RE: The Curation and Engagement Leagues ๐ - STEEM prizes & steem-bounty available! ๐
Is it just me or did last week just fly by? It seems like just yesterday I was up way too early and commenting on how well everyone did.
@abh12345, thank you for the lovely prize. It's just my size! How did you know? I have already powered it up to continue my long-term growth on Steemit. I don't know how many times I've gotta a prize, but it's been quite a few times and I appreciate the extra padding the prizes have meant for my SP levels. Being a part of the Engagement League has been one of the driving factors in my growth on Steemit. Thank you!
Also, Asher, well done on your placement in the League! You did really well. :)
@curie, thank you for generously sponsoring the leagues so that Asher's prizes can be dispensed. I would participate without the prizes, but they make it so much sweeter. It's nice to know that my work from the previous week was appreciated and that I have a little more to power up as a result. Thank you!
@janton, you're unstoppable, good sir! 969 comments, that's crazy! I don't know how you find the time to do it, but good on you. You've become a networking/engagement master and your fifth win in a row is well-deserved.
@lynncoyle1, you put on a great showing there and even edged @glenalbrethsen! That's an accomplishment for sure! Both of you do an incredible amount of commenting and engaging, so it's no surprise that you would be at the top of the engagement league. :)
@gillianpearce you were right there in the thick of it, although I seem to remember you saying that you were going to slow down a bit, so if this is your slowing down, I don't want to know what your scores would have looked like if you had kicked it into high gear. Ha ha. Well done.
@smithlabs you had an impressive showing across the board. Good number of comments and second level comments. Lots of upvotes given. Plenty of unique votes. That's a really great showing and we'll look for more from you in the future.
@themanwithnoname, you're handsome and amazing. You're so smart and talented. I'm proud of you how you're always trying new things, even when they don't end up working out. Keep that fearless spirit. I want you to know that I like you a lot and think you're the coolest. Thank you for inspiring me. This world would be a dark place for me without you. I'm so glad I'm in my life. :P
@funbobby51, @cicisaja, @rentmoney, @headchange, and @denmarkguy, great job placing in the Top 10! It's not an easy place to get to, but you did the work to make it. I'm proud of all of you because I know the work that it takes to get here. You have done well. Now let's do it again this week!
Thanks to everyone for making this group a lot of fun. It's nice to see you all out there commenting and adding value to the Steem blockchain. One of these days the price is going to pop and all the hard work that we've put in now is going to pay off handsomely. At least that's the hope.
Note: Not investment advice. Do your own research. Also, fly your own kite. Mind your own shoelaces. And never buy a rooster.
"Those who hope in advice from a man who won't put his name behind his words are probably great candidates to give aid to deposed Nigerian princes who ask for help by email."
-themanwithnoname
Was this comment drafted prior to the post? Epic! :D
My pleasure on the prize, and thanks for spotting that I scored well this week! (With the help of a few tables of data! ;) )
Yes. This will happen. The people here deserve all that they receive too.
Thank you! (especially for the Rooster tip!)
I could see how you would think so, but no. I'm just up way too freaking early!
Once I started going I just kept rolling, so it ended up being a little longer than I first anticipated.
Yeah, if you're posting those replies to people with all their scores, you could get a few points for that.
I'm looking forward to when Steem price pops, but enjoying the low prices to acquire more Steem more easily.
You're welcome! Although the rooster tip is also self-serving. I don't like them as neighbors. ;)
Ahh I see!
2:30 pm here, I've not done an awful lot today so far, but gifting STEEM is a grand way to start proceedings :)
If you have a little fiat, it does look like the time of the year to be buying a little. I'm very confident that at some point in the future we will see multiples of the current price.
Good luck!
It's much earlier for me. The day hasn't even started yet. Ugh. At least it's Sunday and I can take a nap later.
Gifting and receiving steem are both great activities for any time of day!
I'm going to try to get money together for another crypto buy. I just tend to spend my money on silver when I get more of it. Ha ha
Damn precious metals! I've got a few kilo's of that one, and some shares in a bottom draw which hopefully will see profit before I'm gone!
Right?! They take all the money. It's a good problem to have though.
Is that a salvage diving operation?
Locked away where I don't have to see them until something happens!
Ha ha ha, I sure read that one wrong!
Hi there, thanks for the mention. looks like you when it comes to the hard work you know about that first hand. Congratulations on a great score!
Now about that "let's do it again" part. That is all well and good but I think maybe a nap is order first. Then again this is a good time to get a jump on next round.
Good luck to you and happy Steeming.
You're welcome! I like encouraging people to keep going. It makes things more interesting when the competition is fierce here.
