Site Comments Needs Improving - Any Ideas?
Site Comments Needs Improving - But Only a Little
Now before I go on to why I think Site Comments Needs Improving I just want to say that I think Carson & Kyle have done an amazing job helping us all to succeed online with everything that Wealthy Affiliate has to offer us and they continue to keep impressing me with the new regular updates to this program, but I'm sure we all have our ideas on how to improve certain things here so I hope they won't mind me writing this
I'm not sure how many people here use the Site Comments feature here but I'm guessing there isn't many as there seems to be the same people requesting and commenting every time I use it
It's great for the people getting comments and earning money by leaving comments but the problem I have is that I keep getting the same people leaving comments on the same posts as if it's the first time they have left one there
I don't know about you but I can't remember who left a comment on any of my posts so I will automatically approve and reply to all genuine comments, I will also write a comment on every website that pops up, and that's where the problem lies
There isn't a system in place to let us know if we have already wrote on somebody's post so it will look a bit strange if somebody wrote twice, or even 3 times on the the same bit of content
I truly am grateful for everything here at WA but site comments just needs a bit of tweaking, and I know they are working their asses off trying to give us the best here so I don't expect them to jump straight to this problem
I just had to get this off my chest to either get more people to start using the site comments platform or to be careful before jumping in to leave a comment on every website that comes up that needs a comment because I know from experience that they don't come up as often as I would like so I will leave as comment on every site I see without thinking
Carson... Kyle... If you read this... I know you do everything you can to make this experience brilliant so I hope you don't take this to heart but maybe there is see me thing that you could do to stop "duplicate" comments happening on our sites, Maybe have a notification on the post to say if we have left a comment or not
I don't know how hard that would be, and it probably is, but it would be really helpful
What do you guys think about what I have mentioned?
Have you had a similar problem?
Or do you have any suggestions that might help to improve the sitecomments feature?
Thanks for reading this and I can relax now that I have said what I needed to say, lol
Matthew
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Matthew, an excellent post, think that I have only had one duplicate, and that I am not certain about. The problem with lack of comments being made available is that on the latest SAC challenge as an example I have to write sixteen posts, that is fine but each one needs three comments, that is ninety six credits for comments.
I am not prepared to spend money I cannot afford to get these credits, the number of comments available a day is three perhaps four, often none. So it does make life a little difficult.
Stuart
I am not in that SAC challenge as I was away while it was being done so I have no idea at all what it is but it sounds like you are working hard for it.
I would concentrate on that challenge rather than leave comments if I were you as it sounds more beneficial :)
Would like to agree but adding comments is part of the challenge as is posting the content to social media. Still we keep doing our best.
Stuart
Fairer enough, if you are struggling with posting your new posts on social media then there is a plugin that will help you tremendously
It's called Blog2social and it will save you a huge amount of time as you can just share the new posts from your wordpress backend.
I wrote some training on the plugin here that you can take a look at 3 Essential Social Media Plugins For Maximum Exposure It's a free plugin but you have the option to try the premium version for free for 30 days which I highly recommend
Trust me Stuart, it has helped my social following and shares massively
Take a look at it and let me know what you think :)
There are a lot less people using the system now leading to this problem, and that's a shame because it's a really great resource.
I think that the problem started when so many people got really picky about comments and started disapproving so many just because they weren't exactly what they wanted.
I've seen a number of people say that they used to use the system but are afraid of getting disapproved, so they just use the Give and Take Comment Thread now. Instead of getting 6 or 7 comments for every request, I now usually get just the one. This is fine because it's what I pay for, but many more people used to benefit from one comment request before.
This is what happens when people don't respect each other's time and effort. Instead of weeding out the bad commenters who were abusing the system, it just made people stay away altogether.
Just my 2 cents!
Janelle
I have been very lucky with the comments left for me, I normally get between 3 and 6 for just 1 request which is great but I'm worried about getting the same people commenting on the same post
I have noticed this too. Also, if a very similar post comes up, or one I know nothing about, the "Skip" counter makes it seem like a negative that one doesn't leave a comment. Why even have one?
I agree, skip shouldn't be an option, you should just alter your interests within the sitecomments section to only subjects you would want to comment on
They used to be screened I thought so we would not be given the option to comment on the same post twice. This year I have seen this duplication occurring however.
Yes, it seems the system could track who has left a comment on what so they don't have the option to comment twice on the same content.
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Very interesting post
Personally I'm overwhelmed with the amount of emails I receive. It feels that I'm always behind, which really bothers me. I'm about ready to give up. I didn't realize how much time this would take away from me working on my website. The stress also effects me physically.
Peace💗
I try to take an hour a day where I leave comments but they only come in dribs and drabs, at the end of the day, your website is more important so don't stress about leaving comments for others :)
I had the same problem, now I glance at the subject, and If it does not interest me I delete it, just tend to reply to a handful of what I call my regulars, as you can get seriously stressed if you are not careful.
Stuart
To me, stressed is desserts spelt backwards so if you ever get stressed, eat a dessert lol