Arthur was an hour into his long rant of a post claiming Hive was dead and nobody reads his posts anymore. That last post about Billy The Kid took him an age to research. The rewards were only OK. $9.95 Hive with the usual Hive friends giving him the auto vote. A couple of the African lads gave a generic comment which gave Arthur the impression that they didn't even fucking read it.
Comments like "Billy the Kid was magnificent sir" and " Nice post" did not fill Arthur with hope. He did not really care about the rewards as such as he liked writing but his post he felt was worth more than $9.95 with the research that went into it. Looking up at his Britainnia Encyclopedia's B-C, he had taken Billy the Kid, summarised it in his own words and posted it on he blockchain. But he may as well have not bothered. It was all a con. Some other user was taking a picture of an oak leaf on her walk got $96 so Arthur knew it was all about who you cuddled up to on Discord and not about quality content. He decided his next post was about lack of readership on the platform and he wasn't going to hold back.
Arthur signed off on his moaning post to which he also went unnoticed by the Hive Community. Arthur had enough. He had entered his Holocaust post from a year ago into a real life competition which he came first in. A first class trip to Auschwitz which he found somewhat confusing. Seeing that he was getting joy in the real world. Arthur had had enough with the Hive thing. Maybe if he posted his old posts in a different community he would get more readership. Yes this is what he will do. Nobody read his old posts anyway so what the hell. Sure doesn't Henry regurgitate the same old Actifit post daily and nobody gave a shite.
Two weeks later
and this is why Davy Crockett had a Scottish accent with a hint of French THE END .............
Arthur had written about Davy last year and decided to do the copy and paste jobbie and repost it. The second reward round would maybe make things worth his while. He may even get another comment or two.
"Some tea is in order", so he called his wife Audrey to put the kettle on even though he was closer to the kettle. He pulled his trousers up above his nipples like old people do and let out an enormous auld fella fart. Cleared the cavern.
The little Discord bubble sound went off around 5 minutes later which was the usual from the Hive users close to his heart. They were probably the only people that would realise that he did a Davy Crockett post last year but even they wouldn't even cop onto it. It was a perfect plan in a way. Ten minutes later another few bubbles. Normally the nice witnesses who supported him daily that were too above the 5 minute window to care about meagre comment rewards. Audrey had the tea made at this stage. She was getting a bit slow in her old age and sometimes spilled the milk or worse still forgot where she left the sugar. Arthur went off about his business peeping out the curtain to see what the immigrants were up to across the road. Drugs most probably. Those pesky immigrants. Up to no good as usual. All of a sudden Arthur's computer started going mad. Notification after notification.
Arthur sat down at his kitchen table with the end of his glasses in his mouth. 105 comments on his Davey post. Hallelujah!!!
He scrolled down to answer any questions around Davey that were going to come up but all he could see was abuse from Hive users telling him that he was reproducing old posts. Someone even did a post around his post and used cursors and arrows in photos to compare the two posts and where the changes were made. Arthur went into a sweat as half the Hive community condemned him to Blurt. He was now marked man. Some major players came in and wiped his $9.95 in rewards with downvotes and called him a scumbag.
"But nobody reads the posts???" Arthur said to himself confused.
"How did these fuckers know?"
"Howwwwwwwww?????"
Arthur threw his D-E Encyclopedia's off the table in disgust. He had known these people from his years on Hive. They never went near him and he never went near them but he knew they were up to no good taking money out of Hive but yet they have the nerve to downvote him for his quality content albeit his 2nd try. Even Actifit Henry put his size 9 shoe in for good measure to make sure he was dead and buried and not guilty by association.
Three days later the post had 600 comments, been downvoted to high heaven, was cancelled on Hive and one Hive user was in the process of doxxing him to find out his true identity and if Arthur Daley was really his real name"
"It was so he doesn't have much to do," muttered Arthur.
Arthur had learned his lesson. 10 years of being the most engaged man on @moustacher's engagement league doesn't get you jack shit. He also learned that people do read his posts but never upvote them. !The tight bastards!!! Arthur spurted.
Reading my posts and not giving me a penny and then when I screw up I get jumped on like Bruce Wayne's father and mother coming out of the theatre.
Arthur did not take this lying down and decided to reply to all the 600 comments on his blog. His comments such as "Suck my sweaty old balls Rozanne" did not go down well with Rozanne who he regularly upvoted even though her stuff wasn't any good and a bit short for the rewards she was earning.