The day hasn't officially started for me yet and I'm already thinking about taking a nap. Actually, I might just do that right now. Thanks for the inspiration and encouragement to take this step.
Have fun getting a jump on the next round while I'm sleeping. ;)
Long naps are highly encouraged and have been proven great for productivity. The more you nap the higher you will probably score.
I will let you know if I learn any more helpful tips along the way ๐
That was a great tip! Thank you. I'm feeling more productive already. :D
Oh my goodness๐ฒ you really don't need a rooster pecking on your head to type this comment๐ just as long as my post ๐ fiuhh.. oohh I'm a bit jealous on your ability.
Thank you @themanwithnoname.. I think I need to learn how to do a smart work like you do instead of hard work onlyโบ
I'd rather have a super power where all roosters are forced to stay at least 3 miles away from me. That would be excellent.
Long comments don't necessarily mean greater rewards. They do help in the League, but it's important to know how to write engaging posts too. The length of the comments isn't everything.
I'm not exactly sure how I'm working smarter, but if I have inspired you to improve yourself in some way, then good for you for seeking to do better! I hope you succeed.
And another rooster is winning the world cup trophy ๐ they've make someone rich too.
Thank you @themanwithnoname. I have slowed right down this weekend and, with the heat, and exhaustion from looking after the grandkids for two days it's hard to imagine winding myself up again. But let's see . . .
I love your thanks for yourself. Brilliant! ๐
Congratulations on being in the top ten again.
You're welcome! You earned it. You are one of the most consistent engagers, even when you're busy.
I'll bet you'll get right back into things. Although if you need to take a break, enjoy it. You don't want to get burned out.
Glad you liked that. I saw an opportunity, and I took it.
Thanks @themanwithnoname โ slightly "surreal" for me; I've been an active curator/interactor here since I started 18 months ago, and I've been following Asher's leagues for some time โ one of the best initiatives on Steemit, especially for retention โ but it didn't occur to me to actually add my name here till about a week ago.
Well, I'm glad you did! It's nice to have new people enter the competition. Sometimes people drop off, but like you said, those who stay in the League are much more likely to stay on Steemit.
Glad to have you!
howdy today @themanwithnoname! if I had half your writing talent I would have twice the numbers! Thanks so much for all the conversations and for keeping so many of us entertained.
This is probably the best "thank you" comment I've ever read! keep up the good work.
Aww, thanks, that's nice of you to say. I'm a talker, so writing is just clicking on the keyboard until those thoughts come out. Fortunately, that also helps me keep from saying some stupid things. I say a lot though, so not all of it gets filtered out.
I'm glad I help keep you entertained. :)
yes sir! hey, what time are you going to the LCS tomorrow? or should I just ask when they open?
The closer coin store is the one I like going to. They have a wider selection of generic rounds than the other one. They are closed Sunday and Monday, so I'll have to wait until Tuesday to get my fix... unless I want to go to the other coin store. All I would be buying there is either rounds I already have, or Constitutional silver. That's not a terrible idea though, so we'll see. Sometimes when the price drops, people go all out and buy all the stock they have of silver quarters and dimes. It's funny though, because on $1,000 face value, they only save maybe ten bucks or something. It's not a ton, but it's enough for some people.
well if you go to the store which is farther away then that is true Stakitus affecting you, that would be a true symptom right there, a dead giveaway. So let us know what you do. This is a dumb question but Constitutional silver is just older legal tender?
Yes, Constitutional silver are the silver quarters and dimes.
It's not as easy as saying that if I am willing to drive farther that I truly have Stakitus. It's complicated. If you're hungry, but the only two places are one that is closer that you like and one that is farther away, but isn't good... you can't say that you're not hungry just because you won't drive to the farther one. If it's not going to satisfy you, then there might not be a reason for going. So even in my current state, I know that the other store would sate my current cravings. Therefore, I hold off until such time as the closer store opens. :)
howdy today Blondie! yes sir you are right, that is much more complicated than it seems at first glance. thank you for helping me understand that better!
There are still a lot of things that medical professionals don't know about Stakitus. I have some insight because I have contracted the affliction, but until such time as the professionals either study it closely or contract it themselves, there will be a lot of mystery about it.
That's a very impressive comment, in and of itself an essay!
Seems like you might be one who could soon be challenging for top spot!
=^..^=
Ha ha, thanks. Once the comment started, it couldn't be stopped. I was going to win an Oscar once, but they knew I give long acceptance speeches, so they gave it to someone else. Oh, well. Be true to yourself, right? :D
Oh, absolutely! ALWAYS be true to yourself!
=^..^=
That makes me think of Gilligan's Island. Ha ha.
