RE: The Curation and Engagement Leagues - Sponsored by @carlgnash and @paulag!
wow Asher, look at the effect this league has on the self voting... only 2 votes out of the top 12 engagers! I think engaging and selflessness might be linked in some way. ;)
Congratulations to the Queen @lynncoyle1 who has retained her crown and is doing an amazing job of being "out there"... And also congrats to @gillianpearce too for her amazing effort. She is pushing Lynn every week for a while I'm sure, those 2 are incredibly competitive.
And there are too many other names to list that I am very happy to see up in the list, but 2 in particular made so much of a leap and those are @maverickinvictus and @bashadow. I'm very to see them both so close to the Queen! :) Great job guys!
I'm very happy to see that we crossed the 300 threshold of entrants in the league and I am very thankful for the support that you are getting from @carlgnash and @paulag! My hat tips you both for helping Asher to inspire so many!
Also Asher I would like to thank you very much for your generosity to me and all the others. I appreciate my prize and will again be donating it to the @friendsofgondor in your name to help the #stewardsofgondor while @fulltimegeek fights the selfishness in his quest. I also would like to thank you for the generosity that you show every week with your delegations, it is so nice to see how you have helped to grow and encourage people that I know are doing a great job! Congrats to @lynncoyle1 @gillianpearce @fullcoverbetting @themanwithnoname, I think is is awesome to see your growth and I'm happy to be a part of #ashersarmy with you all! :D
Yes that does look pretty damn good doesn't it :D
Thank you for the appreciation Dave, it's nice to hear and I do hear it enough from all the delegates - I'm just happy to have the chance to do this. It was never my plan when I joined the platform, but It seems like the right thing to be doing.
I have put a fair amount of hours in recently (as many have I know!) and will be nudging my seat back a little, especially when the sun arrives.
Thanks to you, the accounts in L2, and more, engagement is happening and being promoted as something positive for Steemit.
Cheers!
I understand the need to get some sun, I am right there with you. This winter has been too long and too cold for my tastes. I am happy that I had so much time to spend here though, but like you I will find a way to get a little sunlight in my day :P .... And I do agree that engagement is happening and growing and I love to see how everyone is responding!
Enjoy your evening Asher, and thank you again for all that you do!
Thank you :)
In this community things look great, hopefully we can rub off elsewhere too!
We're trying ;) ... we have some new groups that we are mingling with that I think are finding out how to fan out.. @meno's @helpie and @hitmeasap are two that I see growing like the wind right now. And we have @greetersguild that is just getting started but run by @terminallyill and he will do an unbelievable job of growing the "human" greeting function and replace some of those bots.
We're getting there, some days it seems slow and others not so much.. but as long as we stay focused I think we achieve some big things here.
This sounds very promising. I just hope it doesn't burn you out as the more you take on, the busier your time will become!
I have to echo @davemccoy's assessment regarding the self-upvoting. With one competition, you've been able to encourage engagement and in most cases either encourage people to not self-upvote (if they were already refraining), or incentivize them to reduce/stop. I really hope that the time and effort you're putting into this is giving back to you.
The prizes are worth more to minnow accounts that self-voting each of your posts - I'd like to be able to expand the prize list further to increase the incentive.
I'm winning at virtual hugs :) Perhaps in the future, or the next life!
Well, I don't want to underestimate the power of virtual hugs, but let's see if we all can't do something about spreading the word and maybe getting more of the larger accounts sponsoring this. :)
Thank you so much @davemccoy! I too noticed @macerickinvictus and @bashadow creeping up the ranks oh so stealthily!! :)
And you are so correct in thanking @carlgnash and @paulag...my lapse in not doing the same!
Congratulations to you as well this week; you've got so much going on all over the place and still comment like crazy! Nice ;) I think engaging and selflessness go hand in hand...or we're just all really competitive and don't want to lose our spot on @abh12345's lists here haha
haha... see .. you manage to always have the last word... I think that is the secret to your success.. No one can out do the Queen because she refuses to quit. lol ... Long live the queen!
