Little Monday Rant by gadrian

real-comments · @gadrian · Nov 4 '19

$0.30

Little Monday Rant

One of the side effects of the #newsteem is less engagement, less comments on people's posts.

That's in part true because fewer authors keep rewarding people who engage with them on their posts with an upvote. Don't blame the authors for that, it's a side effect of the new economic system, which isn't as bad as enough of us thought at first, just bad for engagement.

At the same time, with or without a reward incentive to comment on a post, people find themselves having less time to do it. It happens to me. Manual curation does take time. Time one can use to... comment, for example.

For now, this is just a remark. Not saying it's good or bad people seem to prefer more curation to engagement.

The side effect that I really don't like these days is that many posts have more bot comments than real human comments. If we add to this the comments that only invoke bot commands, then we don't set a good picture for anyone looking from the outside in.

Plus, if real comments are no longer upvoted, they will be "lost" among a plethora of bot comments and bot invoking commands. Why would this person bother to comment again next time?

For a few days I started to use @CommentCoin to reward comments on my blog. But I wonder: do they reward known bot accounts as well, for their comments? I hope not!

The other thing I'll start doing is to upvote all the real non-spam comments to go above bot comments, for visibility. Sorry, in 99% of the cases they will be around 1% weight, so below the dust threshold, but enough for visibility purposes. Hopefully the CC token rewards will compensate in time.

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👎 frijuk, zanze

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@commentcoin · Nov 4 '19

You have used the Hashtag #[CC] and can now reward 16.0 comments under your post with one CC.

More information about the Commentcoin-Project can be found on this account.
Thanks for using it.

Happy comments.
Your CC-Team:
@kristall97 ([Code-Designer])
@alucian ([Project-Designer])

👍 jeyf123, glenpalo

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@simplymike · Nov 4 '19

I still haven't tried out the cc tag. Guess I first need to get a post out, lol.

It's sad, but true: after HF21 (+22), the number of comments has dropped significantly. Makes me wonder if people only commented to get rewarded for it. Personally, I've never commented just to get upvotes - my comment behavior hasn't really changed a lot.

Well, I guess I'd better not buy you a beer, then, lol.

👍 cloudblade, gadrian, glenpalo

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@gadrian · Nov 4 '19 (edited)

> I still haven't tried out the cc tag. Guess I first need to get a post out, lol.

You should get a CC token for this comment. Not really sure when though (after how long). If you buy some more CC tokens (a minimum of 10 at this point), you can then use the CC tag on your posts.

> Makes me wonder if people only commented to get rewarded for it.

Hmm, yes, in a way I do wonder that too.

> Personally, I've never commented just to get upvotes - my comment behavior hasn't really changed a lot.

Mine kinda did. Although in some cases I might've hoped for upvotes :), most of the times I was just trying to contribute. Nowadays it seems I'm all over the place on Steem: tribes and tokens, more manual curation both for STEEM and for some tokens, games, etc. The only thing that hasn't change is posting.

> Well, I guess I'd better not buy you a beer, then, lol.

After after such a comment, sure a !BEER would be nice. (trying it for the first time, hope that works, I don't have any staked, only liquid).

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@simplymike · Nov 4 '19

$0.06

Yeah, you need beer yourself before you can give it out.

Here's one for your trouble :0)

!BEER

For some unknown reason, I received the 10 CC tokens in a kind of airdrop. So all I need is some inspiration to make a post :0)

> Nowadays it seems I'm all over the place on Steem: tribes and tokens, more manual curation both for STEEM and for some tokens, games, etc. 

Same here. But I've been spending less time on the blogging platform or the tribes these last couple of months. Not enough, actually. I've been spending most of my time playing Steemmonsters and chatting on Discord. I should really shift my activity from Discord back to this place. It would be nice to score a bit higher on the list in @abh12345's Engagement league again. (

👍 sbi4

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@beerlover · Nov 4 '19

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@beerlover · Nov 4 '19

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@glenpalo · Nov 4 '19

I agree. I comment without considering whether or not a reward is attached.

👍 gadrian

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@ph1102 · Nov 4 '19 (edited)

Hmmm.. I am usually commenting if the topic is interesting to me, or sometimes I comment because I appreciate the author and want to show my gratitude for his effort...
Anyways, it is a time consuming thing, but it's not an excuse... :(

👍 gadrian

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@gadrian · Nov 4 '19

I agree... Not an excuse. I'll try to do better myself in the future...

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👍 ph1102.ctp

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@chesatochi · Nov 4 '19

Going to vlog about it tonight.

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@gadrian · Nov 4 '19

$0.02

Great! I hope I won't forget to watch it when I wake up tomorrow.

👍 chesatochi, dustsweeper

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@haikubot · Nov 4 '19

<em>Great! I hope I won't 
Forget to watch it when I 
Wake up tomorrow. 
</em>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<sup>- gadrian</sup>

---
<sup><sup><em>I'm a bot. I detect haiku.</em></sup></sup>

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@chesatochi · Nov 5 '19

I will post it in less than one hour from now.

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