DocAndersen
The next list of influencers won’t move your views as much, but they bring other value to your post. The cr4itical thing you get every time with these influencers is they comment on your post. In commenting, they are ones that drive you to the top of the Vrily comment list for a day. These influencers will bring comments to your post and are always up for a good conversation!
Carol DM
Both are prolific writers on the site and continue to provide positive comments to other users materials. They don’t pull as many non-Virily readers; they also don’t pull the numbers that sister’s influencers do, but they are always there and always sharing! As with yesterday, the links to their profiles are included with this post.
Tier 1 was shared here, yesterday.
This is the tier Virily influencer post.
The seven people listed bring value to your posts. Please, however, don’t reach out to them and beg them to read your posts. That isn’t the goal of sharing this list. I am trying, first of all, to create a more positive Virily experience for everyone. These names shared yesterday today are people you want to see reading your posts!
The other note, I could add three of the influencers from yesterday to the second list (you would know when they comment). There are also a couple of folks that are on the cusp of this group, but they don’t participate on Virily as much as they used to do.
With more data than what we can get from the Virily dashboards, such as people moving fast (yesterday’s list included two people that have moved the most up the list recently). There is also the broader issue of how long the impact lasts. When you look at posts, you care about four things regarding the impact readers have on the post.
1. Do they bring new readers (outside of Virily)
2. Do they bring other Virily readers?
3. Do they comment on posts? I won’t go into the quality of comments, that is a different issue and much harder to track.
4. Do they mention other writers in their posts?
The last one is interesting, but as the community continues to grow, there are more and more mentions of other writers. I would also like to have more access to the Virily site statistics to track things like the percentage of negative comments by and to authors. There are posts that bring out extremely negative comments and ones that bring positive. There are comments that are to the other author but not speaking to the content. Finally, there are the comments (like the two names) that bring other comments!
While the first list was influencers overall, let’s call comment influencers! Both help your posts be seen by more people!
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Question of
Will you watch and see your comments grow when these two wander to your post?
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Yes
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No
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Question of
Will you send me the people you think influence your posts? (or in the comments)
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Yes
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No
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Question of
Do you notice when the seven comment on your posts?
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Yes
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No
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You also made a peetinent point. There is a need to popularise Virily outside our community of writers. This can happen when the big search engines start finding our work. We need more & more engaging & interesting content. I am sorry about my incomplete comment. Would remember to use my laptop for commenting and avoid mobile phone.
That is why I broke the influencers into two groups, the first group bring many more guest views than the second group does.
Will check that post now.
You don’t have to, just was pointing out why I shared the other one first.
I am a late entrant to Virily and I am here just for over two months. Already I feel a part of this group and the two main people I had to thank was Carol and Ghostwriter. I am glad to see a post highlighting their positive contribution. You are also a big positive influence in this forum DocAndersen. There is one point that is critical in your post. There is a need to make Virily popular outsiee
Interesting point, Virily is actually growing. You yourself are one of the new writers. There are many new writers every month.
good analysis, and agreeable, I am sure that most members will agree on this.
Thank you 🙂 I want to figure out how to get this to every new member so they know how to quickly drive their posts!
so true… well lucky us you will guide us all the way.
I don’t know about being a guide. I am just the person with the flashlight.
light on the torch… hmmm i like that better like Indiana Jones
A really good friend of mien (a poet) once wrote the following line:
“When you realize
it is better to shine the light
than spread darkness.”
so true, better to give light than blow the fire out of the torch.
great metrics, impressive methodology
I suspect in the future I am going to not do this again. Way more work that I wanted to commit to!
I don’t doubt that it was a daunting task
It wasn’t as easy as it could have been. With an open reporting API it could have been done (and put onto a google map) a lot faster.
No doubt, but we both know why the admins aren’t keen to publish their APIs to the world…
I feel bad for the admins. they have people that are posting more and more negative stuff about the site. English is thier second language, and I suspect they are trying to keep the site afloat.
As my dear friend always says “when you are up to your neck in alligators it is hard to remember your original job was to drain the swamp.”
Even if everything was groovy, they shouldn’t be giving access to their APIs. There are enough folks trying to scam them as it is…
You are right about the API, I ergo (I get to use my favorite word!!!) I didn’t ask.
Your request would be legit, and as you’d publish your findings it would be a benefit to the community. So there is no reason for them to turn you down, outside of general principles. But they should still refuse on GP
I agree, simply based on the reality of a user having access to a read/write api. A user with mal intent could wreak havoc!
massive damage is possible even if that user didn’t know what they were doing, they could simply bring it all down with malformed requests…
I cannot imagine anyone else who will have the grit to carry on scrutinizing technical data to come up with a very useful and informative article like this. One of your most interesting posts, I have to say. And CAROL DM, I agree, is one of the sweetest persons I ever met here in Virily always sharing positive thought whenever she reads a post. ???
There are a number of posters that are awesome when they comment, Ghostwriter, LaJenna, CarolDM always share nice things with other writers!
You should read more of the good doctor’s posts- he consistently provides insightful observations and deep analysis…
Oh, but Mr. Alex The Ledante, I DO read Doc’s posts consistently and comment on it, too. I had no wifi access for a very long time plus I travelled since November so I can only keep track of his posts via FB ??
