DocAndersen
I would love to start this post with good news, but no new posts. Please email the admin team and let them know you support those authors awaiting approval. PS, Ghostwriter suggested, and I think it is a great idea to include please and thank you in that email to the admin team, so I did with mine this morning. It is wholly your call, but I thought it was an amusing idea.
Sharing is caring remains a force on the site, but at this point, it is one of few bright spots views are down to the same level they were earlier this year. We have seen the cycle traditionally as the EU vacation cycle starts. I suspect lights will tick up a little come next week as that vacation cycle ends, but the reality is we don’t know at this point. There are still many views on the site, but now they are more focused on older posts with newer posts taking 3-4 days now to reach 100 views. I know many authors never actually reach 100 pictures, so take your peak views and see how many days it take you to reach that number (be it 40, 60, or whatever name the top views you get on average).
My friend said I could share phase 2 of his project today, so I am doing that. Last week he told me that I shouldn’t comment on any post where the person didn’t comment on mine as well. I tried, although I did comment on a couple of posts that never returned the favor. He is curious as to if there is an unwritten contract with the users of this site. I don’t think there is, but I am doing as I am gold. I am supposed to stay this course through the end of August. He is looking at my comments and posts and tracking the impact of comments. I am begrudgingly doing it now, only because my friend is explicitly asking me to do things differently, and I promised him I would adhere for August.
We shall see how that goes, I know I don’t like the concept, but I am doing what I promised I would do.
Have a great weekend!
This work is Copyright DocAndersen. Any resemblance to people real or fictional in this piece is accidental (unless explicitly mentioned by name.)
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comments are an interesting reality on this site aren’t they?
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Yes
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Do you know who makes the most comments on your posts?
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Yes
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Have you ever wanted to edit your comments?
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Yes
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No
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Have you ever felt like commenting but then didn’t
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Yes
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The poll monster is back
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I can’t see any comment. If you can see my comment, please write me in messages.
I don’t comment that often unless I’m really wowed by the content. In general, I’ve felt like the only reason some people comment is to increase their “virils”/points. At least at some time in the past, I think that was true. If I’m going to make a comment, I want it to be genuine.
First thank you for the comment.
I would argue in fact that comments are part of a community. That we comment on authors’ works that touch us, but that we also comment to gain perspective.
yes there was a person that rose very quickly on this site being a seagull commenter. (comment and move on, often commenting on 40 posts in a day, but never replying to the comments left for them).
Interesting discussion 🤔
it is simply following up on what is going on around me. not much really interesting there.
I was referring to the discussion in the comments but thought it is not a door for me so i keep my thought short 😉
ah, it is a door i misunderstood, I am having keyboard/brain connection issues today.
I try to comment back when authors comment on what I share, especially when they read the text. Some i cannot keep up with though.
i can understand that – my friend doing the study was concerned about the 30 to 1 commenter. He asked me to stop commenting on their posts and honestly, i realized what a waste of time it was of mine, to read and comment on someone whose sole purpose was promoting their own posts.
Nah, no edit comment because if I have a typo most of the time I comment again, lol. Good for the poster ; )
yeah i suspect that is an interesting ship to consider. Right now it is 5 to 4 in favor of editing that is barely a majority of the small number who voted.
Q: COMMENTS ARE AN INTERESTING REALITY ON THIS SITE AREN’T THEY?
Yes (6 votes) – 100%
Q: DO YOU KNOW WHO MAKES THE MOST COMMENTS ON YOUR POSTS?
Yes (4 votes) – 100%
Q: HAVE YOU EVER WANTED TO EDIT YOUR COMMENTS?
Yes (4 votes) – 57%
No (3 votes) – 43%
Q: HAVE YOU EVER FELT LIKE COMMENTING BUT THEN DIDN’T
Yes (5 votes) – 100%
Q: THE POLL MONSTER IS BACK
Yes (5 votes) – 100%
You said me to tell you if I have any problem with publishing my articles. That moment comes. I have two articles on pending, one for about 15 days and the other one about 6-7 days. I don’t know why it happens. And the other problem I have is that I can’t find my referral link. Help me, please and thank you!
it makes me very sad, but I have added your name to my email I send.
I am sending one to the admins every day now. I started listing names, and added Please and thank you as well!
Thank you very much! You just tell me, please, where I can find my referral link?
we are no longer allowed to refer new members. so there is not referral link right now.
How’s that? Why? How then to get new members on the site?
so I am not an admin.
I have asked the very question you are asking. Many members have asked that question. The answer is, we don’t know.
Admins don’t know? Who knows then? I know you’re not an admin and thank you for what you’re doing for us!
at this point no one, I suspect the admins have an idea why we can’t add new users. They had that feature on and off over the years many times.
it is very frustrating I agree and you are most welcome! I am happy to help everyone I can!
