January 12, 2006
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Featured Content
It is taking me forever to put these featured content post together.
Should I tell them how to get on featured content or should I just let them figure it out themselves?
It is taking me forever to put these featured content post together.
Should I tell them how to get on featured content or should I just let them figure it out themselves?
Comments (129)
Figure it out.
Yes, figure it out. Haha.
-Jared
even if you tell them (us) I doubt most of the people who tried would take it.. since everyone would be doing exactly the same things.
*make it
Tell us
Come on! Spill it!
Fourth person.
Let them figure it out; after all, you did it on your own…
*~Christi~*
There is more to life than featured content– let them figure it out themselves..
God Bless..
Why can’t you just repost your Featured Content tips from before? Or have the parameters changed or something?
Shut up there, zjiyre
I think you should let us figure it out for ourselves. It’s not that hard to hack Xanga. jk
Let people figure it out. :/
besides, if they’re not on featured, they don’t get any FIRST! comments.
Tell us
What are we talking about? lol
I’m in the first ten! I’m in the first ten! =D
Tell us! Please! I’m dying to know!
I thought your last post on features was interesting…but I have to say it’s kinda judgmental because it isn’t always height that plays as a factor. It could be weight, if you have a facial deformity of some kind it usually sets you off, and also skin color. I think we need to get past the physical and look deeper, though.
~Nicky
Let ‘em figure it out.
It’s more fun to watch ‘em daaangle. Haha.
do tell
Nevermind. Holy cow…you must have someone on your site CONSTANTLY.
See? Two seconds and already two more people. It’s gotta be the featured content thing. Share us your wisdom, oh great one!
tell us, please.
Might as well
TELL US!! AT ONCE!
Let people figure it out for themselves.
Have a terrific week!
Let ‘em suffer
Do tell. I’m sure a lot of it includes things that require a person’s time, and so you still have to put in the effort. Besides, I’m very curious by nature. LOL!
oh be nice, tell um.
hey your life. your secret. you control it. do what you please.
people shouldn’t want to be on featured content that much unless they’re attention whores or really want the opinions of the masses, which are mostly stupid strangers.
I know why you’re featured all the time……Because you have a great site…..I love your thought provoking questions & reading all the answers….
Candy
thanks to you i can never make it to top 5 anymore
What do you mean taking you forever to put these featured content posts together? Together where?
oh shiet!!! DAn you are too funny!!! lhahahahaa
well since you said you were gonna do it, do it =)
Do tell
Doesn’t making featured content depend on getting a certain number of comments? If so, shouldn’t the posting on how to get more comments suffice? Since the two are directly related…
Don’t make it.
Let them think of their own way.
let them figure it out the same way you did…
no!!! Don’t give away the tricks of the trade.. it will make it even harder to make it on to featured if everyone knows how!!!!
Let them figure it out. If it’s that important to them, they’ll eventually work out some kind of formula for success.
Spill the beans
Lol…. though I wouldn’t mind making featured content, it’s probably best earned and learned through self-discovery.
And yes, I do go to Liberty University. It isn’t perfect, but it is a very good school, and I have loved my time there so far. Thanks for stopping by my xanga; come back anytime!
No….Don’t tell them….Apparently I figured it out because I am on there today…But on the opposite end of you lol
NO NO NO!!! YOU HAVE IT ALL WRONG!!!!!
http://xanga.com/exposethetruth
THE TRUTH EXPOSED RIGHT HERE!!!!!!!!!!!
I for one would like to know.
I could really care less about getting on featured, I would just like more comments.But they basically go hand in hand.
Hi..hope your trip is going well. Featured isn’t all that its cracked up to be for me.
Ask questions? Responses = eprops.
tell us
You should tell us - then you’ll have some real “featured content” competition!
Iam just curious why you feel it is necessary to make 3 and 4 posts a day. It’s not like it is major news or anything, usually just a hypothetical question of sorts, or you’re seeking a general consensus. But honestly, look at the responses you get…these people just want to be seen on here because of the secondary popularity they get from being on your site. I’d say MAYBE 10% of your commentors actually say anything worth while at all.
