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Voting Journals
- Mar 21, 2010 at 10:48 AM
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Recently I have seen a lot of posts whining about journals not being popular. Do you think so highly of yourself that you think all of cafemom should vote yours up?
You hear the people whining that their journals are being voted down. Maybe they are not being voted down. Maybe they just are not being voted up. Maybe people see that you are full of it. Maybe you are preaching at us about your religion no matter if it is ours or not. It is possible that some people think there are mentally unstable jounalist out there. It doesn't take much for us to read all of journals. We see your false bravado. "Look how great I am for not sticking knives in while I am doing it" You are fooling few.
I spend a lot of time reading through journals. I vote popular ten times to my every no vote.
I can tell you one thing. One vote will not make you popular or unpopular. It is many votes. So assume that if people are voting you down or up that there are many people that like or don't like your writing.
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I don't care one way or another if my journals are voted up or down or popular or whatever..i write my journal for me. yes, I leave the majority of the public but not for votes or views but because there just may be something, even a short sentence, that someone can relate to and give them comfort, hope, or insight in a mater pertaining to their lives.
I haven't seen a bunch of whiny journals and I read the journals daily. I saw one the other day, and she made some really good points in it, but she wasn't whiny at all, she just stated her points - she wasn't even talking about herself that I could tell. I guess it's all in the perception and what we read between the lines of what people write. It could be that they really didn't mean things the way they look on the page. For instance, in this journal you seem to be speaking directly to one person because you keep saying You this and You that. Now, maybe I am reading that wrong, but that is the impression I get.
I have seen no less than 6 posts. 2 today. I don't know if they were written today. One was popular this morning. "I have been here a long time. Why won't my friends write on my journal. I write on theirs. Why are they not voting for mine"
I am writintg to many specific people. If you are reading the journals then you saw them too.
. "I have been here a long time. Why won't my friends write on my journal. I write on theirs. Why are they not voting for mine"
Ahem, the journaler was talking about her friends reciprocating the courtesy of commenting on her post when they get upset if she doesn't comment on theirs. It mentioned nothing about voting. For one who claims to be observant, I'm surprised you missed that.
"You hear the people whining that their journals are being voted down. Maybe they are not being voted down. Maybe they just are not being voted up. Maybe people see that you are full of it. Maybe you are preaching at us about your religion no matter if it is ours or not. It is possible that some people think there are mentally unstable jounalist out there. It doesn't take much for us to read all of journals. We see your false bravado. "Look how great I am for not sticking knives in while I am doing it" You are fooling few."
I am talking about this ^ paragraph that you wrote. It seems to be directed at someone in particular. If you aren't, then I apologize but it doesn't seem that you are simply tired of a person asking her friends to comment on her journals, but rather about someone questioning why her posts are being voted down. In the end you say that if people are voting a poster down it is because they don't like the poster's writing. Again nothing about comments, but votes in particular.
Okay well my point is proved. I was #3 now I am number 14. I didn't request any of my friends vote me up or down. This journal made it on its own. Some have liked what I had to say and some haven't. It isn't personal.
You in the English language can mean one; anyone; people in general.
There have been many journals in the last few days and group posts about the issue. Take from it what you want.
Ladysaphira you are right.
I am aware of the use of the collective you in the English language. My mistake if I read it incorrectly.
I don't read a lot of group posts, so I can't speak to that. I thought you were talking strictly about journal.
No, it's not personal. Unless of course, it is personal.
I write for my own satisfaction, catharsis and edification. Not out of a need for popularity, but there is something innate in all *most) of us that desires to connect with others and one way we do that is through the feedback we receive from what we say in real life and what we write here on the internet. It may seem petty or whiny to you, but for someone who is craving human contact and feels lonely, so she posts something only to see it go unexpanded to, it can be hurtful. Everyone just wants to fee that they matter to others.
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I would never reccomend that anyone assume ANYTHING on here. Assuming will get you into trouble 9 times out of 10. The thing is, if you don't base your actions on assumptions you will find that... sometimes (not ALL the time, but sometimes) it has nothing to do with the actual writing. It has nothing to do with 'preachiness'.
Sure, one vote wont knock you off of any list. But when you have a group of people who have marked you to specifically vote you down it DOES make a difference. I am not talking out of my tush here, this has happened, and is happening. And no, I am not talking about to me ( I have nothing that would point to that happening to me personally).
And yeah, I have a problem with that.
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