Thank you @themanwithnoname! And congratulations to yu as well :) Nice job...and nice comment here too buddy :)
Oh, you're welcome! You have been working hard all over the place and a lot that you do doesn't even show up in the stats, so you earned it.
I was awake and ended up going for it once I started. It's funny, that was written today, but it feels like it was at least a few days ago. It's been a long day.
Thank you @themanwithnoname . I am one of those "behind the scenes" types ๐
I was awake this morning early and on steemit by 7 am. Even though I was out for a while with Brian today, being back on here now...it all seems like a long day too. I may call it early tonight!๐
I was up very early (for me) on Sunday. It seemed like it was at least two days in length because of how many hours I was awake. I also have noisy neighbors, so I don't sleep well. Hopefully one day they'll be quiet. :)
Enjoy your early night!
Congratulations on fifth place this week, and thanks for the mention. Being edged out by someone has become a common occurrence of late, as well as being left behind in the dust by those in the Top 3. It's a minor miracle to be where I am, given what @janton and @lynncoyle1 managed to do. With those two revved up, it's harder to get back in the race.
That's quite the tribute you gave to yourself, by the way. I like it when I find people who are not full of self-loathing. It's not a very inspiring attribute. So, thank you for sharing the very kind words you had for yourself. You should be very happy and content with it and with yourself. :)
It seems like you've been getting enough competition that maybe you could start getting rewards again and potentially unthrone Janton. I'm just saying.
Ha ha, I just started thinking of things I could say to myself and then wrote them down. I don't do all of them as well as I could, but it's important to have a goal to work towards. I do like myself though. And that's important too.
hahaha I thought it was very funny!
and yay, Glen's going to overthrow the reigning king :)
Now, hold on here. I'm not even officially back in the hunt yet. I'm not sure where Asher has been today, but I haven't seen him answering yet. I'm sure he will soon, but until then, I'm still out.
And then, I've got a lot more comments to right than I've been able to muster in any of the time I've been here if I'm coming close to his 47,000 points. He's simply been running away with it the last couple of weeks. :)
Too late @glenalbrethsen!! You don't get to back out now ๐
Well, Asher knows now, so I'm on the board. I guess we'll see what happens. :)
I'm already behind where I wanted to be in everything, so we'll see whether or not I can make it up from here. I hate having lousy starts.
I feel exactly the same this week @glenalbrethsen ! I've started to take Sunday off after I see Asher's post. Then Brian had a few bad days, and suddenly it's Thursday! Ack! I'm so far behind right now and hate that feeling.
Oh, man. Sorry to hear about Brian. When you mentioned in the other reply that you had taken the days off I was hoping it was for fun. At any rate, he's much more important than answering any of my comments to you, I know that. You do what you have to do. The rest of us will just have to fend for ourselves for a while.
Yes, it certainly is. I've never had much of a problem liking myself, either. I haven't always been happy with my accomplishments, or my efforts, but hey, you've only got one you, so what you gonna do? Forgive yourself, of course.
I'm glad you said potential. He's been setting a very high bar, especially the last two weeks. I think he's planning to do some yard work, though, so hopefully that will mean he has to slow down some of his onslaught here, because, dudeโthere's no way I keep up with any of that. :)
That's good you like yourself. I haven't always been satisfied with my achievements either, but we have to press on anyways. I tend to have unrealistic expectations of myself sometimes, so it's important to give myself credit for doing what I can. If I don't have control over something, I can' hold myself responsible for its actions or results.
I believe in you. You've put up some very high scores, and I think you can do it again. This is your week!
I've put up one score in the 40,000s that janton just blew by. Aside from that, I've made it into the 30,000s a few times. I don't think that's going to cut it. Got to figure out how to increase my comments like the rest of you all without losing CL in the process.
I used to be a perfectionist. Talk about unreal expectations. Fortunately, I gave it up for an attitude that's much more healthy. I also have an issue with procrastination. I haven't totally given that up yet. Apparently, I'm trying to perfect it. :)
As you say, though, it's important to set reasonable expectations and then go about exceeding them as much as you can, increasing them as you go rather than going for it all at once. Inevitably, even some of the easiest seeming of tasks will end up being not so easy.
I saw that you had about 10,000 more in comment length than he did, but he had almost 1,000 comments overall. I have been doing a mix of long and short comments and that seems to be working. I'm not sure how the factors play off each other, but if they do then having CL high, but C low won't help as much. It would make more sense to have them both medium. I don't know though. I don't know how ASher does the equation. It would be interesting to see though! Although I doubt he'd share that with everyone. As it is there's an air of mystery around it. If people knew the formula, it would make it more calculating rather than engaging.
