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RE: The Curation and Engagement Leagues 🏆 - STEEM prizes & steem-bounty available! 🎁
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 😎
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.
Aww thank you for that Glen! I'm shocked at how much I miss all of this when I'm away; it really has become my home away from home. Not sure if that's weird or not :)
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, dude—there'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
I just tried that equation and it could be work, but I think there's a 2x multiplier that needs to happen, and then go from there.
I think I definitely need to up the number of comments I'm making, while also keeping the CL going. I'm not sure how to do that because a) it takes longer to write more per comment and b) That means finding more things to comment on, which hasn't been my forte. I feel like I just need to shadow you all. Not just one of you but all of you. That might not be as creepy. :)
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 😅
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 😎 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! 😎
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 talked to janton about taking off this week and basically he's putting off the yard work until next week so he can see if he can make over 1000 comments this week. I can't blame him for putting off the yard work, regardless of what else he might be doing because I don't like yard work, and would find excuses myself.
However, he does have temperatures approaching 110 degrees to deal with, too, and even if he is acclimated to Texas heat, I wouldn't send anyone out into that.
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