nice post, I voted you, you follow back yeah? I got big follows (just kidding) good work @spaminator. It's healthy to see someone tackling the hideous nature of upspamming (100% upvoted by @outerground.)
And Another Thing !
I've been thinking recently.. something that came from faceduck originally.. is it rude to comment but not like ? In steemit's case, is it rude to comment but not upvote? YES IT IS ! I also think not enough people upvote great comments ! (not that I'm fishing or anything) but you know when someone says something, meaningful, opens up the discussion, even has the good manners to require paragraphs and uses them.
Adds a bit of markdown
and then tops it off with a tasty and appropriate gif as if the user was weebo from flubber. (If you got that last reference, you're cool and old or a real sci-fi comedy, Robin Williams fan, film geek.)
I will say 99% of the time you are correct when it comes to up-voting posts you comment on. As long as it isn't abuse I think that even if you are just giving advice on formatting or something a small up-vote is in order unless the post/account absolutely has no value. That's why sliders were created!
I like markdown when it isn't excessive and doesn't make the comment longer than the average post. :)
Your comment brings to mind something I want to do with @spaminator. Find a way to run a contest to encourage users to have a conversation. I just haven't figured out how yet. Or maybe I have...
I'm thinking I could create a post once a week with a topic for minnows, tadpoles really, to discuss the topic in comments - even if it leads to an off topic discussion. I also want to encourage them to use any language.
At the end of the week, after post payout, pick some of the comments that are the best conversation starters - provided the account hasn't comment spammed in the last 30 days - and provide them a small reward based on the payout of the post. I hope that we can get the participants to up-vote each other as well to encourage more conversation!
Sometimes comments like yours bring me some pretty good ideas! Thanks!
Good reply & (thanks for the reply). I think that's a really good idea and on that might just work. If you dangle a carrot, even a very small one, people try to use their mind a bit more to get the juicy treats.
let me know how you get on with it. I'm not sure how you will roll it out but most things pick up pace if it's useful and this could be a good way to encourage tadpoles to get involved, learn and possibly grow a leg or 2 ;)
I agree, 99% of the time an upvote with a comment.. or even a comment upvote.. as long as it's upspamming
Markdown
innit
GOOD LUCK @spaminator
I have ideas for getting people involved, I just lack the resource / incentive to kick start the process.
:-(
@patrice, you might consider touching bases with @merej99 who organized and ran the very successful "Community Engagement Challenge" a couple of months back-- 10 days of monster levels of engagement, creativity, posting, commenting, voting. I think we actually had one post that reached 700+ comments "in dialogue." Part of what made it cool was that we also had a fair number of dolphins involved... so newcomers got to experience "fair rewards" for well crafted comments.
Thanks for the suggestion! I'll check with them when I get a chance.
Strongly disagree. Upvotes are a very limited resource, specially to those who rely on steemit as a source of income. If I'm going to be seen as rude just because I can't upvote something, is it really better to not even comment? That's irrealistic at best.
that's quite amazing. a reply to a dead thread which is nearly a year old ! (unrealistic would be the correct usage here.)
Well... yes, and yes-but. When I were a wee minnow here you could cast a LOT more votes before draining your voting power. Today-- if I had 100SP and were feeling ambitious and wanted to leave 40-50 meaningful comments per day as a path to building a following... I'd have ZERO voting power in short order. Now if you're a little further along on the curve... I agree 100%. Pretty much ALL of us can afford a 5% upvote on content we cared enough about to leave a comment.
I see what you mean !! @denmarkguy. building a footprint perhaps is more important to wee minnows than draining your voting power. If your votes are worth a substantial amount then maybe you are more careful. if they're not, then perhaps just voting and commenting are worth more.. (I tend to 100% upvote things I really like) and I've started upvoting comments more ! which I think is a bit of a neglected area :)