Express your current "INDIVINE" Experience - Improvements & Shortfalls

Sir,I am just a few days old on Indiblogger. Will need some time to understand the model.In any case,thanks for your support.

Many times good posts are missed or skipped due to a large number of new posts on 'latest' and by the time we want to go back to those missed post, many more new posts are added making the list still longer.

Have nothing much to comment here. Have posted my first #indivine entry today :D that too a indimeet review.

Cheers!

P.S. More once I use it for couple of times.

That's great! Good luck, dear Sanjay! Cheers!

@Shrinath

Thanks :D

Now, this "View post to promote" tab is the most phenomenal improvement done to Indivine ever...! This would add so much meaning to it, now... I'm sure! Great innovation, Indi-Team! Keep up the good work...

I concur with all the ideas given by Shrinath, especially the timeline idea.

It makes no sense otherwise to post something as it could remain under the 'recent' tab for any time ranging from 5 mins to half an hour depending on the traffic at a given point of time.

Hope you are reading this Renie

Thanks, Sandy, for posting your truly workable suggestions,here!

I myself am awaiting the dawn of intent on the part of the Indiblogger team vis-a-vis Indivine. Let's keep our fingers crossed for that to transpire at the earliest.

Until then, keep blogging for the sake of your readers and fans. Cheers!

Hi Rennie

I think voting on Indivine needs to change. Rather than making it binary it should allow us to rate the post on a 1 to 5 scale. Popular blogs should be selected as a combination of Higher rating and number of votes cast.

For e.g. a Post with rating of 5 but only 2 votes will appear below a post with a rating of 4.5 and 15 votes casted.

I also think that restricting a post to single category is incorrect. For e.g. Bollywood: Miles away from Bharat  This post is both rerlated to Politics and Nation building as well Bollywood. Tags surely help, but multiple categories should be allowed.

I really find it hard to digest that some of the posts with much poorer quality are rated higher than mine. Voting needs to encouraged.

Well, now, after all this, I reckon the biggest problem with Indivine is that there's a great deal of discourse on 'forum' by way of multifarious topics about how and what to improve/change in the same, BUT no action of implementation understood, promised or realized yet seems to be in the offing. It seems that the Indiblogger team is quite complacent with the current format, positively speaking, as after all, it's working, nevertheless.

Hence, ceasing to simply keep the ball rolling and killing time, I admit that the current format of Indivine is a gem of good format and is simply fantastic superlatively, without any qualms and, in fact, there is no need to bring about any changes in it, whatsoever.

It would fetch a much larger quantum of dividend for all of us to concentrate on blogging our hearts out rather than trying to meddle with the team's affairs.

In a nutshell, I fathom with rank clarity that it's a Hobson's choice, here!

Well, now, after all this, I reckon the biggest problem with Indivine is that there's a great deal of discourse on 'forum' by way of multifarious topics about how and what to improve/change in the same, BUT no action of implementation understood, promised or realized yet seems to be in the offing. It seems that the Indiblogger team is quite complacent with the current format, positively speaking, as after all, it's working, nevertheless.

Hence, ceasing to simply keep the ball rolling and killing time, I admit that the current format of Indivine is a gem of good format and is simply fantastic superlatively, without any qualms and, in fact, there is no need to bring about any changes in it, whatsoever.

It would fetch a much larger quantum of dividend for all of us to concentrate on blogging our hearts out rather than trying to meddle with the team's affairs.

In a nutshell, I fathom with rank clarity that it's a Hobson's choice, here!

Renie's still busy... I'm still waiting devoutly...

Renie's still busy... I'm witing devoutly...

By the way, how about associating an eligibility criterion for submitting posts?

I mean, an arrangement wherein one can only submit a new post after he/she has voted for at least 5 new posts i.e. 5 votes = 1 new post submission and so on and so forth...

I suppose this simple and easy to effect method would surely ease up the entire Indivine ambiance and also logically help one and all quite justifiably. :))

What say, Buddies? Aren't we able to go ahead from here, now, Renie...!?

Hey, guys! You haven't seen my latest suggestion, it seems... Come on, let me know if that sounds good. I think we are on the verge of solving it out, now. :)

Well, alright!

I'm on the countdown to see just how long it takes for Renie, at least, to take note of this and respond...

Have a great weekend everybody, by the way!!! :)

I would like to suggest changes in the way IndiVine works.   Here is what I think that should be done:

The IndiVine needs to be restricted to a "time line" so that the voting of popular posts takes place within that time line which would allow fellow bloggers to go through the content and then vote on the same (In the current scenario, I don’t think the long thread of posts makes anyone go through the thread to read each and every posts and vote).

