The 100 most popular Steemit posts of all time!

https://steemit.com/politics/@an0nkn0wledge/the-curious-case-of-the-death-of-joe-scarborough-s-intern-lori-klausutis

v4vapid (73) 7 years ago (edited)

Thanks for compiling this list, it's quite interesting.

We see a lot of the same names, such as @haejin, again and again but we can also see that a few of the most viewed posts are from Steemians who don't receive a lot of attention inhouse.

I'm thinking of @docdelux, who's an excellent writer,has a large following on facebook, but has had difficulty gaining traction on Steemit. IF you don't know about @docdelux, seriously, go check out some of his previous posts!

Also, I found that an eye-opening article by @an0nkn0wledge with over 51,000 views is curiously missing from the list. Maybe you could add it in;)

Cheers, good stuff!

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trogdor (64) 7 years ago

Hey v4vapid! Thanks for stopping by :) I'm glad you found it interesting. It is interesting about @haejin, how he hardly interacts with followers, and yet he generates a tremendous amount of views. I know that people accuse him of abusing the reward pool, but I think if we actually considered his average rewards per page view, I have a feeling they would be surprisingly low compared to some other authors. Just something to think about, personally I like to avoid controversy! :)

Thank you for pointing out the post that I missed! I limited my search to posts with more than 50 votes and/or more than 50 comments, because I assumed that would include the most viewed posts. Apparently I missed at least one! Unfortunately the view counts are not actually available anywhere except on the specific pages, so the only way to retrieve them is with a web-crawler, and with slowing that down appropriately so as not to create a load on the website, it would take weeks to crawl through all the millions of posts! haha

I will certainly add the post that you mentioned, and once again, thanks for stopping by!

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v4vapid (73) 7 years ago

Love him or hate him, the data shows that he's generating a lot of views and bringing eyeballs to steemit content. I think he could reduce the number of posts per day by combining several posts into one and perhaps people would view this as less 'rapey'.

As far as your research goes, i TOTALLY understand. Recently I've been manually compiling statistics for a series I do on missing children and it's very painstaking work.
I can appreciate how difficult it must be making a comprehensive list like this with millions of posts out there!

One last thing, like another commenter here mentioned, you're 2 pieces on ETH vs EOS were very enlightening. So thanks for putting that together. EOS really is one of the most exciting projects under development.

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abh12345 (80) 7 years ago

Sorry to butt in here!

I want to, but can't consider page views as a reliable metric for analysis as the count is upped each time you refresh the page yourself.

If this view could be shown as unique, that would cut down (but not eliminate - multiple browsers, cache/IP refresh/change) the risk of gaming. It's quite easy to find an app/write a program that refreshes your page constantly and so I would be weary of using this as an accurate sign of popularity.

Cheers!

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v4vapid (73) 7 years ago

Oh for real? I hadn't noticed that a refresh would increase the view count. And to be honest I never considered that someone might build an app to constantly refresh their page/views, but why wouldn't someone try that in order to create a buzz around their work. Thanks for bringing this up, I guess that means view statistics should be viewed with a grain of salt.

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rocking-dave (57) 7 years ago (edited)

View counters like that are extremely easy to manipulate and so would be the ones counting unique views. Anybody who might be getting flack for posting a lot of low quality content for big rewards might have an incentive to bloat that metric, so they might appear to be adding "surprisingly high" value to the blockchain. I think it's extremely likely to have posts like that on here already as building the required app is really easy even for people with very low levels of technical skills.

So the conclusion that he's bringing a lot of views to the steemit blockchain remains questionable.

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abh12345 (80) 7 years ago (edited)

Yeah, give a blog a refresh (or 3) and see what happens.

I think also that there is no central store on the Blockchain of viewer count across the web front end applications (eSteem, busy.org, etc) and so the numbers become even more skewed when you factor this in.

why wouldn't someone try that in order to create a buzz around their work

I suspect it's already happening in some cases....

cheers!

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lukestokes (76) 7 years ago

Very cool! Thanks for putting this together. I was really surprised to see @haejin generating so many views. From an investor standpoint, maybe the rewards he's been receiving might actually have some justifications? Or, to think about it another way, do his rewards generate the amount of views he gets? I'd love to see @steemit chime in with some more detailed analytics in the future.

