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!
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.
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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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