A cloudy view of STEEM (and people)

I haven't done one of these for almost a year but was reminded about the wordcloud feature on Steemreports today. You can find the wordcloud tool here.

I thought it would be interesting to compare from 10 months ago and today to see what has changed in my posting language used:

Do you know which one is which? It is actually pretty easy to tell the first from the second along the timeline because once upon a time, I mentioned Steemit as if it was Steem. I made the change more than a year ago but that was still suffering the legacy of the past content and has now well and truly been replaced by STEEM.

If you check someone's wordcloud and they are mentioning Steemit a lot, they likely don't have much of a grasp on what this place actually is and confuse the interface steemit.com with the blockchain itself. Even @ned mentions Steem more than Steemit.

Oh, like me, he also mentions himself a lot but it is because we both sign out with our name at the bottom of the post as at least, Taraz doesn't talk about himself in the third person. Ned might in private.

One thing I do find interesting (a word I use a lot) is that I can see that "community" a word I used to use a lot doesn't appear in today's cloud. I do not know how much information these clouds look at or how far back they reach, but this actually makes sense and it isn't because I think Steem isn't a community. Well, not quite that.

Steem is a platform and the more it is decentralizing over time, the more communities are morphing into existence from the chain. Some time ago I started mentioning communities less as people would argue that it is not a community at all because of such and such.. I disagree, it is but it is a community made up of many sub-group that fall under the Steem umbrella or more accurately, utilize the Steem blockchain together.

All in all though, the word clouds are quite similar and consistent overtime which shows that while I have been pretty active, my general content has remained centered around similar areas. I wonder if a person's mind can appear through these clouds but I do not think that it is that kind of thing. It does however make me wonder what some other people's clouds look like.

Once I started looking through some friends and higher profile accounts I follow and I recognized that they don't look too far back through the data but, it is still a bit of fun.

@abh12345

Asher with engagement, comments, league, Steem is a pretty obvious representation of where he is spending his time on Steem and what he does around the communities

@acidyo

Again, we can see that the original manual curator has Steem, people, users, accounts and blockchain coming up heavily in the posts. Acid also runs a league for football so that appears there also.

@whatsup

And what do you know, Whatsup's mentioning, Steem, people, community and of course, her drama token in herposts also. Seems to be a bit of a trend.

@theycallmedan

Here we go again with Dan, Steem, people, comments, upvote, delegation are high on the appearance lists. Definite trending going on here, if none of these accounts currently appear in Trending itself.

@coruscate

Again, the irrepressible Lea has Steem, people, friends, enjoy high on the list and... guys. With the size of that "Lea", I think she might refer to herself in the third person :*

@anomadsoul

Que?? Well, Steem is there at least, as is people and @blocktrades who Eric does a lot of community work with.

@exyle

Exyle is of course mentioning Steem and witness a fair bit in his wordcloud and by the way, congrats on hitting 200k SP.

These are the only accounts I checked and they came to mind because all of them are quite different in their approach but also, successful within the community. I didn't know what I would find but I did suspect that there was going to be a great deal of overlap between them in two points: They are all STEEM and all PEOPLE orientated accounts. This is something that people might want to consider when they talk about why some are more successful than others as these accounts not only know a great deal about Steem, they also understand that people are important for its future.

Of course, this doesn't represent how they talk about STEEM or PEOPLE but, it does show their focus and if you do follow these accounts, you will find that they are both positive on STEEM and on the PEOPLE of Steem. It is interesting that some want upvotes from large investors in Steem while they bash the platform because they don't get them. Conflicted process.

For the last search I checked in on Bernie who I have known for a couple years but, you might have heard of him as well. And, as we can see, he has by far the most awesome wordcloud and it is obvious he has been advertising his new token very heavily :D

@berniesanders

I think Bernie's cloud is a good way to end this because this is a bit of a shitpost. I should get on with something more important - something to do with PEOPLE and STEEM perhaps.

Add your own wordcloud below if you like. The link once again.

Taraz
[ a Steem original ]