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An Explanation of the Daily Profile Comment Limit
Carson
Published on March 6, 2013
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Hi Everyone!
Over the past few weeks and months we've had some great discussions taking place that tackle the issue of quality profile commenting which in many cases can be seen as spam (or is spam).
A great discussion was started by Beverley here:
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/bis/blog/are-your-welcome-messages-scaring-newcomers
Another by Rich here:
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/rich/blog/pied-pipers
What we have discovered is that many of our brand new members to WA were being welcomed by too many people. I know, this sounds like it couldn't or shouldn't be an issue, but actually it was. People who are brand new to WA do not know that we are a trustworthy group. Quite frankly, it's not normal to be welcomed by "REAL" people so much. Too many "Welcome to WA" messages were being seen by new people as SPAM because "how could this be true" to have all these real people saying hello? Although we are an active community, saying "hello" 100 times a day to new folks by copy and pasting a message is not helping anyone.
Also, there are a select few people who were abusing the system by asking for people to follow them, and copy/pasting the same robotic message on everyone's profile.
You may have come across a little red error message when you are posting on other people's profiles that says "You've reached your daily comment limit". We have implemented a daily limit on how many people you can say hello to for the first time.
Here's how it works.
We put a limit on something we call the "First Time" comment. A first time comment is one that you post on someone's profile for the first time. If you have never before posted on the persons's profile, your first comment counts toward your first time comment limit. Every 24 hours you will only get a handful of "First time" comments that you can post on people's walls.
This has absolutely NO affect on posting on people's walls who you have posted on previously, so this will not stop anyone from having full conversations with folks that they have created a relationship with in the past.
What this stops is someone coming into WA and being susceptible to having 5 or 10 immediate comments on their profiles within the first few minutes. This confuses people a lot of the time, and as mentioned above, causes them to believe it's spam.
Another reason we have done this is to give people who have referred others, the chance to comment first. Many people welcome their friends and family, or visitors from their websites and networks and they should have a chance to say HELLO first.
We know that many people here at WA who are active in the community and who were posting on people's profiles were doing so with the BEST of intentions. If you see that you reach your limit, it is because of the reasons above. We have not limited commenting in Discussions, Blog posts, or Training, because we want that to be as OPEN as possible...but people's profiles are now more protected to ensure the best possible first impression.
For many, taking the step to join a community like WA and take that leap into Internet marketing can be a very big decision. We're trying to make sure that people have a chance to become comfortable with WA and check things out without the possibility of being too overwhelmed.
As always, we would love your feedback and we will be continuing to refine these limits and how the system works. The last thing we want to do is prevent people who have GOOD intentions, from communicating. I see this as one of our continuing efforts to maintain the high quality user experience in WA.
Cheers,
Carson
Over the past few weeks and months we've had some great discussions taking place that tackle the issue of quality profile commenting which in many cases can be seen as spam (or is spam).
A great discussion was started by Beverley here:
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/bis/blog/are-your-welcome-messages-scaring-newcomers
Another by Rich here:
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/rich/blog/pied-pipers
What we have discovered is that many of our brand new members to WA were being welcomed by too many people. I know, this sounds like it couldn't or shouldn't be an issue, but actually it was. People who are brand new to WA do not know that we are a trustworthy group. Quite frankly, it's not normal to be welcomed by "REAL" people so much. Too many "Welcome to WA" messages were being seen by new people as SPAM because "how could this be true" to have all these real people saying hello? Although we are an active community, saying "hello" 100 times a day to new folks by copy and pasting a message is not helping anyone.
Also, there are a select few people who were abusing the system by asking for people to follow them, and copy/pasting the same robotic message on everyone's profile.
The Resolution
You may have come across a little red error message when you are posting on other people's profiles that says "You've reached your daily comment limit". We have implemented a daily limit on how many people you can say hello to for the first time.Here's how it works.
We put a limit on something we call the "First Time" comment. A first time comment is one that you post on someone's profile for the first time. If you have never before posted on the persons's profile, your first comment counts toward your first time comment limit. Every 24 hours you will only get a handful of "First time" comments that you can post on people's walls.
This has absolutely NO affect on posting on people's walls who you have posted on previously, so this will not stop anyone from having full conversations with folks that they have created a relationship with in the past.
What this stops is someone coming into WA and being susceptible to having 5 or 10 immediate comments on their profiles within the first few minutes. This confuses people a lot of the time, and as mentioned above, causes them to believe it's spam.
Another reason we have done this is to give people who have referred others, the chance to comment first. Many people welcome their friends and family, or visitors from their websites and networks and they should have a chance to say HELLO first.
We know that many people here at WA who are active in the community and who were posting on people's profiles were doing so with the BEST of intentions. If you see that you reach your limit, it is because of the reasons above. We have not limited commenting in Discussions, Blog posts, or Training, because we want that to be as OPEN as possible...but people's profiles are now more protected to ensure the best possible first impression.
For many, taking the step to join a community like WA and take that leap into Internet marketing can be a very big decision. We're trying to make sure that people have a chance to become comfortable with WA and check things out without the possibility of being too overwhelmed.
As always, we would love your feedback and we will be continuing to refine these limits and how the system works. The last thing we want to do is prevent people who have GOOD intentions, from communicating. I see this as one of our continuing efforts to maintain the high quality user experience in WA.
Cheers,
Carson
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