I am not sure I have gotten into a "rhythm" on steemit, I bitch, I complain, I point out, and I also post, and comment. There is a lack of response on some post, okay well on most of mine, and I am certainly under no illusions that all the voters actually read or even take time to look at the post.
When it starts to sort of bother me I just figure my post is one small article in a doctor office magazine that sits on the table for 2 years before being tossed in the circular file 13 container. The doctor or office manager likely subscribed to the magazine and never even cracked the cover open, yet there could have been a lot of people that read my article, just did not say anything or vote on it or anything like that. Well that is how I try to see it sometimes. Sometimes it is with a different vision, but we wont go to the dark side with this post or many at all.
I did like how you got all those words in your five minutes. I think this week come sunday I will be out of the mid 50's range, I seem to be commenting a lot this week.
Hey, @bashadow.
Maybe we'll trade places then. I've not been doing much commenting at all this week. :)
I'm probably not there yet, but I'm feeling like I should be at a point where I have a decent amount of people reading my stuff every post. That's simply not happening. Last week I wrote a post that most people only looked at the picture before commenting on. I knew it because the picture wasn't what people thought it was. I didn't even do it deliberately, but people would have to read a good ways down the post to see what the picture actually was.
I guess that was more disheartening than I thought. I'll get through it. I guess I'm back to expecting too much, and I know better.
I think it was the beetles had a song about paperback writer - okay I had to go find the video:
Attention span on steem is rather thin at times. I am still surprised when I make a post and I get two comments. Most people do not read the post just look, comment and maybe vote in hopes of getting a vote back, that has been shown time and again by people throwing in little easter eggs and no one noticing even when it is spelled out in the post.
Most of the time I fully read, some times I skim, and sometimes I just move on after a full read. You know how to put money in and take money out of steem fiat conversion, I have yet to learn or really even have a desire to figure it out yet, so a different outlook maybe.
I doubt I will get in the 20's this week, but better than 57-48 range of the past couple of months, maybe lucky 33, but if I make it there that number will be changed or something.
Enjoy the oldie, I really don't like the beetles much, but still know some of their songs.
I actually like a lot of Beetles songs, so thanks for the musical interlude. :)
I don't really skim anything, but there's plenty I don't read after looking at the title, or a first line or two. There's also plenty I do read and then basically upvote or not without a comment because I don't have anything to say.
As a writer, I'm trying to come up with things that engage, but it's tough to know what that is, so I try to shotgun it a little bit. I think the target keeps moving because people keep coming and going.
I'm not sure I got this part, but yes, I have invested some money into STEEM, which means fiat to alt coin to STEEM. I've yet to take any of it out though. I'll need to at some point, but I'm concerned what taxes are going to look like.
I am still not sure any crypto coin has real monetary value, I still see it all as monopoly type money. I know one day I will change on that, I am slowly changing on that point over time, I keep looking at the Value of my account and sometimes it goes up, goes down, and just kind of hangs there.
I think people on steem blockchain are still trying to learn how to engage with people and their post. A lot are concerned with critiquing another persons work, because then that person may downvote their comment or make them feel bad about the comment they left,it happens often enough.
One of the nice side effects of Ashers Engagement League is, is that it is allowing people to see that engagement can be rewarding and that while there can be some unpleasant side effects for the most part they are very rare. We are creating the engagement etiquette so to speak with his league. I see his name and the league getting mentioned in more and more post when the post concerns the need for engagement. So as members, even in passing, we sort of are like I said, setting the etiquette.
I still have a hard time going more than 2 or 3 responses deep, but I am getting better at comment/reply/comment/reply thing. (see three deep on this one I think)
I am mostly an optimist, I know things change, but mostly I see the changes as a good thing.
re: crypto
Well, it is like monopoly money, if a bunch of people got together and said monopoly money is worth something. That's all that's really going on. That's all that's ever gone on as far as fiat goes. We just kind of communally agree that the dollar is worth something, mostly because it's backed by the United States government, not because the dollar is actually worth anything. That's not to say the US government's word is worth that much either, so on we go perpetuating a system that's more smoke than anything else.
re: learning
I suppose it's possible we don't even have the real engagers here yet. We have a few bloggers, some artists, musicians, etc., but we seem to have a lot more people who are interested in crypto, blockchain, dev work, etc., which makes a rather uneasy mix.
re: side effects
Rather than side effects, I would rather engagement etiquette be a primary effect, one of the real reasons why the league exists in the first place. And the more Asher's name and that of the league can get noised about, the better.
re: two or three responses
It's tough to do if one or both parties doesn't know how, or doesn't want to. I don't get as many of those as I used to either, primarily because I'm not trying to push a conversation that either has nowhere to go, or that the other person is basically signing off to. So, no worries there. It's not just what you do with the conversation, but what the other person does, too. Now, there are people who just kind of ignore that and carry on the conversation anyway, but I'm afraid I'm not that gregarious. :)
Meant to do this too. :)
!ENGAGE 100
Pretty much it in a nutshell I would say, and thanks for the tokens. I feel we are getting more engagement on post than in the past, and I hope it continues to grow.
Maybe it doesn't take kindly to edits on existing comments. Let's try again.
!ENGAGE 100
Here are your
ENGAGE
tokens!To view or trade
ENGAGE
go to steem-engine.com.