Are you all outside and enjoying summer with friends? Or are you still stuck indoors or limited from being together with large groups of people?
This last weekend we were well over a hundred people gathered. Which I guess is another milestone in "getting back to normal".
Still stuck inside, can't even go outside to buy beer because my parents are all day at home due to lockdown. I miss having beer with my friend. Cheers 🍻🍺.
Lol, Can't cheer without beers...
Stuck with parents at home....I feel you...
Damn, that sucks!
Just try to imagine how amazing it will taste when you finally get to go out and have one (or five)
You guys have better weather up there in the North than what we have in here. Not stuck indoors though and people seem to get out more and more.
Norwegian summers Are just amazing! I guess it somewhat evens out having less sun the rest of the year
Nice pic, i hope you enjoy !
Thanks! You bet we did😁
Have my first weekend with family in the first new normal periods sir!
That's awesome! It's good to see people enjoying life and each-others company again
Nah, we’re not back to normal, yet, in Florida — with a curfew the past two days because of race riots & covid19/social distancing ...
Still that didn’t stop us from having small bbq on balcony —- so, raising a glass to your health !
That still looks nice though! It doesn't take much to be happy:).
It was the feeling we had throwing up a disposable grill to cook some simple hotdogs while out by a lake sunbathing on Monday. Very simple, yet very pleasant.
Enjoy summer!
Yes, you're right, my friend... "It doesn't take much to be happy"
Amid the rioting (8th day, now) and Covid19 trying to remember this:
Dance, when you're broken open.
Dance, if you've torn the bandage off.
Dance in the middle of the fighting.
Dance in your blood.
Dance when you're perfectly free.
— Rumi
Happy summer to you, too :)
Glad to be a place where things are peaceful 🙏.
Thanks for the inspiration!
Stay blessed 🙏
I am not! LOL, it's too hot here in the United Arab Emirates! It's like burning in hell!!! LOL
Haha! That's why I prefer Norwegian summers. The temperature is just perfect then at about 25-32 degrees C:)
Perfect! I like that!!! Even in my country now is different! The weather change! Before the same weather of NORWAY, now, almost the same of the United Arab Emirates! I can't live like that! LOL
Something similar here in India...
Average daily temperature is around 40'C or above...
Kind of hate summers...
Wow! The same in the Philippines!
Cheers guys 🍻
Thanks! Hope you're having a great time too!
Still stuck indoor but people seem to go out more.
That's unfortunate! Where do you currently live?
Yeah, I think as long as people show precaution then gradually returning to normal should be fine
Currently living in Indonesia. It's quite dense over here and people don't follow the safety measure strictly.
Overvalued shitpost, enjoy the sun and your beer though.
Imo rewards should correlate with engagement. Which is the only thing that matters in terms of adding value to HIVE.
So I'm yet to see many posts on Trending do better than, and thus deserve more rewards, than the popular posts made by different people in this Community.
I agree that engagement is important for Hive but I disagree with this statement:
While you're free to have you're own opinion, it's just an opinion. There's no consensus on this assertion.
I recall a few years ago there were many disagreements about how to evaluated quality content and there's no agreement there either - it's subjective.
The reason I bring this up is because we know that posts with a large number of upvotes do not actually equate to "value" or "quality" either.
The number of upvotes a post receives can be gamed with the creation of hundreds of alt. accounts. Some then suggested that "views" should be a metric used to measure actual value, but 'views' can also be gamed - bought and paid for.
So my point is, "engagement" or the number of comments one receives can also be gamed with alt accounts. The OP can inflate "engagement" by simply commenting as much as possible under their own posts to improve appearances.
People can inflate their "engagement" with low effort comments such as "thanks", "great post", "I like beer too" that, I would suggest, do not actually create any value for Hive at all.
Additionally, how is the quality of this comment "engagement" measured?
Is it simply the number of responses one receives?
Some posts receive only a few comments but does that really reflect poor "engagement"?
In this unequal ecosystem, those who receive the most responses are most often those who already possess large VP - there's no mystery as to why. It's just the way this system is set up. People follow the money.
Most of the time I'm stuck indoors because of the lockdown situation but sometimes go out.
This year feels like no summer no winter... just stay at home and watch netflix :-p
Wow u are having good time, I got mine stoke in the fridge for enjoyment.
Love hot sun with cool breeze