June 22, 2006
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[Shakira] A Cheap [Shakira] Guide to Xanga Commenting [Shakira]
I fixed that song! Here it is.
Did you click it?
If you didn't follow that link, go back and click it.A Cheap Guide to Xanga Commenting
- Ever done the "I don't know this person, should I comment dance?" - here's help! - People love comments, even from strangers. If you aren't trying to pitch something, you probably won't get deleted. You could even wind up with a *gasp* subscriber!
- Ever done the "I know this person through someone else dance?" - haha, no help here! - That's a sticky one. You can come across as over eager to get visitors, so move gradually. Don't leave tons of footprints, but if you can relate to a post, give it a shot.
- Ever done the "This person visited my site, should I say anything dance?" - mmmm, my favorite - I have a couple friends like that, but usually you get ignored. People used to freak out back when [the old days] the Xanga Anti-Stalker Module was the way to find out who visited your site, before Xanga incorporated the footprints feature. Still, some people just want to browse and not be bothered.
- Ever done the "No one has ever commented on this person's site before dance?" - yeah...weird feeling right? - It's just like when I was always watching for street snipers on empty streets in Cuba. Something must be wrong if nooobody is commenting. Then again, maybe they're lonely and would like a comment. I flip a coin on this one. Oh, did I say I'm not liable for any miscomments left after reading this cheap guide? What'd you pay to read this? Yeah, that's what I thought.
- Referencing other people's comments is dangerous.
- Never ever, ever, tell people to go visit your site in a comment. Taaacky! If you can't leave an interesting enough comment with a cool enough display pic, don't ask people to visit your site and read your "cool entry about what they were just talking about" because they'll read it on their own if you can just leave a decent comment.
- Telling people about other people's sites is good. Especially if that person is overseas in Jordan and is writing killer articles about life over there beginning with the words, "You whore".
- If you talk about a blogger on your site, it's a good idea to link to them IF you know them personally. If you don't know them, they'll get a whole bunch of visitors from your site and wonder what the crap you're doing talking about them, ya weirdo.
- Xanga is a world of positive affirmations. If you don't say something mucky sweet about someone's rough day, you're banished to the Xanga Gulag and will likely get hate comments from offended unrelated third parties.
- Return comments. Return comments. Return comments. Comment back. Leave a comment for the person who left you a comment. And yeah. On their site not yours. This is the basis of Xanga and its eProps system. On LiveJournal, you reply to comments, on Xanga, you comment back. Not commenting back is loserish, selfish, and well, makes me feel like an idiot for always leaving you unresponded comments.
- Being the first to comment is a great way to show how you waste a lot of time online. Be creative and be the second or third to comment once in a while. It's....better for you.
- Lots of comments on a freshly posted entry either means you just updated the time stamp or you were actually being interesting for a moment there. People will tend to scroll back up on their subscriptions and actually read it. So if you catch a good post, comment right away. It makes people feel good.
- Saying
"interesting post" actually gives away the fact that you skimmed their post. Yeah, be real funny and leave that as a comment for me on this entry, will ya. - Sarcasm is gooood for humor. But not on a serious post. Seriously. Well, if they're being melodramatic, yeah, slap 'em up. Let them know that everyone has parents who yell.
- FYI. This is a winner of a post. It follows Chris's patented method of posting and is linked back to him as one ought to. Notice how I talk a little about myself (not exclusively), I talk a little about other people, especially those who read this site, and I touch on the human side of sociology/psychology [required in blogging, I don't know why....I wish it were the human side of arboriculture]. Plus, come on. It's funny to read people who are ridiculous. And no, not ridiculous within reason.
Click it.
I found a car embedded in a tree. Welcome to Granville, the most rural part of the City of Milwaukee. Franklin is the most rural part of Milwaukee County. Moooooo.
A couple thousand flyers in the Milwaukee area had this sweet pic [cropped, though] across the front. I already know it's beautiful. I'm in that kind of a mood.
Comments (35)
This should be Xanga Law (similar to Man Law), especially the part about comment response. Bugs me to death.
How's that Marquette Interchange coming along? I drove it about two weeks ago and it looked like a war had been waged upon the battlefiled of the expressway! :-0
You didn't number these, but ... *counting the bullets* ... the sixth -- yeah, the sixth, especially.
Good stuff ya got here.... especially about returning comments.... it's just whatcha do.
ryc: naaah, not now, but I used to restrict red meat. Then I went totally vegan for a few months and felt so so healthy, it was really lovely. I've been eating whatever I want during the last few months and am feeling it.. good incentive to take up vegan again. Besides the physical benefits, it feels good for my brain, knowing that I'm making an effort to take care of my body. Yeah
I'm too tired to read the whole post (another exhausting press conference today!), but I wanted to ask if you've seen the car buried about a block and a half to the south of me.
