When I started blogging — sometime in 1998 or 1999 — it was really exciting to have access to this ”instant publication” medium online; instead of waiting weeks or even months for magazine articles to appear, you could have something up and running, and in front of readers in a matter of minutes.
The excitement of instant publication, and being able to post ”a body of work” gradually gave way to the question ”Is anyone actually READING my stuff? Am I just shouting into an empty space?”
Maybe we try to tell ourselves that we are just doing it "for the love of writing," but that's not entirely true, is it? After all, why publish something, if it weren't your intention that someone read it?
Early blogging was somewhat complicated. The initial iterations required bloggers to install a separate utility if they wanted people to be able to actually leave comments. And visitors couldn't just leave comments, they had to go register an account with the comment utility.
Note to self: When people complain about Hive being complicated, remind them that the earliest days of BLOGGING were also complicated!
Anyway, back then getting a pair of eyeballs on your creative writing took a lot of effort. ”Page views” could often be counted on a pair of hands, and if 20 people looked at my stuff it was kind of exciting!
We have come a long way since then.
I was looking at the visitor logs for my oldest blog (active since 2002) and my three most popular posts over the years all have over 20,000 views per post. Which is quite a contrast to how often my posts here on Hive are viewed, although I have no way to look back at page views over the years to make comparisons.
That said, I do know that the people who get the daily ”most upvoted” badge from @hivebuzz tend to get 1200-1500 votes… and most of us are well aware that 90% of those votes are the result of automated curation, not actual people looking at a post.
One of my (non-specific) ambitions for 2025 is to get more engagement on my posts. Which might mean a return to an old practice of asking direct questions of readers, at the end of the post... actively inviting dialogue.
It might also mean making more use of recent features/services such as @commentrewarder to help boost engagement.
I have to say, though, that I really miss @abh12345's Curation and Engagement Leagues, which really was one of the best engagement generators Hive has ever had... by encouraging people to participate in engagement as a game. It was great because Asher actually developed algorithms to rate the difference between a "nice post" type comment, and a long and relevant piece of feedback in a comment.
I suppose this has long been one of my talking points because my entire reason for being here — in the first place — was tied to my long-time love of those early blogging days where we called it social blogging.
We shared stories about our lives, or the human condition, or our interests... and then discussed it.
It might have been clever by Facebook/Meta to declare "all you have to do is give it a thumbs up!" as if eliminating the need to actually talk to each other was a feature, rather than a setback!
Of course, before you can have a conversation about something, people have to read it...
And so, perhaps the challenge is twofold:
We have to get people to read our stuff — by making it interesting and compelling — and then we have to get people from outside Hive's borders to not only show up, but also be intrigued enough that they want to go through the protracted circus of creating (and understanding!) a Hive account.
Tall order? We can but give it a try!
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Ah yes, back "in the old days" you had to sign up for every new blogging site. What a mess in the inbox. And with most hobby bloggers being bad admins, your data was bound to end up in some dark web database at some point for sure.
All that is gone when using Hive. Sign up once, use it for every blog on the chain and even for your own and if done right, more secure than trusting your information to a company or hobby admin. That is one benefit we need to communicate to the "outside world". Those big players X and facebook have it, too. But we can also earn a little bit and have (not starting a discussion on that topic!) some form of democracy here to govern the chain.
Before I forget, thanks to @slothlydoesit for tagging me in his comment to make me aware of this post.
I never heard of an engagement league. Sounds very interesting. And looking at @tengolotodo I see a lot of genuine excitement and comments coming from such an event/organisation. But I also see lot of people commenting for comment sake instead of really engaging with the content. That is where @topcomment comes in. Brand new and already engaged on a comment to this post. I think that one is going places and I'm very cursious to see it grow.
There is a lot of good content here on hive and a cup of tea for every tastebud I think. We just lack a proper search engine and/or integration/connection to something like google or similar. And for reading "our stuff" those not (yet) on the chain don't even have to sign up. They can even view it through different frontends.
One big obstacle for people to join is still the understanding of what is actually going on here. How can a blog be on a chain. Earning crypto for simply commenting/thumb-upping/posting? Too good to be true. Must be a scam!? These are just some of the misconceptions that mix as first thoughts when someone reads on Hive.
