I’ve found it particularly exciting to see comments and posts of mine that are many months old still getting upvotes, which I think makes me generally better calibrated on the long-term value of writing things up and making them public, instead of just talking to people in-person which tends to have a higher immediate reward but a lower long-term reward.
Even vote counts underestimate viewership numbers pretty drastically, don’t they? I remember making comments with embedded polls where the poll got 100+ votes and the comment was sitting at +2. (And only logged-in users can vote in polls!)
Even vote counts underestimate viewership numbers pretty drastically, don’t they? I remember making comments with embedded polls where the poll got 100+ votes and the comment was sitting at +2. (And only logged-in users can vote in polls!)
FYI, I talked to Oliver about this and he says:
The average post gets between 200 and 500 unique views in the first month, with curated ones usually getting around 2k to 5k.
Usually viewership appears to be roughly a factor 20 or 30 times the vote count.