Hey everyone, as someone who spent most of his Reddit activity on the popular subreddit: askreddit, I wanted to start something similar here as well.
Just for reference, this is my comment karma breakdown on the subreddits:
To me askreddit was one of the golden sections of Reddit because it really got originality out of the writers and readers in there. It wasn't just a repost of an old link or a fast submission of some newd that has happened. It was users asking thought-provoking questions and getting users engaged and discussing everything and nothing. To me personally it was one of the most entertaining subreddits you could find at the time.
Here is a great example of what I mean, someone on Reddit 6 years ago made a thread asking the question:
A Reddit user started writing a fiction story about it, the readers wanted him to write the story further as they really liked it, and in the end it was so good that the rights to it were bought by Warner Bros., which announced the production of its movie adaptation.
Now how awesome is that! That Reddit user just used his imagination and managed to grab the attention of most readers that day just by writing on a social media. If you wanna follow the development of the movie that's still in the making, its called Rome Sweet Rome and has its own subreddit.
I wanna show that this platform is not just about authoring posts but that comments can be just as valuable to it. After all this is the attention economy so anything that gathers the readers attention, whether a short post, a snapshot or a tweet can get rewarded just as much as well.
I wanted to start it off with this question, as we humans are good at either finding patterns in randomness or thinking we've found them and the bigger the variance in randomness is the more coincidental it seems to us.
To answer the question myself, I knew since I had my first anniversary on Steemit that I happened to have signed up on the 24th of May 2016, exactly 2 months after @steemit's creation on the 24th of March. But what surprised me that I noticed today was that the 24th of March was the exact date when I registered for Reddit also - 6 years ago.
This hit me like a big coincidence! Especially since Reddit was pretty much the only platform I still enjoyed at the time before Steemit came along. :)
Steemit; What's a big coincidence you have experienced?
To incentivize discussion between users I won't self-vote my post and instead save the voting power for awesome comments provided by the community!
I personally do not believe in coincidence the universe has everything predetermined ( everything happens for a reason ).
But if we like to see it as a coincidence, I had a bad motorcycle accident back in April in which I suffered from a achilles tendon rupture so now I had a lot of time on the sofa and in front of my PC which brought me here to Steemit. I think without that accident I maybe would be not yet on Steemit.
One other lets call it coincidence is my sister she is born on the 1.11.79 at 1:11.11 AM and in school she always got a 1 in all school subjects. I am born on 23.04.78 and my parents got married on the 23.04.77
When I was 4 years old my mom lost a small silver cross with a ruby in the middle from her necklace on a 6 kilometer long sand beach at the Baltic Sea one year later we did our vacation at the same place and I found that cross one year later on this long sand beach my mom told me that story on my 18th birthday and gave me that cross. Coincidence, luck or was it predetermined???
Here is a picture of the cross
I love to consider coincidences as existing within our perception. Our mental capacity is not able to comprehend the scale of the universe, hence the unexpected, and our worry about it.
There are many I which would like to share but the following is most interesting.
I went to University 5 years ago and found my first crush there the very first day. She was almost half my height. She looked younger than me but we were in the same class. I kept it to myself until I found she was a close friend to one of my best friends' girlfriend. I talked to her the very next day and found an opportunity to start something with her. Days passed and I found us two to be very similar - moods, attitude etc. It was December and I told her it was my Birthday coming up. She told me the same. And guess what, we shared the same birthday (same day, same year, nearly with half an hour difference :D) i.e. Dec, 27th 1990. Haha!
We're still very close to each other and we celebrate it together.
My oldest son was born on my fathers birthday. My youngest son was born on his mom's fathers birthday. They both share a birthday with a grandpa.
are you serious? damn..
no way :) congratulation ;)
Hehe, I've heard something similar once about a friend of mine. Have you heard of the Birthday Paradox?
From wikipedia:
Yes i have heard that in a room of 40 people, there is something like a 75% chance that 2 will share the same birthday.
Tagging onto this thread... one of my first serious musical groups was a duo, and we realized a few months in that the two of us have the same birthday.
I later learned I share the birthday with one of my favorite authors, Thomas Pynchon!! What a fun coincidence.
