Who's been chatting away since the hard fork?
'Engagement' got a mention in yesterdays @steemitblog post - a look at who's been active on chain over the past couple of months.
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With the amount of automated or copy/paste commentary on chain, which I think is actually down since the price fall and RC utilization, just finding the top 50 commentators in recent times took a little while.
After filtering 342 accounts (by sight or a manual check) which frequently produce the same or similar comments, the list be low looks to be the 50 most verbose commentators since the 1st September 2019.
| Account | Comment Count | Character count |
|---|---|---|
| @tattoodjay | 10191 | 1991901 |
| @johannpiber | 6380 | 1727062 |
| @wakeupkitty | 4754 | 1389162 |
| @janton | 8575 | 1029088 |
| @firstamendment | 547 | 949790 |
| @chireerocks | 4771 | 910147 |
| @josemalavem | 824 | 830149 |
| @mad-runner | 3576 | 824891 |
| @dswigle | 2630 | 748994 |
| @brittandjosie | 2305 | 698847 |
| @valued-customer | 781 | 687717 |
| @artemislives | 1306 | 667957 |
| @silversaver888 | 2760 | 582156 |
| @mima2606 | 2398 | 581878 |
| @papilloncharity | 3515 | 576920 |
| @owasco | 1830 | 531079 |
| @thisisawesome | 1174 | 525867 |
| @sunlit7 | 824 | 519806 |
| @flaxz | 2081 | 467611 |
| @alucian | 1437 | 454893 |
| @xpilar | 2103 | 452022 |
| @fitinfun | 1254 | 443609 |
| @melinda010100 | 4653 | 438952 |
| @gooddream | 1629 | 438035 |
| @kryptodenno | 2322 | 436501 |
| @ryivhnn | 1065 | 424206 |
| @chekohler | 1697 | 414446 |
| @nonameslefttouse | 1260 | 413761 |
| @bluengel | 3712 | 412892 |
| @ackza | 862 | 406364 |
| @bitrocker2020 | 1163 | 405921 |
| @joeyarnoldvn | 2115 | 405193 |
| @carolkean | 1092 | 402927 |
| @ashikstd | 457 | 396613 |
| @jaynie | 1862 | 383103 |
| @markkujantunen | 959 | 378255 |
| @abitcoinskeptic | 1350 | 377184 |
| @yapcat | 305 | 369583 |
| @tarazkp | 1981 | 368375 |
| @alokkumar121 | 1920 | 368268 |
| @bozz | 1459 | 368109 |
| @riverflows | 1564 | 358218 |
| @galenkp | 1632 | 356810 |
| @josediccus | 1722 | 355113 |
| @steevc | 1571 | 350028 |
| @raj808 | 567 | 344608 |
| @double-u | 630 | 337646 |
| @qwerrie | 2009 | 335138 |
| @nickyhavey | 1002 | 331955 |
| @sacra97 | 1692 | 330814 |
Much of the first 10, and many others in the remainder of the list are also a part of the Engagement League. It's hard to say if they would be so wordy on Steem if this wasn't the case, but it's not a big deal either way. What is important is that they are taking the time to interact and engage. So much content goes without a single message and sometimes this content is earning well in comparison to the average, and seeing this work on the trending page is a bit saddening and likely gives the wrong impression to people looking in.
The introduction of Communities will hopefully bring the focus back to engagement, and something I would like to see is a maintained feed that show some of the most engaging content. At present, this is easily gameable but some of the (hopefully) upcoming community features could allow admins to remove automated/spammy commentary to give some order to a list of the Posts that people are commentating on. This doesn't necessarily mean that what is being said in the content is great/popular, and there could be a general wave of disagreement in the comments - nothing wrong with that though if it is constructive and not abusive though I think.
Well done to the folks in the list, it might be worth putting your name down here if you haven't already for the chance to collect some rather cheap looking STEEM each Sunday.
Have a good day all,
Asher
WOW I am surprised to see myself at the top of this list I honestly thought since i had left the league I had quietened down a bit and wasnt that active, clearly I was the wrong lOL
Overall, the standout commentator over the past 3 months or so, bravo!
I really was surprised when I saw this, but i know if you ran it ina week I would drop down :)
Wow!! We got a really chatty bunch here! That's fantastic!!
