We need this ๐
You were right @erikah ๐ and I hope that the new system would at least stop people from commenting under 40 chars๐ but.. I don't think so.. I keep seeing crappy post and crappy comments anywhere since the HF20 except from steemitboard๐ข
That won't happen, unfortunately! These people don't know much, don't understand much.
Awesome Asher! Its great to see the normalcy return and your league results certainly gives us that feeling :) ...
Congrats to @janton and @glenalbrethsen for continuing to keep setting the standards for everyone to follow! This past week will go down as probably one of the toughest weeks for a long time, and you both shined like the stars you are! Awesome job :)
And Asher, thank you so much for having the league and for the way it brings all of us together!!!
I also get to say this again for the first time in a long time, so thank you also for the prize for the no votes in your league. I have donated them to @friendsofgondor in your name so that they can add to the upvote of the Stewards of Gondor and help those great folks (like you)! :)
I hope you have a terrific rest of your weekend and a wonderful week ahead!
Cheers Dave!
I think a few people are feeling a little out of place, but hopefully this will pass and we'll all be back on form very soon.
Thanks for donating my prize to you to @friendsofgondor, I'll match you on that now as I'm grateful you set that account up, and I expect many feel the same.
Have a great week too!
Hey Asher! Cheers to you too :) ... And that was a very nice thing for you to do (and thank you)... but I'm happy to give in your name because frankly you already give everyone enough... Keep some for yourself and make it out on the other side of this dip even stronger! We need you :)
Oh, sure, @davemccoy. That's me. Mr. Shining Star.
I came out of the gate pretty good on Monday, but thenโwell, you knowโand the next thing I know, I'm just trying to get myself motivated again. It's like, dude, stop messing with my mind!
At any rate, it's nice to get into the Top 3 again, and maybe this week things can just settle down so I can settle in. Not holding my breath, though. I find too many things derail me. I don't want to be derailed. I want to stay on the rails. Rails are good. :)
Any closer to your big reveal? Or, maybe I should whisper that. Are you any closer to your big reveal? :)
lol... no.. the HF20 stalled it for a bit :P
And yes I think the rails are good.... hahaha... Please stay on them and if possible keep both hands on the wheel and the foot near the break too :D
and yes you are Shining Star! Do put on your sunglasses and enjoy the view as you pass over us and give us a big wave!!!
Good to talk to you and hope to see you stay on those rails this week, it was a pleasant surprise to see you in the top 3 again for sure :D
Okay, fine. I'll just keep waiting... and waiting... and waiting...
That sounds like I'm shooting star now. :) Let's just say I'm working on getting back in league shape and call it good.
Rails good. Hands on wheel. Foot near brake. I thought I was along for the ride. A passenger. Didn't know I was the engineer. I'd run a tighter ship.
Not too much longer... Its coming ;)
And ok ok... you are getting back in shape and that's a great thing to see. I know you thought you just came for the ride, but we move much fast with you as the engineer to get this thing moving! Now if we could get @ned to actually listen to the engineer :)
aaaah great work everyone ! despite the rough week !! <3
congrats to all participants and keep up the good work, now that we're just coming out of the storm, we need all hands on deck to entice and reassure people that steemit's back on track :D
grats king of engagement @janton! and nice to see @glenalbrethsen back in serious contention as well \o/
thank you asher, @abh12345, as always for hosting and compiling <3 <3 <3
Thanks @veryspider :D
It was an unsettling week, but the Leagues are still here and the table doesn't really look much different from previous weeks.
New accounts might struggle, but there are plans to find the keen new starters and give them a boost.
Well done!
Hey, @veryspider.
Thank's very kindly for the mention. I'm not so sure about being in serious contention, but it is nice to be back in second after weeks of not really doing much. Not that last week was all that much better, but I guess when most people can't do anything on STEEM for most of the week, it helps. Let's not do that again, shall we? :)
Hope all is well with you. Are you able to do again what you normally do in a week?