I did too! Maybe I still am. I had to give it up as well and instead aim for excellence. That's a much more easily obtained goal. Perfection can never be reached. Excellence means that you put in the time and effort, you work well and do your best, and if that's all you can do... then you move on. That's it. Don't beat yourself up or punish yourself for falling short of perfection. It's still great! Be pleased with that. Well, that's what I learned.
Ha ha!
re: commenting vs. CL
There's definitely a ratio involved. Since none of us know the formula (and I'm in agreement, I'd rather we didn't, so we could spend our time engaging rather than strategizing), all we're left with is observations. To my way of thinking, CL is fairly heavily weighted, until it's going up against similar CL, but with over four times the comments. :) That's worth a bunch more points. And it should be.
I'm also guessing that the lower depth replies have a pretty solid impact, too. What doesn't have as much impact is everything to the right of CL.
I've been trying a mix of comments, too. Long and longer. :)
Hey, I'm proud of you! This was a shorter comment. You're making progress. Heh. Nah, you're doing great. It's mainly just being intentional about engaging and not wasting a bunch of time doing things that aren't going to actually impact your score (if the score is the main goal).
I'm not sure if there's a multiplier that is like (comments/100) x (CL/100). Actually, that's plausible. I wonder if I just cracked the code. :D
You guys are both inspiring and "off the planet" at the same time.... I'm hoping to just get as far as 10,000 points one of these weeks!
What seems most impressive about our friend @janton is perhaps that it looks like a lot of the comments he leaves leads to long conversations with posters... compare the almost 1000 comments with 600+ "depth" comments and votes being on just 46 unique accounts.
Just trying to learn some of the "trade secrets" here, all in good humor!
=^..^=
The not so secret trade secrets? :) Comment a lot, keep the replies going, and let the CL add up. That's basically it, from what I can tell. I just can't keep the first two going very much so I go for complete answers and see what happens.
Lately, it's not been enough, so I've got to do something more.
Well, thanks for thinking of me as inspiring. That's very kind. I'm really just trying to go about my business and figure out how best to work here without getting too into the weeds with all of the things I could do and could be doing.
Oh Glen, we both know that you are capable of coming in first again! Like me, I think you're neck was tired on constantly on the swivel, watching your back haha
And I can't believe I did not mention @themanwithoname's personal tribute.
me too :)
Well, I hope it's totally plausible, since I've decided to throw back in. I hope Asher sees my comment, anyway. :). I'm not going to be competing with 900-plus comments and nearly 200,000 in CL, though. If that's what janton's going to be doing each week, holy cow! That's an awesome amount of work right there.
No Name did kind of sneak in the tribute. He could have been a little more subtle, but it's go big or go home when he's talking about himself. :)
That's why I was perfectly happy with second place @glenalbrethsen! There's no way I'm going to even try to beat those numbers!!
hahaha go big or go home! We say that all the time here ๐
Well, I'm hoping there is no way to beat those numbers. At least not consistently. Which means not even janton. But, he might be going for them, so we might all be holding onto our hats or bowing down to his awesomeness again. We'll see.
I know it always feels better if you can beat someone that you do it when they're at full strength, then when they're having a down week. So, while it means a lot of work, I'm kind of hoping he makes another run at it. :)
@glenalbrethsen, he told me that he wants to hit 1000 ๐ I guess we'll see on Sunday!
So much for taking the week off. That's what he told me last week. He had some yard work to do. :) That was before I announced I was getting back into the prizes. I don't think that made him change his mind, though. I think he came so close to 1000 comments last week that he really wants to get there this week. More power to him. I couldn't do it, and I'm not sure if I need or want to. I do need to do more than what I've been doing, that I know. And I need to get further out on the blockchain again, too. :)
Yes, I think he's teasing us with his "gotta work in my yard" blah blah blah Just so we all slow down a bit. Oh I've got @janton's number now! ๐
I like venturing out to different pockets of folks on here too. Lately I've been wandering in the artists areas and boy is there a lot of real talent on here! It's pretty unbelievable!
I realized after reading the your first comment that I was going to be commenting on old material, so rather than responding to @lynncoyle1's comment and then yours, I'll just come here.
YAY! I'm glad you're going to be in it to win it again. I think it was very generous of you to give up rewards for the time you did. I think the mission of getting other people fired up was accomplished and I look forward to seeing your results this coming week!
You know how things go, sometimes people have down weeks in the competition and you may be able to take the crown without having to do quite that much. You never really know.
Ha ha, I'm glad you two were amused by my tribute to myself. I just copied the list from Asher's post and then started congratulating people. I got to my name, and I figured "why not?"! Once I started going, I figured exactly what you said, Glen, "go big or go home."
I'm not normally in the business of self-aggrandizement, but I figured I could make an exception. :P