Talking of engagement, can I do a shameless plug here? I'm gonna do it anyway ^_^
I like taking things offline to add a bit of human touch and started to send postcards to some Steemians around the world. So far I've sent 12 postcards to 9 different countries. With Christmas coming, I'd like to send some Christmas cards out as I don't think we do enough of that nowadays. I did a post about this yesterday, if anybody is interested, please do check out my post. I won't post the link here, as that would be really shameless
Thanks for letting me do a plug here Ash, even though you haven't said Yes.... yet ^_^
That’s a nice community building idea, offline engagement 😁
@steemitri likes to send postcards and maybe he’d like something through his letterbox 😊
Oh I was scrolling and scrolling thinking that if Im not on the list Id be suprised and likely disheartened. I do try to be a good Steemizen! No suprise @tattojay right up there .. nice . Gawd I wish they would launch communities already!!! Whens the ETA?
You're an awesome Steemizen. I was surprised to also be on the list! :) It matters to validate people and ideas in a work of automated crap under every post.
Couldn't agree more. I feel a moral obligation to let people know they are heard by human beings!
You are there! :D
I'm not sure of ETA but they are in test now. You may see #hive-12345 or something on some post tags, I think @therealwolf used one yesterday. These tags are the IDs i think and will have a useful name soon enough.
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Yes I noticed - how dire!
I was thinking about a most Resteemed list over the past 3 months - perhaps some interesting accounts to watch there?
I would have bet I'd be way down or even not on this list anyway. So, I am really surprised, and seeing these numbers now I know why my fingers are !DERANGED bent like that 😉
There are a lot names I know from the league, and the number one is certainly no surprise to me 😉
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A fine effort and who knows, next time you might be at the top :D
Thank you Asher, but being at the top has never been my intention 😉
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It's always nice to find their name on a list if it's in the positive direction. After all, we are a social media platform and when I get comments on a post or more I respond to all comments in 95 - 100%.
It also has to do with sheer courtesy and is social
But some of my comments can be similar when I run competitions and reward the user who is creative with creating a narrative based on my digital image on their own blog.
As it is now, many people see their blog empty for comments day in and day out. And that's not motivating, we have to get better at being more social here so that list changes names more often
Hi, thanks for the message :)
Totally agree - creator should attempt to respond to everyone who makes a reasonable comment on their blog.
I noticed some of your comments are similar but they looked typed and not coded and sometimes there is not much more that needs to be said other thank 'thank you' :)
Yes @abh12345,
I write all my comments manually and they can be the same when I run a competition 🙂
Our Steem blockchain was originally conceived and "marketed" as a place where people can earn something of value for their written content @abh12345. Since it was widely reported, by all those “the rest of us” are supposed to look to for Steem “wisdom,” that upvoting comments was no longer a good idea after the EIP changes of HF
21/ 22, upvoting is now quite rare.As you say here, with a few notable exceptions, comment creation has now dropped … Hmmm. Surprise, surprise. I wonder what could be causing this? 😉
#sbi-skip
That was the original marketing plan and seeing as Inc needed testers, and those testers were at times paid a lot, I don't think the original home page text was too far wrong.
Things have changed a lot since then though. Steemit Inc must be pretty happy that the code is solid, and looking at what else Steem can do is (rightly in my opinion) being focused upon.
Price has to be factored in to the drop in commentary, but I think I know what you are getting at :)
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2 points!
I know this is completely off subject...but is the whole "UA" thing still in existence or relevant. I haven't heard anything of it in months and was wondering.
And of course, great post, and I'm sure the top ones that are in the engagement leagues definitely have that as a contributing factor for their positioning.😁 Have a great weekend brother!🤗
It's still running, but I don't think the original vision by the dev/s will be reached.
Thanks John, same to you!
That is a good list to create from time to time. I think that some of them might be spurred on by the EL, but many would be doing similar anyway. For me at least, I write as I do, League or no league :)
From time to time, when I can be arsed spending an hour filtering out garbage :)
I know you will carry on regardless, and hope there are enough doing this also.
I would like to be adding more onto the chain than I do now, but I am hoping that through communities i can post across them as needed without having to worry about my personal blog view. I have to play with them more though to understand what is possible.
Same here, but I think from Monday my engagement will fall off again - tomorrows league could be my highest placing for a while.
Might be my lowest :D
Then I could be ahead for once :)