Since starting a couple of new projects in the name of promoting good content that is either "engaging" or "high effort", I've been reviewing and reading a lot of new content from authors I wouldn't necessarily have noticed. Which means that I think I've done a good job with these creations. Well done me.
Self-adulation aside, one "theme" that appears a lot is "The Diary Game" - a theme that appears so frequently on Steemit, that I've pretty much ignored every diary game post I've seen since I joined. But in today's curation post, a colourful Cameroon flag caught my eye so for one reason or another, I decided to open it up and give it a read. What I found, was a well written post not so much about the author's day, but more about Cameroon's Youth Day Celebrations and mention of a war that I'd never heard of.
Having taken the (for me, unusual) step of reading a diary game post (perhaps for the first time) and been surprised by the absence of a photo of breakfast, lunch and dinner, I started to wonder if others do the same as me? Dismissing a post simply because in the title are those 3 words: "The Diary Game". Would users' content get noticed more if the title had simply been "Cameroon's Youth Day and How I Celebrated It"? Or does it make little difference?
A quick search of the tags "thediarygame" gives me 155 posts from the last 7 days and this doesn't include the posts that have "Diary Game" in the title without using the hashtag - I expected more and I wonder what this number was when I joined.
Have I been unfair on the diary game? I've occasionally written about a day out, would you have treated it differently if I'd called it "The Diary Game (17th November): Sheffield Park", "The Diary Game (14th November): Visiting London" or "The Diary Game (28th October): Picking Pumpkins"?