interaction

[kossai]

something which do miss from cohost right now - most days would wake up to see that posts from day before have some form of interaction . not that numbers is what aim for , but just know that people around and people acknowledge , right ?
but do not really get that here unless people comment , and ... comments tend to be more rare , even on places like cohost which explicitly try to encourage .

and can understand that , really - not everything warrant discussion and chip in with thoughts , necessarily . or there might be cases in which just do not know enough about subject to try and put together comment , so would prefer stay quiet .
but ... still miss that ability for people to quickly acknowledge .

of course also understand this is not part of dreamwidth design features for good reason , so not to say that dreamwidth should change . guess just sort of adjustment pains - and feel sort of like hypocrite when kossai also do not comment very much .
maybe should test out little heart comments or something ...? or even , people who miss this kind of feature could make little comment policies - if OK to leave these kind of " pseudo-likes " , just hearts or single words or whatever .

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Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

Dreamwidth is actually great for interaction. It lets you have long conversations if you're into that. In order to make that happen, you need to do two things:

* Build an audience. The more people you have reading your posts, the more likely at least some of them will comment. This takes time.

See "How to Boost Your Audience."

* Post things that invite response and discussion. Questions work great. People like to be asked their opinions too.

https://www.blogtyrant.com/get-more-comments/

https://www.shoutmeloud.com/get-more-blog-comments.html

https://problogger.com/13-tips-on-how-to-have-great-conversations-on-your-blog/

https://websitevoice.com/blog/write-a-conversational-blog-that-converts/


See also this discussion of commenter's block.

Re: Yes ...

[kossai]

oh , no doubt about that ! but still , not always habit for people from cohost - at times even questions and prompts of discussion might garner mostly likes from people who want to hear perspectives , but not feel as if have any to give , or feel in some way too afraid to try . possibly in part because fair number cohost users come over from places like tumblr and twitter , where conversations could get especially hostile , and lurker habits can be hard to kick .

still , really appreciate links :)

Re: Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> but still , not always habit for people from cohost <<

Very true.

>> at times even questions and prompts of discussion might garner mostly likes from people who want to hear perspectives , but not feel as if have any to give , or feel in some way too afraid to try . possibly in part because fair number cohost users come over from places like tumblr and twitter , where conversations could get especially hostile , and lurker habits can be hard to kick . <<

This is why I encourage folks to lurk if they want to! It's totally okay to watch what's going on, and wait to comment until you feel inspired. And if you don't, that's fine too.

Also worth mentioning, check the profile and other places for information about parameters; people often talk about expectations and moderation, so you can tell who quashes mean behavior. People are still shitty on Dreamwidth sometimes, but at least here they are not a majority.

>> still , really appreciate links :)

I'm happy I could help. The tools are there in case people find them useful.