Posts are posts because they are posted, but comments make them postered, leaving new posters on the post, decorating the post with post stickers on that post.
Comments help to push the post to first past the post….😃
my friend has several theories about comments. One of the things that he has had me take a hard look at is the rate of comments.
Right now, based on comments you comment as much on my posts as I comment on yours 9in fact you may comment more on my posts because of the stupid publication issue).
Yes, I have 3 in limbo now.
I hope Bill Posters, if he works for the Admin, can get around to posting them on the right post soon, rather than leaving them hanging on the pending one for ever, and a day.
i do hope as well, it is frustrating on both sides. more for you, who cannot post.
I have made a conscious decision to write. When I was enthusiastic and legally trying to get the site boosted and my posts ranked it upset some members. Now, I just write and or comment when I feel the urge to. There are already several dozens of pseudo specialists getting the site management into some shape of conformity around here, every site has them
So, my Instagram, Twitter, Tumbler, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and a few Facebook fans from way back read my stuff or don’t. and that’s cool. Management pays a few pennies, and I tell folks about it, as was the custom on Virily. and NO, I don’t have a GOLDEN CONTRACT with Virily. If they shut down, hey, another one bites the dust… And on to the next site.
First i am so sorry I did not know people were pounding you over boosting posts. I am deeply saddened by that.
there were members that also went after r Carol and others for sharing the posts of others.
This is the issue my friend is studying. The impact of the community should be we reject a post, not the way someone does something.
based on some of the posts on the site now, many of my readers refuse to read things on this site.
Golden Contract? Well if I had one of those – I think I would melt it down and sell it! Not sure I understand the whole discussion but it made me think that a contract written in gold should be spent!
that made me laugh! thank you i needed to laugh!
What the heck is this Golden Contract Andre??? Did I miss something? And I certainly hope I am not considered a pseudo specialist by trying to help other members.
QUOTE FROM ABOVE ARTICLE: “He is curious as to if there is an unwritten contract with the users of this site. I don’t think there is, but I am doing as I am gold.” ??!”
gold should be told. he asked me specifically do only comment on posts that commented on mine for 10 days.
The unwritten contract is that rules we have on this site for how we treat or don’t treat other authors.
thanks and sorry for the confusion!
QUOTE FROM ABOVE ARTICLE: “He is curious as to if there is an “unwritten contract” with the users of this site. I don’t think there is, but I am doing as I am “gold.” ??!”
I understand now Andre. You were quoting from Doc’s post. I think he was saying he is a golden friend to do this for him. I will let him explain. 🙂
Very few members comment on my members. I try to comment on posts but I don’t receive feedback
my friend was watching my feeds here and found there were members that I would comment 30 times and they might comment once. he asked me to stop commenting on their posts. I did. it is interesting but I promise I will always comment on your posts!
Thank you very much again for your support. I am happy to comment if I receive feedback
that is exactly what my friend asked me to do, It is really quite interesting, i feel like I am a lab rat in a huge maze right now.
I understand you. Sometimes we get a little lost in finding solutions.
Humm, you guys should stop clicking on awful posts! Doc, it must be a huge burden being told when you can comment. It makes me wonder if you are saving them to comment after your friend is done. Do we know your friend?
my friend is a long time lurker here. He doesn’t write. He is a professor at the University of South Carolina, but he is doing a huge study (funded by the national science foundation) on the impact of the internet and in particular the impact of social media (and by extension sites like this),. It is for 10 days (he wanted me to do it for a month).
Here is why he asked me to do this.
There were two authors on this site, that i was commenting 30 times and they wouldn’t ever comment or comment on 1 of my posts.
He asked me to stop commenting on their posts.
One responded with a nasty comment and then disappeared.
The other has begun commenting on my posts.
not sure that there is an impact,. I still read, upvote and share all the posts ii loveto read.
I comment as time allows and always try to be nice. Both old and new posts. Some days I get more views and comments than others.
i know that feeling. I didn’t want to do this part of my pals experiment but he asked very nicely and reminded me of a favor owed from many years ago.
Glad you have someone who is trying to figure this all out.
he is looking at the internet overall. He is doing Virily because I asked him to…ergo the favor I owe him!
Sometimes I know if I post a comment on certain items it will just cause bad feelings
You can always say have a good day, or thank you for sharing my posts. 🙂
I suppose…but I once clicked on a post which was awful
I am very careful of the ones I click on. I can usually tell from the title and the author!
i know that feeling i feel the same way.
So DocAndersen, do you stop and ponder before you dare open my posts?!?
once again you made me laugh out loud. No, i just open them. I do often stop and ponder what you’ve written before I comment. Like your please and thank you post the other day or your great post this morning on what we need as a community.