Importance of Taking a Break
Recently I have been looking into @holoz0r 's Hive Report Card. If you haven't seen it, go do it now, because it will tell you lot about the following:
- Yourself
- People you are curious about
Both are important to me, but the second bullet is about an order of magnitude more important than the first. This is simply because I don't have enough time in the day to read all posts at hive, LOL! I don't even have enough time to read the people I like to read. However, I do fee responsible to know about their writing trend from the data. There are many ways to do it. If you read holoz0r's recent post, he made an excellent tool to do just that.
I responded to him that I have many comments to make, which will require a full post, so there you have it. I will start with my own data.
The first image is a basic information dashboard, which I find useful. First it pull my 700 total post in 49 seconds (yes, I used a stop watch), that is impressive. It shows my longest break time, 1 year almost precisely. Then below it shows the words that I have written over time. The plot is very revealing. It shows the big break and a smaller break, and how my writing frequency (performance?) improved after the breaks. Here are my suggestions for the dashboard, if you please consider @holoz0r ...
- Currently you have 4 text button right under the name search bar, Last 7 days, Last 30 days, Year-to-date, and All time. May I please suggest a few addition buttons
- first 6 months
- first 1 year
- first 2 years
- In the dashboard, "second longest break" and period length
- Post/day during first period, and second period, and third period (if there are two breaks, then there are 3 periods, n+1)
- I think post/week box will be valuable, as lot of people see hive 'active posts' that way
It would be nice to label those breaks with a arrow markers on this chart above. Like this..
It is very interesting, that my writing style and, I would say my goal at hive, changed drastically after break 1. After break 2, the change was subtle, but incremental. I have life events associated with those, so I remember clearly what happened. I am excited to see it reflected in the data.
Then it is the day of the week, moth, year breakdown of posting. I like this a lot too. I notice the break in the yearly post display. I live in Houston, which is UTC -6. So I see my sleeping time in the hour of the day plot. The single digit numbers in purple boxes are 11pm to 5am CST. The few that I see there are likely I was writing from other parts of the world during my travels. I see 2pm - 4pm, Friday to Monday is the time I most commonly post, which makes sense to me as those 4 days I don't work. I only work 3 days a week typically.
Only one suggestion I have for @holoz0r here: is it possible to set your local time zone here, so that an user can customize this display (only optional and nice to have).
Readability
I have two kids in school, so Flesch–Kincaid readability tests is nothing new to me. I am glad to see that they are incorporated here. Personally speaking, I like to write as I speak. I write this blog as a journal. I write directly on peakd without any spellcheck or grammar check. You it is very common to find a lot of typo on my posts, I rarely read back and correct them. I feel free to write this way, because I am just writing for myself. If you are reading it, that is your choice! That said, I am glad to see that my writing style is rather consistent. I also like to write in a way that an average middle school kid can consume and understand (my older just started high school).
I don't know which formula you are using, it might be helpful to mention it.
Regardless, both are simplistic metrics but objective at the same time. These are accepted method to understand readability, so I am supportive of this tool.
That is all that I have in terms of review and request. I am glad that you have put this together for the community. I am looking forward to use it more to test others writing and therefore hive etiquettes. I think it is also critical for many game related content writers, as English is not their first language (just like me). One thing I have always said that people can use hive in a variety of different ways. Gamers from all over the world blogging and improving their English writing skills is an important by-product of this ecosystem.
That was fascinating, and not surprising. I admit to writing because I enjoy it. I admit to editing my posts carefully. I admit that I sometimes think deeply about a subject. I love to research material. Sometimes I write light posts, with art (collage) as a focus. Sometimes I write political posts.
One of the reasons I blog here is because I really like to do it, and sometimes I feel I have something to say. Readability? Seems to be on the upper level, but always I try to be engaging. I use my husband as a guide. He likes to read mystery novels. If he is engaged, then I pass my threshold for readability. He is a kind husband, but honest.
That's great tool. Won't change me at all, because I like what I do, and after all, aren't we supposed to have a little fun here? :))
I checked yours
I found this fascinating. You are a morning person. I can almost see you writing your next post sitting at your desk at 9am! :) I don't know why, but I find this fascinating that we can tell all these from blockchain. You are writing a bit less compared to your own standard
Well, interesting how life is reflected in the numbers. My husband has been dealing with a serious health issue since last year and had a complicated surgery in May of this year. It's been a complicated year...Getting back into the swing of things now that he is feeling a little better. Here's hoping his healing curve continues up, and my blogging reflects that. Blogging is my hobby and it makes me happy.
Since we are talking surgery......I feel like I should tell you about my potential expiration date :)
You have furniture with screws at home I am sure. They tend to get loose with time, right? I have already seen people do re-surgery of knee screws. It is quite common. Unfortunately for me, that may not be an option :)
You don't tighten screws on your upper spine :)
https://peakd.com/hive-13323/@azircon/bionic-oilman
Oh no!!!! I am so very, very sorry. That's horrible. Bad, bad luck. You have to just think that expiration date is so far in the future that it won't matter.