I will get to reading your post though; I like list posts
Interesting post. I'm just in that kind of mood.
ha! Perhaps we'll run into each other at Polish fest. Hmm?
Yeah, I sold the Ranger.
Still got the Jeep though.
An addendum: if you don't know the person, introduce yourself in the comment and say how you came by their site.
Footprints is...interesting. This week, at least ten people have visited my site after searching Xanga for "sex." None of them left comments, so apparently I'm a disappointment, which is fine with me.
And I did not know I had a "patented" method. If you're referring to the bullet points, I stole that from frejaluna.
NICHOLAS! WHAT A SPECTACULAR POST!
(that's just to make up for my lack of commenting on this for the last *checks* ten hours.)
I want everyone who reads this to know how excited you were about this post. Everyone: he called me last night (in ARIZONA) just to ask if I'd read this post, had I clicked on the links, and what did I think of the list? Oh, and he wanted to tell me about a few more that he added.
**if it looks like someone worked really hard on a post, you should comment.
**as has been MY wont for the last few months, commenting on those "one year ago today" entries is always fun, and leads to a little scavenger hunting. (Plus, Nick and I have such a wierdly hilarious history that it's fun to see just how messed up we were a year ago.)
**don't swear in a comment unless the person swore in their post. (have I had a comment deleted because of this? I can't remember.)
**if you link to someone's site that you know only casually, you should go tell that person that you put up the link (for fear of Xanga Gulag
) but if you know that person really well, and you know that they'll be reading your site anyway, DON'T go tell them, because it'll be a waste of a comment and it'll just look like you're trying to get your comment for the day in. i.e. Nick and I are avid readers of each other's sites...if Nick were to come over and tell me that he linked to me, it'd be extremely redundant, because chances are I will have already seen and responded to it.
Anyway! Back to the post! I must tell you, dear, this is a REALLY impressive post. See, I leave you, and then you have all sorts of time to make Xanga entries!
I agree with Kari, you shoulda numbered the list. But I will number my responses instead.
1. Yeah, I love getting actual comments from strangers. That's how I got RegularGoy (I didn't know that I knew him at the time) and Bradbwilson, both of whom have become good friends.
2. (and a few others on this list) The footprints thing is a sticky situation. It was a little easier before when I knew that I had XASM, but not everyone did. Now everyone has the tracker...and knowing how obsessive I used to be about my trackers (can you believe I haven't signed into my SiteMeter in MONTHS?) I assume that everyone else is too.
3. I've learned about this one from you. I used to see that you visited and demand a comment....but I've loosened up these days, after you refused to reward my demanding nature
4. "street snipers in Cuba"??? Where do you come up with these things! hahahahaha....well, I'd amend this one. If no one is commenting on someone's site, AND you're the person who got them to start a site in the first place, then you have a responsibility to be a regular commenter. You fulfilled this nicely for me. (have I mentioned that this comment will be all about me? yeah.)
5. no it's not, just interesting.
6. totally, 100% agree.
7. blaaaah blaaaaah blaaaaah.
I gotta ask though, what do I have to do with the future of your relationship?? At the moment, the entry on the top of my site involves food. wft, mate?? 
8. (love your accent in this one..."ya wierdo."
) I agree, and I think this is what I told you to do for Tracy.
9. XANGA GULAG!?!?! who is this hilariously funny person?? you NEVER say stuff like that! ROFL
anyway....yeah, you're good at the affirmation game. And you made me good at it too. (I'm finding a lot on this list that I learned from you...hmm....hence the syrupy sweet note that came with your painting 
)
10. It took me a while to learn about this one, at least the "comment on THE OTHER site, not yours" system. Tracy still refuses to follow this, she always answers me on her own site. I think it's because she's selfish with her comment numbers
And, I must admit, there are many times I don't answer comments...
11. I just want you to know, I'm the 8th or 9th or somethingth commenter on this one.
12. Yeah, but ~ according to the Nick Crawford school of thought ~ if you leave an entry up long enough, eventually you'll get a good 42 comments.
13. As you wish....hey! interesting post!
14. Especially those kids who have the swath of straight black hair across their eyes....anyone wanna just take a scissors to 'em?? Me too. Oh yeah, and...sarcasm? What's that? I know not of this sarcasm of which you speak!
15. Linking to Chris is always a smart move. Of course, people will see his brilliance and become immediately intimidated...but it makes you look smarter.
Nice way of bringing the entry full circle with the "click it." Shoulda made it "click it or ticket"....ha ha ha.
