Why have you asssumed your way of increasing following and upvotes is better than that of the newbies?
I am mainly talking about this, because of my experiences here so far. Because of what I've seen. If you disagree with me, please tell me why you think their ways are better. What have you seen that differes from what I've seen?
And what makes you think a critiqe post of yours is a good blog post in the first place and what newbies or other senior members will like and agree with.
Where did I state that I think this is a good post? I post whatever the heck I want to write about on my blog. The people reading it (or ignoring it) can make up their own minds on whether or not this is a good post. And because I have never pretended to be someone I'm not, at the very least my own followers will generally know what to expect from me when clicking this post.
I'm sorry, but I do not owe you some kind of self-censorship, because my opinion might not be shared by every single person on the platform.
I posted this, because I feel that it might help explain to some new members why they haven't gotten a lot of meaningful engagement on their blog posts. Because I know not everyone is equally experienced in blogging and building up a following.
I do feel this post is worthwhile and I completely respect you disagreeing with me, but I write about what's on my mind, and this was it. If you do not like the way my mind works, I will completely understand if you do not read my future posts.
Thats a good response :)
Well... you of course have the right to write whatever you want. I just want to say that you might think these posts will help newbies. I'd say these kind of posts will back-fire.
There is actually no need to make a post about it.. tell this to a newbie when "He asks for Help"
Unwanted help and advice is practically of no use.
*just my opinion (It matters and does not matter, both at the same time)
Thank you. I have to agree with you that posts like these could backfire, but I think it really depends on the writing style. Did you think my post was too agressive towards new members? I was going for educational/informative and admittedly, also a bit of an opinion piece. I always let my opinions shine through a bit in my articles.
Anyway, I think not all newbies are aware of doing anything 'wrong' and with 'wrong', I mean potentially harmful for their own reputation. People do talk about flagging these kind of 'spam' comments, which is quite harmful to new accounts.
Reading advice from older members might help them re-think their strategy.
I do want to hear people's opinion, otherwise I wouldn't post my articles.
Besides, I suck at discussions, so you're helping me learn here ;-)
Lol... Even I had no idea I could engage in a long discussion like this.