DocAndersen
I am not sure why I let the “the likes of you” private message bother me. But thank you to everyone who commented yesterday I am over it now!
Virily, is an application, was the focus yesterday. I am talking about the reality of how complex the application is. That said, I don’t condone the admin teams’ lack of communication. I do agree with CarolDM who has been a long advocate for the community and getting more communication from the Virily team.
The other thing is the rise of new accounts for old users so that they can post again. I do not believe this is against the rules, as long as the old account is removed at some point (after the Virils are moved over, of course). But I do understand that creating a new account has risks on both sides. The first is the relationships we build her eon Virily. I know that two people I’ve read for many years have new accounts. We will see how that works. I am not pointing this out or sharing this to do anything other than bringing up an interesting situation we have right now. We are on day 15 of a partial outage. That is very frustrating for those impacted.
I am in my second day of trying to get to 30 posts, I made it today (33) after yesterday (34). I am going to have to evaluate my options for Sunday, as that tends to be the lightest publication day. It seems that there are quite a few posts being added by the moderators right now. That is good to see overall, but I still see views on the site are down overall. Part of that is we are missing two consistent comments and view writers right now. Not having two people that often comment and read the posts of others is driving views down for many authors.
I have seen a few comments on posts talking about some intent by the admins. I did want to make sure everyone knew that the admin team is broken into two parts. The first part is the read and clear moderation team or the moderators. The second is the more traditional IT or site management team. I don’t think either of those teams has any reason or intent to block, exclude or remove specific authors. I have a working theory that I am trying to gather information to support. I don’t like throwing out accusations or theories if I can’t back them up facts and data.
We have roughly 1/3 of the active users currently unable to create. A few have created new accounts (again I don’t see anything wrong with that just reporting facts). Views this week late compared to this week early are up. They are nowhere near the peak we had hit in August.
It is the day after Halloween and a day sometimes called All Saints Day in the Christian world. Hopefully, you are going to have a great day and a great weekend!
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are you ok with a Mooseless post?
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two days in a row, this weekend (when posts added are reduced) will be hard right?
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The 30 posts read, are my goal and not in any way a challenge, ok?
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Let’s try and have a great day ok?
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I find this amoosing. Sorry, I had to. Way to go on your goal Doc!
my wife has a stuffed moose in her office that says “I find cleaning amoosing!”
Q: are you ok with a Mooseless post?
Yes (9 votes) – 69%
No (4 votes) – 31%
Q: two days in a row, this weekend (when posts added are reduced) will be hard right?
Yes (12 votes) – 80%
No (3 votes) – 20%
Q: The 30 posts read, are my goal and not in any way a challenge, ok?
Yes (11 votes) – 85%
No (2 votes) – 15%
Q: Let’s try and have a great day ok?
Yes (15 votes) – 100%
Honestly, I have not read all 30+ of your posts, but viewed all of them and chose to read those which most attracted my attention. Keep it up.
thanks- the challenge is actually me reading 30 works by other authors, But I appreciate you reading more!
sorry, more is really mine. I appreciate you reading mine!
I guess the backlogs are clearing now. Two of my posts got published after a week. I have not written anything new after that. I will start doing that.
I am glad to hear that – it does appear that the backlog is clearing…
Well, that’s one challenging goal. Especially on a weekend.
I am hoping it works, we shall see over the next two days!
that is good.
thanks for shearing this
Thanks! I am trying to help the community!!!
ohh Wao great job bro
sure, thanks for commenting and sharing.
you are welcome bro.
we are always with you
we are a strong community!!!
a moose once bit my sister…
well known personalities, I have to ask was your childhood nickname moose?
no, really. she was carving her initials into the hindquarters of a moose when it bit her!
that story is even more scary. 🙂
now mind you, moose bites can be pretty nasty…
(don’t you know where this is from?)
I know I should know, but honestly, I do not remember where that is from…
it is the credit subtitles from Holy Grail
i am beyond ashamed that I did not remember that.
I am waiting by the side of the road for the cart.
bring out yer dead… *reow*
I hope you have a wonderful weekend and keep up with your reading 30 posts a day. I am lucky if I can get an hour on here. So, It’s what I can do it that time that counts. I have been trying to get on here everyday. That’s a lot more than, I have been able to do in the six months, so I see it as a win.
that is exactly the attitude we are going for. Do what you can when you can!!!!
I almost spent my sleep hours reading as many posts as I could and posting two. I am sure you have inspired and confirmed my intention to achieve the goal!
Nice joke, Daddy!
Don’t make yourself sick my friend, sleep is important. Do what you can do!
Thank you for your advice, sir! I will do my best as I can.
that my friend is ever all that can be asked!
I like the idea of moose anticipation. Perhaps like with moose who get attracted by moose calls we need a Virily call to attract admin. One way or another I sure would be interested one day to find out what good did I serve on Virily to become a reader and commentator but not a person who posts. I am glad that people pull up my old posts and still read them and I get Virils. In view of that I would like to ask you – when it comes to Christmas time since I cannot add new Christmas posts will I be able to pass on my old Christmas posts to the social medias?