Have a happy reddit Bday
I can't answer your title query
but I'd like to thank you for the pointers you mentioned on what makes the reddit posts awesome
thought provoking ey..
yeah.. the comments .. please let them flood but I guess most people don't read posts anymore
unless one comes out on the trending
that's the trend these days
seems like everyone just ups and most of the old friends and mostly newbies do the commenting
sighs
gone are those days when comments flooded and were meant
I still write them as so not because I'm a martyr or some self- righteous commenter
I just think - comments should be meant and not just thrown for the sake of writing something and getting ups
My wife and I were out East a few weeks ago for a wedding and my older brother said an old co worker of his happened to be in Portland the same week we were. It wasn't until the last day of our trip that my wife dragged me to a jewelry store and minutes later a group walked in and one of the guys kept staring in my direction. Eventually he said "Gangestad?" (my last name). I said "yeah...", perplexed how this guy knew my last name. It was my brothers old co worker and he recognized me because we look somewhat alike and apparently had met once years prior. Talk about a coincidence.
Sent this pic to my brother and he couldn't believe it.
I was born on 10/10 at 10:10 pm.. coincidentally my nephew was born on 10/17 at 10:17. I was one week early, my scheduled due date was 10/17.. I've always though that was weird...
Was your nephew born 1 week late? :P
haha I don't think so. That would have definitely added to it though!
Woah, that is kind of a freaky coincidence indeed!
Hi mate, I agree Ask Steemit is a great idea and one of my favorite threads here. If you want to support Ask Steemit, I’ve been running Ask Steemit for the past few months on a weekly basis, with a 10 SBD payout on the best comment(s). I’ve always enjoyed reading through all the comments, and have even had an Ask Steemit logo made for my weekly contests. Here’s my latest Ask Steemit post for your reference.
Cool idea @acidyo! It´s cool to read this kind of stories from the community members.
My coincidence:
2013: I was solo traveling in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. One night at the hostel I hear 2 italian guys wondering where to get food so late (it was past midnight) and I said hey guys I know a good indian restaurant that opens till very late just a couple blocks away. So... off we went. The two italians had just met, and one of them was blind. He was solo traveling around the world, such a gutsy thing to do. Well... we had dinner and since we were getting along so well we decided to go visit the Petronas Towers. We grabbed a taxi and went there. On our way back we stopped at the night clubs for a drink. We had a great night and I never saw them again (travelers life)
2015: I was traveling around South America with a bunch of close friends. We were in Cusco, Perú fooling around. When all of a sudden, I spot the blind italian. The mother fucker had not stopped traveling since I met him for the first time in Malaysia (over 2 years ago). He was talking to two pretty american girls. So I interrupted and said: "hey bro, I dunno if you remember me, but we met in Kuala Lumpur one night you were with another italian guy, we had Indian food and then went to the Petronas Towers. And he was like ohh yeah I remember that night... we went to the clubs after that too. (I had forgotten about the clubs but he was sopt on!) I was happy to see him still traveling around on his own... such an inspiration.
That was it... I remember seeing him in Cusco and I get the goosebumps
It is so cool reading all the comments here! Loving it!
The day my mother died in 2004, I was in Finland. I got the news at 4 am on an early April morning while it was still dark. I was still a smoker and after a few minutes, I went out into the cold night and had a cigarette.
While I stood there under the clear sky I thought of a conversation she and I had had by her bed and I said that after she dies to give me a sign if there is an afterlife or not. I smiled at the thought and said 'Well, where is the sign?'
I looked up and immediately and directly overhead shot a very bright shooting star.
wow, that's a powerful coincidence!
I'd love to see more real engagement here, I was writing something myself how resteeming is so much more important than voting. There is far too little actual engagement and sharing on most of the content. I've been using Reddit for ages and remember the AMA discussion.
Baby talk, no matter the country I go is so similar.
Across cultures regardless of the language of their families, the first words of babies for anatomical reasons, have incentives to use bilabial sounds like "ma" "ba" or "pa"
Then when babies grow older and gain a little more control over their tongue, they start with palatal sounds like "ta" or "da".
The most common words are. *Mama, Dada, Papa
Twila Tardif, Paul Fletcher, Weilan Liang and Zhixiang Zhang, Niko Kaciroti. Baby’s First 10 Words. Developmental Psychology 2008, Vol. 44, No. 4, 929 –938
cool, I hadn't thought of that before!
My partner's parents are born on the same day, a year apart. Their wedding anniversary is also their birthday.
I was in the beach of Guarujá and met by accident someone I knew after swimming around 40 minutes to a nearby island.
that was quite awesome.
