Now those are some interesting stats. I also usually vote on all my replies and my first instinct was to say that plenty of them are minnows or smaller, but now I think about it, many more are probably dolphins. I also don't vote on comments that are very brief and just seem to be for the sake of commenting and I think they tend to come from redfish and minnows.
Votes or not, I do enjoy commenting on posts where I know the athlete is likely to respond and everyone you've mentioned does just that, including yourself. Now I'm trying to wrack my beatings to come up with others who always respond...@artemislives, @riverflows, @joshman... all do a lot for community too, just like you mentioned...Suddenly I remember an account on Steem which started downvoting my every post after I reached dolphin and mentioned that it was when I actually started getting involved in the communities that things really picked up for me to reach that goal.
You have been around the blockchain a while too, so you build a following and that following is constantly growing alongside. It is quite natural.
Yep - "engaging"
Engage, reply, make friends. Is it so hard? :)
The larger an account gets, the more negative it will attract also - it is part of human nature I think - jealousy perhaps? I also think that when large enough, people assume that you are more capable to accept it as part of the experience.
The irony with the downvoting account was that they complained that it was easier to reach dolphin when you have the TSU account voting for you and my precise point was that until I put myself out there to interact with the communities I wasn't getting that level of support. I was attempting to enlighten people. 🤣 Response: be grumpy about it instead of trying to help yourself. Sigh...
I vote on most comments, even if it's sometimes DAYS later. 🤣 Like @tarazkp I don't suffer from "no comments" and I really believe just being a decent human being makes all the difference. Someone bothers to comment? The LEAST you can do is an emoji and a 10% upvote. I find it grows my followers the fastest, and then they SEE the engagement on my posts. Hoping that leading by example really makes an impact.
Truly astounding.What I'm truly stunned about it how few people go back to the mentions and comments after 24 hours. My @artemisshares curation account shares - and gives a post beneficiary - to about 3-4 people almost every day. This last week, not one of them has noticed, responded, engaged or thanked.
I know what you mean. I used to try and go back to check all the comments left on inclusions in the newsletter, but gave up eventually, because unless they tagged me, they generally didn't respond...Which reminds me, I think I got interrupted part way through a reply on the curation post you shared one of mine in and can't remember whether I got back to that. 😳 How embarrassed do I feel now... Excuse me while I go check.
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