DocAndersen
One of the things we need badly (beyond faster post moderation) is new authors. But there is a risk if we ask the admins to allow new authors. That risk is that well; anyone can join. However, I had an idea ( I have been thinking about this). We used to have referrals to her eon Virily. What if we go back to having the references with one additional piece, if the person you refer doesn’t follow the simple rules laid out for the site, you lose your status (if you are verified, you lose that, if you aren’t tested, you go to the bottom of the SLA for your posts being moderated). It is a simple system, and other than the one or possibly two no votes I know of, what do the rest of you think?
I have been watching the site, and in particular, I am watching those who post five or more posts every single day. Just doing that (assuming a 30 day month) every single month gets you 3000 virils. If anyone reads and comments, you are well past 5000 virils a month without having to say or interact with other authors on the site. The exciting thing I’ve noticed as well is that the people post 5 or 6 posts a day also wouldn’t qualify if there were a minimum of 150 words in a post required. The majority of their jobs would be gone. To be precise – if you post three posts in a day and one has four lines of text, that is fine. But if you are posting five a day, none of which even has 100 words that don’t feel fair to me. But I am open to a conversation about that.
I will end where I began. When it comes to asking and adding new members, would you be willing to invite people? I haven’t for a long time, but I would now be prepared. Based on nominating a new member, are you ready to take the hit, that if that person doesn’t adhere to community standards? I know so many people that would be great additions that I would happily do that. But it is something to consider. I suspect the admin team has held off inviting new users because they can’t control who joins. Based on that, I came up with this idea. I do not think this is the only solution possible, so as is the tradition when I do these posts, what do you think?
What works for adding new writers here on Virily?
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Would you vouch for another author?
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if you have thoughts (good or bad) re this idea share them in the comments ok?
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If you have another idea, share it please!
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Q: WOULD YOU VOUCH FOR ANOTHER AUTHOR?
Yes (5 votes) – 83%
No (1 votes) – 17%
Q: IF YOU HAVE THOUGHTS (GOOD OR BAD) RE THIS IDEA SHARE THEM IN THE COMMENTS OK?
Yes (5 votes) – 100%
Q: IF YOU HAVE ANOTHER IDEA, SHARE IT PLEASE!
Yes (4 votes) – 100%
And I’m all for referring others to the site to join
🙂 thanks you have a really good idea you shared – I like the concept of reusing the old unused or dormant accounts.
You can search them here, the inactive users. There are many with spam like names. ( https://virily.com/users/)
thanks – i’ve wandered through there many times.
Let’s hope that with new authors, Tasartcraft doesn’t slip through the cracks to join again. I’m sure we’d be able to identify that quickly based off of the style if writing and choice of main photo.
i suspect that we should focus on improving the site we need new authors here contributing.
there are at least 4 dozen inactive writers. i would love to see us replace them with new writers. BUt would still like to leave those old accounts for a while.
They could remove those unused pages to add new writers. I imagine that there are many that joined then got bored or maybe didn’t post anything.
Or better yet inactive pages
interesting – i am liking the concept, what happens if the site explodes and the inactive users want to come back?
You snooze you lose! If you’ve been on the site for over a year and have not posted one writing then sayonara.
Here is one of the many we have that are inactive (https://virily.com/users/presslabs_ott2mxbq/)
i am not sure i would agree with that on occasion people do have other things in their lives.
a few that cheated to get where they were as well.
(there was a huge cheating issue with drafts and quizzes about three years ago).
That is an interesting idea pal, replace unused accounts with new authors…
I’m sure things happen. People get bored, have nothing to share, lose their account info, or maybe just a spam account in the first place. Back when we were able to refer, we may have referred spam users.
i am truly sure we did have many spam users.
I agree we need more authors to give the site a boost and more interesting content. Personally I think that anyone who would like to join should submit some content before joining to see if they can make good posts. I mean sure new authors can be welcomed but what will they share? I have come across people online who write Today is a nice day. I enjoyed it. What did you do today? And that is not really contributing anything to any site.
i like this idea that you’ve shared.