Nice! My ex-husband always said the same thing, but funny enough, it didn't sound quite so sweet :)
(ok. Now I'm done ;)
I'm right there with you on self-voting, @davemccoy. I was only voting my own posts, so around 4 votes per week, but it's not worth it to lose points in the league. I'm glad to see that so many others are also getting help in building that habit.
Yes! Thank you so much to @carlgnash and @paulag for their generous support. You both are supporting the best contest on Steemit!Thank you!
I wouldn't be surprised to see scores in the 40,000s this week as there have been a lot of movers and people seem motivated to get that crown. It's going to be a tough fight! :)
I see a challenger coming for @lynncoyle1 and @gillianpearce... Its about time we had a "king" of engagement again, don't you agree blondie? :P
I humbly accept. Please send 50% of your rewards to me. I will give you all honorary titles. You will be expected to pay taxes on the lands that I grant you.
Wait, none of that really works on the blockchain. I guess we'll just have to try to dethrone @lynncoyle1 the old-fashioned way. (Commenting more)
haha... it might work on the blockchain if haejin has his way.. "vote me or else get flagged you peasant" ...
And we can tell our kids of the day when it wasn't like that... lol
I'd rather not have all the power concentrated on one person who demanded upvotes or threatened flags. When I first started and saw the controversy, I thought about trying to help iron things out. I thought better of it and I'm glad I did. I've seen a few medium accounts get destroyed by sticking their noses in there. I imagine that had to start all over. Once you're targeted, it's hard to get free.
sad but true... I have see the same as well. I even helped one guy to get a new account... some people let the power go to their head (I guess just like in real life)
The difference between real life and here is that in real life, you have to remember to go back and target the person. Here, you can set steemauto and forget about the person. For a whale, 1% downvote is a rounding error, but for the person being targeted, it can be all of the money they would make. It's tough.
Hahahaha this cracked me up but I think we should go to a backroom and make our dastardly plans there in order to dethrone the ladies hahaha
I see what you are up to @davemccoy and @themanwithnoname...land taxes, dethroning, all of it. I have eyes in the back of my head and several around the crown...we'll all be watching you two ;)
uses Jedi Mind trick you did not read anything about dethroning.
don't worry about what I said to @lynncoyle1 above, it is just a diversion ;)
Yeah definitely need to put this in the backroom haha
hahaha... you caught me... but I am innocent... It was all Mav's fault
@maverickinvictus, did you Jedi Mind Trick Dave too?
No he is my Master and I am merely his Padawan haha
haha @davemccoy ... so it is all your fault ;)
Still a long way away from dethroning you ladies. That number of comment length is ungodly!! Almost 200k and I thought @wtf had been prolific bceuaee of him reaching 100k plus each week consistently but you ladies are showing how much you jabber online hahaha
Did @wtf get reset? Because it says they haven't started blogging
I might have it wrong though lol
@maverickinvictus jibber jabber is right... one of the ladies even wanted to start a series called "chatty bitches" how the hell can we compete with that???
What do you think @themanwithnoname?
I didn't realize that had been talking about that. That's funny though.
We could have a series called "Guy Talk" and it would be a sitcom. The guys would all be stereotypical males, so they'd just sit around in their own houses and drink beer. They wouldn't talk. That would be it. Wait, that's not going to help us catch up with the gals' scores though.
We start a series called "How Many Letters?" In it, we just write a lot of letters and then ask questions about it. Like: How many "A's" come two letters after "C's"? (Otherwise you could just use Ctrl + F to find all the "A's".
Another option... We yell to each other! DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVE! Can you HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAR MEEEEEEEE? LOL
hahaha.. that is hilarious @themanwithnoname... simply hilarious... I love the "guy talk" idea too... If you want me could even make a game for newbiegames.... it might be a little boring but hell, who cares!
still laughing at that one blondie!
ps... found a couple good giphys for you to use ;)
You could call it You've Got Male and post questions about life, the universe and everything and take turns giving our takes on the topics all week. Then we could all get ice cream. @themanwithnoname knows a guy who knows a guy who may or may not have an ice cream truck (or a whole fleet).
well we are at a distinct disadvantage Dave because women say 7 words to our 1 word just look at the character count of the two Queens!! Those are already the length of all my posts and comments for the week!
hahaha.. yes so true Mav! I think there should be a gender added to the table and a multiplier effect given to the guys... Its only fair!!!
