Snowflake Challenge #14

[florianschild]

Challenge #14

In your own space, create your own fandom challenge. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

My challenge is called "Raise Your Ratio".

On your Dreamwidth profile there is a statistic:



Comments posted and comments received. If you divide these numbers, you get a ratio. I've posted 557 comments and received 605 comments so my ratio is .92. The aim of this challenge is to raise your ratio. My personal goal is to get above 1. But maybe your ratio is already above 1 so your goal is to get to 1.4 or 2. Or maybe you're a super popular blogger with an active comments section so your ratio is .25 - maybe then your goal is to get to .3. Whatever you want your goal to be is great, as long as you're raising your ratio of comments posted/comments received. So go make some friends and leave them some comments!

Comments

[silveradept]

My comment ratio is currently above two, which makes sense to me, since I like being in other people's comment sections and I don't post a lot of things that invite comments, despite my best attempts to invite in people.

[florianschild]

Oh well done! I think it's lovely that there are people like you taking the time to read and respond to what others are saying.

It's hard to know what exactly prompts lots of responses in the comments. I don't usually get many comments on my posts either (Snowflake aside, which is why I've loved it so much!)

[silveradept]

What I've found so far of the things that get comments are people life-posting, or if they've found a cache of people with the same fandom and fandom enthusiasm that they have. Snowflake does a good job of cross-pollinating, so there's a higher percentage of people who might stop by and stay a while, and it's also prompt responses, which can make comments easier to leave when someone has a hook to work with. And theoretically, communities are also for this kind of metering of people, but it's still hard to get them off the ground and developing a robust group without a lot of effort put into the promotion and maintenance of them.