80?  You don't even look half way there :)

More stats, numbers, and gameification please.  Hope I can help with this a little moving forward.

Congrats! I'm at 64 now and I remember having a big mental celebration when I reached 60s. (Focus on "mental.") My next milestone is 65 and I can feel it within my reach already.

I know how personal significant these things can get!

Hmm, while PeakD might not think you're 80, Hive.blog does.

> Reputation means little, except to those who don't know you.

It is still a number, and people are pretty smart, you don't need to be a rocket scientist to be able to look and see how long they have been on Hive/Steem and how much they have earned, and based on a persons own experience one is able to get a feel if the Reputation Number is real.

I still find value in the number, and I am enjoying watching my own number grow ever so slowly.

<blockquote>Still a long way to go until I catch The Haej</blockquote>
Dunno if thats something to aspire to lol. He got there through having his mates upvoting him. 

80 rep is an acheivement well done!

Another cool feature of comments is the attention they give to the authors, motivating them to new articles.

Well, congrats... it's an impressive milestone, *particularly* given that you didn't start in June 2016!

Hive-now.com says you've made it!


![Taraz80.jpg](https://images.hive.blog/DQmaVoJ4sDN8rjmgPP3Nms1JAEiooERpR2UpWy3moR26E4T/Taraz80.jpg)

I do very much agree with you that engagement is key in surviving and be - somewhat - relevant for the long term. We have too less of engagement ongoing on HIVE, that is for sure. That said, I think it are those users that end up in trending pages having a relatively easy way of entering engagement. Top rewarded posts get attention, and with attention they get others to comment. By far the majority in our community doesn't belong to this category of users. They do not get users to read and engage on their posts. These users need to spend so much more time to get engagement going, since they need to read posts and think of meaningful comments.

I think it shall be made a little easier for all the longtail users, to be discovered. Discovery drives responses. Therefore I think we need to have a channel where posts are preented in a random fashion. Maybe this channel shall be the prime channel, while trending and other channels are secondary channels. With prime channel I mean: The channel that is shown by default. Currently the prime channel seems to be the trending channel on all UIs we have on HIVE. I think that is a missed chance to get the larger community to enter the engagement 'game'.

ps: I almost always vote for comments, those on my own posts, and those I react to, and even those I do nothing with other than read and I like. Regardless the fact that this may bring in less curation rewards, it is one of the KEY methods to drive engagements. A vote - even when it is little - shows appreciation for reading the entire post and subsequently the attention given to respond.

Congratulations on Getting your rep to 80 champ, the road you took must have been a hard one. Keep it up champ. Cheers!

This post reminds me the value of being engaging. Just switched over here from my old steemit account. Found out about the fork, albeit a bit late. Really excited about the community feelings over here on HIVE. Excited to be here, excited to be more engaging :)

I have come back from the land of '0' after a long almost 6 months of being hidden. The nukers are still around. I am not sure what will happen here but know that a disagreement of opinion can still result in nuking that fake score.

A mathematical rounding difference is far from a lie sir.

Slowly creeping my way there my friend.
All hard work with nothing in my rep paid for.
I would love my vote to push you over the mark, but I am sure that you will get it soon even without my vote.
Congratulations.

Oh! And I think that it is rude not to reply to comments.
But what do I know, as I am old school:D

>With each level being 1.5x more difficult to get than the last

The early numbers were fast to climb through (just this morning, I raised a noob account from 25 to 33 with my upvote) but I found that things really slowed down by about the mid 50’s.

Congratulations!

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I enjoyed the post, but especially this:

> Getting strangers to see what your mother sees is a little harder - getting them to pay you for it is harder again.

LOL 😂 very true

I heard it on the Bee Hive

https://twitter.com/tarazkp1/status/1250119769480736777

**Gratz on your 80!**
Being 50, at last, is pretty much an achievement for me so it's cool to see people going to where you are with the efforts.

>"Yes, comments aren't overly rewarded (although I have been trying to bring comment voting back despite the penalty), but it is through comments that it is possible to ask questions, get clarification, have discussions and get to know one another. One of the great things of early adoption on a social platform is that there is the chance to actually engage with the authors and get a response - at least from most of them."

This reveals the code is misaligned with societal needs.  The mining of rewards does not reflect social interactions, but deprecates them instead.  This is not an unavoidable property of rewards, but code creates profit opportunities for folks more intent on their profits than their people.

Comments would be as large of portion of distributions as they are of social interactions if code was written to simply reflect functional society.

Of all the changes that came from EIP, the demonetization of comments seems to best exemplify the disconnect between society and DPoS social media.  I can't help but feel we're missing an opportunity to strengthen society during immensely socially destructive times, and mining it for tokens instead.