This is really good – who would do the review? I am fairly certain the admin team wouldn’t do that (they are busy)…
but I don’t know that for sure,
I agree we need more authors. The referral idea is good, I was thinking about that the other day too. However, I personally don’t know anyone I could refer to the site. Also, I am not sure if someone has to guarantee for another person this way, whether they would take the risk.
i know several writers that would help the site a lot that I would vouch for.
but, it is just an idea, what else might work? The admin team feels overloaded, so they won’t take on managing more site rules…
It’s a good idea, I just can’t contribute personally.
i understand that – nice that you care enough to want to help!
I find these interesting ideas. I completely agree with you on the number and length of posts. I remember well (when I was not yet a verified user) they refused me posts if they were too short.
it makes me sad because that is what the world sees of our site.
so my decision, for now, is stop posting and just comment. I think that is the best for everyone involved.
i think whoever told you to stop posting is wrong. do what you want to do. You do the things that make you happy!
I don’t know up from down anymore. I also find that I am losing passion for being a team player with not much of a team.
I know I am stressed to the max and a downer and that upsets people. Have a stroke upset me as well, but there isn’t much I can do about it.
It’s great having my brother home and it’s hard to get up every 1 1/2 to do what needs to be done for him. I am not mary sunshine and still I try and help.
i know the feeling, i am really trying to find level ground right now.
Someone suggested that I leave for a couple of months until I get myself together. I don’t know that I will be better than or if it will be here then.
at this point, i would say this. Do what you need to take care of you! You deserve to be happy!
Happy? ummm. Define that. I am grateful, but I don’t know that happiness is here. I may have to relearn that truly means.
we have to balance what we need with what we have. Find the little things that make you happy
My posts have shortened. I will not deny that fact. My inspiration has as well. I will try harder. Inviting others sounds like a good thing at this point. What do we have to lose after all!
yeah but you don’t post 5 or 6 a day. many of your posts are longer than 4 or 5 of the other posts combined!!!
I am probably guilty of small dumb posts. I will back off. That might help.
if that is all you make then I would say please do, if you do longer posts as well it is a balancing act.
My just for fun is way shorter than my other posts.
Thanks Doc, I really am trying. I have seen a lot of new traffic yesterday and today.
there seems to be some new traffic right now – happy happy joy joy!
I suspect Ileana is correct in what she said below, but I live in hope. Your idea has merit and I like it, but I believe that if admin made the rules clear, then it would not require much effort for them to simply ban anyone who breaks them, or does so repeatedly. I find it hard to imagine that the reason they no longer allow sign-ups is because they do not want the risk of disruptive members. You already know what I think is happening.
I don’t have magic answers. I have a concept that makes it easier for them to let new members be on the site, without them doing anything.
the reality that everyone forgets is that they don’t have a site without us. We can ask for things, and they do respond to the asks.
The site is dying. if we don’t find a path forward soon it is going to be dead.
Well I don’t want another truly disrupting members. It seems like they could set rules and enforce them.
They did, and then didn’t enforce them the same way.
I remain to the idea I always say. Administrators know better than us what to do to keep their site functional. If they consider that at this moment they cannot accept new users, we suggest new ideas in vain.
I suspect they would consider and have considered all the requests we’ve made. It behooves them to have us happy and contributing – if the goal is to run the site.
I am convinced that their wish is for the site to work, but I am not very convinced that they take our suggestions into account. I would be glad if that happened.
i’ve submitted 17 total requests since July, 8 have already been implemented.
I probably missed those changes, sorry.The only change I remember being introduced was the edit button.
plus if we don’t try, then the site dies.
we asked for the downvote to be removed
we had several others I can dig them up for you if that would help. We’ve been very successful getting some changes into the system.
The change for reporting comments took a left turn at the end, but we did get that change also!
we’ve been pretty successful so far.