hi everyone, it's great to see all the entries coming in. Some truly great comments so far too. Keep them flowing :-) I wanted to take this opportunity to provide a little tip about post tags. When you use tags for your posts, please ensure that you are making optimum use of them by ensuring that they are relevant to your content and to the communities in which you are posting. By using inappropriate tags, you create two issues: 1) you add to the pile of curation for the person who curates that tag and your article will be discarded anyway if it doesn't meet the requirements of the tag (so you waste the time of a fellow Hiver), and 2) you do yourself a disservice on 2 counts: Firstly, you are wasting one of your maximum 10 tags allowed on a post on something that is not relevant to your post and therefore won't earn you optimum curation rewards or exposure. Secondly, you risk creating discord with those who do curate the misused tag, if you continue to use it incorrectly. So before you use a tag, make sure you know what it is for; it's in your own best interests. And I will say, I have misused tags before myself when I first joined, and was called out for it. I had simply copied what others were doing, and I suspect that this may be the case here too ;-) I say these things from a place of deep respect and wanting you all to succeed and be the best you can be on the Hive as well as wanting to keep improving things on the Hive :-) As an example I have seen the misuse of the tag "POB-WOTW" this week on a number of articles about the state of the cryptocurrency market. This tag is the tag used for a weekly contest started by @calumam where a word of the week (WOTW) is given out to the Proof of Brain community (POB) to write an entry in 7 days around that word. If you look up @scholaris (who is managing the contest for a while whilst @calumam takes a break) or @calumam you will see examples of the contest and I would encourage you to follow them both so as to be aware when each contest drops and challenge yourself to enter these weekly contests. They are great opportunities for engagement and growth. 🙏💗
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