And then there is the mystery of the hype. I think you chose your title well. It might be @commentrewarder or it might not be. But you got a catching title line and for this posting I think it was the right choice and the cause for most of the comments. Before coming to a conclusion, try @commentrewarder a few more times on other posts as well to gather more statistical data. I'll do so myself with my next postings, curious about the result.
It's been a pleasure writing this, have a nice day and happy new year.
The @topcomment initiative looks rather promising, and I'd like to nominate the above comment for it!
I hadn't seen the topcomment system before, so I'm looking forward to seeing this new feature from the friendly moose in action. I already know he does a lot to share content and contrast throughout Hive, so I'm sure this will only further benefit Hive!
The comment-rewarded bot is interesting, although it can be easily abused, especially on 'giveaway' type posts. The same sort of thing happens with tipbots on Hive and, of course, auto voting is the bain of all things manual.
It's great to see more users being proactive in giving Hive a helping hand, let's hope it continues to encourage Hive and Hivians to be more engaging, and enticing for users, new and old
The @commentrewarder bot is really useful once you understand exactly how it works... in this case, I am mostly speaking to the potential for abuse.
The original poster is actually in charge of where the comment rewards go... it's not just automated. If I don't upvote a comment, it gets nothing. I might upvote a great comment with 50% or even 100%, a fair comment with 20% and a "barely qualifies" comment with 5%, and the bot allocates the amount to be distributed accordingly.
As much as anything, it was developed to help relatively new publishers with lower HivePower reward worthy comments. So if I only had 500 HP, and still voted according to the pattern outlined above the part allocated from the post rewards would be distributed the same... thereby bypassing the infamous "dust threshold."
Ah interesting, it would seem this method would eliminate some of the 'scam' potential and give the control to the post author. I've seen it being used more and more recently, I'll maybe need to join the club and give it a go. Don't want to be too quick, otherwise they might stop calling me sloth!
Thanks for the nomination. I've upvoted the comment 😊
Uh, thank you 😌
!HUG
Thanks to @slothlydoesit who nominated your comment ☺️
It's not only a bot, there is still a human component in there. As I understand it the bot part is just sifting through the block looking for comments with the potential of being a topcomment but the final decision is done by a human.
I was surprised by it a few days ago when I commented on a post and got such a reply.
Check out this comment conversation I had on last weeks curation report.
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Greetings @hannes-stoffel, and thanks for the thoughtful comment!
I'm afraid you made it here after the @commentrewarder cutoff time, so all I can offer you is an upvote.
I have long thought it is a bit ironic that we have to promote the whole "Web 3.0" idea by using Web 2.0/2.5. And, much of the time, people don't really care. Everyone is so very used to things being super easy and they join 100's of places with a "sign in with Google/Facebook" and Hive is immediately at a disadvantage.
I think the "Curation and Engagement Leagues" were a bit before your time here... here's an example of the weekly results... it ran for many years, both on ST33M and subsequently here on Hive:
https://peakd.com/hive-167922/@abh12345/the-hive-engagement-league-6tggzo
Asher — who was the driving force behind the leagues — created his own algorithm that was capable of distinguishing between useful and useless comments and rank users accordingly. What was also important was that there was HUMAN oversight, it wasn't just automated.
You are right about content discovery being a challenge here... even if all we had were a simple old-fashioned "tag cloud," it would be easier to navigate.
I believe both @commentrewarder and @topcomment are promising initiatives, and I am likely to make use of both more often in 2025. I particularly like that both were launched my long-time Hive evangelists who are active participants in the community, not just developers.
Ah, I don't worry about the cutoff. On comments I write as it flows, so to speak. I see that part more of a conversation and getting rewards for comments is really just the icing on the cake but not the actual intent. When I write a post, I put more thought into it, that I see as some kind of presentation, getting on stage and showing the work. That is where the reward system comes in. And the resulting conversation in the comments based around a topic I started myself. Which brings me to something I forgot in my first comment, was too busy in my head with what @slothlydoesit tagged me for.
