DocAndersen
I had a fun new sharing is caring idea yesterday and started doing it this morning. When you open someone’s post at the bottom, there are six related posts. I started commenting, sharing, and then clicking on one of those posts. I then transferred and commented on that post and went back to my regular reading. It was fun to do that today, and I was able to share four old posts. I ran out of time this morning, but I will do that again. It is a variation of the sharing that is a caring challenge, but it is also more comfortable. Who knows, you may find something exciting in another author’s old posts! Please, sadly, again, if you would send a message to the admin team, we are rapidly approaching a double-digit delay again in approving posts.
I am still finding a benefit for the Sharing is caring. I am not sure why people were so upset about it the first time it was tried on the site. Yes, you do run the risk of your post being full of possible virils earned in a day, But, honestly, how many people are genuinely doing that on posts every day? A couple of folks are, but that is an anomaly. So the risk is small. The impact on other authors is pretty significant (they gain between 15-20 new views for every shared post. In fairness, I have only watched about 80% of the shared posts so that that number could be a little higher or smaller for the posts I didn’t directly watch). The only reason I didn’t watch all the shared posts as there were so many I couldn’t keep up!
Generally, around this time of the month, we should see an update on the dashboard. My hope is they will approve a bunch of posts when they do the update. I know everyone is trying hard to bring views to the site. I know that many of you are frustrated by the lack of Admin or Site Communication. I don’t have a magic bullet or an easy answer. I will remind everyone that we have had several issues on this site since the beginning. Each of those issues changed the location. I hope this one will as well. Perhaps we will get to the self-publication phase of the site’s life cycle. That would be a wonderful thing for all the authors who are currently waiting for approval!
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The tone of the site feels better anyone else notice that?
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please email the admins for faster approvals!
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please report all racist posts (there are a couple ) to the admin team
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Well, I had stopped sharing and caring because I didn’t see much value. I am going to try your “new” method today. It sounds interesting. I know I am going to say something that will probably make no one happy, still, I need to say it out loud and then move on. Why bother to report a post for any reason if the admins refuse to post the writings of our unverified writers? I am going to attempt an attitude adjustment and get back on track.
well, i see a bump when you share my posts and the posts of others. But I do understand the frustration of sharing and people don’t seem to notice.
Jaggi Vasudev said that if one try so hard even the Universe has to give him a break 😉
that is one view, i believe that the universe couldn’t care about the load anyone entity carries.
So you don’t think that the universe will help you in your efforts here?
i do not believe that the universe helps each of us, i believe the universe helps the overall world, the mass of humanity. but i don’t think the universe wields a precise enough scalpel to cut for one.
I dunno because I am open to the idea that we create our reality. And what is the universe but us anyway 🤷🏻♀️
i am open to the universe beyond me. I am no longer open to the universe being humans alone. There is much beyond our atmosphere that we cannot comprehend. Intelligence is something we created and is at best an artificial constitute.
I can recite Shakespeare’s Merchants of Venice (you are smart).
I can look up the words for Merchants of Venice (you are lazy)
and so on.
intelligence is a joke, a cruel misleader on a path to endless.
Show me on with a beating heart, who argues against the crowd. That is the person I want to meet!
Is it a joke that your own body can dispose its own waste without you even thinking of it? Is it a joke that your heart beat on its own without you willing it? That, my dear Doc Andersen, is pure intelligence 😉. And no, the universe isn’t human alone.
now you invoke the scientists. Your body does nothing on it’s own. There is a part of the human brain that manages all of that. It is connected as part of both the pain and functional systems of the body. It is a redundant system to help humans not be horribly stupid.
so in effect no, your body does nothing without you knowing it, you just don’t have it in the part of your brain that plays movies for your eyes.
Is it really all the brain that does it? I was reading something few days back but I wasn’t paying attention to it. Anyway, it said something about the heart’s ability to “think” prior to the information reaching the brain.
it is a multi-master system, yes. the heart can act independently as can the liver and other organs, but independent like a kite. Attached to a string (the nervous system) the brain always knows what is going on.
My view is that life itself is intelligence. I mean it is evident when we look around. The whole universe and all the creation are intelligence of the highest and purest form.
that is hard to both agree with and argue against. Intelligence is a human construct.
I am thinking of not being active anymore in this site because of the feeling that we are abandoned.
well start by replying to more comments, have conversations and help other authors. We are not abandoned.
I have a habit of upvoting those posts at the bottom. That feature I love, and I always think there are similarities with the writings. I have even found posts that I like.
i started playing around with the old posts presented at the bottom recently. I have looked at those for ages, but never clicked.
We got another Chicago writer on the site, or had one named Gary. He shares a lot of the Des Plaines River. I see his things a lot depending on what I share. He’s just one of the authors I stumble on, even though we’ve chatted during my earlier Virily years.
i haven’t seen Gary in a long time.
Covid has slowed many down. I imagine that he will return.
i don’t think so, i think Gary has hung up his camera for now. he was ill the last time we spoke.
Ouch! ill as in caught the corona, or something else.
Oouuu look at that dusty little table and race cars. I remember my race car collecting days.
those were a gift from a friend of mine in high school i have to keep them. the shelf is really dusty isn’t it.
Do you have a shed filled with many things?
it is filled with my daughter and son-inlaws stuff right now.
I noticed that too. I really hope they start approving the posts as soon as possible.
i hope they will when they do the end of month dashboard.
I’ve already noticed some changes on the dashboard. I’m wondering if I’ll receive a payout.
I do the same with the related posts when I have time. Hoping for a better day always.
i have enjoyed doing it the last two days.
Then keep doing it, whatever makes you happy. 🙂
that is a critical life lesson!
I am learning. A work in progress but getting there.
all of us are born in process. what we do with that determines where we end up in life
Very true words indeed. Thanks!
By tone do you mean the writers or the editors? I don’t notice a difference because I am not very active here anymore.
tone is the writing community – the admin team is rather silent.