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I have been observing this for quite long. people hardly read certain posts but would surely vote them on indiblogger. I find it difficult to understand. Is it an effort to increase their visibility or what? I can't understand 20-30 people bloggers reading a post without leaving any comment.
The competitions have also encouraged blind voting.
I don't think such votes encourage any blogger, so I urge all fellow indies not to vote without reading (especially on my posts).
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Nice points raised, gaurav, but ideology of different people is different. One cannot do anything about it. Votes are no criteria in any contests, so there is no point of blind votes. There are some who read , like , and just vote, to affirm they liked.
You can not question why he didn't comment. I read, comment, on most, with my genuine likes. But I do miss some to comment. Due to time restraints or when I do this from mobile. It's tough to comment from mobile.
But some write up compels me' to strain myself to pen something on it.
It's a matter of perception. One has to be clever enough to locate valuable reader and keep him coming to his site. That can only be done when he too finds time to go to the persons site, and comment back.
With talent abounding overnet.
You can't retain readers by reading all their posts. A book author has a million readers. He is not reading stuff written by the million readers. The million readers pay to read stuff written by him. So if we are bloggers worth our salt, there should be at least 100 readers willing to read our stuff at least for free without expecting us to read theirs back. If people are doing me a favor by reading what I write, then that means I am writting shit and I had better stop writing and do something more productive with my time.
Does people do in that way????? I never done that and i'l never do it in the future
@Pramodji... Votes might not be the criterion but likes have been. People want to be on page 1 of Indivine to get more attension. Votes do get your link and beautiful photograph under a post. these all things matter to people.
@TS.. In short you do agree..
@AKM..." I get comments which point to where I can improve myself." well that is what a blogger really looks for and rarely gets.
@leo... People like you do exist but it can't be like you get votes from one person everytime without a single footprint...
@Surendra... That's good :)
It's best to focus on your writing and leave the voting worries to the politicians.
In that we shouldn't have contests where people can win based on voting.
Your preaching to the preacher mate! :o)
*you're
I don't preach sir, I am nothing more than captain obvious in this forum, nothing more :).
I agree TS but as we discussed it's not just about the competitions, it's more about the 'visiblity' factor...
Yeah unfortunately. There's nothing that can be done. Maybe if Indiblogger can have something like blogger of the month, Featured blog and stuff like that, maybe that can work. Give some small gift to the blogger of the month, stuff like that. Monthly/Yearly contests moderated by Indibloggers alone is the only way to get that visibility factor, provided Indibloggers don't do stuff like favourtism and all jazz.
Nothing helps... U need to be an SEO expert, everything else, is just hope 
Why not DISABLE voting for contest posts??
That would solve a lot of problems, like people crying foul at the end of the contest, like people sending Indimail's to vote for their contest entries, like people mass voting in anticipation of getting votes....
I am not much active here. I used to read and comment then vote. But sometimes, when I see quickly some posts, by topic if I feel it must be good (itna to guess kar sakten hain), then I promote it, benifit of it is good message which that article or poem is giving get promoted and more people know about it....:). Nothing about contests. I don't open the things related to contests. And if people vote for me without reading the post, still I am thankful to them, as they have given some time to promote my posts, by which it is visible to more people..:)
This race for indivine votes isn't going to stop. The race for blog rating is also one race that isn't going to stop. The race to join or create a select gang where mutual votes are obvious isn't going to stop. Truth is that when i seriously want to stumble upon some good content I never click on 'popular'... I prefer clicking on either 'latest' or 'random'... infact, 'popular' posts are what i consciously shun.
Now i wouldn't recommend that this category 'popular' be removed... it is as vital as any other because there are a lot of bloggers who thrive on this and it makes them happy. fair enough... who am i to grudge their happiness. I choose my own path and remain happy where i go.
Voting for contest is very motivating for the guy who receives it, i was one of the first off the block for surf and i find the entry is logged in the last it is sad. Anyways Gaurav what you have raised is relevant. At least one or two comments if 50 people have voted for you.
You go and vote for all the other entries and watch yours shoot up the ranks.
This is my personal take on this topic.
Rigging and blind promotion (hoping for promoting back) is unavoidable in any forum. In fact, the more popular the forum is the more involved these acts will be. So Indiblogger should be happy that indivine is getting abused. But what indiblogger should do is go to the next level...
Indiblogger needs to evolve to help bloggers discover other bloggers. Indivine was probably construed as one such thing. But it is getting abused nowadays left, right and center. Indivine should be modified so that when In log in, posts similar to my profile should come on first page automatically. If I am a humour blogger, humour posts should be recommended. IMDB, google news work on these principles.
There are many such steps that Indiblogger can take to keep indivine relevant.
Totally agree. There is a thread going on for suggestion for overhauling IndiBlogger. Please post your suggestion there. This is actually a very good suggestion.
I read and vote for a lot of posts here but I rarely leave a comment. I tend to vote on the post if it is well written, promotes social harmony or speaks out against social injustice. I like to promote posts that have something important, funny or interesting to say. However, they don't always need a comment or inspire me to write a comment. Some posts don't ask any questions to be answered either. I know commenting is good for shameless self promotion but I do try to avoid it anyway lol.
I am one of those lucky ones who have been blessed by your comments.
It goes like this :
I pat your back, with the hope that you will pat mine. I spend nothing in making one click anyway.
Somewhere I feel, we need to encourage commenting more...So that the reading and voting looks credible and genuine....That not only encourages a blogger but helps him learn more due to your suggestion...