Read the Meaning. Comment With Meaning.

I've found I'd rather speak my long form thoughts (aka podcast/social audio) and micro-blogging (aka chat) is my preferred way to engage and interact. However, I do occasionally go on a tear and create a longer form post. It is less common than audio and short form.

I think sub-headers have become more popular because we live in a bullet point news world where folks skim rather than full on read. Sub-headers break up a post into bite sized nuggets. I often think of sub-headers as the TL;DR for skimmers.

I've never thought about this concept fully before, @shadowspub. I enjoy taking my time to read someone's words, slowly, backtracking, and thinking about what I want to say to them, when I comment. I love the idea of squirrels drawing away my attention, because, that happens too, and it reminds me of Up! the animated film. It happens, but when I read something I enjoy, it happens less. A lot less. Just so you know I took the time to read this post, I'll just say that there was a system to my process.

It's so good to be back. I am going to spend some time JUST reading. The writing will come later. The explorer in me is excited, and this morning, the explorer found your article and it stirred up my thinking about how I could be of use in this community. Feels good!

I've mixed feelings on sub-headings, I guess it depends on the kind of post you are writing. If it's a technical or practical post, sub-headings can help with clarity, breaking up the information into easily assimilated chunks (also easy to find a step or snippet, if you need it later), but actually I really enjoy reading long-form posts where people take me on a word journey. I love posts that are constructed and have a form and take you through an idea or an adventure.

I have similar thoughts about images in posts - how are they adding or subtracting to the post? Is there a story in the images, are they taking you on a journey, is the post constructed or it is a dump of everything on the memory card? Again, it depends on the post, but generally, for me, less is more - fewer images better tied into the post, whether with each other or the words.

Comments are a skill in their own right, aren't they? I love seeing a post with conversations beneath them, especially if commenters are inspired to talk to each other as well as to the post author.

I guess "nice post" comments are the equivalent of digital litter - don't drop it!

I actually did read to the end woohoo🥳! I really wanted to figure out the main idea the whole title carried.

I mean the title is actually mind blowing for a start and then I said to myself why not get in and figure what's going on? In no time I found myself reading word for word just to get the picture and everything the post is actually talking about.

Many people do the comment spamming thing and I see that mostly on Leo finance whenever I check out the community after Khal must have dropped his video and then you see lots of comments that only focused on the prolly fifty word(just for illustration) summary without even listening to the man point in the video and boom! They get an upvote from leovoter. They keep doing this again and again and I'm like what the hell? I'm not really into all the financial posts but u just love listening to Khal whenever he drops a new video and moving on the comment section, I get a disappointed most of the time.

A very interesting post indeed @shadowspub! Not spam I swear, I'll make my case bellow 😆

You really got me thinking here.... I've been so hard trying to stay active, catch up with everyone's posts, commenting and writting content for my blog, that I now realize I might been doing some spamming without fully kn acknowledging it... I must confess there are some posts I didn't actualy read with the attention they deserved because I was too focused on the "winning" part, or finishing my "tasks" for the day 😩

This kinda makes me sad about myself because I totally agree with you, its awful and I really don't want to do it. I'll be more attentive from now on and only commenting when it's meaningful and I actually read the whole thing carefully. And this is so important, we all like when people actually read and understand our post's purpose or meaning. Thank you for this lesson, it was very important to me 🙏

That system you talked about the hidding words seems really cool and a cleaver way to fight it at the time 🤗 Was this what you were aiming when you talked about the sub-headings? I understood your point of view of choosing not to place any in this particular post!

As for me, I like to use them in every post because I tend to diverse a lot and I want the reader to be able to skip parts if they want. I guess we could say I encourage every reader to read it the way they want to, without losing the most important parts of the story! But that's just me, when I write I always worry if it's going to be too much time consuming for others to the point no one actually reads it 😅 However, reading the whole thing would always be ideal for full understanding of context ofc 🤗

Damn, its a hard balance here 😆😆😆

I hope you have a lovely weekend! !LUV

heheh... this brought back way too many bad memories for me - but some good ones too!

like.. the Warriors! (remember them @kenechukwu97 and @kemmyb) hahahahaha oh man!

We lived through that era together! LOL

Can't agree more. There is no obligation to leave a comment - but if you're going to - leave a meaningful one! Use it as a way to continue the conversation and make a friend potentially!

and yes - without your headers - I did read to the end hahaha

also- this is going on DreemPort tonight - I hope hope hope our dreemers don't disappoint with their comments LOL

I remember those on another platform where commenters were being rewarded..our posts were always full of spam comments saying nice, beautiful, excellent, etc...only a few were reading. And that made the posts useless.. What is the sense of writing without a relevant comment anyway?
I admit I do that before. But if I really want the topic, I'll read it from the beginning to the end.

