Today I learned that the usage of tags has consequences I did not realize before.
What happened
A few days ago I discovered this nice little corner of hive at www.sloth.buzz. The humor I encountered seemed right up my alley so I started posting there. Nothing topic specific, a true daily blog.
One of my posts sparked a conversation in comment section with the community main account which lead to the following comment
Stupid me, I thought he checked my account and noticed I was also doing Actifit and posting in there. All further explanation I put in my reply
Getting that activity count up is not a problem when I am working "on the floor" and I wanted to earn some extra tokens that way. My daily updates are not that exciting so I decided to keep these things out of my blog feed as not to upset anyone, they might consider it spam. It would just appear in the actifit community, that is its purpose.
And so for me that topic was closed.
I tagged too much
The moment of realization came when I was using the slothbuzz front end and stumbled upon this post on the main page:
Oh what the frack? How did that get there?
The reason: I added the slothbuzz tag to my actifit postings.
Ooops
So that means it will also appear on the front ends of alive and proofofbrain.
I am sorry! I did not know!
Why I did it
So at some point in my hive life I realized that adding certain tags to a post can earn you second layer tokens. The first such token I encountered was POB from ProofOfBrain. Then came other ones like VYB, PIMP, ONEUP, PGM, the list goes on.
The latest were ALIVE and now slothbuzz.
I just wanted to earn those extra tokens. Simple as that.
Topic Tags
Ah yes, I am aware of topic tags. I use them appropriately. At least I think so. Would not surprise me if I get another "Oh shoot!" moment in a few days realizing a bad habit.
I add the meme tag for memes, the lego tag for lego postings and so on.
I was aware that people excplicitely search for topic tags for their reading. I do so as well.
Different front ends
And this I did not know: Adding the tag of a front end like proofofbrain.io or sloth.buzz will make the post show up on that frontend. Just like that, no further search needed.
Open their page, directly under "new posting": My 5 second old post with the corresponding tag.
Lesson learned
So next time I post an Actifit report card: No more other tags. Even though having an activity count might proof that I am alive, it does not add value to that community and their front end.
And while the sloths do definitely not want to know how active I can be, the ProofOfBrain community might even question me having a brain at this point.
Redeem myself
I hope this epiphany did not come too late. Yes, I will tag this post again but I think in this case it is ok. It looks like I have a brain after all and I am still alive.
And a sloth I can be from time to time, no question about that. I definitely like the humor there.
So from now on only those tags in which community front end I want to be seen.
I hope that those who considered me spamming their front ends forgive me.
Best wishes for the weekend.
Hannes
Header picture taken and designed by me.
All other pictures are screenshots from peakd and sloth.buzz.