First, I hope this issue is not still going by Christmas!
You can share old posts on Social no problem. I do it from time to time.
Let us hope this is solved….
Thanks for the reply, Doc when Christmas draws closer I will dig them out and share. Do you have any suggestions about content or freelance sites that might be hiring and pay fairly well? I just landed one writing job but their instructions and the way the run the ship is almost like being put in jail and having someone stand around with a whip and I cannot really understand what they want so I have to ex that and move on, I am on Upwork, Guru, FIverr, and Textbroker which I have abandoned a bit but will get back to. So far no big bites on my fishing line,
The sites I write for all pay well but they are focused more on deep technical articles. (that take a long time to write so effectively they don’t pay well). Overall not an easy market to break into. I will check with my long-time writing buddies and see if there are places I don’t know about.
I notice that some have many comments. I only have one question for them. How would they feel if they couldn’t post for 15 days without even knowing why?
i am not sure how to answer this. I understand your frustration. I am certain that the answer you want isn’t the answer I would give to this question.
I understand you and I know you can’t help me. Sometimes a post or comment makes me angry, but I try to forget it as soon as possible (I don’t mean your posts and comments so you won’t misunderstand ?)
i understand completely. I have read some posts that are so over the top that I had to stop reading.
I am going to keep the pressure on the admin team – but I understand if you cannot read them~
Thank you. I hope you succeed.
When the user in the past was abusive to other authors, we were able to stop that with the help of the admins.
We will eventually get this resolved!
Once again, thank you very much for your help
Who on earth said Molly Brown was a woman? More like a Moose-man.
The unsinkable molly brown!!! great reference!
Thanks for explaining the meaning of your bad joke. Also good way to go on the 30 posts!
as a father, i was gifted with the dad joke gene!
Well Mr dad, that is an awesome gift to have.
sadly though the jokes are bad
It is time for Virily to do their part now. I am reading, posting, commenting, all I can do here as time allows. Their turn!
I agree, but I am worried about views down that we will lose Virily, then it won’t matter if they do anything.
I don’t know what “mooseless” means. Can we have a traanslation please?
moose sign, no moose picture no moose in the words.
sorry bad joke
Sorry to be thick, but I still don’t get it. I understand that a moose is a large animal found in north America, but the connection it might have to Virily is not obvious!
no connection, my cover picture for this post has a sign with an arrow that says Moose.
There is no connection just, me making fun of the picture I choose.
OK – it was as simple as that! Sorry not to have got the joke first thing. It must be Friday afternoon, with me sitting in a freezing cold library doing my voluntary duty with very few customers about!
sorry about that…was my native sarcasm
slipping through
Not a challenge but maybe more an inspiration, yeah! you`re an inspiration. I am not sure if I can comment on 30 but I sure as hell can view 30…. I have not counted but I have read and commented on 2 of yours, so far today.
🙂 thanks! I just read your latest posts I am glad you are back on Virily more often!
I feel I need a push to have a great day, but I am trying. I feel I am in a family crisis. I feel helpless! I am trying to be more active here.
Best thoughts and a virtual hug heading your way. I am so sorry LaJenna.
I am worried about Thanksgiving. I need prayers
adding you to my cycle. I am sorry you have stress coming into a holiday. That makes it a lot harder.
Just do some 4 7 8 breathing Jenna, you are NOT helpless, you’re the coolest Kareoky chic I’ve ever seen just for openers. Lol.
Thanks for sharing the kind support Andre, very kind of you!!!!
Thank you so much Andre for the compliment.
1. I want the moose.
2. Even if we write posts they don’t get published over the weekends.
3. I have a few pending post and some in drafts waiting for the pending ones to clear out.
4. I am always having a great day thanks. 😀
They do, on occasion publish posts on the weekends! So fingers crossed on that.
The moose is sadly not available for comment today 🙂
Oh dear!! Please get the moose ASAP. Waiting with fingers crossed. 😀
i will post a picture of the moose, so that you can relax!
That’s good keep on going
i am trying! hopefully I will be able to do this for a couple of weeks.
I have to admit that I have no idea what Mooseless post means, so I can’t answer that question!
picture of a moose sign but no moose picture or talking about a moose in the post 🙂
To be frank I have no idea about how the things are moving out here. I am not very regular in posting for last few weeks for different reasons. However, when I post anything it gets published without any problem. I agree, I am not doing well in commenting on posts.
it can be hard and do what you can do. time is hard for all of us. I am trying to reach a goal short term mostly to drive up views for authors.
Well I guess, but I really do like moose. Humm, not a challenge so you expect no one else to do it. However, since you are so willing to give it a try why wouldn’t others try to do the same. You are a great leaders.
Or perhaps 30 of us could get up Sunday morning and each of us could write a post so you could make your goal. Now that is kind of interesting. Can we ponder that here?
That is an interesting idea and I would be happy to attempt to do my part!
Well, I put it out there. Somehow I know deep in my heart there will be 30 posts to read, no matter what. You better be ready to rock and roll.
challenge, accepted!!! if I don’t see 30 new I will go read 20 old posts~!