Why do most people not post?
Why do most people not post?
It seems like a lot of people don't post or at least don't post on smaller communities like [email protected]
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I would love to but then I'd have to restrain myself from not permanently rolling my eyes to the back of my head with some of the replies. I speak from experience elsewhere.
@Lemminary The experience else doesn't always corelate to experience on another platform but yeah I get what you mean.
What do you mean? Negative or constructive criticism? Negative votes?
Hardship is a part of life. That goes to criticism as well.
I am willing to take risks of bad feels for the sake of trying to make places more active. Luckily I've been doing much better than what I first anticipated!
No pain, no gain.I'm not complaining about the hardships of life. And it's not necessarily the pointless criticism but replies from people who miss the point entirely, get random ideas of why I posted things, type up some throwaway nit-picking commentaries over the most trivial things, or just being all around rude and condescending instead of downvoting and moving on, etc. And what do I get in return for putting up with that? Imaginary internet points. I get the same feeling of participation from just commenting with a fraction of the effort, so I'd rather do that.
I'd just ignore such folks. Plus I have yet to meet those folks - even after 62 posts I have done!
I don't go for Internet points only. That also fuels me to trying coming up with something of quality, but it's also the good discussions and possibly providing something interesting to folks to read/look at and to make them even think about stuff that gets me going 😄 Kicking in some extra activity in these communities!
But the same can be achieved with comments - you're right with that one.Making a post can require more thinking and effort, but I wouldn't be surprised if I have spent more effort on a comment than on making a post!
The feel and interaction is different with a post and a comment. A post can wake up all sorts of commenting and a post is "more visible" to people who sees it as they scroll away. Comments of course also provide activity within a post/community, may generally be less visible to more people (you have to click a post open to see comments) and they can also gain all the off-topic commentary on them - just like in a post.Not saying that commenting is worse than creating a whole post. Both have their reasons to exist and their places to be used.