Very cool to see two of my posts made the list. In both cases, they were things which I thought would be really valuable to a wider audience outside of Steemit. I'm glad to see so many people benefitted from those posts. :)

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trogdor (64) 7 years ago

Thanks for reading! I was also surprised to see @haejin dominating the list. I'm sure some of those are just related to the overall controversy surrounding him, but I think he probably is actually generating a good deal of traffic aside from that just by how dominating he is in the list. I'm planning to start calculating a metric for different authors of average number of views per dollar of rewards, and I have a feeling he will have a surprisingly high metric. I'll be sure to throw you into the calculation just to satisfy your curiosity! :)

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rocking-dave (57) 7 years ago

I'd say we shouldn't exclude the possibility that those views are bloated with view bots just to give him an additional layer of credibility, so his defenders might have a number to point to or for us to be having this conversation about how surprised we are that he is bringing in value. Those views would be super easy to manipulate.

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craigcryptoking (72) 7 years ago

I would love to be 'thrown' into the mix too at some point for my weekly contest whom @lukestokes was 'introduced' to last week when we hit top numbers again for the day on comments (3 weeks running) Most number of comments for a newbie? What would be the classification of a newbie however as I am 5 months in. Statistics are SOOooo interesting till now I was under the impression it was only @arcange doing it. Nice one bud, very interesting indeed and thanks a ton.. Cheer$;)

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fingolfin (62) 7 years ago

I've always viewed you as a top 100 steemian and I am glad to see the numbers back it up.

I wonder what a list of the most views/least amount of reward per view would look like. MIght be a decent way to find some truly underappreciated authors.

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trogdor (64) 7 years ago

Hey thanks for reading! Not sure I deserve your compliment, I wish I had some more free time to work on posts, etc... But anyway, great minds think alike, because what you mentioned is exactly on the docket for my next post! :) I have been curious for awhile to calculate views per reward to identify underappreciated authors, I'm just not sure exactly what criteria to simplify the search for. For example, for this post I only searched posts with more than 50 comments or more than 50 votes, just because it takes so long to crawl the different pages. So if you have any suggestions for how to simplify the search for underappreciated authors that would be helpful! For example only authors with more than 20 posts, etc...

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nathen007 (72) 7 years ago (edited)

What a great bit of interesting research and it surely makes great reading but its so sad they are almost all about Crypto. This community is about so much more.
It would be perhaps more pertinent if we could have a league table of the top 100 posts based on time spent viewing as opposed to just views.
Very interesting but a little saddened!
Regards

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trogdor (64) 7 years ago

That would be interesting to add, unfortunately I have no idea how to figure out time spent viewing :)

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backlau (37) 7 years ago

Thanks for the information @trogdor! I can't wait to go through all of these!

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trogdor (64) 7 years ago

No problem, thanks for reading :)

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backlau (37) 7 years ago

No problem. Glad to see you make it on the list as well :) I can easily see you making more top posts in the future!

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darksea (55) 7 years ago

woow Very interesting information. This is the first time I see such an activity at steemit. It's really a very successful work. The list clearly shows @haejin hegemony. Though content and sharing deserve it. Thank you very much for informing us about this. @trogdor

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trogdor (64) 7 years ago

Thanks for reading!

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mrsexappeal (48) 7 years ago

wait a minute? my name should be here! hhahaha :D now i know most of the successful articles has crypto topic on it.. need to make quality post now so i can see my name there.. thanks for this @trogdor your the best! :')

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trogdor (64) 7 years ago

Thanks for reading!

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thepajaro (46) 7 years ago

Of course, you´re the best....

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trogdor (64) 7 years ago

Thanks! and thanks for reading :)

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kayes12345 (52) 7 years ago

dear @trogdor
this is valuable information

@haejin the man every time update post, its wrong,
i am exited for him

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trogdor (64) 7 years ago

Thanks for reading! I'm still not sure what I think about @haejin, but I know that his posts definitely get a lot of views!

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captenredbeard (43) 7 years ago

Ugh, more great content to parse through. Killing me here...haha, Thanks!

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trogdor (64) 7 years ago

Thanks for reading!

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truthforce (68) 7 years ago

Consummate Vs!!!!

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trogdor (64) 7 years ago

Consummate!!!