I hope you see in this comment just a fraction of the work that went into the post itself....but I wanted to reward you. I love that you called me ASSUMING I had read it already. Either that signifies my devotion as a friend, or...my loser-ish ability to spend too much time online.
Also, given the length of this comment, I think you're required to comment back in some form.
<3
well i was recently spanked if you will by a friend when she asked me if i read so and so's post to which i replied...not a fan..she curtly turned her back to me and replied well she's a good friend of mine. i offended her over someone's xanga that i don't even know and don't really have the time. this firend is one of my best friends so in order to avoid being black listed for the rest of the day which a true melancholy will do...i quickly added that i faithfully only read 5 sites...and maybe comment on half of those! that little tale was to say your one of the 5...yeah.
commenting..ahem...i REALLY like commenting on others sites about comments left on their sites...it's like the monkey's flinging poo sometimes it's hysterical(me and kat chasing eachother through others sites!) and other times it's just poo flying around...people get really bent out of shape. (never me) =)
thanks for the tips. i will reference them oft.
Esther still gone, eh?
Interesting post. For sure.
I read this ENTIRE entry AT WORK! That's how fascinating it was... or perhaps this only relays how incredibly annoying work has been this week.
Sorry if I haven't always responded to ALL your comments... I comment when I have time. And I'll admit it, I spend way too much time on MYSPACE, even though I've been on XANGA since 2000 (under several other s/ns). I'm a CHEATER...
Sarcasm can be a COPING mechanism for some peope, too... like yours truly. Just an FYI. I'm more likely to be sarcastic when I feel like I'm bleeding out inside. Not necessarily in my "blogs" but in r/l- if we all remember what that is.
You know I had wondered onto your site several times before I met you by chance... and well, you become a whole lot more fascinating once someone meets you, however briefly, in person.
I'll be waiting for you on Water/Wisconsin to go to Polish fest...
+0+@|_ p//n@G3, my friend.
ryc: hey thanks!
lol, i don't even know you and i read your whole post. cool
i just responded to your comment on mandalei's site. you'll be impressed.
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HALLELUJAH! That is a perfect example of an awful comment!
Sooo true!
ahem, exCUSE me?? Don't you CARE about the RAPTURE? duh.
nicholas...you should know that i love everyone
but...i'm working WAY HARDER to convince YOU than everyone else. and if it makes you feel any better, i've been VERY SERIOUSLY considering your command to "send a ticket." i would. that's how much i think you should be here. it's just a question of funding.
Hey... Tim's wifey here. Would you be opposed to me copy n pastin' your commenting entry? You... preach it. Cuz I def. think others need to read it too.
In this case, the comments are as interesting for reading as the actual post. Would you care to comment on an appropriate length for comments? I've seen some mighty long ones (ahem, referencing the above, for starters)
Geez...and you say I spend a long time on my posts.
And regarding the comment I just noticed, it's for Summerfest in general, BUT I'd definately like to see Lewis Black.
aaaaahahahaha, bethany thinks i'm too wordy.
i am, dear, i certainly i am. but you should've heard how excited nick was about this post. he CALLED me in ARIZONA to make sure i'd read it and what did i think?? what did i think of the links, too?? so, i felt the need to appropriately reward him. it's like...it's like a puppy. 
<3, Nick. All <3. (And you have a nice long comment from me...elsewhere.
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oh, but, you know, go ahead and say it anyway. and hide it in some disclaimer about hypocrisy.
Did I do something wrong to you?
I am just trying to get input on some of my questions, nothing wrong there.
-- Alex
Wow... deep and insightful. I have to say, your post taught me a lot about this online community to which I have not fully committed. Perhaps knowing the rules will help me commit. I have always had issues with commitment, though, so I can't promise anything. If I do, though, Nick, you'll know it's all because of you. Thanks, man, for showing me the way.
my favorite part is the you whore part.
and now i'm going to be a weirdo. i don't know this guy personally, but he drives me kind of nuts so i thought i'd link to him anyway.
Ahhhhh, yeah they broke my jaw to reset it. I had an underbite, so they moved my upper jaw forward a bit, and my lower jaw back a tad.
ANNOYING COMMENT COMING: you've been TAGGED on MY SITE
extremely funny, I am a fan, but I suppose you already knew that!
wow.. i didn't see that one comment you got before.. up there ^ the horrible one? i had somebody emailing me pieces of the qoran once from xanga trying to convert me.. it was very random.
ryc antidepressants: i'm sorry about your cowroker :-/ i didn't know that about cigarrettes until i read that article.. i hope he's able to get some help ¿
ryc this guy: i feel like such a jerk saying it, but... IT'S TROOOOOOOOOO
Well, I fit category number one! So hello, person I don't know, I hope you are enjoying my comment.
Ah, if only these rules were how it was really done.
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