Yes, I read posts before I cast a vote and set the weight accordingly. Although it does not matter much at the moment I still think it's prudent to do so right from the beginning to prepare for when my stake is higher. And to manage my mana. I comment when I have something to say. And when I think I have something of value to add to the topic or conversation it might even be a little bit more text.
I did not consider the "sign in with google" stuff. Yes, that makes it much easier. I use it myself more and more and it made me join a few sites I almost closed the browser window to avoid the hussle of signing up yet another account with yet another password to remember.
Why don't we build on that? Afaik Hive can be used as a sign on service. Even for a simple website. And keychain is also available for cellphones. Could be right next to the big players. Sign in with Google/Facebook/Hive.
Thanks for the link. That looked where thought through. Gonna take a deeper dive into the engagement league topic. Most burning question in my mind: Why did it stop?
Content discovery can also be achieved by others. If @slothlydoesit had not tagged me this conversation would most likely not have happened. I think that is another important thing here. The people we meet and interact with become a little bit familiar and like in real live someone taps you on the shoulder and says "hey, look at that"
With currently two (fairly) new initiatives for comments and engagement we're on a good way to get something going. I think they will spread fast and have a positive impact. And yes, as they come from deeply commited people there is a future in these.
Sometimes it is difficult to understand why I'm actually still publishing. And this morning I was also thinking in line with the amazing possibility to share ones own thoughts almost instantly with all those who are interested.
Where magazines, TV, so called 'news' sites and so on have a one sided message. It's not even communication.
And when blogging on a blockchain became a thing there was this excitement, now we could really publish and interact. While making some sort of (extra) income. Those who are into that will come. The ones that just want to take in what is being brought to them, will stay away.
When I started at Steem, early 2016, it was small and I could read quite a few publications. Even interacting with the publisher. These days I find it more of a challenge to read more than one. Without doing some fast 'essence reading'.
To get past this I'm rethinking more towards Steem. Hive is a big city, even in the small town where I live I do not know all 18K inhabitants. Most I know from passing them by I say hi. Difficult to stand still and listen to a story they have to tell. And then interact.
That's impossible, or highly improbable, as I see it. Therefore I try to find publishers in line with the small scale Steem experience I had. It won't keep me from upvoting other publications or projects I think are awesome.
Yet my inner circle will have to be small. Because I know it takes time for me to respond. And interacting fast is not my thing.
Wish you a great 2025, with more interaction on your publications.
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I found Steem accidentally back in January 2017, and what made me excited about it was (A) that it seemed like a return to the format of "social blogging" I so enjoyed during my earliest days on the web, and (B) this whole idea of a decentralized blockchain meaning that when I publish something here, there's actually a real chance that it won't just be gone next week, or next year... because "some company" has decided to put up a paywall or — worse still — simply decided to close down.
When I started, it was after having lost a substantial body of work multiple times at other venues.
Maybe I'm a bit of a dinosaur in that I still live in the world where what you have to offer should at least have a bit of an effort towards being "evergreen" not just something to laugh at this week, and irrelevant next week.
I suppose my "Inner circle" on Hive is pretty small, too... and occasionally I find a new creator to add, and occasionally somebody I've been following for a long time suddenly disappears permanently off the radar. What they mostly have in common, though, seems to be that they care about the social aspects of being part of this community, not just the latest gimmick to make a few more cents.
I liked Asher's Engagement Leagues because they served — in a sense — almost like "a village inside a town," in which the villagers mostly had a common interest in the social aspects, and truly interesting publications. Ironically, it was a form of "gamification," but also a system you really couldn't game.
Wishing you a great 2025, as well!
Data being immutable is also an aspect that I like about Blockchain technology in general. And it also adds to the overall freedom of expression experience on a platform like Hive.
These days the attention span often seems a microblog long. Very tough to make it into the everlasting league. Even if there's a proven authority within a certain realm. A sign of the times perhaps. Maybe with automation taking over a lot of fields it also creates a hunger for 'new' and 'fast'.
Floods of information, or just data input. With the internet everyone can know about someone on the other side of Earth having an itch. It's trending, one needs to have watched it. Ow, that yesterminutes, now there's this monkey that...