My husband is so much older than you. I guess you expect these things to happen with age, so we are being philosophical, but that's not working too well.
Wow, I could never tell from your activity and your writing that you are dealing with something like that....
10 years is what I have, if you consider the mean.
There is a narrow standard deviation with not a lot of data. You do know I am data guy.
One of those ten years is already gone :)
Also the funny thing about mean is, people don't typically think about, that there are in fact values below the mean :) LOL
I am 50. I am perfectly content and at peace with the universe. I have all my affairs in order already (I hope!) LOL
And values above the mean.
When my husband received his diagnosis on Feb 5, 2024, I looked at the statistics. Not good. Not for a man his age. We're still here, still hoping to go to my granddaughter's graduation from college this year. Damn the mean. Damn the statistics. We are all unique. I'm betting on your future. But, it's good that you are at peace. We are too.
till date, this is one of the best comment I have received, especially from one of my favorite person
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I was horrified to see my readability wheel lol. Really, over half the posts on middle-school level?
I did have a couple of professional posts. Looked them up, but honestly I have no idea why these are proffessional haha.
Either way, some really cool stats to explore there.
That is a good thing!
Read my comment and example above please.
You want to communicate at middle school and high school level.
Thank you for this, between the feedback you and taraz have left in your posts, I've got a busy day ahead of making more improvements. I have some ideas, and I should probably write them down so I have a list to work through before I just aimlessly start on features. When I say "Write them down", I have a piece of paper. :D
What is paper? :) LOL
I made a whole community on this paper rubbish:
https://peakd.com/c/hive-115590/created
Classic! :)
I have voted your witness.
Perhaps it is time for me to watch the boxing day test match soonish!
I saw :) I have alerts set up for these things. Thank you.
I must hand in my Australian citizenship (not sure I can give my birth back) - but I haven't watched a cricket match (of any format) in many years. For me, it may be a cure to insomnia.
Oh No!!!.......
I am going to unvote you witness now!! :)
Oh wow, he has added a lot more stuff from what he was showing me the other day. Pretty awesome. I think my 2200 posts mostly fall in a middle school reading level. 1.5 million words.... wow! I never could have imagined that from me!
As I said above, middle school and high school is the level we all should be.
I seem to be pretty consistent in that middle band, so I think I am doing well!
Ok it triggered my curiosity !!! Well for sure the report about my posts brought something that I know that I need to improve and for sure it makes people to avoid reading my text sometimes… but yeah everyone has their challenges! But hey I have some posts in high school level or bellow readability 🤣.
You want your post readability to be high school and below. That is scientific technical writing. That means you are not writing very long sentences and flowery words :)
Well, that is my personal opinion.
Yeah! Usually there is a need to focus on that. Maybe it is a good practice , since sometimes I need to explain a concept to my kids . The teachers here are going to start a strike, so the parents decided to do a rotation of teaching, and of course they pushed me to help with science 🤣. Need to explain how phase change occurs for grade 3 kids 😬.
I also write for myself once a week. I love reading other people's posts and interacting in the comments. I'm curious how much you have to earn per post to write for curators :)
No idea. Please continue writing for yourself.
Curators don't know shit! :)
That said........this is not a post
https://peakd.com/alive/@urrirru/long-btc-and-short-hbar
This is a notepad scrapbook with some screenshot and text. It is fine for yourself, anything is.
However, why would people want to read this?
I've heard that people love money. My trading is profitable. Why not share a strategy for Hive traders and chat in the comments? After all, we have crypto traders here.
Sure!
Question: have any trader from hive ever communicated to you on a daily basis?
How many do you think? 1-10, 10-100?
I communicate with traders on Telegram. There's a chat created by a trader friend of mine. Almost 20 years ago, we traded successfully on the Moscow Exchange; he was one of the leaders among several thousand participants. Unfortunately, Hive has a small audience.
Exactly my point.
I don’t think there are any real traders at hive who communicate socially
Man, this is amazing! It's probably the most incredible tool I've ever seen here on Hive! And honestly? This has really boosted my self-esteem! It gave me more energy to keep going strong. In fact, it's a topic for a post exclusively analyzing my own journey. There are SO MANY interesting details. Congratulations and thanks to @holoz0r for creating something like this. This guy has risen in my estimation to the top 1 here on Hive. And thanks @kaonashi for sharing this. If it weren't for you, I might not have come across this information!
Thank you for your kind words!
I am continuing to work on some more new features - because I want to know more about my own writing (yes, I made the tool for selfish reasons) - but I am glad that is useful to so many others.
There are still some bugs, but I am in the process of ironing them slowly.
Today I have been working on cleaning up the code base a little bit and restoring some features that I broke :D
This isn't the last version of the tool, and I have some ideas for other tools that I am not sure exist yet.