I have always had goals in my time here on hive and one of my most sought after achivement hbas been to have one of my posts in the All Trending page of hive.blog and I was surprised to see one of them finally made it to the All posts feed. There has not been a time where I have not sought this for a very long time. I am not sure if five years is a long time but for a platform and my existence here the time it took to have one has been a long time coming.
I am not sure what it is that has made my post get to where it is but I am thankful that I have received a warm reception for my post. I took two days to write it up which is not normal for me since I believe my typing speed is fast or at least over average speed so writing up posts that come to me with ease, its a flex I know but sometimes I have to give myself a boost in ego.
I walk quietly with a big stick.
Meaning I don't shout out loud willy nilly unless the room is already filled with people I have grown to be comfortable with. The voice is loud coming from my mouth naturally. There is no need for me to raise it consciously, it just happens. Probably because I am obsessed with lung exercises since I was a wee kid no older than 12 years old. At the top of my lungs I would strut around at home where my family can hear me from miles away. It is not so strangers can hear me but more to do with my carefree nature within the confines of my home or a place I am comfortable with.
I do find though my thoughts always stray from any plans I have when I start writing anything. Even in Uni my essays tend to go on a tangent, with some sort of overarching theme that I have to consciously bring out in the end since I don't like rewriting anything I have put pen to paper. In fact of the countless essays I submitted only proof reading them and correcting spelling I do no drafts that become a work in progress so the post achieving the impossible, I thought it was impossible since the platform has so many good writers that I don't religiously read... Ok maybe some I do read from select people.
I tend to keep my opinions of their writings to myself, most times. Then the odd occasion I would respond to the posts that sing some sort of truth or some sort of fallacy in my opinion I disagree with.
So it was a bi surprise for me to see I had achieve this impossibility. Now my OCD brain is left analysing what the formula is contained within that said post. In fact I did not even realise its presence with the All post feed as I trawled through the feed in the last 24 hours, I had glimpsed it and jut thought I was looking at my personal profile feed.
Pleasantly surprised and very much thankful it had run its course to reach its place.
Now where to from here? Well I really don't know since I am busy analysing and just trying to study the result while writing this post that you're reading now. The main thing though is a post of mine made it into the coveted feed. This is coming from someone who thought it impossible. I can even argue I am now less motivated to write something in case I again do not achieve anything other than a meagre showing, beggars can't be choosers so I am also thankful I got it in the first place.
Now where to? Well I will just post what I normally do and not change anything since after all it is the experience for me that really draws me into posting things here and the chance to get better at writing something about anything.
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Well done on your achievement of the front page! As far as I can tell, most of the time these high-value posts come from being noticed by the big curators. That post of your for curated from three big curation trails and each one came with its flock of vote trail votes.
Your post was of high quality and about something that the blockchain cares about: Hive meetups!
The thumbnail was also eye catching!
So there is not really a way to recreate this with every post, but if you do create posts of that sort of quality, I guess you will also receive more curations than not.
I find that my wife does less posts than I do, but posts into communities that have a better vote trail. I can only write about what I write about, so I just stay active so I can make more posts than her. I also only manage to do shorter posts, more frequently. If I spent a lot of time on a post, only to get very little support it feels like a wasted effort.
Keep on writing! That's what I say! Don't let this peak post stop you from posting again and again!
So true, then good old short and sweet posts I'm partial to them a well but mainly do so a little poems that I'm practicing my poetry.
Hmm communities with high curation trails, noted.
Thanks for the feedback by the way.
Mt pleasure. Have a great day!
Mine has been productive already!
Congrats aku!
Thanks dude
clickbaity titles like a "night of passion", "the scent of allure." "The japanese huntress and me.", "All it takes is a bit of alcohol.", "Places to be if you want attention.", "Akumagai's new clothes." "To spot men among women.", "starting with Hello There." "Skinny Dip Sundae."
The post got more lengthy than your usual outputs, the content was mainstream types people put out relating to their personal lives and it involves people within your existing network that happens to be reblogging and getting you more visibility than usual. I don't think there was a secret sauce or luck, this had little to do with it, you happen to be posting the right content at the right time.
No secret sauce? Dang guess I'll have to concoct my own....