Why I have never posted too much. · 12:32am Jul 31st, 2023
Even before the authentication failure I've never been posting a lot.
There are multiple reasons for it not the least of which is... motivation.
I mean for starters I've never been the one to air my daily thoughts about an issue or my life in social media. I prefer live conversations and I most certainly don't feel like there's a point in doing so. Most people on the Internet when hearing someone's grievances won't offer cool advice or good responses. Most of the time that's because they lack appropriate context and aren't like close to the person airing their grievances. Secondly most advice offered isn't really my cup of tea. Like it's not what I want/need. Goes back to the context thing I guess but this is more so the context of a person rather than simply the situation.
That kind of posting also requires freely given spontaneity. Not sure if I wrote that correct btw. What I mean it requires you to both think and not think about posting it. You need to be emotional to post and not emotional to focus on giving context, explanations, not say anything rude e.t.c. Those two don't really mix well. Some posts have started being written but ended up being scrapped halfway because it's either too much emotion or not worth it. Speaking of "not worth it" sometimes it just isn't. Like while writing about something I start processing that thought and because this requires focus the feelings and thoughts together with the reasons for posting them end up working themselves out.
It's also the issue that well... most of you don't really respond to these blogposts. I'm not blaming you but I don't tend to exert too much effort when there's no payoff. Most of the time whether serious or not, about writing stories or not... nobody really responds. I mean it doesn't help that most of the people that followed me or I followed are inactive, dead, banned, don't respond a lot or whatever. Again not their fault but it kinda hurts. Especially when you go check their profile and find out they're dead or missing enough to be dead to the site... I miss you Level_Dasher, Myth, Naturalbornderpy. You've no idea how depressing it was going through most of these people just to learn of their fate or that they're inactive or did something stupid and got banned. Fuck that sucks balls.
It also doesn't help that many fans of the show have moved on to other stuff. I have too to an extent so that doesn't help.
While I'm at it to the people that likely feel annoyed, insulted, peeved or whatever else about me posting the same message over and over to people I have followed or were following me I guess I could have pmed it. Regardless would have been annoying. I guess I just acted rashly to reclaim the people and friends that were following me. Basically I wished to reconnect with all the people that I had good interactions with. Still have to check all the groups and stories I had created.
Anyway I hope you guys are up for some more interaction here.
While I'm writing this does anyone know how I should use the tags in the blogs or if there's any point in them? Like do they actually serve any purpose to boost the reach of your posts?
I get the lack of motivation in posting, different people have different reasons for using the site after all. I am certainly on the more active side of the spectrum, but not everybody is.
I figure if you've got something to say, this is a place you can say it. Might not get a comment or feedback, but maybe somebody who needs to hear what you have to say will. You never know.
Yeah, always makes you wonder, doesn't it? Sometimes you get closure one way or another; other times they're just gone. Maybe they'll reappear one day, or maybe they won't.
As for the tags, as far as I know you can search for them, and if you write a lot of blogs it makes searching your own blogs a lot easier. Plus I like to sometimes include a little Easter Egg in them--not always, just enough to keep readers guessing.
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Like I said I don't expect responses but that doesn't take out from the fact that well... it feels good to talk with a responsive audience. So you're trapped between the "I don't want to be attention needy" vs "attention feels good". I think humans like telling stories. It's why if asked if someone has done anything illegal people will admit to stuff just to get to participate in social interaction often disregarding the fact that they admitted to a crime.
It's like you know it's an emotion but no matter how stoic you claim to be sometimes the best way to overcome these emotions is to process them. It's why I think nofap challenges or NNN are stupid because you bottle down emotions. Anyway.
Indeed while trying to get back I got gutpunched a lot of times. I talked with naturalbornderpy! He was the kindest guy! I don't want to know he's gone! Level_Dasher was one of the last people who were interacting with me. I also recently got unbanned in the mlpforums and the fact that the site lost much of its luster plus forums are old news... well that all kinda gut punches me.
I guess I don't know what tags to put in btw. Shrug. I dunno if there's like popular tags or whatever. It's not like imageboard sites where you can see the response in each.