RE: Engagement away from home

Hey mate, some interesting stats. Showing commenting statistics outside of ones own posts would be a good addition to the EL I think. It will show who is spreading the engagement around and who is commenting with a small select group.

I was pleased to see my nearly 50/50 split although a little disappointed to see my unique users commented on being a little lower. I considered why this may be.

I think, for me, it is because I focus on supporting people through engagement and that process takes time to develop. Hence my commenting is less widespread, but penetrates much deeper.

Me spreading 620 comments a week between 620 accounts would provide no value to those 620 accounts...Follow up commenting and engagement is required, not simply drop and run commenting.

Engaging to me doesn't mean dropping as many comments as possible, but getting involved, conversing. That's my idea of it, and I think the comment count, split between within and without my posts and character count demonstrates that.

This is a good post, and interesting statistics, although the code did my head in. (I'm a dumb bastard so don't understand it.) I hope people can see patterns here, and that they can see the benefit of engaging for effect, not just engaging to make it up the list on the EL.