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extraterrestrial (53) 7 years ago

Out of this world post! Thank you very much for sharing! Individuals like @trogdor make the Steemit Community so GREAT! I absolutely love the Steemit Community! All the best! Positive Energy! Great Karma! Your Friend @extraterrestrial :)

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trogdor (64) 7 years ago

Thanks! and thanks for reading!

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stringslinger865 (34) 7 years ago

Seems like most people just want to talk about Cryptocurrency

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charitybot (64) 7 years ago

Yeah it's probably the most talked about topic here on steemit... that or steemit itself and ways to make money on steemit, lol. Guess that's what happens when a social media website is run on top of a cryptocoin.

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stringslinger865 (34) 7 years ago

That makes sense. But it is a bit sad it seems like a missed opportunity

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trogdor (64) 7 years ago

haha, yeah it does seem that way, thanks for reading!

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stringslinger865 (34) 7 years ago

Thanks for making the list

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veleje (49) 7 years ago (edited)

Where are MY posts?!? Not enough views you say? That's pure nitpicking! jk ;-)

Btw, it is completely and solely your fault, that I will not be doing any up voting next few days. I will be busy checking that list of yours.

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trogdor (64) 7 years ago

haha, you can get up on the list eventually, just have to get lucky!

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marcopagan (47) 7 years ago (edited)

Dude I just read your article on EOS vs ETH at number 48, that was a really informative post! Thanks for posting this info I would of not been able to find these great articles.

You should make another blog post on the most liked posts too!

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trogdor (64) 7 years ago

Thanks for the tip, and thanks for reading! Glad you enjoyed it.

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project7 (66) 7 years ago

Thanks @trogdor, I'm sorry that most of my articles are written in Korean. I may try to write more in English too :)

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trogdor (64) 7 years ago

Thanks for reading!

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andresfer0310 (44) 7 years ago

It's interesting to see who's bringing in the most traffic in Steemit and comparing it to their content. Like Steemit in general, a lot of attention is paid to Crypto (hence @haejin).

I'd love to see this list evolve throughout the years. There's a lot more to Steemit than the Crypto.

That said, I do read one or two once in a while. Cheers!

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trogdor (64) 7 years ago

Yeah, I also noticed that the list is basically dominated by Crypto posts. I'll definitely plan to keep looking at the data over time, although unfortunately it's pretty easy to spam the page views, since steemit only uses a very basic algorithm that does not track IP addresses. Anyway, thanks for reading!

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verygod (48) 7 years ago

Hello friend, of course, it's interesting ... your post is very valuable, it's a great job. May God continue to fill you with much wisdom, Blessings and successes

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trogdor (64) 7 years ago

Thank you, and thanks for reading!

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ozwald (48) 7 years ago

This is going to take awhile to go through lol but I am sure it will be worth it. Thanks for this quality content.

trogdor (64) 7 years ago

No problem and thanks for reading!

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kawaiipower (62) 7 years ago

Wooohooo! You are active more often~! I am very happy to see you writing here :)

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trogdor (64) 7 years ago

Thanks! :) :) :) I wish I had more free time to write more.

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meracool (35) 7 years ago

How can my posts also rank top..??

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trogdor (64) 7 years ago

The most important thing is to find a topic that is trending in the crypto-space. I think that is probably the best strategy.

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nellabc (46) 7 years ago

very good information because it inspires me to create better post, I will see and admire all this, thanks for your effort to bring us good material.

trogdor (64) 7 years ago

Thanks for reading!

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beureugek (38) 7 years ago

Thanks for the information @trogdor! I can't wait to go through all of these!
thank you very much

trogdor (64) 7 years ago

No problem, and thanks for reading!

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gold84 (63) 7 years ago

@trogdor great to see the EOS vs. Eth post of yours is a top 100! Also considering I will mention you and that post in Chapter 11 of the full steemit guide.

Thanks for sharing this!

Regards, @gold84

trogdor (64) 7 years ago

Thanks, and thanks for reading!

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pk170 (43) 7 years ago

Congrats on being on the list! :D That's quite an achievement. Hope to see more of your content over there some time.
Can you tell us a bit on how you managed to get this data?

trogdor (64) 7 years ago

Thanks! The data is not actually available except in the actual page itself, so you must individually access each page.

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detropolla (42) 7 years ago

Very interesting your post as always, I hope someday to enter that list

trogdor (64) 7 years ago

Thanks for reading, I hope you make it onto the list one day!

