Confusion Rules.

United Kingdom
March 8, 2017 12:49pm CST
I do not know about you, but I am a member of many social media groups. Some are niche/specialist/private/secrete groups, such as ex-military organisations, or those involved in a technical field. But the majority are general, open and public groups, on such platforms as Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and so on, others on lesser known platforms like Yeopen, Niume, Ello and here at myLot. Now, all told, that is a large number of sites and a far greater number of communities or groups within them. So how, may I ask, am I meant to remember the individual rules that each specific group, on each specific site has for posting threads, comments, images, information and such? If you have a system, please let me know. I would dearly like to steer clear of the wrath of the moderators! Thanks.
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@MALUSE (69409)
• Germany
8 Mar 17
If you can't remember the rules of all these sites, you can print them out and glue them to your computer. But nobody forces you to be on so many sites. Is it really necessary? I'm a one-site person. So I don't have such problems. You could pay me money, I wouldn't become active on Twitter or faceboook.
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• United Kingdom
8 Mar 17
I have to. I am an indie author and must make sales. A good percentage come via social media, but it takes a long time to build up a good reputation.
• United Kingdom
8 Mar 17
@tasoartcraft Excatly. I have culled and changed recently. It's a littlebetter, but takes a lot of work and effort to stay on top of things.
• United Kingdom
9 Mar 17
@tasoartcraft Yes, SEO in a strange subject. I am sure MyLot themselves are way on top of it for this site. I am nut sure if you/we can influence SEO to our feed here. I use it on my own Websites (I have three) and blogs (I have five...i think!) On the most basic level, the main thing is to have site titles, page titles, headings etc all using the same (relevent) set of key words -search words- so that search engine algorithms recognise them. In principle if you have all the key words for a 'search' the engine should place you near the top of the list...so they say! It should also remember for the next searches. So the more hits you get the higher you climb etc. Also regular uodating from yourself, adding/deleting pages, posts etc. keep the engines looking at your site. Basically anything that drives traffic, or stimulates the search engines to your site will enhance your standing & that in turn should drive more traffic and make you more visual...of course that is all in principle!
• Prairieville, Louisiana
9 Mar 17
Confusion doesn't rule.I hate being confused.Welcome to mylot new user.
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• United Kingdom
9 Mar 17
Thank you. I am finding may way around now.
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@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
8 Mar 17
Basically the rules on any site are common sense, surely, and that is not too dofficult to remember. Or is it?
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• Austin, Texas
18 Mar 17
I don't know. My experience with the Niume moderators has been favorable. However, I actually know one of the moderators. That's not the case for most people. I would not have known she was a moderator if she had not told me. I noticed that she was a writer so I had some questions. In the conversation she mentioned she moderated a sphere. Another moderator actually contacted me and told my content was placed in the wrong sphere. The content was not deleted. It was returned to “Drafts” and I was told to correct the topic category. The moderator did sort of indicate in our discussion that all the moderators actually work for free. They are volunteers and it's possible some may be a bit “over-zealous”. If such inconsistency exists, it's probably best to contact the site owners with your complaint. According to the FAQ the main way to get on the naughty list and get banned from the site is by plagiarizing someone's content or stealing other people's images, etc. If it's your stuff you should not have a problem. I started writing at Niume at the beginning of the new year (2017) and so far my entire Niume experience has been breezy! I publish original content and republish my content that has appeared elsewhere on the web. Also the owners added the “Donate” button to encourage readers to support their favorite writers. Never been at any writing or blogging site that had the “Donate” button. I like it there. I'm confused that you're having a difficult time.
• Austin, Texas
20 Mar 17
@TheRamblingMan - I do have on tiny little problem. I wish they were based in the US.
• United Kingdom
18 Mar 17
I have no problem with Nuime, in fact I sing their prasies. Like you, I have had one post returned to drafts until clarification was made. No problem. My post was more of a general nature, like remembering every password one has, remembering each groups piccadillos regarding posting over three hundred and sixty various individual groups/spheres/communities is not easy.....unless you have a method?
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• United Kingdom
20 Mar 17
@cmoneyspinner why do you consider that a problem?
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