Lucas
Malabarize-se
You made me submitt a story to answear you, coincidences are a subject that fascinates me: https://steemit.com/acidyo/@outcast81/response-to-asksteemit-what-s-a-big-coincidence-you-ve-experienced-by-acidyo
the difference between the birth days of my sisters and me - as the number of the day in the month - is the same than the difference in years between us.
My older sister was born on 29 (august), i was born on 25 (feb), my younger sister was born on 19 (apr). 29-25=4 (that's the difference in years between me and the older), 25-19=6 (that's the difference in years between me and the younger).
This doesn't exactly fit....but I was born on Friday the 13th,
And my nephew was born on February 29th.
What are the odds in just two orders of seperation?
Thanks @acidyo !!!!!
You actually did me a huge favor!! You pushed my rep up to 54! It had been at 53.9+ for DAYSSSSSSSS
SMILE... Small victories! ;-P
The eventual ones are very serious. When I was very young I met a girl, I was very in love with her, we are about 6 years old.
That girl went to live in another state, so I lost all communication with her, since social networks were not popular back then.
2 months ago I went to margarita island, there by chance in a pool I saw a beautiful girl and wanted to talk to her, turned out to be the girl that I had fallen in love at 6 years.
Good way to promote your own thinking @acidyo
I traveled from Wisconsin to Russia. and traveled north with a family I was staying with to have a cookout at their dacha. I felt like I was a million miles from home. An interpreter was arranged for me, a young university student. Come to find out, he had not only been in Wisconsin 2 weeks prior, he had been in my small town and had eaten at the fast food place directly across the street from the pharmacy I worked at. A coincidence, but it also proved to me what a small world it is!
my wife was born on my grandmas birthday, my son was born on my grandpas birthday.
saywhaaaaaaaaaaaa
Hmm. Biggest coincidence I can think of right now was a time where I ran into the same couple in public 3 times in like 6-7 weeks at different locations. First time was at my old job where I was doing stockwork and being a cashier, next time was at a restaurant while I was waiting in line, then the next time was at a walmart which I don't even usually go to since it's out of the way. Was pretty fucking weird.
Yeah, it was once really weird also how I ran into my ex and her new bf everywhere all the time, it was almost as if she wanted me to become jealous or something.
Little did she know I never loved her.
God damn, haha.
You sound like my buddy, Mike. He has some fucked up luck where he will run into insane (And, I mean fucking INSANE) ex girlfriends randomly a few times a year every year. Could tell you so many stories of his one, she is probably bi-polar and much worse with no medicine, lol.
What if I was given a chance to travel back time to the day steemit day one with the knowledge it will grow like this big now. Would I be a whale now?
You could say the same thing about 50% of the coins on coinmarketcap. :D
My sister and his son was born on the same date but different year i.e, 5 sept.
"What's a big coincidence you have experienced?"
My father did MBA, his brother (my uncle) did MBA, his son (my uncle's son) did MBA, my brother did MBA and I did the same too. So many MBA's in our family and more to come!
Not the biggest, but one of the most interesting for me:
When I was moved to a new aparment in late August, my former roommate told me he used to live in the same building, only some floors below my new place, right before he moved to his current place.
So essentially I'm living at the same place which was the former housing of my former roommate.
Interesting Reddit karma stats. It struck me that the distribution of my submission karma is completely different from my comment karma. Just 2 of the top 11 subreddits are the same. /r/polandball is #1 for comments, because that's what I joined Reddit for, and /r/todayilearned is #1 for submissions because of one post that happened to become popular.
If anyone else wants to try, I found them here: http://reddit.dataoverload.de/karmastats/
yeah I used the same site :) hehe the polandball submissions are hilarious. :D
So check this out, and this happened just 3 days ago:
So my wife (we just got married on July 29th) and I live in Mobile,Alabama now, well my wife lived in Arkansas,8 hours away, until she moved here with me in Alabama just 3 months ago.
Well 3 days ago she calls the local H&R block to make appt. to help with some tax stuff we need done, well the appt. is made and when the agent said the name of person she was to meet at H&R block, its the same agent my wife had in Arkansas(8 hours away) last year, which is crazy. It just so happens that agent had also moved not only to the same city here in Mobile,Alabama, but the same damn neighborhood. I mean I got to admit, I thought that was crazy coincidence.
Great post your right even a great comment can lead to that spark that special something that leads to so much more down the road.
nice post, my birthday 11 is the same as our street house number 11. My parents maried on 11. so 11 is my lucky number.. so when Steem is $11 i give a big party..
I have nothing.. but i like the asksteemit...
