Successful Posts

[Christ's Free Servant]

What do you think makes a successful post?

Have you ever poured your heart into a post only to have it flop? Or to get little response? And, then you look around and you see these marathon posts that seem to go on and on forever. What makes them last and others drop by the wayside?

What is your idea of a successful post?

Is it the number of responses? Or the quality of responses?

Is it feeling as though you were heard? Or that you got your point across?

Do you count the number of people who read your post but never respond?

Does the length of the post or the paragraph style have anything to do with its popularity?

Are some authors more popular than others?

What do you think are the qualities or characteristics of a successful post?

[Gerioke]

What do you think makes a successful post?

Have you ever poured your heart into a post only to have it flop? Or to get little response? And, then you look around and you see these marathon posts that seem to go on and on forever. What makes them last and others drop by the wayside?

What is your idea of a successful post?

Is it the number of responses? Or the quality of responses?

Is it feeling as though you were heard? Or that you got your point across?

Do you count the number of people who read your post but never respond?

Does the length of the post or the paragraph style have anything to do with its popularity?

Are some authors more popular than others?

What do you think are the qualities or characteristics of a successful post?

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To me a successful post would present a unique outlook or topic and would accomodate a polite and informed discussion where you would get more than a half dozen of the usual responders involved. It would be a thread were somebody could be observing from the outside and see people meeting together in love and working together for a unanimous resolve.

[Guest objectofmercy]

I think it is when you are honest, humble, teachable, and truly seeking to reflect Christ in all you write.

Blessings.

[Iryssa]

My idea of a successful post is one that makes actual sense (maybe I should stop writing posts on 2 hours of sleep *grin* )

Honestly, though, my idea of a successful post is one that is heard and understood, and which makes others stop and think. Whether people agree with it or not isn't so much the issue for me...

I do think that style has a lot to do with how a post is viewed. IMHO, a post should be readable, using grammar and form that is appropriate for the setting. It doesn't need to be something you'd hand in to your English professor, but it should be proper enough that it's not distracting. I know someone at another message board who writes like this (this is part of an actual post):

But,,the initial question you propose is the problem. The Big Answer is an abstract, a Ideal. Its not the answer that Human Kind really expects. Its the CONTINUAL pursuit,,the continual exploration, that is what Human Kind is all for and about. When you think you have all the answers, then you are truelly dead. So, to answer your question, No, we will never know it all,,perhaps even the origins of " all of it",,but thats a good thing...

This guy makes a lot of very interesting and informative points, and I do enjoy debating with him a lot. I just find the way he writes is very distracting, and lots of times I just do not feel like wading through all the random commas, repetitions, and senseless capitalizations. A lot of people just ignore him altogether because of it.

[ayin jade]

I think it is when you are honest, humble, teachable, and truly seeking to reflect Christ in all you write. 

Blessings.

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great answer

[other one]

I think it is when you are honest, humble, teachable, and truly seeking to reflect Christ in all you write.

[yomotalking]

A successful post is a post that:

1.) Makes you really think about what's being said.

2.) That has interesting points, and facts.

3.) That's not too long, because, like me, some people get a bit weary if the post is really, really long.

4.) Is either serious, and thought provoking, heart-touching, or humourous (like the Letters to the Realm Of Last Thread)

To me, these are the things that make a good, succsess. (how do you spell it again?)

Yomo

[Christ's Free Servant]

GREAT RESPONSES!! Keep them coming. I'm enjoying them immensely and am learning a lot for when I initiate my next post. We'll see if I listened, huh?

[refugepsa91]

Remember a post doesn't have to be responded to numerous times to be sucessful...if it helps only one person, then it was well worth it.

Love and Blessings,

Angel

[irishcowboy]

some times the sign of a successful post would be no responses...

just like some preaching, some times a sermon receives many "A-mens" helping to pump up the pastor, and keep him going strong.

other times, the entire congregation is totally silent, clinging to every word and nary a word is said....

there are times that a post here may receive lots of comments for and against, other times, they may not receive any, or maybe one or two...

the number of responses do not grade the post...... not even the viewing... ( title alone can get some one to open it )

it would be very difficult to know what kind of impact a peticular post has with others, even those that are responding.

some times people respond to things that cause their toes to be stepped on, others will only respond when they feel their own toes are out of the way and do not care about other peoples toes....

as for me, there are times i am lead to post, and other times i am held back from posting. some times i post in disagreement ( not meaning to be mean or obstinant ) ...... other times i post in agreement or in support of... ... alot of times i will post just for fun..... I do not intend to cut anyone down, but I also know where i stand. and who I stand on.... for I am Strong when I am on His shoulders.

mike