This is a great new tool that @holoz0r has created and I want to show you the power of it. Everyone loves numbers and few more than me when it comes to looking back at my own behaviours on this blockchain. The numbers don't tell everything of course, but they can tell a lot. It took a little while to go through nine years of data, but the results are awesome!
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Let's data DIVE!!!
I have often talked about being consistent on Hive and since that is what I encourage, that is also how I behave. I am consistent. That doesn't mean I only do the same thing though as a creator, as I write about all kinds of topics and in many different ways, whether it be an article, a fiction story, a poem or a photographic journey. The consistency is that it is all mine.
I create, therefore I own.
Ownership is key to building a better society. We need to have skin in the game and on Hive, we are able to create our ownership, by sharing our experience and unique perspectives. Ignore this at your own risk. This is something I will write more about in another article soon.
Overview
- The longest posting break I have had is between my first and second post, which was four days.
- My longest streak is 3137, which is 8.59 years (and counting).
- The average 300 page novel has between 82,000 and 90,000 word. I have written the equivalent of 69 of them in posts. This doesn't include comments.
- Across 7212 posts, I get on average 25 replies. I don't get bot replies very often.
- Not listed here, but I also have 73,000+ comments of my own.
More specific?
Ok, there are lots of different things to explore here and I will highlight a few of the things I love. With 7000+ posts, it is pretty hard to keep track of it all but in this tool, they are all pulled into a very long list. I would love to be able to export all my posts somehow, and I think it is possible here, but haven't explored yet. It would be a massive PDF though.... Having said that, there are some cool features I will also mention soon.
As you can see clearly from this chart, is that I used to post quite a lot in the early days, because I was a thought machine. I had to limit my posting severely, because I could have quite happily written ten very different posts a day on various topics, at around 1000 or more words easily. I love writing. However, as I started to earn more per post, I consciously reduced the amount I submitted to the blockchain. I am not a spammer, but being able to create so much has drawbacks also on Hive.
And then as you can see there was a drop in 2021 but has been pretty consistent since then, slowly trending down. The drop was caused by me having a stroke in June 2021, and pretty much everything in life got much, much harder. I have written extensively about it, but even those who have read them all, don't know the half of it. Still, there is a consistency there, as I share my own life experience and reflection on observations. The thing is, no one else is me. That is a drawback for me, but it is also a value compared to the people regurgitating what they find elsewhere.
Me time
This I assume is in the only time that matters - Hive blockchain time. And you can see quite clearly when I am usually asleep, and when I am most active. Blockchain time is different to my local time, so it is always two or three hours behind me. I nearly always write and then submit immediately, so you can see that most of my posts have been submitted between 10 pm and 2 am my local time, depending on daylight saving changes. You can also see that I don't sleep that much, but I also don't write very often in the early morning after I first get up. But, you can also see that I try to make some time during the day to write when I can, often using my lunch breaks when I was working, but spending time with my family or at the gym when I get home from work.
It is pretty clear in the numbers.
Count on Words
Next year I will break seven million in posts, but as you can see from the chart, due to the reduction in post count, I am trending down. However, you can also see that there are no flatlines, no breaks in that time either - it is consistently smooth.
Addicted.
Not @edicted.
I think we should all be creativity addicts. Must people are consumer addicts. But hey, that is another post also, so I will save that thought away for tomorrow, or the next day - unless I have some other more pressing thoughts, or forget.
A pound of Flesch
The readability statistics are sorted through the Flesch-Kincaid readability metrics with higher being very easy to read (like for children) and the lower goes more into professional language. What is cool about these charts is that each little dot links to the actual article on Hive, so I could have a look at those hard to read suckers - nearly all of them are my earlier poetry. My average (which isn't included as a metric, but might be a good one to add) is eyeballed at around year 11. That is where I tend to aim, because that is the lowest where most people that might be interested can read to. However, I also up my writing toward the university and post-grad level occasionally. However, you can also see that there is a trend upward from about half way, where my language is getting simpler. This is because of the stroke and the energy it takes to process thought. I assume that I write more simply because my brain is trying to conserve energy.
