Thanks for the mention! Yeah I wonder if there’s anything we could do differently to get more engagement? Open to suggestions. For a while there, I had a lot of free time and would take more time to go out and find new people and comment on their stuff, that usually got the engagement going a bit more. Like a tit for tat thing unless you build relationships, like you say, where you “check in” on people. I do that quite a bit too.
But truly I think it just comes down to the money in the account (or appearance of money with consistently big upvoted). That’s where people flock to to earn! Totally get it!
Agreed- I always feel a little burn when people don’t bother to engage at all and just rake in the awards, not really adding any community value to the platform. But again, I know this place means many different things to different people and we’re all in different situations as you mention. I for one don’t have kids or a structured outside of the home job so I get to choose by and large what I do with my time. Good topic for convo!
I knew you'd respond, I was interested to hear what you'd say on the topic!
I don't think we need to beat ourselves up about lack of engagement, rather it's just a 'functional necessity' - people aren't inclined to comment because it's just exhausting!
It's just impossible to do that much of it, especially when you have to maintain a life outside.
BTW - I don't generally comment on permaculture things ATM as I'm hopefully heading that way myself next few months, but not 'in it' yet, don't want to jinx it!
I save most of my commentary for 'steemit issues' like this one. Bizarrely enough I sometimes prefer commenting on other people's posts rather than responding to comments on my own.
Also, there's a place for bants too.