Really, is it an obsession of yours or what? Why could you not put all of your questions on one post? Did you need to make that third entry yesterday to see if twelve-twenty year olds could kill a deer?–I mean really, step away from the computer for a few minutes and breathe a little. There is life away from xanga.
I am not trying to insult you, and I would actually be interested to hear your response…
yep
I wouldn’t mind knowing, but i it is a learn-how kind of secret that comes along with just knowing XANGA then maybe you shouldn’t tell.
egg them on but don’t tell them please
’tis overrated imho
Only if they have blogs worth reading:
I have figured out how to be feautred
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1. You have to be Emo.
2. You have the token Anorexic.
3. It helps to be Asian.
4. Crotch and boob shots.
5. The rest are usually worthy of reading. They are interesting to people of all ages.
Let them figure it out. If they actually care, they ought to be able to figure it out themselves.
take pity on us and tell. be kind.
I must say I am curious. Then again, not everyone has the magic posts like you do, so it may not help at all.
I believe that people learn through two things:
1) The easy way – someone teaches them how a.k.a. school
2) The hard way – Trial and error a.k.a. Life
Since this isn’t a school I suggest you enlighten us
I’ll tell them. I will post it in the morning-protected. You have to comment on my current post to get on my protected list.
Let them figure it out themselves.
PS:
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if you told them how to get on featured content then you wouldn’t get it so much.
Yeah,, right!!! ^^^^
Let them figure it out. Actually I didn’t even try. I wrote a post about how disgusting nyquil tasted and apparently a lot of people agreed because I was on featured the next day for the first time. And now I always am. I don’t even know WHY I’m there. Maybe people can just relate to me?
-Hil
your “It is taking me forever to put these featured content post together” sounds like its more of an ordeal for you on something that you dont really want to do anyways… so i say just let the ppl figure it out…
I too would like to know…not like I have anything worth featured content really…but hey, it would be a great way to meet up with new xangaers…
Telling them won’t help. Didn’t you talk about this before? How you wrote a solid post for one of your friends but there were hardly any comments at all. The only way this would work is if you linked them. Maybe. And again I ask, who the hell cares that much?!
I don’t even know what featured content is, much less how to get it.
Ask open-ended, thought-provoking questions on dogmatically or emotionally backed controversial topics of course!
Dear Dan, I know you read all your comments, and would appreciate your help. Hopefully you will be able to gather some feedback on a question I have been trying to answer for some time now. This might make for interesting discussion if we get good feedback.
Is it better to pursue happiness or attain it?
I really hope this works out, and thank you very much.
You’re going to tell them anyway. You just used this to get another slot on FC.
OINK!
He just told you
Now THIS is fun!
Do tell. But only to me, so I can auction off the secret on eBay.
I didn’t know there was a way to get on, I was on it earlier today and didn’t even know it till someone told me!
You should tell them how because currently you’re hogging the top spots and that way maybe others can break into the game. Otherwise, eventually the Federal Culture Control Commision will step in a break up your monopoly.
It seems like a big part of your method is always asking a question at the end. People are happy to chime in with their comment because everyone is self-centered and wants to have their say, to carve their name into the stone that is The Theologian’s Cafe so to speak.
How many fingers am I holding up?
yeah sure.
if it’s causing you that much trouble just let them (us, whatever) figure it out by ourselves.
it should be earned…
tell us . . im curious. i keep a xanga mostly to keep my friends back home updated of whats going on in my life and share my thoughts occasionally, but i confess, it would be awesome to be on featured content. i always thought people would be on featured content because they has something earth-shattering and deep, or at least interesting, but some are just downright dull. i wanna know how to crack the system
You’re still on the naughty list.
haha, just felt the need to say…I got first…heh
just kidding
<33
They will figure it out. FC sucks. I get all these idiots.
Drop it like it’s hot!
oh dan, I think you already know what you’re going to do…but you are keeping us all in suspense.
