"Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential." - William Thomas
How could something be meaningless, but only sort of.
I don't know, someone smarter than me will to work that out...and I'm sure there's plenty of important pompous morons, as William Thomas calls them above, on Hive who reckon they're one of those "smarter people."
I came across this tool the other day, statistics based on my time here since I first began in June 2017, and while all of it is simply meaningless data to me there were some interesting aspects. This'll be totally meaningless to you, as it should be, however I thought I'd put some of the meaningless data into a post for the sake of some meaningless reason I can't even think up right now.
Interesting, (to me not to you), that my posts are fairly consistent all days of the week and months - where I find the time I have no clue. Actually I do, I'm super productive, think and type fast and pre-plan.
This one is totally meaningful. Not really. However, there's a nice upward trend with my wordcount from the beginning to date. It flattened in 2025 but I know why - super busy in life, work and relationship and it's more important to dedicate time to those things.
Below indicates I primarily write a lot of words in my posts, (82.2% of my posts are text heavy), and I like that 96.3% of my posts are text heavy or text/image balanced.
Below talks to my vocabulary, total words written (over 3 million), and a solid number of unique words used. i.e. not stop words like: "the," "a," "is," "in," "and," "of," "it," "to," "that." I don't enjoy reading posts that too often use words like this so I'm mindful of doing it myself finding better ways to say what I want to say.
This one is cool, to me at least. Rare words used under 2 times in my posts - there's 24,613 of them; it includes words I've made up myself and typos/spelling errors. I downloaded the list and thought I'd add a few here for you: nuttier-than-squirrel-shit-lady, oldmanoblem, scooched, autumnish, australianise, milk-froth-thingy, cuntiness, fuckzactly, blamervikzammbleroopenroppertumbewip (this was an image filename), crocodocodocodocodile, clueless-fucktard-troll, chest-melons, nipple-tweaker, libidinous, druid, fuckfuckety. You get the idea.
I like this one which shows a list of words I use most and the frequency. I thought I'd use them all in the same sentence, the words are in bold.
"People should see their life and think of it as more than just the moment they're in; the things they do though, in the moment and the past should help them create their life around how they truly want to live in the present and future. We are all only here for a short time - live life well."
Here's another I like but it'll almost certainly be meaningless to you. Writing with an active voice is one of my goals although it doesn't always happen; it makes writing more engaging and clearer/easier to read. Happily, 92.3 of my writing is considered "active writing."
That's about it for today's meaningless statistics. There's others I could have included but I saw no point in adding any more statistics that are largely irrelevant to any but the person they relate to, and even then it's somewhat meaningless...sort of.
Link to the tool if you're interested.
In respect of my time here, I find the valid and interesting and engagement I receive and the relationships I've created have more value than a few statistics which is why I've not added a lot into this post.
What do you reckon about the relevance of your own, and other's, statistics? Do statistics make you feel important, does it validate your time here or are you more interested in the relationships like me?
Design and create your ideal life, tomorrow isn't promised - galenkp
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Image(s) in this post are my own
I could care less about the stats myself. In fact I'm not even going to look at them. It may be selfish, but I write for myself first. It is a release of sorts. Secondly, like you, is the relationships established with peeps like yourself. I guess for serious bloggers, these stats would be very useful, but for someone like me, they are, well, blah.
Here is to a solid 2026 of continuing to build cool connections.
With Hive, I think people equate their sense of having succeeded at something to "good" statistics. That's why those little badges exist, a pat on the head for reaching level three, or whatever. Tracking performance is important in many aspects but then it becomes a job, or the motivation for acting, people start to lose sight of what's important and they start chasing statistics rather than investing passion, personality and effort.
I'm interested in statics like unique views, or average time people spend in my posts, you can find them here
https://peakd.com/me/insights
I tried run the tool on me
🤣 I'm fairly sure those aren't my most used words
I also have active voice
Those are some strange words you got there. You'll have to do a post about their actual meanings. Pyu sounds like something super important. 🤣
Pyu sounds like laser lol
Gne "might" make sense as word like "oh look who showed up for work, gne gne good job" (sarcasm) but the others lol
Haha, I'll give you 10/10 for ingenuity. ✅
There seems to be a big boom in people creating tools like this with all kinds of statistics about our accounts. I think it is awesome. It's might not be exciting to everyone else, but I think it is cool to go through your data.
The right statistics can be interesting I suppose, people's Hive statistics don't really provide a huge amount of interest to me though.
No, I am kind of selfish like that, I care more about my own.
As I am consistent with my publications I don't look too much at statistics, but in reality they could help me to see my progress and be a guide to improve myself, always moving forward. In reality I prefer to improve relationships and that doesn't appear in the statistics, or at least not in a concrete way. Forging these bonds has made me meet spectacular people in whom I trust a lot and discard other people who weren't worth it.
Yes, seems quite similar to what I wrote in this post actually.
That's right, I don't really look at the stats, I make my posts, enjoy them and strengthen the bonds. That makes me feel good.