Guess I'm a dinosaur too. Although I think this jiffy attention span won't last. There are a lot of Smombies (I heard it yesterday it's Smart Mobile and Zombie combined) everywhere. Apparently they seem to live in an alternate augmented reality. But it's hard for me to see a fruitful future where this behaviour becomes dominant. Otherwise the homo-sapiens species is doomed to extinct.
Guess I'm a Grumpy Man also...
Yet, in another direction there's movement also. And people will find each other there. In this huge sea of zeros and ones individuals do want to connect in a more meaningful way that lasts a bit longer than a jiffy. And within this I know there's a limit to what I can take in. Narrowing down what I want to be a part of.
Somehow I think that it will balance itself out again. Where meaningful interaction will become more important.
Or I'm just becoming more conservative the older I get.
I posted your comment over on Twitter along with this the quoted response, you can see it at -
Thank you, I appreciate it.
At some point it will all start to look absurd. Where an AI entity clones a homo-sapiens and becomes a substantive computer intelligence agent. Behaving as the digitally cloned homo-sapien being, highly probable, would do.
It would really worry me if such an entity could enter our analogue reality, using a robotic vesle. A point where digital synth copies of us enter our own realm does seem a possibility.
Somehow it still seems like a kind of Science Fiction. But I cannot state it as being highly unlikely to become real within a few years already.
"Smombies."
I like that!
I think these trends often work like the swing of a pendulum... something is "new and exciting" so everyone flocks to it, but gradually they discover that there are sometimes costs associated with the shiny new thing.
People worry a lot about AI, but I have a feeling that once the newness wears off, AI is going to head in a more pragmatic direction.
I remember seeing a comment in someone's blog to the effect of "Now we have AI that can write my blog and do my artwork for me... giving me extra time to do the dishes. Why isn't AI doing my dishes, so I can have more time to write my blog and paint my art?"
I guess we will just have to wait and see...
If the AI thing is taken to the absurd then AI will blog, and other AI will read and reply. While they make audio, images and video.
"Let my AI get back to your AI on this."
Being called 'agents' they will be like worker bees in the world wide web. In that scenario taking up brushes and starting to paint in real life will be appreciated.
It still can go a lot of ways. Hopefully not the sinister path leading to a dystopian nightmare.
The shiny thing will wear off over time, I do think so too. Already NFTs are flooding the market with AI created content. At some point it gets overwhelming and repetitive, to some also known as boring.
The pragmatic utility will stay. It could be helpful, like smart tools in and around the house. There's a lot of things that might become handy.
And I had fun creating images with some AI tools. In a fantasy way. Which can be entertaining.
Somehow I hope it will be distinguishable if a Computer Intelligence being created something or a homo-sapiens.
In the meantime we keep interacting on platforms like these and in real life on earth.
I generally read your posts. And I wouldn't know how to use an auto-upvoter, though I know there are several attached to my account. My goals for posting are simple: 1. to serve as a memory for me as I lack much of one, and 2. have something that lets family and friends know what I am up to, even if they can't comment (as all don't have HIVE accts). My hope would be if they read something and felt inclined to comment they would either e-mail me or call me (preferred). But I've never gone for high readership or the money, though both would be nice.
Thank you!
I think you touch on one of the important parts of this whole question: WHY people are part of Hive.
For me, it was about the social blogging experience; the rewards/earning potential has always been a (very) distant second. The appeal was this idea of a more or less permanent parking spot for content, because there was no "company" to go bankrupt and plunge everything into darkness.
I often ask myself the same question: Hive is...great, but are people really using it for the correct purpose? It seems with most 'crypto' things, people are here to earn as much as they can as fast as they can then exit. Not many are here using tech for tech purposes.
I enjoy writing and have found Hive to be an exceptional place to build a blog and share my thoughts. How many people they're actually reaching is another matter. I seem to go through phases of buzzieness and, more often, sloth!
I wonder, with the recent changes to the !SLOTH bot and @hannes-stoffel doing some amazing work on it, could we create some form of 'engagement league'...something to think about for sure. We were looking to make the bot more interactive for the users, based on stakes and handing out votes to worthy content. Maybe we could have it 'read' comments and see who's manually curating/commenting on posts and give some form of leaderboard positions...
Hopefully, Hannes will see this post and have a moment of inspiration!