Speaking of Words
There are often conversations about where the sweet spot of engagement is by wordcount, and this tool visualises. However, I might be bucking the trend. It seems that for many, engagement climbs to and then drops off after 500 words or so, which is pretty obvious because people don't have a lot of time and then they don't want to invest themselves into getting into depth. For my content size does matter also.
I want people to engage and I want good discussions that are interesting. If I write to a level for elementary kids, everyone will understand, but not as many will want to engage in good discussions. If I wrote only obtuse poetry, most people want want to comment on that either. It is similar for wordcount, where the majority of my posts are in the format of long-form articles, and the more I write, the more people engage. This is of course going to drop off if I wrote extremely long articles, but I have only written 30 that have gone over 2000 words. My "comfort zone" is from about 900 to 1500.
This one is already at 1284.
What I always hope with what I write is that people will not only interact for a comment vote, but actually be engaging in the discussion, with me and more importantly with others. There is so much value in engagement, which is why I reward comments so highly. If people really wanted to use my articles well, they would engage with others and build their own ideas into articles too and develop their own support base, and become a creator. But, engagement is key, because if everyone is only a post creator, there aren't many readers.
The goal is to have a lot of great creators, and an massive amount of great readers and commentors who are looking to engage and be part of the community. It isn't about the rewards, it is about bringing humans into real conversations that matter again. Be human, build relationships, engage, make mistakes, fix mistakes, and become passionate about our world.
Thank you @holoz0r for THIS TOOL and I am sure this isn't the only time I am going to use it, or write about it. Hive is bloody awesome and it is incredible to be able to visualise and analyse all kinds of information that has been immutably recorded over the space of years.
Only five more words needed.
(That is 1500)
The amount of words don't matter though. What matters is people engaging with what matters to them, talking about it, inspiring others, and using the experience they have to be part of making this world a better place to be, on and off the blockchain. Put yourself out there in an article, in a comment, and most importantly - in life.
Breathe. Create. Live.
Taraz
[ Gen1: Hive ]
Be part of the Hive discussion.
- Comment on the topics of the article, and add your perspectives and experiences.
- Read and discuss with others who comment and build your personal network
- Engage well with me and others and put in effort
And you may be rewarded.
Thanks for this. From your screenshots I have some ideas for enhancements. I have a day of unexpected features to build between what you wrote here and the others have written. Before I dive into that, I figured I'd clear out my feed of new posts, and surprise surprise, this is one of the first ones I saw. The computers put the clocks forward an hour while I slept last night, so I am already an hour behind today :P
I am glad the tool didn't break on a large account like yours.
Thank you for your kind words and support.
On a different, more personal note, I wonder if your recovery from your stroke has helped by keeping your mind active through writing. I hope it has.
I am very glad HIVE still has people like you.
I hate the changing clocks. Ours will change in a week or two.
I was actually surprised. It took several minutes, but that was no issue for me at all, and I expected it. There is a lot of data to trawl and a lot of processing, so you have done a great job with it!
There is no need to incorporate all of the changes, but it is a really nice tool to get a view of an account and I think that for those who have been here a long time relatively consistently, it is an interesting way to reflect on life. Some come and go and come back and go - I wonder what has happened in their life between? They know, and this might be like a via negativa view of it.
Lots of cool things to explore around the behaviours.
Thanks for asking.
It has I think. As I have oft said, writing is cathartic - so I have written through every kind of even I/we have faced. I reckon if I hadn't written about the stroke and kept writing in general, I would have withdrawn from life and become more the average statistic for this kind of stroke. As it is, I still struggle, but probably less than I would have. People don't really appreciate how hard it can be, even those very close to me like my wife. It is almost incomprehensible, because it is unique case by case, and unless experiencing it or similar, hard to grasp. Plus, while I have changed so much fundamentally, I look much the same, and behave much the same. A broken leg or cancer is more "visible" as a challenge - brain issues, well...
Some will agree. Many will not :D
Perhaps they are acutely unaware of their own neurological degeneration.
Stroke or not, It is only through writing (be it personal musings, or the fiction that I have been exploring more recently) I see that I grow incredibly on a cognitive level the more I read and write. (Creatine probably also helps!) In the last 6 months or so where I have really increased my writing volume and reading volume, I have had such increased self satisfaction.
I can write about the things that would have before seen me be depressed for week, and instead, they might have the effect of depressing others.
