We all analyse the potential reward on the post while writing. At least I do. I try to make my post attractive and palatable to everyone. I also know that none of the effort I put into my posts matter too much. I do not yet have a brand of my posts and I do not think there are loyal readers of the posts that I provide.
Having said that I am trying to make my posts readable and relatable to me. After two years on the platform, it is important to have my online personality at a level since there will be new people joining in. Hopefully, they would like to read the relevant posts that were posted a couple of years ago.
I used ecency to read your posts a couple of days ago. A nice feature they have in their platform is to provide you with suggested reads on the same topic or by the same author. One of the recommended article was your post from a year ago. Since you reply to your readers, how has the comment section changed for you? Is it always the same group of people? Do you see new users on your comment thread or do you expect to have OGs? It would be nice to do the analysis on how many stopped commenting who were the regular readers and how many are new :)
Sorry, this was a long one.
THis is the trick - write for yourself and people will connect with you. This doesn't mean that everyone will find an audience of course, but then - you were writing for yourself anyway :)
It goes through phases, but I have some regulars and a lot of randoms who find me through various ways. I do try to comment on all comments I get, but I do miss some. I also get comments on those old posts from time to time too, which I like responding to, as it means I have to re-read what I have written.
The comments I get are generally well related to the post and most aren't trash. People put effort in and I try to respect that as best I can with my own time and a vote. For the most part, I have always been lucky with the engagement quality I get - but I am not sure if it is luck or not.
I don't expect - in general I have an idea of who of the regulars will comment on what, but there are plenty of new faces or people who drop by occasionally too. It is nice to have familiars and, it is nice to welcome in newbies.
I wonder if anyone will ever do an in-depth analysis of the blockchain.
I am trying to write for myself for a while and also thinking about how to grow an audience.
I read most of the comments on your posts and figured the users who engage are not always the same group of people. Through that, I was trying to understand the diversity of the people coming in and what their engagement would look like in the long run.
Yours is a true case study if someone ever attempt to do that analysis :)