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Hey @slothlydoesit, appreciate the visit! I'm afraid you missed the @commentrewarder cutoff, so all I can offer is an upvote on your comment.
If we go way back here, we can't ignore that the original growth of the legacy chain was the result of people shouting "Earn crypto while blogging!" from the rooftops... and thus, the expectations of the vast majority of those who have joined Hive (old and new) over the years have done so on the premise of "earn crypto." Whether that is "good" or "bad" can be discussed for decades, but I think we have to simply embrace it as an inevitable part of the landscape... and do with it what we can.
Asher @abh12345 is not super active in the community anymore... but you could always try pinging him on Discord and see if he were willing to share some of the original algorithm/code with you from the Engagement Leagues... or maybe "sell it" to SlothBuzz for a beneficiary payout from future posts in perpetuity or something. Of course, he'll tell you it's a MONSTER amount of work...
I'll share the same sample link I shared in my reply to @hannes-stoffel, just as a sample of the weekly league post... it was pretty elaborate:
https://peakd.com/hive-167922/@abh12345/the-hive-engagement-league-6tggzo
Anyway, I'm glad that @sloth.buzz still maintains the Hive-Engine based outpost, means I'll probably go back to supporting it with posts... I was never much of a fan of the Ecency "wrap" for communities, the navigation is/was always messy. Maybe that has changed, and I'm out of date.
No worries on the comment reward, that's not why I comment, I rather enjoy the engagement and you're posts are normally worth a read.
Slothbuzz won't be purchasing anything unfotuantly, and if there's a heavy work load it would fall on hannes in this instance, something worth looking into for sure but would have to be somewhat automated to allow it to be sloth proof!
Yes we're back to the old outpost version, allows for showing the slothbuzz token rewards at least. I don't mind ecency (mobile app is particularly useful) although I tend to use peakd for my daily hiving. Flipping between that and the outpost to catch up with everything I've missed which is rather a lot over the past few days, too much sloth not enough buzz!
I've dabbled in commentrewarder a bit, and it seems to work well. Spammers don't get any automatic rewards, and I (you) choose which comments get a piece of the pie by upvoting then to any degree.
The Art of Manliness just released a podcast about how to write engaging content. Check it out here if it interests you.
Yes, commentrewarder does seem to do the job. To wit, see screen shot below of this post and my post from the day before... both of which have similar rewards and number of upvotes.
I'll check out the podcast; thanks for the recommendation!
I read far more than I comment on. Sometimes I enjoy relaxing and reading (I'm not there to engage in comments) and sometimes I don't have anything to add to the conversation.
I find it intriguing what gets a response: the two posts with the most engagement were fairly short and off-the-cuff, probably took me less than fifteen minutes. One was about fish and chips and the other was about my button box!
I hear a lot of gripes about auto-voting. I find it a useful tool to support authors I want to see on Hive and I want to stick around. They've usually been here a while and I see it as similar to a subscription. Probably about a quarter to a third of my voting power is auto-voting.
There's often little rhyme or reason to the ways of social media... anywhere. Why do some memes go viral, while others live forever in obscurity? The world is fickle and hard to predict.
The "norm" seems to be that people get fired up over the controversial or trendy, or anyone offering an opinion that's not in lockstep with the popular trends of the world.
I'm certainly not shaming auto-voting, and use it myself... it kicks in on days when I am too busy for Hive and is set to support a relatively small number of carefully vetted content creators whenever my voting power goes above a certain level. I like the idea of seeing it almost as a subscription...
That was an idea that came to me as I was writing the comment 😍.
Happy New Year 🥳
Happy New Year to you, as well! Let's make 2025 a great one!
Maybe it's lost on a lot of people why Zuckerburg set up the like button. It's like here a lot of times that I'll hit on someone's post because something in the heading, or the few describe words showing spike my interest but not everything someone writes about will have the same effect. Sort of like the uncle that post his fishing pictures up every time he goes fishing, unless he snags and post an unusually large fish picture, or falls into the river or something unusual to that nature, you really honestly aren't that interested in another picture of a bluegill, so you hit like instead of a comment. On the other hand, if he sees you never ever like a thing he post, he'll figure why bother with her, she hates everything and off your list of family, friends, acquaintance you go.
