Currently 71% of everything I write theoretically is liked. That's nearly three quarters of my blah is liked - which must prove there is something very wrong with the system. When you realise that a lot of posts get multiple likes you realise that it isn't actually that simple - you say something and a lot of people like it at times - it's not quite as bad as putting a video of a kitten in a tea cup, but a lot of stuff is liked here because it simply resonates with people. It's pretty rare I start with a rant to be fair, certainly don't do it for popularity - I can see at times that what Moons brain says and what everyone reads can be very different, so I tend to expand my point. I've never posted to be popular (not saying that is anyone's point by the way), if I had, I would have stuck to subjects such as kitten in tea cups and balloons.....oh.....hang on....I did post once about balloons.....but that was only because I was stuck on a smelly train and saw one in the air and wanted to swap. To be precise - I don't think I stay with 'safe' subjects - I often find people need an 'opposing view' to their own and my writing style has hard edges - so I do find myself on the receiving end of other people's polar opposite, when often I am making and observation rather than my own staunch standpoint and bluntly, they read between the lines, not what is actually on them. E.g. I name a source from the Daily Mail, thus I am obviously parading around my house in Nazi regalia waiting for the 4th reich. I see this place as a melting pot of different life experiences and view points - I tend to be enthusiastic about things that 'stand out' from the norm and am keen to post that - I like the humour, the insight and sometimes the off wall stuff too. I'd love to see the stats on how many likes a person issues, I find myself liking stuff a lot because a lot of it, especially the timing, is simple genius.
as moons states there, likes are given sometimes in the context of a post for the response, this is where karma was brilliant, as I said above you could give a reason for it.... K+ for the kitten in a teacup.
I often wonder if people play a different persona on the forum to get more likes/karma I myself am much different in real life, I have to reign it in on here and not say what i'm thinking out loud.....
I did read the other day that a society prone to 'liking' with no method of 'disliking' has far reaching consequences for such things as advertising. How can they tell you your life is crap if you don't own this bog brush or toothpaste if your social strata only ever likes and can't dislike......i.e. you are liked and so is your life anyway so why would you need zit cream? Which leads me to something else I read kind of connected - it was about fascism in the 30's and how it didn't spread to the UK as it did in Europe - the thinking was that the British Public was too circumspect to believe that the grass was greener if they embraced fascism - makes me kind of proud that we were in effect too miserable to buy that lie.
I have never posted to be popular either @Moons. I just try to post something different every day so as the forum has some input. A sort "keep it going" sort of attitude, a bit like @bernjb56 does with his "today" and " birthday" posts. It does encourage people to take part if done right, sometimes the opposite I know that, but " every little helps!
how very dare you, take your free parts/drink/pizza and do one you ungrateful man...... oh,erm, hang on....
I dunno really. I have always posted up how I feel or write something about what is affecting me that day. I definitely come across louder on here than in real life, I suppose its because I am quite reserved in real life and this place is a bit of an outlet?
I honestly don't think anyone here posts to be popular - that bollockseyed behaviour you see on facebook 'off to work, stay naughty everyone, have an epic day' EACH and EVERY morning isn't found here. I think people rattle up and do a brain dump on something novel and that's about the size of it.
