Comments are a great way to get started on Steemit. You can learn how Steemit works and they are also attractive in terms of rewards for users of all levels.
In this post I will show some graphs of the comments during the month of July with the aim of understanding who is commenting, who is chatting, are there any interesting trends in the data.
Who makes all these comments?
Some comments are nothing more than automated bots writing follow me or something similar. Enough said about these. Some analysis excludes these low reputation comments for that reason.
The focus of my analysis today is to look at the profile of the comments during July and to break them down by author reputation.
A big chunk of comments come from authors with 25 or lower reputation. These are likely new people, bots or trolls but the rest of the comments form a distribution around the reputation 50 mark with a bit of skewed tail going out to the high 70s. There are not many authors with a reputation above 70. Congrats to all the illustrious Steemians in this category.
This next graph looks at how many comments are made splitting the authors into 5 groups, buckets according to their reputation.
This graph contrasts how how much engagement there are from authors of different reputations and how this has changed over the month.
- Most comments are in the group 45-56
- There is a slight downward trend in the group 35-45.
Why comment on Posts?
You can earn money by interacting with this cutting edge social media platform. Interacting can be voting, writing or commenting. I love the fact that even if you do not invest a penny in Steemit you can start earning as soon as you join. Voting doesn't earn you much, particularly if you have no Steem power but with a simple comment on a post you can get an upvote and start earning material rewards. Writing posts isn't for everyone but most people are happy to add a comment to an existing post and join in the conversation.
How have some people so many followers? How do some people get so much for their posts?
One of the answers to these questions is by engaging with other users on the platform. Reading posts and engaging with the authors. You can chat in real time on steemit.chat or on discord but a comment on the blockchain can help you build up your connections.
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I am planning an update to this last post in the next few days.
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from steemdata.com.
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