You are totally right to point out this. I believe it's a part of the journey to engage with others. It's the basis for building relationships on this blockchain. I have the feeling somehow that it's not something that is possible to force upon people. It's so obvious when people comment because they feel they have to comment and often you can see that they didn't read your content and just put a standard comment on the posts.
The level of support could be directly proportional to your level of commitment...
I don't think this is the correct approach because it's a top down thing and I think it shouldn't be the task of project hope to enforce engagement. In such a situation the resulting engagement will be of very low quality. People comment because they have to and not because they want to.
It's the authors responsibility to make people want to comment on his posts
For me this is a very important point. It's in the authors interest that he gets interaction on his posts because this ensures that people will come back to read what he produced. There are many ways to that:
Create good interesting content
Incentivise engagement
There are many tools that we can use to incentise engagement on our tools.
- Engage tokens
- Beer tokens
- Create an alt account and stake LEO tokens to upvote comments
If people get something in return when they comment my posts, I believe it will be much easier for them to come back and do it again.
Hello @achim03
Thank you very much for your contributions.
Yes, it's really obvious when someone makes a comment without a foundation, just to leave a comment and that's it. For complying, as it were.
However, you can see other comments that are really in tune with the post, and that add value, this is certainly important to keep in mind.
The tools you are talking about are very valid. Writing topics that could be interesting for the majority, allows you to have a flow of users that would like to read you. It is normal and logical. In my case, it happens with you and your publications, you always share valuable content to the platform, and you also raise it in an understandable way. This is something that should be emphasized, that among so much information, we can choose among the topics of our preference.
Now, it is not that users will make 10 comments per day, because we know how that ends, no one (or almost no one) is going to devote to reading 10 posts to be able to elaborate a comment that really adds value, but neither the extreme of people with more than 2 months without commenting to anyone, others that perhaps have one or two comments. Who don't even respond to the comments they leave in their post...
I'm clear that we are not going to get an improvement in this aspect, but at least that is up for discussion, which is already something important.
You are totally right about that. I think that there needs to be a discussion and maybe people shouldn't just focus on the payout of their posts but rather on the relationships that they create here on the blockchain.
I don't know how it is for people but for me comments on my posts are what motivates me to write them.
I agree we can't enforce it but an engagement token might be a good idea. I do believe that we build community through engagement and discussion rather than just posting. I think all of us should share and promote a culture of engagement. Encourage it. We can not enforce it though.