RE: The 100 most popular Steemit posts of all time!
Hey v4vapid! Thanks for stopping by :) I'm glad you found it interesting. It is interesting about @haejin, how he hardly interacts with followers, and yet he generates a tremendous amount of views. I know that people accuse him of abusing the reward pool, but I think if we actually considered his average rewards per page view, I have a feeling they would be surprisingly low compared to some other authors. Just something to think about, personally I like to avoid controversy! :)
Thank you for pointing out the post that I missed! I limited my search to posts with more than 50 votes and/or more than 50 comments, because I assumed that would include the most viewed posts. Apparently I missed at least one! Unfortunately the view counts are not actually available anywhere except on the specific pages, so the only way to retrieve them is with a web-crawler, and with slowing that down appropriately so as not to create a load on the website, it would take weeks to crawl through all the millions of posts! haha
I will certainly add the post that you mentioned, and once again, thanks for stopping by!
Love him or hate him, the data shows that he's generating a lot of views and bringing eyeballs to steemit content. I think he could reduce the number of posts per day by combining several posts into one and perhaps people would view this as less 'rapey'.
As far as your research goes, i TOTALLY understand. Recently I've been manually compiling statistics for a series I do on missing children and it's very painstaking work.
I can appreciate how difficult it must be making a comprehensive list like this with millions of posts out there!
One last thing, like another commenter here mentioned, you're 2 pieces on ETH vs EOS were very enlightening. So thanks for putting that together. EOS really is one of the most exciting projects under development.
Sorry to butt in here!
I want to, but can't consider page views as a reliable metric for analysis as the count is upped each time you refresh the page yourself.
If this view could be shown as unique, that would cut down (but not eliminate - multiple browsers, cache/IP refresh/change) the risk of gaming. It's quite easy to find an app/write a program that refreshes your page constantly and so I would be weary of using this as an accurate sign of popularity.
Cheers!
Oh for real? I hadn't noticed that a refresh would increase the view count. And to be honest I never considered that someone might build an app to constantly refresh their page/views, but why wouldn't someone try that in order to create a buzz around their work. Thanks for bringing this up, I guess that means view statistics should be viewed with a grain of salt.
View counters like that are extremely easy to manipulate and so would be the ones counting unique views. Anybody who might be getting flack for posting a lot of low quality content for big rewards might have an incentive to bloat that metric, so they might appear to be adding "surprisingly high" value to the blockchain. I think it's extremely likely to have posts like that on here already as building the required app is really easy even for people with very low levels of technical skills.
So the conclusion that he's bringing a lot of views to the steemit blockchain remains questionable.
Yeah, give a blog a refresh (or 3) and see what happens.
I think also that there is no central store on the Blockchain of viewer count across the web front end applications (eSteem, busy.org, etc) and so the numbers become even more skewed when you factor this in.
I suspect it's already happening in some cases....
cheers!