> I, as a nobody, won't be read. So I need to gather followers. I do so in the traditional way of commenting, liking, recommending, doing all kinds of community

> I, as a nobody, won't be read. So I need to gather followers. I do so in the traditional way of commenting, liking, recommending, doing all kinds of community stuff. But again, this can be gamed. This is not impact, but merely hours put into the social game. While this may be true for most blogs, I curiously found myself in a different situation, having spent almost no time trying to game the social system on my blog (only setting up auto-posts of new content on facebook/twitter, very seldom manual tweet to promote archived content). Somehow I got up to today, with 1-2k daily hits for derelict content, and enough name recognition to get job offers and occasionally run into fans in real life.