Numbers & Engagement; The Proper Framework For A Modern-day Community?
Thoughts On Interactive Engagement
Some days ago, I read this post by @acidyo the post was talking about activating a more "social aspect" to hive, just as it is done to the financial aspect too. Immediately, the first thing that came to my mind was breaking protocols and breaking circles.
Now, what do I mean by this? Firstly, some percentage of the community are building a social framework that's 100% Financially beneficial to them, they would claim that their relationship stems from the fact that they're free to choose who they want to associate with. However, the motive can clearly be read from how they chose the people they talk to and how it influences their payout. In the post above, it specifically talks about numbers.
But one thing I've come to realize is that the metrics to judge engagement shouldn't be by numbers, but by the wide range of reach or impact. Hive like I used to say, is a conglomerate of individuals loosely or tightly bound by so many actions and activities.
Now interaction, or what you'll call engagement, is what makes hive social, but when you talk about social, you have to break it further down. Is it interaction based on class, stake, holdings, level, ages of account, common interest, or sameness with goals and ambitions?
Some people build these social ladders based on just only one of the factors stated above, making it difficult to engage widely. Their reach would be limited to some certain extent. Now social engagement should firstly be built on entertainment and retention, and why is this?
While hive is more than a social network, its communal aspects shouldn't be sacrificed for economic superiority, else we'll all just be a group of individuals fighting for "a piece of bone". We're aiming to create an all-round platform, it's of course expected that one aspect might tend to overshadow the others, but this is where it becomes our duty to balance it out.
The Social Impact/Effect
Engagement is one of the ways to actually boost retention, but we wouldn't say we're engaging if we are not exploring other aspects of the community. People shouldn't be numbers, it's important to see the essence of the sociocultural view into their avatars. Some people don't see newbies as important to the growth of the system because they think their aim is to just milk the system.
Even if this were so, a constant interaction or engagement with them can of course change this narrative. How do I mean? Huge accounts sometimes act as inspiration to smaller accounts, a big user might not necessarily drop a vote for a small account, but seeing their content out of the blue, interacting with them would rub off on their initial views, goals or aims towards the chain, thus, the relationship wouldn't be based on just sharing votes but a deeper human connection beyond the resources or money.
Healthy social interactions influences creates a cyclical influence
Back in the days on leofinance @trumpman created this vibe and buzz that tend to be influencing, I was an individual aiming only to build on hive and never saw prospects with the tribes token. This doesn't make me a bad person, I was only uninformed and had no social interaction with people who could tell me the importance of the tribe's token.
In fact I began to buy into Leo, due to his endless shilling and today, leofinance, personal finance has been inculcated into some of my major activities on the chain. What made the transition better?
It was the power of social interaction. Sometimes the relationship shouldn't be based on "whale to whale" or "piranha to piranha", one of the most important aspect of interaction is that it tends to create a cycle of positive influence but if people base the interactions on demo graphs, their knowledge or skills will not teach, inform or Influence others, especially people who are struggling to understand what they could do and why they should do it.
Activating Dynamism
Make no mistake, the advent of communities has bridged this divide to some extent, Nevertheless It's still an issue. Hive has created some of the most reliable relationships, better than most social platforms on the internet. This is to say that building trust isn't about knowing one's financial prowess or capacity.
It's about social understanding them to even the simplest details. This is how Financial goals are then built based on knowledge sharing on peer to peer levels. This is why I feel that engagement isn't and shouldn't be able numbers but the impact, the reach, how diverse it is.
Engagement might feel stale, but the "word" interaction seems dynamic and colorful. A group of people sharing ideas to only benefit themselves doesn't represent the concept of community, it's rather oligarch in nature and limits or creates a segregating aura. Going forward, we must do better as a chain.
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I do think we talk too much about post quality vs. social networking, engagement and reach, you make some decent points.
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Thank you, I believe that interaction and engagement isn't and should not be numbers alone because it might not even be making the right impact on a larger scale which should because it has a way of informing, influencing and teaching.
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Well numbers themselves don't give you the full picture but I do think the community is definitely something people don't full appreciate as much. At least I am happy to stay engaged over here on LeoFinance and it's a great source of information. For example, someone entering contests or giveaways everyday isn't exactly engaging as much but they are still adding to the numbers.
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Perfectly penned. I was so thinking about the same thing and here you go post about it. Just perfectly penned. Couldn't have written better.
Here, you have mentioned such beautiful aspects about treating one another and involvements regarding engagement. This is something I was thinking about too. This aspect of keeping the chain is more on building relationships and supporting each other out than just rising alone or rising with the riches.
The perspectives you portrayed were direct on point and I appreciate it. There is this aura that you produce when you write, it is influential. Keep it up. There is so much more to learn on this platform that many of us are yet unaware of. Going forward, we will do better as a chain, altogether.
Interaction to me spans beyond supporting each other. Back in the days on steem it was either follow for follow or vote for vote, but one thing on hive is that building connection that spans beyond the value or the money creates a myriad of information through which people can follow through. This is why I think engagement should not just be numbers by impact, since these numbers can hardly depict true interaction and a whole lot more. When people see beyond the money then seamless engagement with intent can be guaranteed
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True that. Beyond supporting there is much more to interaction. Also, engagement cannot be successful if kept one-sided, this is also true. Btw, by supporting I didn't meet only by number though. But, yes I do get your point. It is true that engagement is quite less in comparison to the support one gets from number, in the eyes which search for money. The relation indeed is quite different yet very similar. Only one need the eye to see it. Very well said brother.
If you look at threads on places like Reddit, there is usually a lot of interaction on two types of posts: a) topical posts where people have a lot of opinions they want to share and b) posts where the opening poster interacts with other commenters.
On Hive, a lot of people "post and run" - they write their article, wait for the automatic votes to come in, and never interact in any way with comments. No reply and no upvote. People give up commenting because it is hard to have a conversation with an opening poster who is ignoring you.
Lol, could it really be "ignoring", why should him/her. Anyway, who knows
Well sometimes I blame it on a content not being interactive enough, sometimes it's as exactly as you've pointed out, however it's a gradual process. It's important that people engage not because they feel the need to, but because they enjoy it and want to. Just like people would naturally be on Facebook, without any sort of motivation to be there.
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Your words are certainly on point. Numbers are just like data, and data is skewed - there might be silent evidence that the numbers can never portray. The goal for Hive is to be an open-minded community(Just like you said), people I feel can change when they are better informed.
Yeah, I do believe people can change when they're better informed,it's why engagement isn't just a tool to interact. When doing rightly and not in a selective or discriminative way, it tends to inform as well educated not just new users, educate them and of course help them to know what goals they might be aiming for. While being here.
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Another great post man. Keep them coming 🔥
It probably shouldn't be like that, but newbies need to prove themselves on here before gaining 'acceptance'. A lot of that is actually to do with networking and engagement, rather than their actual content, good or bad, which most people won't actually consume anyway.
Thanks a whole lot sir, it's been a while.
One thing is, we'd have newbies who just wants to milk the system we probably have some to who wants to build and put in effort. Truth is, the stereotype shouldn't be there. I have seen some newbies who are putting in funds into Splinterlands and powering up and also posting on twitter, I've been close to some of them and then I've met the Milkers too, however this post too should educate the newbie on how they can gain relevance. (Just like you've pointed).