I talked yesterday about the Battle of the Three Armies and how I was thrown in the middle of this battle because I was added to one of the teams (who made the selection, by the way? :)
As I said yesterday, I didn't want to let my team down by not contributing at all, plus threading would have helped with my yearly comment goal.
Now, seeing the kind of numbers others have put in, I am truly impressed.
I added my contribution to my team, but look at these guys:
These are just from my team, but there are a few with higher points in other teams.
Compared to them, here I am:
Pretty good, in my opinion, particularly for a non-regular user of Threads, but these guys (and a few others not on that list) deserve our gratitude for keeping us in the fight to the end.
Now, at the personal level, I've done what I could. Personally, I don't know how they've achieved so high scores, I started seeing double after about 3-4 hours or so of doing mainly that.
It's true, I wasn't focused on maximizing my points, but rather on engaging. Comments to threads and replies and replies to replies should have scored pretty well, though.
This is the change when it comes to my commenting pattern before and during this event.
As you can see, there's quite a jump, even though I was used to commenting before the battle. My highest number of comments caught on this chart before the battle was on June 6, and they were 19.
During these two days, I've put in, curiously, the same number of comments: 84. More than 4 times what I did in my most active commenting day caught in this chart, but frankly, they felt like more than that.
Anyway, the weekly comments guideline I have to be able to reach my comments goal by the end of the year is a little bit over 100.
I blew this away this week! This feels good because I've gotten tired of being below the guideline for a long time and having to increase my guideline as a consequence almost weekly. I'll reduce this guideline for a change this week. I'm curious if the new one will be back below 100. I guess we'll find out on Monday.
This Battle of the Three Armies was a nice and quite fun distraction from my usual routine.
While I don't want to promise anything, I might start using Threads more going forward...