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RE: The Curation and Engagement Leagues ๐ - STEEM prizes & steem-bounty available! ๐
Congrats again @themanwithnoname I think sooner or later ole @janton will have to go weed eat or something. I noticed you and I are both the victims of the comedyopenmic nomination this week. Maybe we should do something along the lines of the turbo typer being overgrown with vegetation while typing his fingers to the bone. Meanwhile poor ole Jack is in the corner doing the peepee dance.
I see him and @glenalbrethsen going back and forth with this all summer. It really is amusing to watch.
Thanks! It was satisfying to break the 30,000 point mark. I don't know that I'll do it again. It required a lot of constant work. I don't think that's sustainable for me.
Supposedly Janton was weeding this last week, so I wouldn't bet against him.
Yeah, I really enjoyed getting to write something for comedyopenmic. I'm trying to figure out what I want to write for this week. It was a lot of fun, and it didn't hurt to win a little prize money either. I think you should give that story a go!
Thanks I will defiantly have to come up with something since this is second time being nominated. The rules page has me confused. It says 24 weeks that don't seem right I was assuming each round runs a week. I better go back and read more carefully.
Anyway good job on all that engagement. I need to sneak up a few notches next week. See you at the top..... hopefully
I think they had originally thought of running the contest for 24 weeks with winners every week. We'll see what happens next week. I haven' heard if they're ending it or not.
I hope you're able to score really high. Just keep after it.
Thanks so much I can be a bit dense with learning to do a new contest. I did some investigating. Looks like there is plenty of time ... they just got a nice delegation from curie. I am off to think of something humorous. Thanks again.
Hey, congratulations on the prize with comedyopenmic. That was great! I need to see what the other person posted, but you did get second place, right? They decided to give me a door prize for my efforts, so after being told I wouldn't be eligible for anything, it feels good to be recognized with something. I think I'd like to do that on a regular basis. Just need to come up with it. It seems to be harder to do when it's intentional than when it's off the cuff, but we'll see.
@glenalbrethsen Why did they say you were not eligible ? I need to do an entry this week but am like you. I throw out jokes playing off other peoples posts or comments. Trying to be funny deliberately is a whole other thing. I would hate to come up with one and not be eligible.
If you haven't already, it's worth going and tracking down their original rules post. They generally have it linked in either the new week's contest post or in the result one.
In my case, I failed to see the part of it where it said the entry needed to be totally original. While I'd say 99% of it was, the joke itself is well known and even published. So, even though I came up with 2000 words of backstory for our thieving convicts, the joke wasn't mine. I did get a door prize, though, which was very nice of them.
Yeah. It's strange, but the comedic juices flow when someone else is saying something. I have had some success when I've been writing in script form, or a dialogue back and forth between two imaginary people. I might have to go that route. I just need to shorten it up. Too much time for something that might not pay off. There's a bang for the buck quotient to be met. :)
I don't think I got second place, but I got a prize. I'm really thankful for that. I see they gave you one as well. I'm glad you got some recognition out of it. You can always wait for it to be off the cuff and enter when you get inspired.
I'm not sure how much back and forth janton and I are going to do. His number of comments is going to make it difficult, especially if he's keeping the character count up. However, I will do my level best, whether he's overgrown by weeds typing his fingers off or he's out in his yard working, to get the CL record back. One way or the other, that one is mine. Then, if I manage somehow to get back in first place, I hope it's only after he's done his best, too. Just not that satisfying if both aren't running as fast as they can. Plus, who knows who else is going to show up around here and blow it all out of the water. Maybe you? You just never know. :)
I just may give it a shot,one of these days when I have a whole week to devote to it. I think that really is the kind of thing I would have to plan in advance and hit the ground running on the very first day. I am thinking before I put that much effort in we better wait and see what the scoring changes consist of. That could be a game changer.
I can see a power up being factored in but thinking about it I hope it wouldn't carry too much weight. Just because then points could be bought instead of earned.
I should read back and see if he left any hints about the changes. ;0)
Well, in a conversation he and I had he was talking about drilling down even farther into the comments, rather than two down, hitting farther down. I don't know if that's what he's going to do or not.
I suggested he keep it the way it is and add back in the replies on other peoples posts, but I don't think he's actually looking to add a column as he is to replace one.
He generally doesn't leave a lot of clues, and he's pretty good at just not answering a direct question, either. He doesn't want people gaming the challenge and I don't blame him. The curation part of the leagues got hit by people creating scripts. I'd hate for anything similar to that to happen to the engagement side, though it has at least once. We start automating or spamming engagement, there's no reason for a league anymore.
I am surprised that there even is a way for that to actually happen. The comments seem pretty complex especially at the top of the list. I do agree with you though I am just figuring out how it all works, It would be sad to see it messed up now.
I didn't even realize he only counts two down. Some of the best conversations are only getting started at the second comment. At any rate it will be fun to watch a new spin added on. That really could end up being a game changer especially in the top 5 to 10
Okay, so this is how I understand it to work with the two down:
He sees the first comment on the post, and then the reply. On the next reply, which would be from the person who commented first, that's when the count begins. And then, it keeps counting as far as it goes down. So, subsequent comment is being counted.
I think where he was talking about doing is drilling down farther, into another layer, like fourth down. He was describing it as wanting to better measure true engagement. As it is, he may have come up with something else entirely.
So, every comment you make gets counted in the total comment category. Then, once that second comment begins, all of the subsequent ones get counted as replies.
There was someone a while back that was basically repeating the same information over and over with a little bit changed depending on who was being addressed. I don't know if it was automated or not. If not, it was type a sentence or two, then paste the main message.
That hasn't happened as far as I know since. I don't go in and look at what everyone is doing but I did this one because they're comment count was incredibly high and they won the league that week.
So, it is possible to do, but fortunately, not very often. The curation part though apparently happens a lot.
Thanks for taking the time to explain. That makes a lot more sense. I want to pay attention to how the scores work because I hope to shoot for top ten. Not often maybe once a month I almost made it last week so it is a doable goal. The two deep is just ice breaker sometimes especially on a good topic. Glad to know I won't have to change up the strategy.