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ysa1 (37) 7 years ago

excellent friend post, already read many of them congratulations to the very effective information and to the others of that it helps. regards

trogdor (64) 7 years ago

Thanks for reading!

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chireerocks (74) 7 years ago

Wow, really interesting data and it's really nice to see that your post is also reflecting in this list. Thanks for sharing this informative post.

Stay Blessed.

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trogdor (64) 7 years ago

Thanks for reading!

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chireerocks (74) 7 years ago

Welcome. 🙂

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steemitguide (65) 7 years ago

:) so happy to be on this list. Definitely, gonna try my best to make more post like this. Great Post summing all of this up. Have a wonderful day, because you made my happy today. Wouldn't have known that this was one of the all time viewed post

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trogdor (64) 7 years ago

Thanks for reading and congrats on making the list!

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josediccus (81) 7 years ago

Wow I see total dominance with the statistics , it must be some kind of thing, this list here, is quite amazing and I tend to wonder, should there be time taken to create content, maybe it should've been different.

You didn't do bad yourself, yet you've made it once, shows resilience and hardwork.
@Kingscrown himself has that quality too, and well I see a few other amazing content creator, this is a stat, do good to know

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trogdor (64) 7 years ago

Thanks for reading!

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josediccus (81) 7 years ago

Certainly, my pleasure

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smallstepschange (53) 7 years ago (edited)

Thanks, very interesting! So, you used a webcrawler to come to these posts. As I see, you are also included, post nr 49. Congratulations for that!
CU, Chris aka smallstepschange

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trogdor (64) 7 years ago

Thanks, I appreciate it!

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lasfuentes (35) 7 years ago

wow definitely the best post I've read in a long time!!!

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trogdor (64) 7 years ago

Thanks, I appreciate it! And thanks for reading :)

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purplepreneur (33) 7 years ago

Thanks for compiling this list!
Fairly new here and I have no idea how you found out all that info, must have taken you ages!
You must love your data to even contemplate doing this sort of stuff!
Amazing that @haejin had so many posts in the top 100 and cryptocurrencies are very popular subjects aren't they?!
Is EOS a currency too? ... it sounds like an operating system I haven't heard of!
On a huge learning curve with Steemit right now, but certainly gives me something to aim for!
Thanks @trogdor! :-)

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trogdor (64) 7 years ago

Yes definitely give EOS a look. It's the number 1 new project that I am excited about. Cheers

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tonystarkr (6) 7 years ago

its amazing sir it very helpful for all steemers thanks for sharing it I like your all post keep it up sir @trogdor

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barguarico (48) 7 years ago

Hello friend ... excellent work. very original. Greetings from Venezuela

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cuentamelotodo (13) 7 years ago

I imagine that I take a lot of time, surprised with so many visits .. greetings

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robinsoncaiso (44) 7 years ago

Just impressive post sir, Keep it up sir:):)

@upvoted

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abdurrahim007 (42) 7 years ago

Great information sir thanks for your kindness.

@upvoted // @Resteem done :)

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ordosjc (68) 7 years ago

excellent list of examples to follow. One of them, @haejin, @trogdor, @tobeingawhale and everyone, thank you for teaching us in your publication.

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kil (46) 7 years ago

Thanks

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bankthecrypto (68) 7 years ago

Thank you for sharing this info

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allmywordsforu (47) 7 years ago

This is great posts list
i hope to be init next time

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guaica99 (40) 7 years ago

Excellent initiative, as well as hard work, deserves credit for such a demanding summary. Greetings.

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josecrespo (48) 7 years ago

Wow amigo que increíble, gracias por aportar de tu conocimiento con nosotros, espero que tengas mucho éxito y los mejores deseos para tu blog, saludos :D

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dorcazy (34) 7 years ago

wow
never knew about this
thanks for sharing such an educative post

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sonypapulous (37) 7 years ago

Lord!! I am inspired sir, to see all this list of data collected and published, it tells just how much time, passion and dedication went into it. I knew i followed some one great. Thank you for we inspire people in little ways that we can possible imagine sometimes

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musicayfarandula (54) 7 years ago

Wow how awesome this work that you have done really good all your work is great so I'm glad that you have reactivated after having a time without publishing since I love your work I have considered you to be one of the best steemians and that everything Your work reaches many people.

You have taught us that the community works better

greetings from Venezuela a big hug for you to follow the success soon we will see you with 5000 followers or more

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