Most people generally declare "Good [Instert period of the day]" when entering chatrooms. Some even do it on Twitter or the Fediverse. For a while now, I've been doing my own form of daily greeting on Discord, mostly on the Ecency Server and the Brits Server AKA TeamUK. I did drop a few in the "Off-Topic" channel of HiveWatchers, but they're too used to being miserable over there to understand a bit of fun. 😉
I've had loads of questions such as: "What's this all about then?" I'm still pretty amazed that people haven't cottoned on after a few days that it's just a bit of harmless fun, although having said that, some elements may be worthwhile? For example, today's offering is:
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Good morning everybody.
Today, we shall be looking through the square window, today's number is 6, and our favourite word is Pareidolia.
I try and find obscure words that I know one or two people go and look up, so who knows, maybe that next post on Hive will have a word you've never heard of that they found on my "Good Morning" message. You could play along and try and guess what window we're looking through today? Or see if the number crops up. "I'll have fifty quid on number 6 in the 3:30 at Kempton park mate." The image and concept is from a British TV program for children that ran from 1964 until 1988. As kids we used to enjoy trying to guess which window we'd be looking through although they didn't do obscure words. LOL.
I'm gonna start posting on D.Buzz although I'll decline rewards. I wrote this more as an explanation so I can link to it when I start as I just know someone is gonna say "What's it all about then?" I wonder how long before I run out of obscure English words? I'll have to start using South American words soon. 😉
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lol you'll never run out of English words if you branch off into slang 🤣 I know a lot who say happy Sunday.
Oh mate, the times I have to back up what I write with Urban Dictionary, they just don't speak my language.
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TBH, I've been looking for ways of supporting D.Buzz even though I know some sections of Hive are against it for encouraging just the sort of thing I intend. However, I think if folk decline rewards, that should be acceptable.
There's also another option. What if the posts didn't appear in the blog or all posts, but their own "tab", sort of like the wallet, payout, etc in the @peakd design? In short, make them available but not a reflection on the blogging aspect?
I find it funny that, on the one hand, people think it's OK to have videos, pictures etc., with little to no text and tell me that Hive is a "Media Platform" and then, with the next breath, complain about Memes and short Twitter'esk messages. If Hive is a "Blogging Platform", then all the other crap we see on Hive should go and form their own service like Blurt. 😈
I really think tabs are the answer. Aren't our comments in a different tab? This would allow a reader to browse without running into unwanted content.
Maybe even an option could be built into the follow system to exclude those posts. Some can't deal with the bandwidth demands of video, so the video only posts could use a filter too.
I have looked up some of those words. I'm sure you can find plenty more.
I think it's fair enough to decline rewards on such posts. I see some try to earn something from less effort.
I do remember Play School, and the related show Play Away. That's going back nearly 50 years for me! God I'm old :(
BTW I saw the guy who did Fingerbobs died the other day.
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I remember Andy Pandy, but I think Woodentops was before my time. Did watch Bill and Ben. Maybe we need more posts on old TV shows we remember. Probably lots of clips on Youtube.
Yep, Bill and Ben. I do just remember Fireball XL5
Loved the Gerry Anderson stuff.
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Misery? That's not even an original emotion. They're plagiarizing the classics.