That'll be really intereating to experience a coincidence like that... I cannot recall any...I'm usually all over the place lol
When I was doing my military service there was a guy in our team in the training period. Later, I have added him as a friend on facebook. I realised that that guy was also a friend of my secondary school friend. They were completely in different cities and lots of kilometeres away from each other. I was surprised when I saw this on facebook.
Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
[from the original Ian Fleming novel]It is funny I mainly post in Spanish and have been trying to come up with ideas to make the south american community stronger, and entice our local minnows to stay and bring in quality!
So I powered up and started RockDio Curable-Votable initiative; a sort of contest were the winner is chosen by the quality of discussions he rose in his post.
Tag link, not a post, please let me know if not acceptableFor that I've spent about 3 weeks working into digging in the APIs to find a way to select the most commented posts and check them by hand.
By the time I've learnt enough python and understood better steemit block-chain and went out of the matrix I saw the #discussion tag/category launched (So I used my new tool for analyzing the discussions going on in there, in my blog there are 2 posts about the results i'm not putting the links here out of respect)
So finished the hammering together of my tool went ahead for project number 2...
A radio show (I run a web radio)
For Hispanic users to ask questions about steemit (Reddit never really catch up in south america) and a few Hispanic initiatives got together and our local witness @moisesmcardona was kind enough to delegate the SP required for giving birth to @preguntame a user that is meant to receive the questions as comments that will be answered on a live show we will then make available as podcast and rebroadcast once or twice a week.
Talk about steem coincidences...
My maternal grandmother and my dad shared a birthday, and my little sister was born 75 years to the day after my grandfather. She was quite premature, too.
The recent coincidence that I remember is the fact that I was at the crossroads of my life where I really wanted to find a decent platform where I could share my thoughts and get real feedback on it. Have had a rough patch in my life lately, so I needed a way to channelize my experiences, my views about whatever I have gone through in recent times, and the way we can actually improve ourselves as an individual, and more importantly, contribute towards making this world a better place to live in for our future generations.
So one day a colleague came up to me and introduced me to this wonderful community known as Steemit. He gave me a brief overview and I was, in a few moments, fascinated by the fact how we can connect, share, empower each other and listen to the most amazing stories and real-life experiences told by wonderful people, who we might not have ever known or heard of otherwise. I thank my colleague @ghulammujtaba for telling me about Steemit.
So yes, most of the times life will make you feel like you are all over the place, but every now and then, these little 'coincidental moments' will certainly make you feel at peace. That's the beauty of life, isn't it? :)
oh my god i was thinking about that just few minutes ago #asksteemit
Whoa this writeup just shows how great steemit is compared to other social media out there. Well dpne @acidyo
I totally agree with the later part of the post "...thinking we've found them and the bigger the variance in randomness is the more coincidental it seems to us." We eventually get to find out later our life activity/patterns often seems coincidental perharps for a purpose
That the number 666 is always everywhere I go . I tend to see it everyday , sort of creepy like it's trying to tell me something
Soy de Sevilla (España). Mi coincidencia más rara fue hacer un viaje a Las Palmas de Gran Canaria y estando paseando por alli, pasé junto a un grupo de personas, al poco una de ellas llegó hasta mi y me preguntó que me pasaba porque iba pensando mirando el suelo y luego de hablar unos minutos resultó que era el primo de una amiga de Sevilla.
Nunca entendí por qué me paro para hablarme.
way cool.. great find.. upvoted and resteemed.. thanks :)
The date my grandpa (father side) died 4/22 is the same as my dads birthday( different year), My other grandpa's date of death is the same as my aunt's( mother side) birthday 5/15. Both my aunt and my father are the first children of my grandparents.
Hi, I'm Venezuelan, I like your post. Can you give me your vote in my post? @acidyo
Nice, i like it the your post, thanks
My big coincidence? None, my life is very logical xD
Do you also hear a song play when you upvote?
My sister was born in the exact same date as my mom ( 5th of June)
The common coincidence I experience wherever I go, wherever country I visit - the first people I talk to are usually from the Netherlands - they are everywhere lol.
Sorry for trying to be funny, but i want to appreciate your post by commenting before heading to Oktoberfest - sure I meet a Dutch guy or girl first there.
Now please go ahead with more useful input - great idea btw @acidyo
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Is being a middle child and getting all the attention in the world a coincidence? lol I never get too close to anyone just like that but coincidentally I always find people who care for me with all their hearts everywhere I go, I find it weird sometimes but love it!
I like yours post. please comment and follow me.