Let the time line be restricted to a week and after that it should be archived in weeks, months and year thereby generating a good list of popular posts in different categories every week.

The popular posts (Top 3 or 5)  should be highlighted on the site at one given day (For e.g., if the week for submitting post link starts from Mon to Sun, then Mon should be the day to highlight the previous week popular posts) and maybe an email could be send to fellow bloggers informing the same.

The top three or five posts should be picked on the number of posts links that were submitted i.e., if the post links submitted under one category is less than 10-15 then top 3 post should be highlighted and if its more than 10-15 post links then top 5 should be highlighted.

This will enable the bloggers to explore new blogs and content.

In the current form of IndiVine, only a handful of bloggers are getting voted while the rest have no votes at all, the above suggestions would tackle this situation giving everyone a fair chance.

What do you guys think??

Well, that sound like a great idea, Survivor! The "time line" stuff sounds really cool and I truly believe that the same followed by archiving is also going to help the voting issue addressed, at large.

I suggest this be slightly simplified and implemented soon.

Pramathesh's suggestion is closely related to the reciprocation factor that helps register increased voting, Renie! Hence, I suppose, it ought to be implemented, right away.

Well, a couple of technical issues have been reported, here. You are right, Angshu! These bugs have to be soon taken care of as we also need to be more scrupulous while submitting our posts. One of the members recently told me that in a bid to 'compete', he ended up miscategorising and mis-spelling a few vital posts of his. Well...

And Renie, we've been awaiting the changes as you have assured us for quite a while now. How about pushing a bit? Especially the one that Pramathesh has suggested about including a "His/Her Post" tab...

BTW, Here's wishing all of you a VERY HAPPY NAVRATRA!!!  JAI MA DURGA!!!

Hi, Kudos to the team - IndiVine is a gr8 initiative. But as u know even the bests can improve. So...

I submitted some posts to IndiVIne - but did not check the category while submitting - and as a result they are currently under wrong category - BUT I'm not being able to edit the category. Neither I can delete the old post or create a new one (duplicate error!).

I suggest - * Keep an option so that people can edit the category in case it is wrong initially * If that is not possible - keep an option to delete old post and create a new one

Thanks, Angshu

http://the-next-marketing-guru.blogspot.com/

Hi,

Kudos to the team - IndiVine is a gr8 initiative.

But as u know even the bests can improve. So...

I submitted some posts to IndiVIne - but did not check the category while submitting - and as a result they are currently under wrong category - BUT I'm not being able to edit the category. Neither I can delete the old post or create a new one (duplicate error!).

I suggest -

* Keep an option so that people can edit the category in case it is wrong initially

* If that is not possible - keep an option to delete old post and create a new one

Thanks,

Angshu

http://the-next-marketing-guru.blogspot.com/

I have seen that some good posts don't get noticed because the no. of new posts are very high. So , I would suggest that there should be one Random sorting also done. It won't solve the problem, but increase the visibility.

Indivine is a very good initiative. I like the features it provides. I am not aware of the previous version of Indivine and the limitations it had but, the current one is what provides most of the good features! Any other improvements would be an added advantage!

Good Job Renie and Team.

An observation - there are more people submitting than voting! We need to give incentives for voting - we're working on it!

That's right ! It's the typical Indian temperament to be a bit stingy when it comes to 'voting' either in elections or in promotions, as most folks harbour a desire to 'be promoted' before 'promoting'.  This reminds me of the story of 4 people - "EVERYBODY, SOMEBODY, ANYBODY and NOBODY" that I've narrated in one of my submitted posts...

@Renie

I posted this suggestion in another thread but the thread died down and i guess you didnt see it. So im posting once again.

i saw this feature on another blog traffic improvement site, wherein every account gets points for any activity conducted on the site.

Similarily, we can have something on similar lines on indiblogger. Here is how it will work:

1) for every movie reviewed, the person gets some points

2) for every indivine vote, the person recieves points.

3) for every indiblogger of the month vote, the person recieves points

and so and on so forth. So thus for every activity, there is different weightage and different points are awarded. The persons with top points, get their blogs advertised either on some other sites or on the indiblogger home page itself. In order to avoid early members from getting a headstart, the points should be reset to zero every month or two. this would bring about more activity on the forum. The only thing to watch out for is that people dont post spam in order to generate more points.

Hi Renie, I know this is an old topic (and a great one too Shrinath) but I was wondering, is there any way I can see a particular blogger's Indivine posts? I am reading an Indiblogger blog and want to vote for its posts but there is no way I can find these posts in Indivine easily unless I have a mutual connection with the blogger and ask him/her directly for the link, or is there something I have not understood? Keep up the great work.