The reason I started wondering about influencers back on Niume, was every time Carol or Pixie read my posts, my views went way up.
I hadn’t noticed you replying to Doc’s posts before. Perhaps I only started following his feed after you left?
The pixie was having wifi issues for a while, something about losing fairy dust and was only commenting on facebook!
I don’t abandon people and friends Mr. Alex The Ledante unless I have a good reason. Life clipped my wings for a while so I would be able to grow a stronger pair ??.
You made Scott “Doc” Andersen blushed. Take that as compliment. I am jealous ??? kidding ?
I know she was incommunicado for a while, but the important thing is she’s back now
you have officially made me blush Alex.
Well, you knew I had an issue with the Virily authorization hence, I put my comments in your FB posts instead of here. But see, I gladly let go of my doubts because of you ?? that last one is half truth and half a joke lol
well, if there was a 20 character minimum i would give you a half response back, but there is so you get the full response. Just nothing in the response!
mostly I make the ladies do that…
Bravo! For a long time, I expected someone to write this kind of research report about Virily users. For a long time, there have been enough messages to me with questions about how to improve views and comments from other members for their posts. Beyond that, occasionally I also have various inputs so that someone can be more noticed by other members, and both of your posts about this are very useful for all members.
I really hope that much friends here read this post so they can find out more about how to increase the views and comments on their posts. Great job, Coach!!!
And thank you!
Thank you, kind sir, of course, getting views is only part of the battle!
Well, that’s not a battle but enjoyment and challenging game at once.
Fair, I was too glib with my response before. Yes, knowing who helps your post is a good start.
This is an important and good post to realize that we need each other, and need to support each other.
We need a healthy happy community, but sometimes I am curious who is really moving my posts.
I am sure that this post has a big and positive impact on us all. Thank you very much!
Albert, I read your posts every day. Every day I get either a, wow I need to think about that, or something that helps me cope with the world. Finally I often get a laugh!
Awh! Even my mother will be moved if she read your compliment, Doc.
If your mother is like my mother, then she has told you those things herself!
Can you give in occasionally, Doc?
I in fact can 🙂 Me giving in right now.
Thanks! We’ll talk another thing ? immediately.
I knew Carol would make the list! LOL
And yes, how can I forget Ghostwriter!
Hmm… I was still thinking about LaJenna.
She make the list, at least for me.
check the first post, as this is the second in the series!
Yes, I do notice this is the 2nd one!
And I saw LaJenna being mentioned!
Actually these people (including me and you) just happens to be the more active ones on here. :p
Actually, there are users that are more active (although two of the folks on the overall list are the most active on the site).
It is interesting right now, there are new folks that read 30 or more posts per day.
Hmm… I’m curious, how you get these statistics?
30 posts aren’t that difficult, considering how short some of the posts are and some of them being mostly photos!
The new folks reading lots of posts per day comes from tracking myself and is an estimate.
The other stats were gathered over the course of 10 days a year ago, then again over the past 20 days this year.
It is a manual process I am sad to say.
Carol Dm, Albert, Kim Johnson come to my mind first.
Well, they are all three in tier one or tier two of influencers! So you arrived at a good answer!
I appreciate your efforts very much for making Virily grow and be understood in terms of its writers and general population. But if I may, I think there is a third group you can add, and that is the up voters only that do not necessarily comment or even post that much. I have noticed and sent thank you notes to a few of those that simply viewed my posts and up votedI them without commenting at all. These Virilyans are a booster for anybody’s moral, especially mine. Anyway, that is my little thought only or maybe your had already presumed it.
That is an interesting category the only issue I have with that category is 1, incredibly hard for me to track that. And 2, they actually nearly benefit as much from that as you do. For example, they read your poll and don’t comment.
you get 5 virils.
They get 2 + 1 or 3 for reading and upvote.
Still a good consideration, I just have no way to collect that data.
Sorry about the kink that I have put on your data collection and analyzing efforts. I personally would never be able to dot that. My mind is not that critical. But what are you saying, I get 5 virils for every view and reading of one of my posts. In my notifications they say that I get 3 virils for every view of my posts. At least I am pretty sure that is what it says. Anyway, no matter I just still enjoy reading posts and writing some.
sorry, 5 is the base rate for polls and quizzes. 3 is the base rate for galleries and standard posts.
You are correct!
Thank you for reassuring me.
thank you for commenting!
There sure is a lot to think about, its also very confusing for me.
ah, well then, by all means, the floor is open for questions!
You’re doing a great job of explaining. You’ve put a lot into this. Great job!
I would say, since I didn’t do this on Niume, but wish I had, knowing who the influencers are on a site is critical.
To Doc Andersen: Thanks for you kind leadership. and selfless acts of encouragement.
I have a few poems that Virily published that have typos or spelling mistakes from my rapid touch typing. Example Tuth for Truth….I have tried to flag attention but no one ever edits my poems for me. It seems to be approve or “not approve”. On other sites is seems to be easy to edit. Thanks for any suggestions.
At this point the only answer is to connect with the Virily Admin team and ask them to move your poems back to draft mode so you can edit and republish them. Sorry about that, it is a great answer but it is the only answer.