But the blockchain does not look at gender! it's all fair for it hahahha. We just have to keep doing one comment at a time Dave hahaha.
Although for every reply I give the Queen she gives me three so good luck to us hahaha
sadly true... and yes we will have to try harder... and yes I know... the Queen is a badass... you give her 5 words and she gives you 50... The truth be told, I actually admire @lynncoyles1 desire to win! If we have to get beat, then I am happy to admit she absolutely kicks ass!
I think the secret to their success is they hang out here on Asher's post all week. Holy cow. What's the record for most comments on a post? @abh12345 should be charging rent for everyone to hangout here. :)
We might rename Asher's home "the hangout"... its a place to come meet some people be greeted with enthusiasm and of course have some fun! Welcome to the hangout!
The only trouble is finding the comment to reply to! But good thing is, you can just reply to someone else's :P
Haha yeah Asher go and sit back and have a few good days in the sun. I have noticed that ever since the day @davemccoy and his crew came on board the scores in L2 has increased exponentially. Im kinda interested to look at the past top 20 scores and how it has increased haha. Maybe even the votes and comments given.
Lol I like that Asher's Army! We are just out there doing our small bit in commenting and upvoting people and this league of Engagement is the cherry on top!
Nice to see the names in there and we know they will be future influencers of this platform.
I know about the self votes and I had to admit it was hard especially when some of those that I follow in the curation trail come and upvot my post and I have to check if I self voted by accident hahhaa. I had to remove it.
This is indeed the league where everybody wins.
I'm glad you like #ashersarmy.. . I am making you the general ... So what do we do next General Mav?
Storm the Engagement front and take out the Queens hahaha
Hmmm war is about to unfold
a friendly war that the community will benefit from haha
Yep certainly
Might i join in?😂
Go for it and get yourself in the top 10!
Hahaha hopefully any tips?
Oh and your filipino too?
@davemccoy So I stumbled on the Curation Leagues about 4 weeks ago (I just came back to Steemit in January) ... and I saw comments then about not self-voting. I thought this was only referring to not self-voting your own comments, but recently I started wondering if this also refers to our posts. If so, how does that benefit people who come by with a smaller upvote than ours?
Also, I remember when I first started on Steemit (last July), people were NOT happy if you didn't upvote your post first. "Pay to play" was one of the comments I remember reading. Has that changed?
Sorry, I feel like such a noob for asking this!
Hey @helenoftroy! I am not expert on this but will give you my thoughts. I believe that yes it does apply to posts too. I think the reasoning is that @abh12345 believes that your votes should be used to curate good content and to reward community building efforts (ie like helping newbies or certain projects). Now this is just a sentiment that is something that he (and others like me) believes is the best use of our votes. There are others that think that believe differently of course.
I think the main thing is for you to always do your best and to always try to help others. Sometimes like you say, a self-vote may be something that benefits your follows. A lot will depend on your size and the type of following that you have. For me it is best to try to reward others with my vote, as I am still very small so my upvote of my own post will not provide much in curation.
I wasn't around in July, but I can imagine what that was like. It sounds like there were some that were trying to encourage followers by promising to "give" an upvote after the initial 30 min to reward curation to the first people upvoting them. Like I said I wasn't here, so I don't know but that would make some sense if there was less content available.
The goal of course is that this place develops into a real community and people can earn and have fun and socialize in many ways. To do that, we will need to all think through our strategies and try to do our best. If we collectively all have a every person for themselves, the it is likely that we will go back and reset and do it all over again!
Which is fine with me btw, I would love to buy steem back in the $0.25 to 0.50 range again!
Thank you for taking time to respond! I guess I will have to look into this a bit more. I don't post often so I wouldn't want to "hurt" the followers who come by regularly and read my blog. But maybe I will encourage more comments from them so they can get direct upvotes from me that way ... I just thought not voting on your own post was still frowned upon, but that was probably back in the Dark Ages :D
I'm all for giving back to the community, so I'm excited to be part of the Leagues. We'll see how I fair :)