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Congrats to @maquemali with the lucky number 25! Your SBI share has been sponsored!
It was a difficult week for all of us! But if I do look at the engagement this league is showing, a 1 day outage doesn't stop you all from being engaged!
@glenalbrethsen is heating it up, @janton will face a though battle to stay at the top of the league! Curious who will win it next week!
It is also great to see some familiar names in the top 10! Most of them are visiting my blog :) Thanks for that!
Another great thing you did @abh12345! Keep it going!
Cheers,
Peter
Thanks as always for sponsoring the league Peter, it's a nice bonus for one lucky punter each week.
Good to hear you have visitors from the EL hitting your posts!
Hey, @fullcoverbetting.
Thanks for the mention. At this point, I think Janton's time atop the league is safe. Even today I'm being distracted with other things, and since I take at least one day off a week, can't really afford to be off on others for very long, if I want to try to approach his numbers.
Still at the Lucky Number 25 sponsoring, I see. I'm glad you can continue to do that. How are things with you?
Congratulation @janton @glenalbresthlen and @cryptoandcoffee..what a terrific week even with so many hiccups...you guys rocks....
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Hey @steemflow.
Well, thanks for the mention. The rocking on my part is probably by default, since so many weren't able to interact like you normally would even after Tuesday's issues got fixed. Anyway, I'm hoping for a full week of just getting out there and doing. Then we can see what happens after that. Janton's probably rejuvenated and chomping at the bit after all the forced time off. He'll probably exceed all of his normal numbers just because of all of the unused energy the last few days.
If you see something glowing all the way from Texas, that's him, setting typing speed records. :)
Hahah...thats quite understandable..only glowing star in texas...called janton...even during limited resoyrce credit he keep himslef on for whatever strength he had....showing the curiosity and zeal in his engagement.
I heard of you being the topper of the EL...and thd sudden rise of you on top proves it....loved the way things are going....many of us are already seeing you on top this week.
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"Many"? Well, that will definitely be something, unless janton manages to actually run out of RCs. At any rate, I'm going to need to pick up the pace from here on out since yesterday was about half what I did last Monday. As long as we're not in for any surprises, I should be able to improve on what I did the rest of last week.
So, we'll see, but I'm not counting on anything at this point. According to my math, I need to be up in the 600 comment range in a week at least, and where I am now, I'm not going to be anywhere near that. :)
The character counts matter more i belive than. Cmments number. Looking at size of each comment...i thinkni am not wrong ๐ in expecting a surprise this week๐
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Characters counts definitely matter, but there is a balance between that and PS and CR, too. Comment counts are more of a consequence of who you talk to and how deep you comment.
So, as you said, we'll see. I'm not expecting a surprise this week, though. That would be great, but I'm not having any better of a day today than I did yesterday. Need to figure this out, though. :)
Thanks, @abh12345. I know it was a crazy week and most people weren't able to engage like they normally would, but it was still fierce competition. I'm impressed that I was able to get back into the top 10 since it's normally a close group. Congrats to all the other winners. @janton, well done bouncing back from the hiatus. @glenalbrethsen you're hot on his heels and keeping him worried! @cryptoandcoffee great consistency and great placement this week!
Today is also an historic day because I actually placed in the curation league! It may have been absolutely dead last of those who get mentioned, but I made it! Ha ha. Here's the proof.
Damn, I wish I had thought of a screen shot the first week I made it on that league. I can't remember if it was like you dead last on the list or two up from the bottom, but I did make it 3 times to the list. Just for voting, and I have no clue how I was using my voting during those times, congrats on the double header, both list.
