I am posting everyday, and to my personal standards, I'm posting the best stuff I've ever written. Only a few regulars are reading it. I'd love a bigger audience, for anyone reading your comments.
I'm writing an anthology of speculative fiction stories, book reviews, video game reviews, rambling essays, and reflective pieces about my current reality.
I also post photographic portraiture and ramblings about Art. I'm also doing a weekly analysis into post quality vs reward. There's a lot of content out there each week, and a lot of it is not getting the same reward for effort as some other posts.
I've never been more inspired and productive. If only there was an audience.
Do you feel it brings a higher value to your life by reflecting on what you are consuming and thinking?
Should effort be the metric though? Sure, I think shitposts don't deserve much, but effort is something different. Someone can put in a lot of effort and still have a shitpost. Someone else can do something great much more easily. A lot of the time, the difference isn't in the effort, it is in the experience.
Let's see if I can get you a follower or two who like a good post.
@slobberchops @meesterboom @galenkp @azircon
You took the words out of my mouth about effort. I think knowing whether or not something is ready for human consumption is all part of the self-moderation (and to go down another level... dependent on people's frontal lobes, (right) ;)
Regarding shitposts - If I make a shitpost, I do it consciously (and sometimes, it is a thesis) ;) I know we're having multiple discussions across multiple threads, just trying to keep it all in order in my sleep deprived state.
Yes! Just as we "are what we eat" from for a health and fitness perspective. Our creative and media diet very much dictates what we proscribe value to, and how much value we get out of it.
Reward is not my goal or metric.
Mine is interest. I typically write for myself.
Also my other metric is KE. I know Mr. Chops uses the same metric.
KE is not a static number :) Do you have monitoring for users that are changing their KE in one direction or another?
It is a dynamic number. I have access to that dynamic number in real time and I can plot for any user dynamically :)
Full disclosure, because I haven't (at least, I don't think I have) said it to you directly - your KE metric is definitely one of the many reasons I have gone back to powering up everything and changing my posts to 100% power up - because I want more influence long term, and the only way I am prepared to get that is through my writing.
Writing for me, which is for myself :)
I know a lot of people do not like your KE metric, but it is something that is a motivating factor for some people. They just may not articulate it well.
Thank you.
I appreciate your candid response. I know that we engage often and not just in our posts, but in other's too! If I don't like your content and you as a person, I wouldn't do it obviously.
I am glad that a simple ratio or tool can have this much of an impact on people. When I made this I had no idea. However, I am so glad I did and I am glad that people are embracing it and changing their behavior at hive. That was my intent.
I can claim victory now! :)
You're welcome. :)
One victory :P I don't know if it will be ever possible (mathematically) to get back to "less than one" KE through curation / writing awards, but I have gone from eight point something to six point something in less than a month.
I've been transparent about my hive-off-ramping in the past. Future exits will have that same transparency. It isn't even that much money. I'm on hive for a long time, not a good time. But that doesn't mean I haven't had good times! :)
The fact that we interact with each other on other people's content mean that we're paying attention and absorbing the whole, as opposed to just dancing in our own homes.
More people need to step out onto the dance floor in other people's comment sections. Not.. like, respond to every comment, but at least have a bit of a discussion, or bring up bits of an author's post that was missed, provide further reading, or debunk obviously erroneous data when it is identified.
Yes, it's true.. though there are a few exceptions I do tend to stick to my KE rules quite firmly. Give.. and receive.
I am always game for following someone. I have seen your metrics before and thought I should follow you then but the frighteningly large beard you had worried me somewhat. What if it was alien and had subsumed what had previously been you and I was it's next target? It's easy to laugh off of course but I have been there before.
I shall take a chance this once
Shit, my cover is blown. Step away from the shaving razor.
Edit: Also, when you say metrics, do you refer to the post I made about word count and rewards?
That is something that I will continue in the future, but my passions are broad, varied, and at times, terrifyingly like a ping pong ball. As in, to say, they go everywhere.
Yeah man, I liked that one but I like lots of mad shit as well. 😀😀