He also replied to one of the devs who had spent the last 3 years earning 700 HBD per day from the DHF and had yet to produce Fuck All. Even the Leo boys who just only just starting getting invested from the DHF had something to show for it by building Layer 1 building bridges to Hive. What were the Hive guys doing? Lying on the chaise lounge pulling their wire.
After all these comments Arthur was jaded. He was looking forward to tomorrow where he was going to revitalise (copy and paste ) his Sargent Custard post. Let the games begin though Arthur. At least now I am getting readers. He called his accountant and asked for $2 million dollars to be transferred immediately into his crypto bridging account. Let the games begin!
There's a term for this story and it's at the tip of my tongue and it's frustrating to forget the simple word but damn this hits home. If I see someone regularly posting in some communities I'm in, it's not that hard to get familiar with their names and type of content. While I find the topics uninteresting or not worth engaging,
I make a mental note at the back of my head and archive the keywords... fast forward months to years and I see the same person not reposting word for word but sometimes they add or paraphrase what they previously post. I'm like... hmmm I know you shared this before but I don't think it's worth the drama trying to call you out. And you know what? same people who complain that people aren't paying attention to their posts anyway.
Rather than accept the possibility that they don't make content worth engaging or have non-existent content consumer base for their topic, they'll just attribute it to the platforms fault. Like if they can't be assed to comment or view a Youtube video with a topic they aren't interested in, it's fine if they ignored that YT video's genius content. Well, maybe that's exactly how content creation 101 works, where creators earn their audience by producing stuff their audiences can be compelled to engage with. And as I write this comment that's lengthy enough to be a shitpost of it's own, I say good day Sir, nice post, very interesting, thank you for sharing. Nobody will read this last sentence.
I see it very fitting to have read this post/comment and now commenting (others have done it too) and voting.
Ah...Fu*k it! Let me get this a cent.
@pravesh0 I laughed out loud😭😂😂
I would've said you were a tight bastard if you didn't give me an upvote while you engaged with this comment but I'll let it pass because thank you for the cent too.
But above matters aside, I don't think a lot of posts have much room for engagement depending on the content. Tiktik and different YT shorts would have a seconds to a few minute clip where you just say lol or like and there's really less room to discuss anything about. But for content that tries to solicit some discussion, if you're screaming at the wrong place of the void, then there's nothing to be gained. Not that people don't notice the posts, it's just that people don't mind enough.
I had someone say they read all my posts and some of them make her laugh but she will never upvote me because it is a vote that someone else won't get which I found strange.
Step1 - Create an army of fake accounts
Step2 - Tell her in 50 different ways, using your newly formed army, why she should upvote your post. (Works 0.0001% of the time).
You are welcome
Alternatively call her a tight bastard.
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Is she Japanese? because that's how they play with words just to say no without hurting some feelings, better leave the person hanging.
She's far from Japanese this one. I would put here ore in a trailer park on the bible belt 😀
Yup, just like I didn't mind reading your blog post of a comment again 😜
(Jk I understand this well)
Me too, I don't mind reading your comments prav 😉
Oh look!! Totally worthless comment that I will never read 😜
For some odd reason.
I did😂😂
I did too😂
Yeah its funny isn't. I have seen the same ladybird on a number of occasions. The longest living ladybird in existance. 😃
Ahahaha this is pretty relatable...like, there are really ppl who comment stuffs that are usually just too general to mean anything to me. I'm aware that most ppl can't really stand reading lengthy blogs, but still, I can't help but feel disappointed because I've really put my effort into making those blogs (especially my book reviews because even though I already read them before, I reread them again, and also while making those, I really restrained myself much in divulging the whole story), but anyway, let's move on to that and focus more on ourselves rather than constantly seeking recognition from other ppl ಠ◡ಠ.
I do feel like this at times😂😂😂🤣✨
I understand where he comes from😂😂
This line, in and of itself killed me😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
!BBH
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say dat again... 700HBD daily?!?!
all of yours "openMic" posts ar well worth to read it!
Why thank yo @speko . Your continuous support doesn't go unnoticed. You are in the circle.
Really appreciate it!
700HBD daily
UNREAL!
Decentralization has its own problem like Democracy. People can easily get funded from DHF if they are backed by big accounts and few big accounts collectively literally control this chain. As a normal user, we barely can do anything else other than feeling our expressions :)
And feel our expressions we shall continue.
It is why tokens such as Shiba Inu are issueing so many tokens so that a few people cannot have complete control. Hive is more centralised than most other blockchains. It is just the powers that be are spouting decentralisation on X . My cat is more decentralised than Hive.