I don’t think you can really tell people how to get on featured content. You either have what it takes or you don’t.
Being Featured Content is stupid.
I say figure it out… – I am.
RYC: heh . You’re a joy to read…keeps me coming back.. Heck…a good day on my site is 20.
Let them figure it out!! If they can’t do it on their own then do they really deserve to know?
Ya know, I could post the same deep questions and I wouldn’t get as many comments as you right away.
I think making featured is a balance of commenting on other people’s sites, posing interesting questions, writing funny and/or deep entries or sharing creative thoughts with the public.
Let people figure out their own style of making featured.
Let them figure it out. I don’t really see what the big deal about Featured Content is, anyway. A year ago, I was #1 or #2 pretty much every time I posted, and it got REAL old REAL quick. I’d rather have a small group of intelligent people comment rather than a multitude of “random props” and “hey i saw u on featured love ur site!”. Featured Content is where the pre-teen xangas find their victims.
figure it out themselves. i mean how much can it really help? i would say go look at what other people suggested in their comments about how to get featured.
You need to stop hogging the featured content.
Amanda
In my non-professional opinion, due to the fact that people naturally want to be heard/voice their opinion, just post an thought provoking question, then comment a lot of people back. Cause there’s only 1000′s of other people trying to do the same thing.
featured content? LOL!
Jonasapproved is the only one that tells the truth! LOL Is this the pork thing every one is talking about?? I guess I’m confused.. honest and naive people usually are!
I don’t think telling us how you get on featured content is going to help them get on featured content.
I think it’s something that you learn for yourself.
If you don’t figure it out yourself, then why should your Xanga be on featured content? Did they earn it by listening to you? I think not.
But of course, we would all love to know you’re secret, even if we don’t deserve it.
Nicholas
pray, do tell. if nothing else it will make a really interesting read.
let ‘em figure it out.
worried?
tell us puleeze
I’m just interested in finding out how people with one line non correct English grammar posts end up on featured content. I’ll click on a featured content site and their post will be…”Sup…ain’t gonna be at school.” Or some stupid shit like that and they’ll have hundreds of comments. WTF?! At least people like you I can understand being on Featured Content…but please tell how these other idiots are on there!!!!
::grin wide::
Dan, the plural of posts is posts, not post. You’re being coy again! And I bet you never tell! This is just more bait to make everyone check back 3, 4, or 25 times a day (the people who clamor for FIRST must check like 50 times a day).
I agree with the intelligent person above, KristenTSU. Featured Content Xangas seem to be just random picks and usually do not have content worth reading. The question may be, WHY are YOU on it, rather than, how did you GET on it?
Are you ever going to answer any of this, or just string people along?
Tell them if they want to know that bad
I’m curious you can tell me.
Let ‘em figure it out.
it wasn’t posting i was talking about. it seems the only time anyone wants to talk to me online is after i post about sex. it’s very saddening to me.
you should have a contest and tell the top 3 people that win that want to know.
-enters contest-
its all about the mystery
it’s more fun to figure it out.
you did work hard putting it together, so you might want to show it off, but personally i think anyone that wants to should just figure it out through their xanga skills, or lack thereof
You already tell us before….. just copy & paste from old entry. lolz
Oh, who cares?
o.O
Methinks you are poking fun at us, Dan!
i’m curious, but i think if people really want to know they can figure it out themselves
tell!
ok, wow all that featured content info is overwhelming, but interesting. I don’t think I’ll make it, one I could not deal with that many subscribers, and comments. I like to comment back with those who visit me, so I think I’m happier making Xanga friends, for now anyway.
Featured Content is easy ~ write stuff people want to read. But i don’t see any writing awards in xangaland. The best use of xanga is just blogging and making new friends.
And we should care about this because…?
I would like to know.
PLEASE TELL
oh, is it supposed to be a “feather” in one’s proverbial cap to be featured, or something? How come I don’t undertsand the hoopla? Kudos to you!
Do tell.
i’d like to know…
don’t tell them