I think I can speak for most of us who write on HIVE when I say we do not just write for rewards. We write because we want to share our ideas and experiences with other people. The best way for writers to see our writing being read is when we receive comments. However, there are some bad comment habits I would like to address to help other Hive users, new and old alike, better engage with other authors.
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Good Engagement:
Here's how I agree or disagree with your post, along with some arguments and/or reference links.
Bad Engagement:
"Nice post"
Good Engagement:
I, too, have a relevant personal experience.
Bad Engagement:
Something barely tangential to a keyword in the post title.
Good Engagement:
Answering a question posed in an article with a thoughtful reply
Bad Engagement:
AI-generated word salad
Engagement Opportunities
Do you recognize the pop culture source I parodied with the post image above?
What good and bad engagement habits do you see on HIVE, and how do you reward good engagement?
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Lol I love it. Nice post. I took agree with your words and share the same sentiments. How am I doing with my word salad so far? It's actually MI generated, not Ai. MI being Mimi intelligence! 😂😂
But to answer your real question, it's mime time, it's time for another good idea, bad idea!!!
I was gonna ask because I didn't recognize it, but now I get it. I'm not going to ruin it by watching any of it again, but Animaniacs was better than they got paid to be, by a lot.
The old Animaniacs holds up. The reboot fell a bit flat IMHO. No Slappy Squirrel, no Rita and Runt, no Goodfeathers...
Hahaha the legends of my childhood!!! They dont make cartoons like they used to!
HELLOOOOOO NURSE!
I reward good engagement with a good engagement reply, and leave curt thank yous on bad engagement. I occasionally leave upvotes on amazing comments.
Today I got a bad engagement comment on a post, which was a screen shot of one of my post's photos, and an irrelevant remark about it.
I try to upvote any comment that looks like it came from a real reader. If it seems like an opportunity for conversation, I reply as well. Like this, in fact. There are a few commenters on this very post I may block for their trend of empty replies.
I can tell which those are. I wonder if there are accounts out there that would give them an upvote? And since the opportunists see that you upvote some comments, they leave any kind of comment on your posts.
I'd like to upvote more comments, without seeming to pander for comments, but with hive so low, it's hard for me to do that. I prefer to leave 100% upvotes on posts, and engage with good comments. Some of us can go on and on, which is fun.
My default upvote on comments/replies is 10%, which is well above the 2¢ dust cutoff. Sometimes I vote higher.
My default vote is 75% on top-level posts. I may adjust that up or down based on myriad factors including how much I plan to curate that day, how much I like the content, or just my petty subjective opinion about the effort in a post.
When my upvote gets high enough that 10% is well over dust level, I'll probably start upvoting good comments too. Until the recent rise in hive's value, I gave 100% to almost all published posts that I liked (unless they'd already earned a lot), but have reduced that to 75% for many of them now. I love to upvote small, new accounts, who will get a warm and fuzzy from my whopping (to them) ten cent upvote.
Okay, I'm sorry, just couldn't resist. But yeah, you hit the nail on the head. While I love the revenue I get from bot votes, I value comments far more. I actually like the ones that are a bit critical rather than just being nice for the sake of it, because that helps me create better content.
For me, the long-term value here is the censorship-resistant nature of blockchain blogging. The token is merely ancillary for now. I won't trade HIVE for dollars.
It's true that we don't just use this platform to earn money, we share our ideas and brain work with our friends and all the people around us to share them. We can also benefit from our knowledge and we can also increase our knowledge by reading the posts of others.
I wanted to write "Nice post" but @alonicus beat me to it!
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Nice Post 😁
Nice comment! 🤣
Hehehe you are really something😂😂😂😂
i like posts such as this one because they remind us all of what the good engagement is and the bad engagement
Your comment has all the nothingness of bad engagement, though.
Hahaha you got served some classic word salad!! 😅
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I think hive has really evolved to a much more better thing it was than previous years and I strongly believe it will be much more better
How does that relate to anything I wrote, though?
We write because we want to express our feelings and also our opinion on so many things
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