Friday, 03 April 2009

  • Complaining about people who complain.

    I have to say this:

    Everyone shut up.

    Okay, I feel slightly better.

    *Note* None of this will make sense to people who don't participate in the Xanga community by blogging, commenting, and being friends with a lot of people. It probably won't make sense to my real-life friends either, but most of them have all but quit reading my posts, anyway.

    First off, all of you should stop complaining about featured all being the same and none of it being worth featuring. You're not the Xanga CEO so you can't decide that. I've seen Xanga feature blogs about Nicholas Cage and chess, and while those subjects sound like something stupid to blog about, the posts that I read on them were worth reading. Everyone gets their undies in a twist if they don't like something. Someone wrote a post in which he stated something slightly critical about TheTheologiansCafe, and everyone gets mad. It happens. So?

    The little bloggers have two options: keep writing your posts that you hold in such high regard ("my posts are better than anything on top blogs or featured, so I should be there instead!!!!!!!!!!") for the two people stalking your footprints in Africa, or you could choose the second option; comment people. That's the only way anyone gets traffic, unless they're advertised/promoted. Even TheTheologiansCafe had to start somewhere. He didn't start off sending friend requests, he left comments, same as me or anyone else who has a substantial reader base on Xanga. I still leave lots of comments, and up until recently I returned 90% of the comments left on my posts, but I just don't have much extra time now.

      Tips to be TRUE:
    Your TRUE progress is based on your activity level on Xanga. You currently have:
    • total posts: 297
    • recent comments: 1787

     

     

     

    I've left about four hundred comments in the past two weeks or so, with about one hundred of those being on new Xangas. That's how you get readers;  by leaving interesting comments. So stop complaining that your "best posts on Xanga" aren't getting featured and try to do something about it. Leave some comments, send some friend requests, and write on an interesting topic that actually has a point to it. Every time I've been featured, the post had a point to it, except "October is emo awareness month...", because that one was just to Rickroll everyone. Prove something, say something bold, and say something worth recommending and featuring. Don't beg the Xanga team members, because I tried that and it doesn't work. So stop griping and get started.

    I think I'll write this next paragraph in all Italics, just to make it look cool.

    Also, learn how to make a plug, please. People don't click plugz that include "ramblings", "rants/rantings",  "the life of", "this is my life", or anything that could appear to be emo. And if you're aiming for reverse psychology with that plug that reads, "boring, don't click this", guess what? Nobody will click it. Because if you think it's boring, and you write it, care to wonder what everyone else who visits will think? Right-o. In your plug, say something appealing, funny, or offensive, and people will click it. I haven't had a plug in a few months, but I was trying to set one up a couple weeks ago that everyone would have clicked, had Xanga approved it. I made a plug once that got over 800 clicks, and I never clicked it. The first one I made, since I helped with suggestions on plugz before thexangateam even launched them, got over 400 clicks, but mostly because it was one of the first plugz people would see, since that was the day they came out. And it only ran three days. But anyway.

    So, yeah. If you're gonna get famous with plugz, be original and creative. If you want to get featured and have over 1,000 subscribers, you have to work for it. It doesn't just fall out of the sky and hit you in the head and give you a concussion and the Xanga gods grant you eternal fame and a pretty blonde model (who's also rich, yee haw) falls in love with you, and something else I forgot. 

    One moreeee thingggg: there are no celebs on Xanga, except Fred Durst, as far as I know. This is not actually Paris Hilton, this is not actually Chuck Norris, and so on. If there were celebrities on here, everyone would know about it. The celebrities themselves would advertise it on their Myspace or website, they same way a Xangan advertises their Wordpress, Twitter, Myspace, Facebook, etc. They probably wouldn't even set it up themselves. Do you think Angelina Jolie will just be walking around a far away country, trying to adopt another kid, and suddenly say, "omg! I'm gonna get a Xanga!" No.

    And everyone needs to stop tagging people in the quest for more comments. I comment when I can and when I feel like it, the same way with blogging. If I get tagged and the post has nothing to do with me or my Xanga, I don't comment. And yes, my last post was sarcastic, except the few personal notes, except I think I'll stick around Xanga a while.

    Someone has to teach the stupid people.