When one's mind is already pinned on making profits and profits what can one actually think of rather than dumping spammy input just to receive that certain percentage, imagine when he does it for a hundred posts!!!!

These set of individuals cared less about what they write, talk less of reading it!

It takes one who loves reading and commenting which actually seem like a hobby or fun to them to drop a genuine comment that shows he or she actually reads it!

It happened in the platform we once were, too many annoying post with average of ten words and to top it all, spammy comments like this is good bro! Well done! Well written bla bla bla!!

With strict measures am certain that this attitude of spamming comment section will be curbed! It has to!

So, nice post man!
No, I'd rather not receive writing prompts every day!
Hahahahahahahahahaha, I know really well the other site, I even fired up on the owner when he posted that one with one picture and 2 lines of text, and evidently had never heard of the suggestion to lead by example. The majority of the spammers were from one country, and I spent a lot of time firing up on them downvoting and commenting to them to change, especially in the last couple of months I stayed there with you and @dreemsteem; but when I had first came on there, I made the statement to a good friend that I saw what was coming down the road since it was centralized and we saw what happened earlier to us even in a decentralized blockchain. And that is exactly what happened.
Now, about your post, lots (I want to say almost everyone) does get in a hurry and I do remember one test post from one of the leader writers (Luke I think?) that set the spammers up hahahahahha, I loved that post so much that I think I copied it and saved it.
I also figured from the title of your post that you were leading into the same general feeling about people who don't fully read posts, and I am just as guilty as anyone else, except I attempt to skim the post a second or third time before making my comment. But, also, I normally do not write long comments, this is an anomaly lol.
Now, excellent post and summary on us skimmers hahahahahahaha!!! Thanks Shadows, this is an apt and timely reminder for those of us who know better.
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@shadowspub

With Meaning

Squirrels draw other sites. Leave spam... defunct sites need gaurdians... comment, system. Engage engagement. Family related concept... subheadings read the post...

#dreemmademedoit

_{I live in the woods you know. Squirrels all the time. In my case, it's MS. I do read every post, when I am able. I actually was here because GINA told me @victoriabsb curated your post for @ocd... check it out here. Never enough time in one day. But, plenty to appreciate you. Love and light, and thank you for posting in my Community}

!LUV

I didn't really read the post, but I agree with your view and support your effort!

I read the whole post and I agree with all of what you said. I'm not spamming but do have to/want to mention, that I've mailed this post in Listnerds. See? No link attached haha.
Just to let you know because now there will be more people from Listnerds trickle in to read this post in its entirety, I HOPE!

Commenting just for the sake of commenting has been an issue here on Hive, as well as now with Listnerds added to the Hive.engine. There will always be opportunists who don't see the value in reading a whole post, and commenting about what they liked and/or didn't like.
No one is asking to write a long essay as a response to someone's post!
But if the post is of some value, then it would be nice to hear it!

Thank you for sharing your opinion on this important subject.

Commenting with meaning requires us to actually CARE about the other members of the community and value their work instead of us just producing our own work and waiting to be rewarded while getting on to the next thing. The latter is an easy temptation to fall into in difficult times ... it requires emotional and spiritual discipline to show care for others when struggling yourself.

The other thing: you make a good point when speaking of authors who follow thoughtful readers back ... but realizing that requires we think of the value of others AND have an abundance mindset so that we don't see fellow authors and creators as competitors to us for attention but potential friends and partners to co-create with.

Interesting, you got me following you after reading it.
The way some are here for just the quick buck makes me laugh.
trying to play smart.
Someone shared this post on listnerd, and with a specific word, "READ"
If many just jump to the post I guess they would not understand how spammator and Hive watcher gets the people that tries to cheat the system

I think it's not worth commenting and engaging with the person unless something about the article grabbed you and is worth commenting about. Sometimes I read good articles, but I don't have anything to add, but may want to give some genuine acknowledgement to the author.. it's a tricky one.

There are now engagement competitions to get the most comments, so I presume this will continue. (spammy comments).

As someone who is now spending a lot of time curating, more than the spammy comments, what is annoying me more is low-quality content, often plagiarised (or rewritten enough not to get picked up), with uncited sources and poor grammar/language used getting big upvotes and applauded.

Thanks for the thoughtful article and it certainly will make me consider my commenting in future.