That is what good writing is. :D
What you did not quote on purpose:)
That you are a bot and perhaps addicted if you are not :)
There is little difference.
By the way this is same thing we observed in your Splinterlands game play since the early days. So I will take a leap of faith and say that this is behavioral.
I have always said, if the data is plotted right and shown from the right angle it should reveal one’s behavior.
In this case perhaps a lot more than your hive behavior!
I will say the same thing that I have always said. Consider slowing down a bit. We certainly do not want another health scare. We are only getting older!
An addicted bot - making those paperclips!
I think so. It would be great if I could apply it to something more useful though. It seems to be only for the useless!
I am slowing down - I do it pretty easy now in the sense that I don't feel I have to post, but I really enjoy writing still. It is interesting for me (and hopefully others) and a way to explore experience. If I don't do it here, I don't have the discipline to do it in a diary.
We all need to slow down. I am talking about life, not hive, but for you there is little difference..
I am looking forward to this Japan trip.
Japan is such a strange place, full of contradictions. I loved it!
when did you visit?
Very interesting tool! Looks like my posts are on the rise :)
And my readability seems to be similar to yours, just a bit lower tending more to college vs university:
A bit busy in 2022?
What do you think has made you more consistent in creating?
If you want to skew your readability to unreadable, try writing bad poetry like me!
Oh my poetry would be beyond bad, me and poetry that is a recipe for a disaster LOL !
Realizing that Hive is actually a real thing after reading those posts from Azircon last year...
Well, that was a bear marked in crypto and I was busy preparing and selling my rental home that year and in general I was not really aware of Hive. I started in 2021 on the suggesting from some of the Splinterlands people and wrote a few Splinterlands posts, but didn't really feel like it was worth it, looking back a big mistake... I really stared with Hive just over a year ago.
Dang, six million words! Very nice! I thought I was doing good with my 1.5 million. As far as the readability, mine is a bit lower in score than yours, but I think that just means it is accessible. More than that, it's pretty consistent right in that 50 to 60 range which I think is really important. This tool has been really great so far. I likely will find myself coming back to it over and over again.
It is brilliant! I love seeing the numbers on things as they are such a big part of engaging me (and many others). Statistics are awesome views, and I wish more experiences on Hive would provide fun statistics. Splinterlands for instance sorely needs great player metrics and comparisons to engage users.
1.5 million is still about 17x300 page novels!! :D
Yeah, Splinterlands could definitely use something like this! I've been playing around with this tool and the new one that Marky just put together the past week. I definitely plan on implementing them more with some of my decisions in the future as well.
Haven't seen the Markus one, will check it out tomorrow.
I'll save you some work!
https://hiveanalytics.usehive.com/
Wow ! This is an amazing tool 😁 It's perfect timing as well, as Hive Post Downloader seems to have stopped working.
I didn't know Hive post downloader worked - haven't tried for ages!
Would be great to have better search functions across Hive to find older posts and content relevant to link back to.
It did until recently, but when I went to try it a couple of weeks ago the link just went to a "not found" Github page.
Searching in Hive always seems to me to be a bit hit or miss. I'm not sure what the answer is, but I suspect it lies in being able to search complete phrases in the post content. Most people (myself included !) don't use tags well enough, probably influenced too much by the first-five rule plus the possibility of earning Tribe tokens through tags.
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Does this include comments on your own posts? Probably yes. I think it would be better if our own comments weren't included.
Thanks to @holoz0r for this great tool.
It provides a great summary of your Hive adventure. It clearly shows where you went wrong and where you could have improved.
Reducing the number of posts leads to increased content quality. Increasing the number of posts per day leads to reader fatigue. The maximum number of posts should be 2.
Yes it does. It is all engagement on the post, including your own, as it simply takes the count of children from the get_blog function of the condenser hive api.
It is important to also note that it will count all those "garbage" comments where users just say "great post", "thank you", or call a bot for a worthless layer 2 hive engine token.
Raw comment data is too large for this sort of analysis at run time, and I have no interest in referencing a database for that. I did that previously and I learned very little that I did not already know or suspect as a hypothesis.