Billy the Kid was magnificent sir! Nice post.
........ sorry, I could't refrain from doing it 😂😂 btw, I loved your post: I'm at work while trying not to laugh to hard 😂😂
😄 At this stage I will take all the nice post comments I can get . 😃
Ahahah !LOL we can say that a comment is still a comment, and it is better than no comments at all 😂
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This is good! I enjoyed reading it and got the message you were trying to pass.
I don't know, there's this saying that's always playing at the back of my mind.
"Whatever worth breaking a sweat to do, it's worth doing well". I doubt this was how it was quoted but it was something related to this
I never broke a sweat writing though unless its blue!😃
As someone who owns a travel blog with my domain name, duplicate content (copy-paste) is a big NO NO in SEO. XD
I'm not suggesting people should copy/paste but I also don't think SEO is a reason to do (or not to do) anything (except attempt to earn ad revenue). Google and most major search engines return more crap than quality results these days anyway. Maybe AI will eventually do away with the perceived need to do SEO.
That is interesting to learn. Kinda happy about that. There is a punishment for the copiers.
yeah because of SEO purposes, which articles should be crawled by the search engine? the old article or the new article with the same slugs on your website?
But, there is a but, which I saw before. I was searching for a specific topic which I first found it as a newspaper article. Then, I saw a steemit user copied-pasted the same news article to his steemit profile and found it in the same 1st page of Google as the newspaper article. So, the steemit user earned on the copied-pasted article.
Another thing, people can easily create websites, they can also copy-paste articles from other websites and make money on their website using Google ads.
It's not the copiers (writers/ghostwriters) who got penalized. Mostly it's the website owners who invested to create many websites but just hired ghostwriters. But the punishment is not immediate, will take time. Other people need to report it many times before Google takes action. So, the website owner needs to be careful about hiring ghostwriters creating copy-pasted articles.
I can't remember the last time I actually read a Hive post until now. 😅😉
You just read a Hive Post 7 days ago
It's overrated @kramgelo. I read a post this morning about low water levels and it nearly put me back to sleep. 😄
Lol.🤫😆
Only joking @kramgelo . I enjoyed it. Loved the old monitor.
Bring on the regurgitating lol
I think Arthur should know better. If he really knew, he would have already realized long ago that an original, quality and valuable article about Billy The Kid should have been published in much better places than Hive. Like in the "social" platforms of NPR - The Guardian - Time - CNN and Fox News. If what he were really looking for was more attention, appreciation, interaction, engagement and the fair rewards for his effort and research work. The real deal and the whole package, you know?
Yeah, because Arthur should have already learned by now the lesson that if he dares to post or repost a great original article about Billy The Kid, Davy Crockett or whoever in the Hive blockchain. In no time will come the gossipers, the envious, the haters, the asslickers, the brainless, the stubborn and the downvoters to claim foul play under any excuse instantly throwing him into the sewer and leaving all his future rewards and payouts scattered swimming down thru the gutter.
Isn't it?
Oh they so do!
Being condemned to Blurt is brutal tho eh? I think it reached 2 sats this week! :OD
Do you know what. I never delved into that place. I must go in for a gander. 😄
ITs worth a look, you can become a whale for like 20 dollars 🤣
"Nice post" 😂
Sometimes I also wonder if they really think the post is nice or they're just speechless 😂
And LOL the 700 HBD daily. I just cannot. 🤣 More more more LOL
Witty the adventured, me aul' flower. How are things? Any adventuring lately? I was speechless with love heart eyes by your introductory post.
Hahaha love heart eyes? that's the first time someone said that to me.
Adventuring lately but haven't posted. Too many drafts, too little time.
How are you doing? 😅
Well I'm a guy you don't meet everyday. Im good . Off to Disneyland next week so adventuring myself with Micky and co. Interested in your adventures. There are not many Japanese adventure posts. I would love to go there. Must be great living there.
Disneyland for the kids and kids at heart 🥳 bet that must be fun!
i hope i can share more of my japan adventures 😂 maybe it will encourage you more to come and visit 😂
Great story yehey!!❤️❤️
lol
I've been trying to catch up with all this comedic gold. This one in particular should get a lot more attention
Thanks a million @macchiata . I always get a nice upvote off you . Thanks a million. Appreciate it. I had to laugh at that post you posted the link for as there is one comment from an actually unknowing bikini babe . I checked her posts over the last year and the one with a bikini got her the most likes. It couldn't have worked out better if I planned it. 🤣
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