Finally found some time to write down a decent reply to the results. I did my absolute best to come on top of the engagement league but sometimes doing your best isn't just good enough. But no harm done, because I the last week I discover some really good authors and Steemians and that is what it is all about. Getting to know people, interacting which each other, spices up with a little competition.
@glenalbrethsen I knew that I was way behind. I just ran out of words during our interactions. This isn't something which happens a lot! Great achievement!
@leeart wow more than 650 comments, where do you get the time? Great engagement! Wonder if anyone can break this record!
@lynncoyle1 will you pick up the glove and take back your throne?
@gillianpearce I do guess we helped each other a little bit. Besides this it is a great pleasure to get to know you a little bit better. Thanks for opening up!
@crypto-econom1st great achievement. I do expect that you will be in the top 10 next week! I know that your month of commenting has started. I do expect, no I am sure, that this will increase the numbers of followers faster than only posting. Curious to the results of your experiment!
@abh12345 Thanks again for the new delegation and more important to go for witness. You know that you and @paulag have my support. I will spread the word wherever I can!
Also thank to the sponsors who make this contest also possible.
Asher, has it ever occured that a person ended up in both top 10. I was a little surprised about my spot in the curation league because I was to involved in the engagement league!
Well next week, I would be a danger to anyone, because if have to slow down a little bit. Will try to write some more articles, hoping to give you all a platform to interact with each other.
Keep on interacting, do see the money as a nice side effect. Interacting will be rewarded. Go out there and find some new good authors and spread the news because it is a big ocean and nobody can discover them all!
@barge enjoy the lucky 25. Curious who it will be next week. I will sponsor for another 9 week, the lucky number 25.
I roam around a lot lol! I try to engage to new people as much as possible, more like forcing myself to have something to talk about what that person posted. However, I do not get that much replies or a reply that will further the interaction. I am having no luck finding new good authors. I hope there will be this time around.
Because it is so difficult to find new good authors, we should spread the word when we did discover one. I do present each Thursday, 3 of the people am I following with my followers. It is up to them to decide if it is interesting to them or not!
I mention this contest to new and old ones and also in some of my blogs and future blogs. I want more and more people to join and be encouraged with being interactive. I keep mentioning that it is in through commenting that I get more than what I get from blogs most of the time.
Same here. This week was rather different, did wrote two posts which were very well accepted by the Steem community!
Also I do get a lot of inspiration for new posts by reading comments!
Thanks for spreading the word @fullcoverbetting :D
Yes I think this has happened once or twice before but I can't remember who achieved it :)
I know exactly how you feel @fullcoverbetting. The previous week I thought I'd done all I could to get to No. 1 and it wasn't enough. That meant I had to do even more to move up two spots. And now, I'm learning I'm going to need to do even more just to keep the No. 1 spot, if not stay within the top 3, 5, and 10.
If the height of the mountain keeps changing, at some point you run out of air. :)
Still, you had more comments than me. So, if you can get the CL up and maintain or improve on the comment numbers, you'll go right past everyone!
It's not often someone says they run out of words with me. I guess I have a higher word allotment in written form than I do speaking. There, my wife runs circles around me. Big circles. Crop circle sized circles. :)
Oh, and that's majorly cool what you're doing with sponsoring the No. 25 position. As others have been saying, that's a very cool concept and I'm sure it will keep more folks interested in competing each week and finding ways to further engage.
I did give it my best shot. It just wasn't good enough. I did reach my highest ever though!
But it don't consider it a waste of time. This week again I did meet great new people! I did get some decent upvotes on my comments!
I could speak for hours! My wife is sometimes glad when I go out to shoot some pool :)
Due to the fierce battle at the top and because I don know that not all people could spend the same time on Steem, I did find it appropriate to give something back to the community. The league of Asher did give me so much, so why not to return a small favor to keep people motivated!
Time available was definitely my saving grace here last week. I know not everyone has the same amount of time (and I doubt I can maintain it that much longer), so that means we do the best we can and try to improve in some way each week.
You're right. It has not been a waste of my time, regardless of my place on the chart. I need to get better at seeking out others though. It's the hardest to to do. You have to find them, or figure out where the ones you feel like you can converse with are at. I want to keep expanding that contact circle, though, even if the follower base is proportional. It feels good just to pop on someone's post and say something meaningful. Well, meaningful to me at least. :)
It's great to give back. I've been trying to do that mainly through upvotes, but at some point, I should probably figure out someway to follow your example.