This could be my rep 70 post but this all of course depends on you. When I first boarded the Steem/Hive train, Rep 70 was something magical. For sure for the ones not using bid bots, which I rarely did. I could have been here faster, but during the Covid Pandemic, I was distracted from Hive. A few weeks ago, I decided that Hive would get my full attention again. We are now day 147 in 2021 and I did write only 65 post. If this was 2019 I would have written over 165 posts.

In the past weeks, I started to #engage again and focus on writing posts. So I was curious about what I wrote this year and if there are specific area's which does attract more comments or upvotes.

Categories

I did run by all my posts and did organize them per category. I did end with up with the following categories: Actifit, Betting, Gambling, Life, Crypto, Faucet, Blogging and Beer!

As you can see most post where created in the Actifit channel, there is a pretty good reason for that. Due to lack of motivation to write a decent post it is easy to write an Actifit post. Next up are posts about sportsbetting, which is one of my hobbies but in general these are doing very well on Hive.

Comparing payouts and interactions per category!

A little but surprised about my beer post! I did got a very good payout due to #curangel dropping by, but more important is that is also did score 12 comments. Probably 5 comments and replies on that and the other comments are BEER rewards. Also posts about Crypto are doing fine. No surprise I guess, because I do think everyone on Hive is interested in Crypto.

Also no surprise that Actifit posts are doing very good in the engagement diagram. These are often shit post, in which we all have to make sure that we do reach the minimal needed chars to be able to post. Still they are a great addition to the Hive blockchain. On one side it does motivate you to get out and on the other side, I could be an easy post with proof of walk behind it!

The Blogging posts do well in the engagement diagram but are staying behind in the value diagram.

General

If I do have a general look, I do score an average 2,93 comments on my posts. Something which I would like to see to go in the future. This means on my side writing better posts and trying to interact more with the posts of other people. This only works if these comments are genuine. Non saying comment do work contra productive.

The average pay-out for all my posts isn't bad but also not great. They do have an average value of 2,47. So every post above this mark is outstanding for me, everything below is more normal. Also here interaction on other's post will and could work!

You can clearly see inn the diagrams below, that interaction does pay off! While the increase is only small, the trend line is going up. And that's the way we do like it.

Now I could easily say that I would ditch some categories, but that would go against my nature. While just like all of us, I would like to score $20 posts time after time and it appears that some of my categories would give me a bigger change to reach one of those golden pots. But I always told myself that I would write about what does interest me and about thing I like. So I will stick to that, even if these means that these posts will score lower in value and interaction. I do see some authors chasing the popular topics, which they are allowed to do, but I will just not do that!

Will see if I can write this kind of post again after one month and see if things have changed. Pretty interested in this. It is a test if interaction does get rewarded. I did learn pretty quickly on thise blockchain the power of interaction; this lesson was teached to me by @abh12345 and @taskmaster4450

Euhm, in the mean time I will drink, euhm, test plenty of Beer to have some decent input for some Beer posts 😇

Cheers, Peter

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