Of course, what you say rings true for me, as well... and perhaps part of the reason I never really "succeeded" at Facebook or twitter/X is related to the fact that I value my friendships and connections in terms of depth rather than quantity (and number of "likes") which is evidently abnormal in this day and age.
Of course, it can be a two-way street because likely there's almost nobody in my friends/family circle who want to hear constant updates about my stamp collection, or research projects I've dived into. In other words, there's also an onus on the publisher to be somewhat cognizant of not having tunnel vision, if your desire is to have other people actually read your stuff.
From my perspective MySpace and Facebook effectively killed the social web by substituting a "like" button and emojis for actual engagement. For many people, they created the social web...
Yes I used to love getting in the top 3. It really was a game and a challenge competing against each other.
I have been here just over 3 years and have a high comment rate thanks to the league.
However I find many people just post and don't engage with comments on their post.
I would tell people Hive is a social network ... so go and be social!
You're a positive exception here because you are not only very engaging in terms of commenting, but also in terms of overall active involvement in the Hive community.
Precisely how I see it, as well... but for many people, this is just a sort of glorified "cash dispenser" and unless engaging results in some kind of financial gain, it's not happening. And yet? There are many OG bloggers here who do upvote worthy comments... and (conversely) that was a large part of how I grew this account in the early days... commenting and engaging.
A tangential observation - as I switch between Twitter and Hive it is always somewhat jarring for me. On Twitter I get easily 100x the engagement and comments for my content about Hive, as I get on Hive for various content.
I've reconciled myself to it. On Hive I'm more likely to engage with gentler and more thoughtful content. My voice on Twitter is certainly more bombastic when talking about Hive than when I write here.
So my answer to your question is both yes and no :)
Which begs the question: Have you tried @peakd's version of short form content, called SNAPS?
For my money, it's (so far) the most viable/functional/intuitive short form interface in the Hive ecosystem.
I'm familiar with that jarring switch between Hive and other social media... I maintain two groups and two business pages on Facebook, along with attendant twitter-Insta-LinkedIn accounts. It is very strange to go back and forth. Mostly I forget myself "over there" and end up having to delete TL;DR replies before even posting them!
Starting to use it a bit more now. I used threads some on INLEO, and it seems similar. I've been making the time to dive down through comments more on blog posts and long form content.
Skimming is the way to go, no offense but I come here more for the photos than the words.
And nothing wrong with that... as I recall, the @crypticat blog was always more of a photoblog than anything else.
Nonetheless, you're still a content consumer, and thank you for that!
As someone who o ly dared to start blogging when it became as "simple" as blockchain haha
So thousands of interactions was never something I got used to and then lost. But even the tens of comments we used to see in the early days of hive is something I miss now.
I'm gonna check comentrewarder, thanks for the suggestion
I have found that @commentrewarder definitely does boost the engagement level on posts... and I'm quite content to share 5-10% of the post's rewards in service of getting more engagement.
It's just too bad that people used to engage more organically and now they only want to engage (or so it seems) if there's a reward being given.
I read but dont take the time to comment as often as before.
Not as much social engagement as there used to be... and with Hive having beem valued low, few people have sufficient HP to upvote comments.
Reading here is not that widely adopted 😁, agree with you. Engagement should be more and not only to get votes.
It's one of the Hive discussions I have long been part of: We need content consumers, not just content creators; hence the need for people to promote their content in places external to Hive... or at least create articles/posts interesting enough that people might find them via search.
Also true - I remember in the early days i did that on Twitter and Facebook daily - but no one cared so I stopped it
It's very difficult to get "heard" and seen in this day and age... people get so much information to their computers and phones every day.
I DO read most of your posts, love the writing style. Cheers! !BEER
Thank you for your kind words, I appreciate it!
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There are a few people on Hive whose posts I read quite regularly; and you're one of them. I find Ecency's new feature at the top of each post which shows "views" and "visitors" very handy. It gives you a good "feeling" as to how many peeps actually read what you write. Couple that with the rewards each post gets and it gives you a great overview as to how Hive works aka the automated bots that upvote stuff according to "whatever".
Wishing you a fantastic New Year!🥂🍾🎉