Let the data speak: What gets me my upvotes? And what should be my strategy?

This Sunday was spent on understanding the Beem package and its usage for extracting data from the Hive API. It has been a fruitful day learning about Python and Beem.

The point of all these is for me to learn more about the Hive data, so that I can do better in terms of upvotes and rewards. Afterall, it is the bear market, and I should be building!

Continuing from my last post where I listed my posts, this is a closer look at posts that had done well in terms of rewards earned. My posts, that is.

The chart above shows that I have made over 200 posts, and you can see that most of them don't fetch beyond 2 HBD.

Adopting a cut-off at 2 HBD, only my top 25 posts made it to the list below featuring the workhorses of my account. Be my guest, check them out and leave a comment. They are afterall my winners!

Rank	Title	URL	Reward
1	Wrong call to hodl SPS as a non-Splinterlands player ?!	https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/wrong-call-to-hodl-sps-as-a-non-splinterlands-player	15.765
2	Get your pay raise in crypto by buying cheaper crypto than the price on the payday	https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/get-your-pay-raise-in-crypto-by-buying-cheaper-crypto-than-the-price-on-the-payday	14.772
3	Do you know why the reward amounts on Leofinance and PeakD frontends are different?	https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/do-you-know-why-the-reward-amounts-on-leofinance-and-peakd-frontends-are-different	14.354
4	If blockchains are countries, I want to be citizens of liveable and flourishing blockchain projects	https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/if-blockchains-are-countries-i-want-to-be-citizens-of-liveable-and-flourishing-blockchain-projects	9.777
5	Will it be Bullish or Bearish for DCALPHA when dCrops releases their new game packs in Q1-Q2 2022?	https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/will-it-be-bullish-or-bearish-for-dcalpha-when-dcrops-releases-their-new-game-packs-in-q1-q2-2022	8.879
6	DCA moment: A practical tip to share	https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/dca-moment-a-practical-tip-to-share	8.811
7	Work in Progress: Charting LEO prices and SMA in JavaScript	https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/work-in-progress-charting-leo-prices-and-sma-in-javascript	8.795
8	Hodling Hive: Some speculations that make me happy!	https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/hodling-hive-some-speculations-that-make-me-happy	7.981
9	To each his/her own (crypto projects)	https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/to-each-his-her-own-crypto-projects	7.154
10	Why is the Gen Z more excited about the crypto space?	https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/why-is-the-gen-z-more-excited-about-the-crypto-space	7.035
11	Breaking: Hive moving upwards beyond 52 cents!	https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/breaking-hive-moving-upwards-beyond-52-cents	6.919
12	Crypto Theses for 2022 by Messari	https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/crypto-theses-for-2022-by-messari	6.427
13	Not stacking BTC anymore...	https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/not-stacking-btc-anymore	4.623
14	Investing in tokens that the masses can actually use beats investing in tokens meant for corporations.	https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/investing-in-tokens-that-the-masses-can-actually-use-beats-investing-in-tokens-meant-for-corporations	4.486
15	Make your own time machine: Hive is your own OG opportunity in the Crypto space	https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/make-your-own-time-machine-hive-is-your-own-og-opportunity-in-the-crypto-space	3.958
16	I bet $50 on Luna a few days ago and it's now worth less than $0.007.	https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/i-bet-usd50-on-luna-a-few-days-ago-and-it-s-now-worth-less-than-usd0-007	3.665
17	Nimiq: What are the advantages of Nimiq moving to POS? Is it a good time to buy NIM?	https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/nimiq-what-are-the-advantages-for-nimiq-moving-to-pos-is-it-a-good-time-to-buy-nim	3.571
18	Separating savings from investment	https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/separating-savings-from-investment	3.355
19	The beauty of immutability: My Hive account as a family heirloom	https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/the-beauty-of-immutability-my-hive-account-as-a-family-heirloom	3.243
20	How to double Hive's market cap from today's 600 million?	https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/how-to-double-hive-s-market-cap-from-today-s-600-million	3.08
21	Using LEODEX: Conversion from Swap.Hive to Hive depends on available liquidity	https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/using-leodex-conversion-from-swap-hive-to-hive-depends-on-available-liquidity	2.608
22	Being a sensible Hive hodler: Grow Hive count from outside, not inside.	https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/being-a-sensible-hive-hodler-grow-hive-count-from-outside-not-inside	2.597
23	Breaking: Celsius mayhem!	https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/breaking-celsius-mayhem	2.478
24	Writing and Curating from the Hive Keychain App	https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/writing-from-the-hive-keychain-app	2.071
25	The crypto market is a community of profit-takers! The earlier one recognises this, the better.	https://peakd\.com/@cryptothesis/the-crypto-market-a-community-of-profit-takers-the-earlier-one-recognises-this-the-better	2.064

Taking this chance to scrutinize the posts, I don't see a strong correlation between the amount of effort I have put in (i.e. to inject novelty or creativity, or usefulness) and earning amounts. Time and effort invested in creating the post do not mean it will fetch a high reward!

One indication is that one of my stop press type of posts Breaking: Hive moving upwards beyond 52 cents! and another short break news post on Celsius mayhem Breaking: Celsius mayhem! made the list. Another short one is Crypto Theses for 2022 by Messari.

Judging by the length of these posts, I doubt I took long to write them. I am not complaining, and certainly thankful for the upvotes.

I am merely scratching the surface of this analysis, and will certainly do more to understand what's going on with the post-reward relationship. I believe it is a pretty complex issue, though the perceived usefulness of the post does matter, I think.

Maybe it's just about the title and not the actual text. And certain keywords in the title should get more attention than others.

If anything, my tentative conclusion is that a title that suggests timeliness, practicality, conclusion or a question that arouses curiosity has greater likelihood of attracting upvotes.

According to what I found out on PeakD, it seems that most people do not actually read the posts, judging from the dwell time and click-through info. My hunch is that the unique views are only a fraction of the upvotes. Most of the high-earning posts seems to be the results of the curation trail in auto-voting.

So I should perhaps aim to be as useful and timely as possible to the main curator, at least in terms of the way the title is crafted.

I finally decided on the title for the current post:

Let the data speak: What gets me my upvotes? And what should be my strategy?

Let's see how its fate unfolds in terms of rewards.

P/S: This is not financial advice, and please do your own due diligence before investing.

If you read this far... and if you are a like-minded Hiver who is on the path to learning more about Hive and crypto investing, and if you like to be tagged when I write such posts, I welcome you to leave a comment below and let me know. We can form an alliance to support each other's growth.

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