Yesterday, over 2000 unique users made a comment on HIVE, and there were almost 13000 of these comments in all, totaling over 3,000,000 characters of text.
Is that good considering Hive has only been around for just over a month? It would be good if we had some data to compare against......
The data is been pulled from the Hive chain (@hivesql) and Steem chain (@steemsql) and covers 27-MAR 00:00:00 to 27-APR 00:00:00.
Almost from Hive day one, the number of comments (posts with a depth > 0) have been higher on Hive than Steem. There were a couple of days where this wasn't the case, but I'm going to put that down to 'we have moved' messages, which were likely automated and posted on mass.
Yesterday, over twice as many comments landed on the Hive chain compared to Steem. Nice!
In the past month, there has not been a single day where the unique commentators on Hive have been fewer than on Steem. And yesterday, there were over 800 more comment authors on Hive than there were on Steem, over 70%.
As an aside, I'd like to take a look at the power-up/down data on both chains at some point, but that can wait for another time.
So, the above looks good right? I guess so, if we are only comparing Hive to a chain that looks to be on the way out as far as users and engagement goes. Personally, and I hope you agree, we should be aiming much higher and looking to capture audiences from other networks.
Time will tell I guess, but one initiative now in place on Hive is a drive to reward commentators (consumers) of top level content. It is true that consumers can be rewarded in Hive Power, just by 'liking' a post, but what really helps make content sparkle is a solid set of commentary underneath - these people, if writing meaningful and engaging comments, deserve to be rewarded too.
Be POSH, Engage and help Hive Thrive
The point of this challenge is to increase organic interaction on high quality posts and for that the reward vote mindset also needs to change, that is exactly why @blocktrades, @theycallmedan, @threespeak and @ocdb are going to dedicate a % of out voting power to reward engagement on some posts every day.
In case you weren't aware, there is some serious stake behind these accounts, and they will be looking out for those writing meaningful and engaging comments, as well as the posts that happen drive these actions.
I encourage you, especially those appearing week after week in my Engagement League, to take a look at the announcement post for further details.
Even though we have moved chains, I still think the concept of commentating on the posts of others is a great way to grow your audience. And if an authors post has been shared on Twitter, it is likely that there will be people looking at Hive content for the first time - with your wonderful comment at the top of an interesting piece of content.
Good luck,
Asher