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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. :)
I didn't factor in the votes and unique votes at all, so it's just a rough guess.
Ha ha, yeah, you don't want people thinking you're weird! Or do you? Hmm, that could be a whole new angle that we haven't tried. Just kidding. Stick with shadowing everyone.
I don't use tags to search for stuff very much, but I have done it... and it works.
Sometimes you can find a person who posts mainly photos and you can just leave them a shorter comment on what you liked about it. Doesn't have to be a thesis, just what you like about the picture of how it makes you feel. I don't know. I'm just throwing out ideas. I really don't know how to do it.
But you do it. And it works. That's okay. You're not the only one. There's plenty of others just doing something that works without really knowing what it is.
I've gone into the tags, too, including photography. You want something quick to see/read. However, there are more images I have nothing to say about than ones I do, so I end up sifting through them a lot. But then, I do that with a lot of tags and posts.
I just need to quit being so picky. Or something.
Shadow, but don't be creepy. Got it. I've got to work my way through my feed still I think you've got another post I haven't seen yet, or just barely began when I was drawn back to my reply feed.
I don't spend a lot of time in photography posts because more often than not, it's just going to be "nice post" material. I don't know what else I would say.
Sometimes I'm not thrilled with my comments, but I leave them anyways. I do the same with posts from time to time. Better to get something out than do nothing.
With posting, I've been trying to adhere to a two hour or less rule. If I can't get it written, edited, and formatted in two hours, then I probably shouldn't do it, because I'm going to end up spending more time than it's worth right now. That means I might be holding back some pretty good stuff (or not), but since I can't seem to get back to even $1 on a regular basis now, I'm thinking it's a waste of time.
The trick is still to produce value, whatever that means to anyone.
As for comments, well, those either flow on the spur of the moment or they don't. I'll find myself deleting one or two lines if that's all I got out to avoid the "Nice post," or "Thanks for sharing" feel. Especially if I'm stretching to even do that because I don't know what I'm talking about.
Regardless, I'm agreeing with the sentiment. You can't get any rewards if there's nothing to reward. You can't engage if you or they don't engage back.
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!
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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.