However!
There are many benefits in engaging in writing a blog at hive. I have written 700+ post at hive blogging platform, I hope that probably have some impact on how I write and interact. It is nearly 8 years of writing (with a year gap in 2019), so certain trend and personality traits must come out and even evolve from my writing. Recently, Marky created the hiveanalytics tool and Holoz0r created the Hive Report Card, together these tools are giving us amazing insight of how people's writing have changed or evolved over the years. Also, that is not the only thing. There are many other items these two tools provide, and I highly encourage you to check these out.
https://hiveanalytics.usehive.com/word-cloud
One, of the interesting item that I observed when looking at my word cloud, is that I use the word in the title quite a lot. I will consciously try not to use that word outside the title on today's post, and will try to minimize that usage. Nevertheless, it is an important word in technical writing, but there are many alternatives, and also there are restructuring of the sentence that can be made without using that word or any equivalent word at all. Here are the alternative that are common, but I don't use them often.
- Nevertheless (notice, I used it above, and that was deliberate, naturally I wouldn't have used it)
- Nonetheless
- That said
- Even so
- Still
- On the other hand
- In contrast
- Yet
- Conversely
My goodness, there are so many choices, and that list above is in no way complete, not even close. These are just alternatives that immediately came to my mind without doing any mental gymnastics!
Anyways, I am sure there is a way to find out how many times I have used that word in the 700+ posts that I have written over the last 8 years. Nonetheless (😀), it started with the post below. In Marky's website, you can find your first post very easily, with just one click. There used to be a discord tool that allows us to do that, but that has long been discontinued. I prefer to have access to a tool that allows us to do this easily.
https://hiveanalytics.usehive.com/first-post
Early-on, a lot of my posts were on technical analysis of various financial instruments. When I started, I thought this is a crypto related space, and people will be interested in that. I had a long history of engagement in the financial market so I thought I can add value to the system. I am surprised to notice, that at the time I used stockcharts.com, a website I still use today sometimes, but I have mostly switched to tradingview.com. I am also surprised that I used a white mode! Due to the glare on the computer screen, I almost exclusively use dark mode on everything today. I guess, I was 8 years younger at the time! I also notice that I got 10 replies (I am sure all of that was automated).
I did receive 18 votes (all was automated). I also self-voted my post, which is a big NO-NO today. Steem (hive's pre-fork) was $5.58 at the time, that explained the $2.01 payout. I have no intention of checking the current price today :)
Reflection on last year's word cloud
I have also talked a lot of Splinterlands of the last year, that bit is obvious. I love the game and I am a majority investor in that ecosystem, so I must do my part to ride the ship through turbulent water that is Web-3 games at the moment. Lot of the other words are associated with that game, like, plots, grain, rewards, stone etc. I also seem to talk a lot about community, which I will continue to do for sure. The word 'account' is also interesting, likely that is related to my work on KE ratio and ethical part our duty towards the community and the blockchain. All in all, I find the word cloud highly valuable for personal and community development. I hope you find it too.
