Customer Satisfaction Survey

[aggienaut]

   One of my favourite things about livejournal is the feedback one gets about one's writing (/photos / drawings). This feedback comes not just in the form of actual "I liked this" or "this was crap!!" comments, but more commonly in the number and variety of comments themselves. I write to be read and constantly aim to improve, so I'm constantly taking note of all forms of feedback that I can. In fact as you may or may not recall this very livejournal started out as an experiment in gauging people's reactions to varying different variables in entries.

   One generally assumes that comments are indicative of people enjoying an entry and/or finding it interesting. When you get no comments and just hear the crickets chirping, it's time to be worried.*

   After posting the link to the completed drawings about my day yesterday I got exactly two more comments all day. This is way below par. To better serve you we here at Emo-snal are interested to know why that was.

* or your audience might have died, as happened with the oriented-towards-people-from-real-life emosnail before my embracing the anonymous masses here. The friends-list of Emosnail, once veritably spinning with entry turn-around, is now a slow trickle, and entries I post over there more often than not get no comments at all. That low of a turn out is extremely unusual, so I'm curious if you all hate my drawings and I should never do it again or something.

[Poll #1520866]

            

Bee from one of the cartoons, coloured, and, just for Stacey, bee butt!

See also, my new icon!

Comments

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Thanks for taking the time to write so thorough a comment!

Yes I know what you mean. I often read entries and I know people like comments and feel like I ought to comment it so they know a read and liked it but.. yeah it feels silly writing a comment if you don't genuinely have something to add to the conversation.

I try to keep in mind that comments do NOT necessarily exactly equal the degree to which an entry was read and enjoyed. I think they do provide a very rough idea, since people do tend to comment to things they find interesting (which really is the goal of an entry if you care about comments). And also though it's just hard to divorce one's mind from the "if I don't see it it's not there" of there being readers who don't comment.

[abe-lincoln666.livejournal.com]

You're welcome.

From what I've seen, you don't need to worry about a lack of comments. I saw a couple of your entries that had over 90 replies, and that's not an easy feat to accomplish ... especially when you consider that you're doing this on your own journal, outside of any LJ community. It's easy to evoke a flood of replies when you're working in a fairly large LJ community; all you have to do is figure out what that community cares about and use that as a jumping off point.

The thing I hate, is when an entry turns into a debate or a flamewar. Sure, that can be fun sometimes, but any more than once a week and it gets tiring and emotionally exhausting. That's basically why I recently split from my previous favorite community, and decided to go the solo journal route.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Ah I've never really poked my head into communities. I post to things like homebrewing and homedistilling if I have a question or otherwise something to share with them but otherwise I've never really been involved any communities. Though at the former I did get randomly trolled just the other day. Communities!

[abe-lincoln666.livejournal.com]

I used to frequent the worldwidepunk community (http://community.livejournal.com/worldwidepunk/) on LJ. In fact, I posted there for about ten years (wwp started out as a forum on a different web site, then migrated to LJ several years back).

But then, one day I woke up and realized that:

A) I'm not a punk anymore, and haven't really been a punk since about 1984, and

B) It was just too much work to keep the community rolling from day-to-day, and

C) I don't enjoy arguing, trolling and faking as much as I did ten years ago.

Plus, a solo journal is more fun and less work!

Post-Punk

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Ah yes. I myself consider myself "post-punk."

I've actually always been suspicious of people who go around declaring themselves to be punks. I never really considered myself punk until retroactively after I felt I was post-punk.

Re: Post-Punk

[rattsu.livejournal.com]

MMM post punks... *brushes off DK CDs*

See, a completely random comment for you *grins*