Steemit Challenge – Season 34, Week 08 | Weekly Stats Report
Hi Steemit Community!

Under the Steemit team's new rules, the Steemit Challenge is running very well, with strong entries and significantly increased engagement.
I want to share the stats of these challenges, as they will give you a clear idea of how significantly they are growing. Previously, user-initiated challenges—selected by the Steemit team—were quite limited in scope and mostly focused on a single theme; consequently, while people did participate, they had very few options. Now, although the variety of options may be limited, engagement is higher. This is an excellent initiative, and I appreciate this move by the Steemit team.
Let's move on to the stats of the challenge.
📈 Posts Over Time:
The entries are fewer at the start of the challenge because people are not yet aware of it, but the challenge has had a good start: three entries were received in the first question on the first day, and in the second question, nine entries were received on the first day, after which the entries increased, and the total entries are 53 for the first challenge and 65 for the second challenge.
| 📅 Date | s34challenge-wk8a | s34challenge-wk8b |
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| 2026-10-12 | 3 | 9 |
| 2026-10-13 | 9 | 11 |
| 2026-10-14 | 3 | 10 |
| 2026-10-15 | 9 | 9 |
| 2026-10-16 | 3 | 8 |
| 2026-10-17 | 11 | 7 |
| 2026-10-18 | 15 | 11 |

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🏢 Post Distribution Across Communities:
Most people like to post all these challenges on their personal blogs. As you can see, most entries in both challenges are on personal blogs, and there are also top communities where the most posts have been made; the stats for which are listed below.

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🏷️ Tag Distribution
As for the tags, naturally, the main tags have been used by everyone; additionally, the 'Steem-exclusive' tag has seen the highest usage. Since a large number of entries came from Venezuela, that tag has also been employed extensively. And a steemit tag was used a lot for this challenge.

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📝 Word Count Distribution:
Because there is no word count limit in this challenge, we have to present the challenge according to our own standards, but if we talk about stats, people here are more likely to complete the challenge in 500 to 1,000 words because there are very few people who have submitted entries above a thousand and very few people who have submitted entries below 500.

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💬 Comments Over Time:
The most important part of the challenge is the comment section, which has shown a lot of success, as both challenges have received a lot of engagement. If we talk about the first challenge, 515 comments have been received, and if we talk about the second challenge, 519 comments have been received, which are relatively high and are improving the Development of the Steem ecosystem a lot.
| 📅 Date | s34challenge-wk8a | s34challenge-wk8b |
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| 2026-10-12 | 27 | 52 |
| 2026-10-13 | 53 | 64 |
| 2026-10-14 | 63 | 115 |
| 2026-10-15 | 52 | 97 |
| 2026-10-16 | 48 | 77 |
| 2026-10-17 | 110 | 67 |
| 2026-10-18 | 162 | 47 |

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👥 Top Commenters:
There are many users who have performed well. To improve this challenge, here are the top users who have commented a lot and engaged with others. Their stats are listed below. In the first challenge, steemcurator03, 04, 07, 09, and booming01 will be considered bot members, and in the second challenge, steemcurator03, 06, 07, 08, 09, and booming04 will again be considered bot members. In addition, there are all the real users who participated in the engagement.

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📊 Summary of Engagement
| Information | s34challenge-wk8a | s34challenge-wk8b |
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| Total Posts | 53 | 65 |
| Total Comments | 515 | 519 |
| Comments/Post Ratio | 9 | 7 |
| Most Active Commenter | jesusnunez (29 comments) | jesusnunez (30 comments) |
| Top Community | Steem Venezuela (11 posts) | Steem Venezuela (6 posts) |
Date Range: 12/10/2026 to 18/10/2026
📊 Comparison with Previous Week
Post
| Weeks | Challenge A | Challenge B | Total Entries | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| W-1 | Open | Open | Open | - |
| W-2 | 50 | Didn't Exist | 50 | - |
| W-3 | 42 | 48 | 90 | +80.00% |
| W-4 | 33 | 79 | 112 | +24.44% |
| W-5 | 76 | 40 | 116 | +3.57% |
| W-6 | 57 | 49 | 106 | -8.62% |
| W-7 | 87 | 88 | 175 | +65.09% |
| W-8 | 53 | 65 | 118 | -32.57% |
Comment
| Weeks | Challenge A | Challenge B | Total Comments | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| W-1 | Open | Open | Open | - |
| W-2 | 263 | Didn't Exist | 263 | - |
| W-3 | 513 | 305 | 818 | +211.03% |
| W-4 | 249 | 684 | 933 | +14.06% |
| W-5 | 635 | 293 | 928 | -0.54% |
| W-6 | 637 | 452 | 1089 | +17.35% |
| W-7 | 842 | 761 | 1603 | +47.20% |
| W-8 | 515 | 519 | 1034 | -35.49% |
At the end of the report, I would definitely like to keep this challenge going because it has increased engagement a lot here; there are only two challenges, and the number of comments is very high. The first challenge had only 53 entries but had 515 comments, and the second challenge had 65 entries but had 519 comments. Yes, it decreased from the previous week because it depends on the challenge topic, but the engagement looks great.
The next week has begun, and two challenges have been presented to you. Participate in them and keep the engagement going; the link to the challenge is provided below.
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Numbers down significantly for week 8.
Do you think people are getting bored with the format?
It all depends on the topic, Sc01. For instance, in Venezuela, many people didn't have the money to go shopping or buy groceries; and regarding the challenge of improving Steemit, not everyone has an idea—and sometimes they don't know how to develop one.
Best regards.
Thank you for the feedback @vivigibelis.
It will be interesting to see how many people participate in this week's challenges.
it's a pleasure 🩷
Estoy de acuerdo pero lo interpreto de otra manera, los retos de la semana previa crearon mayor interés, y por supuesto soñar no cuesta nada como sí cuesta ir al supermercado. Era poco probable que un incremento de participación muy alto se mantuviera. Vamos a ver qué pasa esta semana.
Saludos
As I already mentioned that it depends on challenge topic.
I had hoped for more entries in the grocery challenge—since everyone inevitably buys groceries for their home—but that didn't happen. I don't know why.
In second challenge users suggest a lot about new features whether they have a knowledge about development or not. That one is a bit difficult but users enjoy to suggest.
The result is that people are more inclined to promote challenges that come at zero cost. They save their pocket money for any such challenge or task.