I don't want him worried, @themanwithnoname. I want him calm, cool and collected and doing his thing. Without a care in the world, safe in the knowledge that he alone stands atop the engagement league mountain. He starts getting worried, then there's no telling how many points he'll score and then it will just plain be impossible to ever topple him, unless he flat out decides he's had enough. :)
Oh, and congratulations on making both lists! I haven't seen my name on their for a long, long time. I started to pay attention to it after that and fell off completely. So apparently looking at it makes your name go invisible. I'm pretty sure some form of physics would support that theory. :)
That's a good point. I think we should all take the week off so his score just looks stupid-high and he's embarrassed by it. Then he'll start taking time off and we'll be able to swoop in and win it. Probably not me, but maybe you could.
I changed my auto-votes to line up with HF20. Before I was voting earlier so my favorite authors would get an extra boost. Since that boost now goes to the general rewards pool, I figure that I might as well get that curation, so I moved it back.
I don't doubt that your theory is correct. As soon as a baseball player or golfer starts thinking about their swing, it gets all messed up. I think the same applies to the curation league. ;)
I think it's a good call to move the auto-votes back. No sense in my mind whatsoever of sending it back to the rewards pools only for someone else who you weren't voting for anyway to end up with it somehow. One step forward and two or three back. Why we can't just have it go where it's supposed to go without jumping through hoops is beyond me, but I'm not a rocket brainchain scientist. :)
I think it would be nice if we could designate. If we want our whole vote to go to the author and none to the curators, wouldn't that be nice? I think so. I'm not in charge though.
I, themanwithnoname, do solemnly bequeath this zero point oh three Steem Thingy Unit (STU) to sir janton for yon twelfth level reply sent to me via STEEM post, this first day of the tenth month in the 2018th year of our Lord. No portion of this bequeathing is to pass to any other individual or entity, including myself, but be reserved en summa for said sir janton. Any breach in this trust and contract between myself and sir janton is punishable by death.
I think that about does it. :)
Sounds good enough for me. It has fancy language and the breaching of said contract is punishable by death. What more could you ask for in a contract? Ha ha. Nah, I'd take grace over death any day. :P
Don't make me walk the plank!
Wait. Did we just cross the comment streams? I think that's bad. Very, very bad.
I figured if it were written in Ye Olde English it would sound better, only it's kind of a psuedo-Ye Olde English, or maybe even a neo-Ye Olde English. The point is, it kind of swerves in and out of it.
Okay, we could call it punishable by almost death. That way, there's still a chance of revival if the poor contract breacher (In this case, I was mostly referring to unannounced chicanery by Steemit Inc et al, seeing how you should be able to bequeath and dis-bequeath as you see fit) were to fall within the magical healing range of Miracle Max.
Now that I think of it, I really should have added some eths to this. I think it would have been more proper, and thus more official, had I said bequeatheth. And maybe thrown in some thees, thous and thuses.
howdy sir Asher! I'm in shock that I'm in the top spot, I thought with such restrictions in commenting that I'd be lucky to make it into the top 5 but congratulations to everyone on the list working through this messed up week!
Especially you Asher, you had to have had so many things going on in addition to your job and look at your placement this week, wow! Now THAT'S amazing. Thanks so much for keeping the Leagues running and we are all very thankful to the amazing curie for the sponsorship!
Congratulations once more champ, even the RCs didn't stop you :)
I'll be quite busy for the month of October, and so making my excuses now if I don't reach the green zone this month. Cheers!
haha! sir Asher we are all supporting you no matter how well you do and we all marvel at how much you can accomplish so you don't have to make any excuses! but have a great week sir, you are a great role model!
Thank you @janton! I shall have a good week and I hope the same for you :D
Great to see that you got the post out as usual. Bad week for myself but to be fair I've been fairly lazy and then the hardfork hit. Congrats to all the people who made it to the top of the charts and surprisingly or not it is a lot of the same names regardless.
It will be interesting to see if the new resource credit system has any effect going forward. I know there were some issues for the smaller accounts activity at the beginning but hopefully they have been resolved at this stage.
Time for a reboot myself and get backup to the green spots in the chart.
Many eyes on this at present, I hope the same is true too.
Hopefully you and others (including myself) can pick up on motivation in the coming weeks as things settle.