Why Do We Send Each Other Notices of Each Posting?
It is Like Soup With A Soup Side Dish and a Soup Beverage
This is short and sweet and, it is not meant to be hostile. I love all my readers and all of those whose works I read, I just do not have as much time from spring through fall to do as much as I have been doing over the winter.
We have a notification system which allows us to see what our Favorites are writing every single day. Why, then do we send each other notices? I never did it until I started getting them and guess what? I don’t need those notices because I read the notices of posts that come up on my Blog page. I assume that those who made me a Favorite also know when I am writing.
I am not so caught up in the time consuming work of loading my message sender or posts, or in receiving the notices of posts of others which I can plainly see on my blog page.
As of today I send only emails to those off-site and will not read messages of posting because it is not necessary, it is a waste of time and energy. We are notified by the system. I will read messages people send to ask questions, or comments, which they do not want made public.
Therefore, there you have it. If you want to read, my stuff please look at the right-hand side bar of running posts as I do every day.
And please do not feel obligated to read everything I write, I cannot possibly rate and read everyone on my Favorites list every day, especially this time of year through fall when my schedule is so heavy. But, that maybe just me. I don't know, how about you?
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Either way is fine.
And, out of respect for you.... I'll be more prudent in my notifications :)
Sometimes there are new people who blog call girl.
I hate to miss supporting people's good posts, even if it's just a rating.
I do understand that some people are just too busy to dredge through a lot of internal advertising, though.
Some folks add a note on the lines of "let me know if you don't want any more of these notices". That is the best way to give the recipients a choice.
Others use it as a way of drawing attention to a new writer, or a post they find significant. More often than not, I have not read what they are sending. But when I do? Mostly my mind is blown.
I love receiving notices, especially since my right hand bar doesn't always give the full post history. I don't always go to the cover page, and click on most recent, and then sort it by my favourites.
Receiving the notices are great for a lazy bum like me.
tequilaanddonuts-(What a Combo!) Had a good idea, but I think I shall reconsider. I always thought I was a good chess player, seeing all the possibilities, but I sure missed that one: If people don't send me Notices then they have to take me off their list YIKES! I'd be here all alone! EEEEK!!
No, send me the messages send me food and water and a life raft or I shall be LOST at sea, like Bobby Darin, Beyond The Sea.
I bow to superior numbers and my own lack of logic send, send, send!
Your first instincts were correct.
Actually, I don't mind the reminders (I've heard them referred to as whoring)...but I truly do not pay much attention. Each time I come on...I go through the "Most Recent" list on the Home Page. Doesn't take all that long.
I really would add to your original thoughts "Make the Headline Clear"...so those of us reading the Headline can make a reasonable decision as to whether or not we want to read the piece.
I usually add the headline and sometimes a brief synopsis. Because the URL's are so long I just use the Blog URL, in my case:
http://open.salon.com/blog/professoremerituspab
That makes it easier for people to find it.
Meanwhile, thanks for the tip T&Q. I'm going to check it out now.
PMs, T&Q, T&D, tnx????
I have never texted anyone so I do not know what those initials mean???
Not every new post is read worthy. Heck, some of mine have escaped nearly unread. (I cleaned house and deleted a bunch of them). Maybe I shouldn't though, clean house that is... Another question for another time: to delete 'old' posts or not...
But most of all Prof. if one did not want to read the mails all one has to do is hit the delete button. Its gone! PM is perhaps one of the most un-invasive way to advertise.
You are banishing us newbies to becoming virtual nonentities! If PM has been given to us by OS let us use it by all means. The meager side bar does nothing.
To all my PM contacts please keep sending me your posts and even if I dont get to them because of my job search which feeds and clothes me and mine, I will someday just like this one.
I am afraid you are a bit offbase on this one. I have 0nly been here for six months and exactly how does my not sending notices to those on my list affect you? I did not begin this system and to my memory I only started getting notices a few months ago and for a long time only one person was sending Notices and by then I already had a list to which I never sent said notices. All one has to do is go to the cover page and one can see all the posts each day and choose which they wish to read. Sending out these notices has not changed either the number of people nor does it increase readership.
In fact those who have been here long not sending notices helps newer writers because then everyone has to go to the cover page to see what is up. I write on another site in which my very first article there drew 565 comments and 5600 reads and I knew NO ONE there.
Apparently you missed the comment where I reconsidered, but only because I was asked to, shall I now again reconsider and not send said notices? And further, why the hostility, this has been a friendly neighborly, community site, why the anger? It is not as though this is life, death or taxes?
People say I should tell them, but I find that act to be specifically antisocial and don't like being put in the position of doing it. It puts me in the position of saying something that could appear unintentionally mean.
If there is something specific to me, personal, that the person thinks is worth sending me mail about, that distinguishes it from "I just wrote another post", then I enjoy hearing from actual friends about things they actually know about me.
I actually expect the disk space problem at OS to become real at some point, too, because these messages must take a lot of space. The information content is usually barely more than a couple of bits, keeping track of who's read what and who's whose friend.
And, finally, I think sending personal mail encourages personal bonds to be created. Sending blast mail does not.
And doing this blast thing creates an escalation problem. It seems to work to get readers, so the people who do it often get a lot of ratings and a lot of visibility, while those of us who refuse to do it are left behind. Frankly, I resent that.
I think OS should simply turn off multiple recipients.
I am in the process of consulting on the building of a site and I warned the owners that if they grow as fast as they expect, they will have a disk space problem as well, you are correct.
I visit the sites as they come up on the right hand side of my blog of all my Favs each day. but this time of year, I am slowed by obligations, but read but often leave no message or if it is not something about which I am knowledgeable I simply say that.
Now that I read all the other comments quite a few have said what I did , I wonder what made you not see my un-writable smile. I only say this because I feel the danger of needless offense. have had this happen to me before thus wondering. Wonder if I should stay away from OS completely.
In any case , saw and heard Bill Nye the Science guy last night and am still under the cloud of enthusiasm for Science.
I did see your Personal Message and then understood you were not intentionally trying to be hostile.
There is an art of carefully chosen words when commenting, which I also sometimes miss the mark on. However, what was a bit perplexing was that if there is any advantage for our Our-"older" writers here it IS sending out Notices. If they do not send them out, you have a better chance of people reading your stuff and the best way to do that is write things the audience here, which is mostly the other writers, like to read.
I would say, T1, that my writing is somewhere, at least here on OS, around the lower-middle to middle mark in popularity. On sites where the greater number of readers comes not from writers but from outside the base, it is in the far upper end of popularity.
Well, I don't hold grudges and because of a recent loss of my elder sister I have been a bit edgy lately, so don't take it to heart.
God Bless