See below my prior analysis on comments on hive:
https://peakd.com/hive-133987/@holoz0r/text-analytics-reveal-thirty-two-percent-of-comments-on-hive-are-not-unique-and-at-least-ten-percent-add-no-value-to-discussion
https://peakd.com/hive-133987/@holoz0r/further-analytics-regarding-comments-on-hive
https://peakd.com/hive-133987/@holoz0r/a-much-deeper-look-into-duplicate-comments-on-hive
That is a very cool tool! Thanks for the full post about it.
I see you took four days off back in the day. I'm curious as to why.
69 novels! Seven million words! I am dwarfed and humbled.
I have noticed that your poetry receives less engagement. Poetry might use more obtuse language, but folks really just don't want to do the work required. We have to think! Egads!
Today's writings are very important. Like we all share a lot of posts. Where you shared your experience in the beginning when you also used to share a lot of posts and then gradually reduced it. And you have attracted everyone's attention with a very beautiful writing. I think it is important for everyone. Because posting too much pushes us towards spam. Rather, we should share quality writing. Thank you for sharing so many beautiful experiences and advice.
Well done @holoz0r, this is such an interesting tool.
I don't know that it necessarily changes my behaviour, but I do love data and stats. Thanks for presenting it Taraz.
Wow. I'm afraid to look at mine. I've had times of being fairly consistent, and times when I was just all caught up in real life and not writing or engaging a lot on Hive. But I'm going to run my report and have a good look. The timing of learning about this is great because I've just recently been working on ramping up my personal activity again. (I'm on Hive daily, but doing community admin work, not personal stuff. Time to re-weight the scales!)
Thanks for sharing this @tarazkp!
I don't know why but I just love people's annotations on their data screenies XD
Yeh because it's an outlier ability for anyone with no imagination it's IMPOSSIBLE therefore you MUST be using AI because NO ONE can POSSIBLY do that much ACTUAL HIGH QUALITY WORK in a day.
gross paraphrasing of actual arguments I've seen on some posts of very prolific artists that I don't think we have anymore now who were somehow quite capable of busting out a billion decent looking sketchies per day
I ran my stuff through the tool and am allegedly mostly university to professional level apparently; however I think I'm going to have to read up on that methodology as I'm quite convinced the only reason it thinks my writing level is that high is because I use "big words" (which are very normal words for me, I'm often told by other people that tthey're "big" words that they don't understand). I checked the posts that were allegedly professional level and the text was a short accompaniment to videos I'd stuck on dtube (I can't remember how dtube works but I'm reasonably sure the videos are no longer available because I broke my ipfs node). I'm so confused XD
Time is a major issue for me for sure. I like getting into about as much depth as you're ever going to get from me (not a lot these days;, a combination of brain glitches and the aforementioned lack of time usually means what actually happens is that I spend the better part of forever trying not to write a full on essay and also make sure that what I'm writing is somewhat comprehensible and then get distracted and then suddenly some time (usually hours, sometimes days) has passed and then I end up just not hitting the reply button after all XD
I imagine it might be a similar situation for at least a few other people out there.
It's been so many years but every so often I forget that the comment sections here are actually decent and that I can and should keep scrolling past the article more often.
usually it is still just a severe lack of time
On holo's tool specifically, it's really something if it got through your entire account :O I was worried it was going to die on mine and I have very definitely much less posts than you XD
Now when I started coloring paint by numbers sets I get quite a few comments who think that I created the image. I think that in the future I will start adding text in my posts that says something like- unless the opposite is said I did not create the image of this set( I may ask the shop to make a set or two based on my paintings as well.)
Oh! Thank you so much for sharing this tool with us, which I find very useful for analyzing our behavior in Hive and relearning along the way!
!HUG
HIVE REPORT CARD seems to be an useful tool for analyzing one's progress on HIVE. I am one of them who likes numbers about HIVE account. Whenever I write a progress post, I will take a look at it ;)
I agree seeing the stats like this is pretty cool and shows what you have done from day one. Being consistent on Hive is not difficult as for me it is therapeutic and when I get to relax for the day and leave the real world behind. Not only that, but the personal articles one tends to write can be problem solvers by getting on the points written down and I often find I have an answer or more clarity when the article has been completed.
yes.. keep going.. one day u MIGHT become a well written person!
:P
awesome tool! I was shocked by the numbers..